Books 2 & 4 were truly excellent! |
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Books 2 & 4 were truly excellent! |
Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
-Carl Sagan
i loved the ending because of the promise of it. rolands a constant against the end of the world, in a repeating cycle of following the man in black across the desert to the dark tower. Only each time he doe's it he is improving the world a little each time. It made the world seem so much grander and wasnt some obvious 'everyone lived happily ever after- except all his friends who died' ending, because maybe this time roland would save them. maybe the next cycle was the one to save the world instead of just repair some of the damage. |
^^ Hmmm... Guess so... |
-Carl Sagan
It seemed to me that King was leaving the ending of the Dark Tower series open, so he could to return to it if he was inspired (or needed the cash). |
Those aren't real problems, Sam.
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Those aren't real problems, Sam.
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I love Stephen King, and I love the Dark Tower (1-4 primarily) and I would agree the 7th book did feel like something of a let down. However, despite my criticisms of books 5-7, I can't really think of too many other ways to have ended the series. I did like that it was left open a little and would welcome an 8th book if King deems it necessary, but overall my complaints are small in the grand scheme of things. The only thing I really took serious issue with was the dispatching of Randall Flagg. For a character so important in multiple King works, and the Stand being one of his best, I thought it really undermined the character and did the unnecessary by giving him a background story. Rant over. |
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