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For those who hav read the entire series, what is your opinion of the ending of the last book?

I was bored out of my skull by the second one, so I never finished the series.

I loved the ending, but it took me a while to accept the way Randall Flagg met his final fate.

I liked the board game better.

Orson Welles does too (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cxrY7MWEkwE) -- ZOMBIE PITCHMAN! :eek:

There's a board game?

I had problems with themind-trap scene.

For those who hav read the entire series, what is your opinion of the ending of the last book?

The first four books are excellent...after his vehicle accident, King seemed determined to rush the series to it's conclusion as quickly as possible...

The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1982)
The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three (1987)
The Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands (1991)
The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass (1997)
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The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla (2003)
The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah (2004)
The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)


...It went from an average of five years between books, to three books in two years. Gone were the long stretches that allowed King to formulate original ideas and work them into the existing framework, and this rush to completion seriously harmed the quality of the last three books, which were nowhere near as captivating or original as the first four. King reutilized characters from his other books, and even appropriated the ideas of other "creative artists" (Lucas and Rowling specifically) to help "wrap up" what had been an utterly captivating original work.

Both "endings" presented in the final book sucked, BTW, but I didn't have much hope for a satisfying ending after reading book five.

For those who hav read the entire series, what is your opinion of the ending of the last book?

Didn't like it, but... can't say we weren't warned. By the author himself. Several times.

Overall a fantastic, if baffling, series of novels. Major problems with it include Book 1, which must have put a great many people off.
Also, am I the only one who thought SK including himself as a character in the books was just a tiny bit too self-indulgent?

Obligatory IMO preface, the series was great from books 1-5 IIRC, 6 was boring, the ending was one of the worst I've read.

I called him a ****, and then put the book down. But it was okay, not the ending I would have chossen but then I didn't write it huh.