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ToMacco Mr. Orange

The Dark Tower

Has anyone read these book by Steven King?

I'm currently on the last (7th) one.

ToMacco Mr. Orange

Okay

DarkRaven Dark Witch

Yeah it;s crazy at the end of the last booj you have to see what happens youre going to flip out!!!!!!! ha ha ha hurry hurry hurry

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

I usually read much higher-brow books than King - *singular head-wobble* - but I am enjoying 'The Gunslinger'. It's interesting and pretty well written.

Dreampanther We all face the reaper.

King is the King. And the Dark Tower proves it - he will rule forever.

I will never, ever forget that opening line: "The man in black fled across the desert and the gunslinger followed."

Pandemoniac Disco Infernal

Great stuff! The first book was a little hard to chew in the beginning, but once the story gets it's pace it goes from good to amazing fast.
Just finished reading book 4 'Wizard and Glass' so 3 more to go and I can't wait to read how this tale will continue.
Kick ass material

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

Yeah, I just got done with book III. I'm really enjoying it so far, and I loved the bit

Spoiler:
where Roland tells Blaine how it is

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It's certainly an epic book in scope.

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

Oh shit, man...I just finished book VII, and all I can say is:

That ending was shit!

I did all that reading, and all I got was a cop-out ending. Pff, cheated.

ToMacco Mr. Orange

bummer, huh?

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

Big time. It was all going so well, but then he has finish it like that. Turd.

Victor Von Doom Latverian Diplomat

Originally posted by Ya Krunk'd Floo
Oh shit, man...I just finished book VII, and all I can say is:
That ending was shit!
I did all that reading, and all I got was a cop-out ending. Pff, cheated.

Why don't you just read the last page of books in future?

manorastroman Senior Member

doesn't he outright tell his readers NOT to read the ending, because it will probably piss them off?

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Why don't you just read the last page of books in future?

Are you saying that I don't enjoy the minute before I ejaculate? I do, I really do.

Originally posted by manorastroman
doesn't he outright tell his readers NOT to read the ending, because it will probably piss them off?

If I stopped where he wanted me to I'd still be let-down. If you name a book 'The Dark Tower', then you would expect to enter it at the end. Maybe he should have just called the series 'A Number of Long Books With Some Good Bits But Which Ultimately Runs Out Of Imagination At The End'.

Although, I love Catcher In The Rye, but there are no fields in that one.

SnakeEyes Connoisseur

Thinking about starting this series.

Should I?

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

It all depends on the importance you place on ejaculation.

SnakeEyes Connoisseur

I see, I see.

Well, the ejaculation doesn't have to be THAT good, as long as everything leading up to it is really good.

Kid Kurdy Senior Member

I agree, the ending was a bit of a let down. It wasn't bad, but I expected more. I think everybody expected more.

Ya Krunk'd Floo Moving with the swell.

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
I see, I see.
Well, the ejaculation doesn't have to be THAT good, as long as everything leading up to it is really good.

It's difficult to explain why the ending is so bad without giving the goose away. It also makes you feel a little stupid for taking the time to read all those books.

This is about something else (ie. not the ending), but it's a spoiler nonetheless:

Spoiler:
I also thought the Stephen King within the story was a bunch of embarrassing crap. I started cringing every time he was part of the narrative. It was so unnecessary to do it.

ToMacco Mr. Orange

Originally posted by SnakeEyes
Thinking about starting this series.
Should I?

hell yes.

I don't blame Steven King for the ending. He tells you right in the story to not read any futher because we all wouldn't like it.

PVS Restricted

i read up till wizard and glass. how does it end? spoil me, i dont plan on reading the rest ever