Comments on: Stephen King’s Dark Tower

By: Cheng

Cheng — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:09:59 +0000

Just to note: there will be more Roland stories: the Dark Tower Marvel Comics series will start next year. My impression is that these stories will fill in background to the Dark Tower novels. Not sure how, though. King isn't writing them -- I don't think his writing style necessarily translates well into comic form, for that matter -- those these will be under his direction, in some sense. I suppose they'll count as canon.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 01:01:43 +0000

Just an addendum I knew that ending for a while. I started reading this book when I was 11 and I’m 28 now so I had a lot of time to think about it. I used to think about Roland’s time in Gilead and Mejis, and meeting Jake and there seemed to be an infinite amount of unaccounted for time in Roland’s quest. I thought the ending was perfect myself. I don’t agree with all the other critics who say they could’ve written a better ending.

By: Mike D

Mike D — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 00:56:37 +0000

SPOILERS:

Just finished the seventh book and I too feel bittersweet about the whole thing. I happened to like the ending, ths was not the series where a “happily ever after” ending would’ve been appropriate. I could’ve done without Sussanah meeting Jake and Eddie in Central Park, I would’ve like her ending to be a mystery, it seemed corny to me.

Things I HATED about the series:

1. Stephen King writing himself into the books, I read the explanation, but still to me this was almost jump the shark territory. It nearly ruined the entire series for me.
2. Mordred, for everything that Mordred was supposed to be, he turned out to be little more dangerous to Roland than a Taheen guard or mechanical wolf that raided the Calla. For all the attention he received old Mordred was essentially a pointless character.
3. Susannah having no legs, this just irked me the entire time. Carrying her around, the stupid carts, would it have been that difficult to write the character with some legs? Maybe Jack Mort (I think that’s it) raped her, or killed her sister or something instead.
4. Jake was a gunslinger and a complete pussy…

Things I loved:
1. Wizard and Glass, any portion of any book in the series that speaks of Rolands days in Gilead or Mejis. King could write another ten books on that, just a really gripping concept.
2. Roland, by far the best character in an epic series I’ve ever read about.
3. Tying a lot of books together, believe it or not for awhile there I felt like the only one figuring this mystery out.
4. Action scenes, at times few and far between but when they went down they were great.

Overall I am glad the series is done, but also pissed I have no more books to look forward to. Maybe Steven King will write more on Roland who knows.