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Originally Posted by Antithesis
The ending is controversial, not a let down. I thought it was fantastic, elegent, intelligent, poignant, and, well ... you get it. I loved it. This is coming from someone who got into Dark Tower a couple years into the gap between Books 3 and 4.
The last 3 books had me right in. One thing I noticed when I first read them was how different the writing style was - but then I remembered, it had been 7 years between book 4 and 5, and about 26 years between the initial draft of book 1 and book 5.
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Yeah totally. Like somebody said above me - it only ends once, everything else is progress. If I remember correctly, the end/start of the gunslinger's journey had a slight difference the second time around that gives hope to the reader.
The Dark Tower was all about the journey. That's the point. Stephen King gets a lot of flack from literary critics, but he's a pretty intelligent man and he writes good stories. I can't really say the same for all the literary geniuses that we're supposed to worship (although some really do deserve the credit they get).
My only complaint was the drop-off in writing. I really did struggle through the last books. It felt to me that he went way over the top describing things towards the end, whereas before he was more elegant and left a little more to the reader's imagination.
The lost writers bought the rights to the movie for $19. Steven King said they are the only guys that he thought could do it justice. Should be epic! Also, a little easter egg...I can't remember the exact details, but Nozz-a-lozz (sp? Coca Cola in The dark tower's universe) is mentioned in one of the early Ben episodes.