The Dark Tower

[oygirl]

New to this message board. Just finished The Dark Tower. I feel drained & sad , think I need closure or something...

[Ben E Gas]

Take a break for a few days and then think about the journey you just read about. I think you'll feel better about it.

[vivazebool]

New to this message board. Just finished The Dark Tower. I feel drained & sad , think I need closure or something...

I know exactly how you are feeling. The ending is quite the shocker, isn't it?
At first, I hated it. Then afterwards, I made my piece.
You're welcome to read my thread ''Dark Tower ending - my change of heart.'' (http://www.stephenking.com/forums/showthread.php?t=9251)It shares how I found closure on the matter.

[SUDOOLE]

Don't be sad, remember it's all about the journey. Give it a while, read it again; you'll catch so much more the second time around-to me the ending was perfect.

[catnoel]

Initially my response was "What the bleeeeeeeep" Then I started the journey all over again and was okay with it!!!:wow:

[inda dm]

The ending left me feeling drained and unsatisfied.. It felt rushed somehow and main characters were falling left and right rather unceremoniously Eddie, Jake and Oy. Would Susannah really have left when she did? She was connected to Mordred. I can appreciate that the Gunslinger had to face the tower alone, but I thought the family of Eddie, Jake ,Susannah and Oy would all continue to the end. The addition of Patrick seemed too convenient at the end, somehow the final battle anticlimactic. I finished almost 3 weeks ago and have not read anything since. Mr. King certainly made me care and strangely enough about a little creature named Oy. Go figure I shed many tears over him.

[patson]

My feelings, too, after I was done, but then how else could it have ended. Ka is a wheel. You will be okay. It just takes a little time. In the meantime, Sai King has a collection of short stories titled Everything's Eventual with a story titled The Little Sisteres Of Eluria, which features Roland of Gilead, if you need some more time with him.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Cowboy]

I agree with Ben E Gas, a few days of thinking about it and it may look a little better to you.

[Drawn to Ka-tet]

I also suggest reading Hearts In Atlantis and Insomnia to get some closure.

And have you found the Marvel Dark Tower comics yet? There is so much back story in them. I think you'll get a lot of of them.

Long days and pleasant nights Sai.

[Spideyman]

Having read the books as published, it was a long journey. But always remember, it is the journey, not the destination. Many of us have re read the books, I've taken the journey four times and with each the ending is only as it should have been. :smile2:

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

AWSS (And What Spidey Said) - exactly.

And what DTKT said about the comics as well, plus Robin Furth's invaluable Concordance, Bev Vincent's The Road To The Dark Tower, and a re-read of all the books with connections (see the main site) in the light of DT.

Long days and pleasant nights

[catnoel]

Do what most of us did and go back to the beginning!!! You will discover things you forgot or rushed through to get to the end.:cool2:

[tiger67]

I also just finished the Dark Tower - enjoyed the whole saga and wasn't really surprised about the ending - the more he climbed, I thought uh-oh, sort of know what's at the top - it couldn't really end any other way. I was also just a tad disappointed that the Mordred battle was over just a little too quickly, and as for Oy, well pass the eyedrops.

[Stranger]

i agree with pretty much all of you i think....my initial reaction to the ending was not a good one...lol...but then i turned around and perused all of Stephen's other books with connections to DT and after that i reread the entire series with a different perspective...now i don't see how it could have ended any other way and satisfied both writer and reader

[md10pc]

[QUOTE=Drawn to Ka-tet;301581]I also suggest reading Hearts In Atlantis and Insomnia to get some closure.

This is a very good suggestion--especially Hearts in Atlantis. I read Hearts in Atlantis when it first came out, and since I finished the Dark Tower series this month, picked up "Hearts" for a re-read. It gave me some closure; I didn't realize how fond I was of Father Callahan and Eddie, and then Jake and Oy really broke my heart. Actually I still need closure on Jake.

[Giuly]

The end could not be in another way.

[vengermader]

Great, great books. many thanks stephen king

[BTRNYC]

Just finished my first DT read!

I think it's harrowing and frightening to think Roland will be stuck going from the end back to the beginning of his journey (hopefully now with the right "key", the horn).

Overall I thought it was an amazing read, also with connectors thrown in... The Stand, IT, Insomnia, The Talisman etc... What an amazing universe SK has created.

I also like that the DT made me think about life and death in a way I hadn't before.
Also, I hope that the rumors of DT8 are true, and am already drooling on my keyboard at the prospect.

Now onto Just After Sunset to bide time til Nov 10 when I get to watch sai King at the Times Talks Event! Be jealous!

[Kingfan81]

Mr. King certainly made me care and strangely enough about a little creature named Oy. Go figure I shed many tears over him.

I cannot recall ever being so upset by the death of a character in a fiction book. I sobbed and sobbed, and almost didn't want to go on and finish the epic tale. Jake's final death was close, but Oy....oh Oy how I miss you! How large your heart was, how loyal and clever you were!

[nate_watkins]

I kind of liked the ending. Some time I oughtta reread the series though. And I'd also like to listen to the audio books... :grinning: