Fatefully on page 475 of book 7. {spoiler warning}

[ake]

I am swollen eyed.
I would like to shake you a bit.
Jake is dead.
You bastard.

[mrg666]

you know reading gives me lots of highs but i rarely experience any lows but i gotta say that i had plenty of both during this series in a nice way

[K4driver]

I know what you mean....It was like when Eddie Died I imagined him as I look...since that was who I would be in the series.....WHY DOES STEPHEN KING KILL OF MY PERSONAL CHARACTERS? Eddie, Larry Underwood(The Stand)

[All Hail The Crimson King]

WHY DOES STEPHEN KING KILL MY PERSONAL CHARACTERS?

I'm guessing because it's something personal he has against you.

[Kacee]

Stephen King said himself that he doesn't know when the characters will die, and he's just as sorry for it as the readers are.

[nicklove09]

I agree, when I write, and one of my characters die, its just how it has to be.

[thewordisnineteen]

I hated it when Jake died (for the umpteenth time). I was really pi--... annoyed. But, Jake did die for a noble cause. That's all I can say.

[91rewoT]

I hated it when Jake died - but the last time...but somehow, it was right.

[knittinjen]

And Roland didn't do it - that was the best thing. I think I was most sad, though, when Jake goes thru the door and first calls Roland father. Bawled & bawled. Umm, and when Oy dies, too, and I always felt Roland didn't give Oy nearly enough credit. I think Oy's the greatest hero in the book! haha! Well, maybe...

[Tinks]

I had say a few words on behalf of my rugby club at the funeral of a teammate who died a few days before his 32nd birthday. I used part of the prayer said by Roland for Jake.
Huge thanks to Sai King for his words when mine ran out.

[TxSky]

All great writers occasionally kill of popular characters. It kills you when you see it happen, but if they didn't, you'd end up losing some of that sense of "what will happen next." Think about it. If you were a Nancy Drew fan, did you ever really think Nancy was in danger? In Star Trek did you ever really expect Kirk never to come back? The suspense of knowing the author will risk even those the author must love is part of the magic of the story.

[FreeRun]

I am swollen eyed.
I would like to shake you a bit.
Jake is dead.
You bastard.


For me it got worse OY!

[CamilleK]

For me it got worse OY!

Right there with you...Oy got shafted in the end...totally shafted and then forgotten by them all as the wheel of ka kept turning...that's the ONLY part of it all that I find sticks me in the side like one of those shredding rose thorns. Little Oy. Maybe the next spin of the wheel will be better for him....

[costanza]

Every time I read, "if you count the bumbler", pisses me right off! If he's part of the tet, Sai King, which you keep telling us that he is, then of course we count the bumbler!
Sorry but that really torques my jaws.

[CamilleK]

Am starting to read one of my Odd Thomas books to get my mind out of my Oy funk...husband thought I was a little cukoo to be so upset about 'a story' and I tried to explain to him that HE needed to read the books, try his best not to get attached to the characters or wrapped into the story line, THEN tell me that he didn't understand what I was talking about...and yes...we do count the Bumbler.

[Pucker]

All great writers occasionally kill of popular characters. It kills you when you see it happen, but if they didn't, you'd end up losing some of that sense of "what will happen next." Think about it. If you were a Nancy Drew fan, did you ever really think Nancy was in danger? In Star Trek did you ever really expect Kirk never to come back? The suspense of knowing the author will risk even those the author must love is part of the magic of the story.

This is a very good point, and it's also worth noting that King used the character of Jake over and over again to prove that there weren't really any rules concerning life and death in his arbitrary little universe. What reason does the reader have to believe that anyone (or anything) in the story is ever really gone?

[shiland]

I just finished the Dark Tower for the third time. The last two times I read it I swore never again. Sigh. So the ending Roland gets dragged through the doorway and once again is at the same place as before which means that for all the characters in all the worlds the Beam as recovered to the point of the first book and ALL THE CHARACTERS GOT A RESET!OY LIVES! Eddie and Jake too. But they get to go through the whole damned mess again.Anyway it isn't as bad as I originally thought.

[kellykid]

Boy did I cry when I was reading this one, partly because of what occurs but I think alot of it had to do with investing so much time, energy and emotion with these characters. I just didn't want it to end, to have to say goodbye....

[cain625]

It wasn't Jake's death that tore me up. I always kind of felt it was looming. It was the burial given by Roland and OY. The way Roland was completely lost is what got to me. That he tried to save Jake, but his frail body failed him.

[Connie Reader]

Oy's sad howl when they got back to Suze made me choke back a cry.

[AnniesGrrl]

I was not as torn up by Jake's death as I was by Oy's reaction to it. When Oy starts crying - that really got me.

And Oy's death upset me more than that of any other character. He was far and away my favorite character in the books.