awesome story...DT!!

[martha77]

I am new to the forum (but a fan for almost 20 years), so if this post is not where it belongs (I!! think this where people should see it) but, please forgive me...
I just finished the last Dark Tower book today. This is my second time to read them. I realised today that I probably won't ever tire of the story of Roland Deschain. It's funny, how sometimes, with a really good book--make believe characters can somehow, while you are reading, embed themselves into your consciousness. You are sad when they are, scared for them when they are in trouble, and when the story ends, you miss them. It's like having to say goodbye to a good friend. Even Sai King says that he made friends of Roland and his ka-tet and had to see where their journey brought them. I understand that. This is what makes King a FANTASTIC writer...he knows where we are coming from. We read as the story unfolds, we watch and read where he is at the mercy of a great story.
Ridiculous as it may be but--there is a little piece of yourself that you keep inside of that book that is only for them , and it stays there with them after you have finished and closed the book and put it back on the shelf.
I can't quite bring myself to put this one back on the shelf. I will miss Roland, Eddie, Susannah, and Oy. So until I find another book to drag my mind off of this singularily engrossing, beautiful and tragic story I think I am going to keep the last one on my desk for a while. Just so that I know, even though I am done reading, and it is just a story, Roland has someone around to remember him while he is on his endless and lonely journey.

[BRB]

Thank you! I was wondering if I should read it! Is it a fast paced story? I just finished Dome and couldn't put it down!! I am a very slow reader, but Dome didn't take me long at all!

[eaglpaul]

The Dark Tower series is my favorite story of all time. It just incorporates so much into it that there is no way that you can understand it all in just one reading. Horror, Fantasy, Western, Thriller, Sci-Fi. I love this story, and I think I love it more because it is so different from what Stephen King usually writes. I started this series back in High School, back then only the first four books were written, and I read those over and over again thinking, as SK did, that the end would never be written. Then I heard that SK was writing the last three books, and I became excited. I bought all the old books again, re-read them, and then read each new one as it was published.

I am making it a tradition in my life that I will read the DT series once a year, and also that I will read it on every deployment that I go on with the military. I hope that they make a movie soon, and if SK is attached to the project, I know it will be great.