The Dark Tower VII by Stephen King (EPUB)

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Creating “true narrative magic” (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited—breathtakingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining.Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings…and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discovery.

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⭐It’s hard to review this book, because it’s the end of the road. I’ve reached the clearing at the end of the path so to speak. I feel like I have to review the journey as a whole, and that’s tough. It’s been a hell of a ride. Before the Gunslinger I hadn’t really picked up a long series like this in quite a while. In light of that, I decided to space the series out, and really make it last. That turned out to be an excellent decision on my part, because it made the journey that much longer, and that much sweeter. Roland’s quest for the Tower was a long one. Full of excitement, horror, sacrifice, love, darkness.. and light. And I think Stephen King wrapped up the ending perfectly. I loved it. I couldn’t rate The Dark Tower anything less than five stars after finishing it. Full-body chills were achieved and a good portion of time was spent staring at the wall in front of me. It honestly made me want to crack open the Gunslinger and take the trip again.I’m sure that someday I will.

⭐When I first read this last installment of the Dark Tower series, I absolutely raged at the ending. I had a fit, complete with nasty words and a hurled book. I waited all these years for this?! But…This series has ever lured me in, starting 22 years ago or so, when I was 12 and first read the Gunslinger. I have read the series countless times, the connections between stories and characters that I have loved and this world are a source of endless fascination for me. I always seem to stumble upon someone or something that I had thought was lost from another story–or another world, if you like that better. This series makes you feel as though nothing really is ever finished or lost forever. There is always another door, or hope.Throughout the years, Stephen King has alluded to feeling driven by this story, compelled, that it won’t be ignored. Afterwords and Introductions refer to this feeling over and over again. It makes you wonder really, how wonderful and terrible if that is the case. As a reader it’s easy to say “yeah yeah, I’m sure it’s a real burden, but what happens next? Because YOU are Gan so cough it up.” Likely with an unfriendly poke. But really think about that for a minute, if a story could burn and demand and keep you awake in the Dark hours of the night. I don’t know about anyone else, but that might just drive me out of my ever-loving mind. And if ever there was a tale that would demand, it is this one.Spoiler alertIn regards to the deaths of the ka-tet, well, we all knew it was coming. Eddie’s death was the first, but sent the flare that the tet was broken, the job they were drawn for done. When he died, we knew that they were all fair game. It seems unfair that he had suffered so much only to be the first to fall, and in such a crappy way. A moment of inattention, and then the end. To lose Jake again was hard, harder than I had imagined. When he was sacrificed under the Mountains, we had barely come to know him. So while it was a lousy way to go, it was easier to bear than his last death, after we had stood with him for so many miles. And Oy? His death had been foreseen in the glass back in book 4, but still a hard blow. You were almost glad for him though, Oy was ready to move on, to find Jake.As to the end….well… Yes from a reader’s point of view, that was a major bummer. We all want to see sacrifice rewarded, a happy ending, a circle closed. So I had my tantrum and stomped my feet. Then went back and read it again….and again. In the reading, I started to wonder. The quest for the Tower maybe wasn’t about letting your friends fall, but about falling for them. In that respect, Roland failed miserably. From Hax the cook all the way to Oy he allowed his friends to fall on his quest for the Tower. When he climbs the stairs he thinks that the Tower is a Tower of death. And the Tower replies that it is because Roland’s life has made it so.We as readers are left with another door, though. The horn that hangs at Roland’s belt tells us that maybe, just maybe, he’ll get it right this time around.

⭐Let me start out by saying I had no interest in reading The Dark Tower Series. I tried to read The Green Mile 10 years ago, but I just couldn’t get into it so I put it down and thought maybe Stephen King just wasn’t for me. I was very wrong.My brother is the only reason I picked these books up. He had read them (more than twice) and really loved them and he said he just wanted someone else to read them so he had someone to talk to about them. I only started ‘The Gunslinger’ because he sent it home with me one day. It didn’t really grab me like other books I had read but he promised the next book was better. He was right. It was better but I was still not hooked like what I thought I would be.It took me a year to finish ‘The Wastelands’ and then I started ‘Wizard and Glass’. Something in this book captivated me. I don’t know if I had finally made a connection with the characters or if it opened my eyes to a better understanding of Roland but when I finished it, I couldn’t wait to start the next book. I finished them all in about a month and then went back and read ‘The Gunslinger’ again!I have a new found respect for Stephen King and I think he might be one of the greatest literary minds of our time. Seriously. I am amazed at the worlds his imagination has created for others to get lost in.It took me a year to finish ‘The Wastelands’ and then I started ‘Wizard and Glass’. Something in this book captivated me. I don’t know if I had finally made a connection with the characters or if it opened my eyes to a better understanding of Roland but when I finished it, I couldn’t wait to start the next book. I finished the rest of the series in about a month and then went back and read ‘The Gunslinger’ again!I have a new found respect for Stephen King and I think he might be one of the greatest literary minds of our time. Seriously. I am amazed at the worlds his imagination has created for others to get lost in.I highly recommend this series to anyone who wants to get lost in a monumental story that will stay with you long after you have read the final page of final book.

⭐I can’t imagine what reading this book was like for people in 2003 who had been reading the series since The Gunslinger was originally published. The characterisations have remained astonishingly consistent across the many years the stories have been written, and in this book, all bets are off: it’s a brutal tale and we don’t know who will or won’t survive. It feels like several books are packed into this one volume. It’s extremely dense and action-packed and, like any good ending, deliberately leaves a few loose ends dangling.I felt weary and very sad when the book came to an end. I’ve been on a long journey with all these characters. Alongside the eight Dark Tower books, I’ve read something like 20 other Stephen King books this year, including ‘bricks’ like It and The Stand, so I can comprehend the many references in the books. Finishing The Dark Tower feels like an ending and a beginning: I have many more Stephen King books to read, but this series is like King’s Everest. I can only ever climb a K2 now!As for the reason I gave this a four star rating rather than five… I bought the whole series in one big collection in paperback. So imagine my surprise when I opened the final book in the series only to find the typeface is minuscule compared with all the other books in the series. The book runs to 686 pages set in approximately 7-point Centaur MT typeface, which is immensely uncomfortable at such a size. It’s ridiculous: there’s a lot of italic writing in this book too, which is practically unreadable. By comparison, Wizard and Glass, with a bigger typeface, runs to 845 pages, so there’s no excuse for this.I work with computers all day and, worse, I suffer from migraines, so tiny typefaces aren’t my favourite thing! Having raced through the other books, I took five days to get 230 pages into this book. I then got a migraine! So I caved in and bought the Kindle edition for six quid. I read the rest of the book in two days. I read the Kindle edition alongside the paperback so I could still look at the lovely illustrations. There were also a couple of glitches in the Kindle version that I cross-checked in the paperback. So it was a frustrating end to the act of reading the series, frankly.Ultimately, I feel like Stephen King was keen to get the series finished in 2003, following his near-fatal accident and perhaps rushed one or two elements. We’ve since had the lovely interquel The Wind Through the Keyhole. I also have a feeling we haven’t heard the last from the characters in the series and there are more adventures for Roland and his gang out there.I can’t recommend the series highly enough. Like Asimov’s Greater Robot/Empire/Foundation Saga, there’s a lot of additional reading needed to appreciate everything. You can find recommendations online of ancillary reading and I strongly suggest checking them out. Now I’m going to start reading The Expanse series.

⭐I’ve done it! It’s taken a year but here I am at the end of the Dark Tower series. I’m elated!This has been a long road for me and one that I haven’t particularly enjoyed.I’m a massive SK fan so it’s a massive shame that I haven’t really enjoyed this. There we books along the way I really enjoyed but the last couple haven’t left me particularly enthralled. I haven’t hated the journey, but I’m not skipped along either, each time I’ve put a book down it’s felt a slog to pick it back up again.However I really loved this ending. Weirdly the ending makes me want to go back to the first book and start all over again, I can see why Dark Tower fans get into this loop!Maybe one day, when I’ve made my way through the whole SK universe I’ll restart and see if I enjoy it more a second time around.For now I rate this book and the overarching plot of the entire series three stars. Didn’t hate it, didn’t love it, middle of the road.

⭐I’m ploughing through this simply because I’ve read the previous 6. This set started ok with three interesting books following the adventures of Roland. Book 4 was a good standalone novel giving some almost irrelevant background knowledge of Roland’s life before he started his quest for the Dark Tower… from book 5 onwards the story has become increasingly disjointed, hard to follow….painfully slow. It’s almost as though King ran out of ideas, even introducing himself into the narrative at one stage ! I’m not even sure if I can be bothered to finish it as it’s so poorly written. If you want to read a fantasy novel read some David Eddings or Stephen Donaldson. Far superior to this rubbish.

⭐I read the third book when I was fourteen. At thirty six, I finally – just this minute, do it please ya – finished the final part, having taken some of the time between to cover that missing distance, albeit in a curiously cyclical and disjointed path (of a broken beam?). While nothing will ever compare to those earnest and hot and transcendent tides of fourteen (-nineteen, say thankya) I must admit that my body tingled as if fevered, and my eyes filled with tears as I staggered through the final chapters. The pain of such loss was not Roland’s alone to bear, and any reservations I held about fourth walls and misattributed scale were gone. Perhaps this is synaesthetic as my own life has recently taught me a lesson in repetition and pain and sacrifice in pursuit of a specific but eminently opaque goal. I have read this coincidence as being talismanic, and perhaps even Ka. But the effect cannot be denied. This moment – and the meaning – will not slip from my memory, least of all as gracefully and ethereally and serendipitously as it did for one of the Ka tet. At this point, I must open my eyes to the nature and justification for my own dark tower quest, and ask myself some challenging questions, or my own tale might……just read the books. All of them. No skimming.

⭐Just finished the final book in the Dark Tower series and sigh, I feel as bruised and battered as Roland was upon his long quest. Where to start? I never expected a fairy tale ending, but I never expected to reach the end of a book and grieve for characters in a book as I find myself now doing. I cried at the end of Wizard and Glass, I cried on and off throughout this book, and let it be known no other book has made me shed a single tear before. I will not comment on what happened, that is for you to read, just to say that the book is full of emotion, and is that not the point of such book? Did the book have the right ending? It certainly was not the one I didn’t even try to delude myself into believing would come, I am hurt, I am frustrated, I am sad………..right now I want to give Mr Stephen King a piece of my mind, how dare he upset me this way! But, was it the right ending? Yes. It is genius, it is ka, and most of all it is a wheel. Roland, Susannah, Eddie, Jake and Oy, I miss you already………but there is hope, hope in the shape of a horn and an imagination:-“Dauntless the slug-horn to my lips I set,And blew “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower came.”

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