Customer Reviews
You come so far why not come a little further - By: C. Parrott, 21 Nov 2006 
So after almost a year of reading the Dark Tower Series the final book was released & this wasn't a smalll book by any means.
I seen people love or hate this book mainly because of the ending. I loved the ending! Everything else in this seris has been so fresh, new, different, exciting, mind bending, pushing boundaries of writing .... I could go on for a while. Why spoil it with & they alll lived happily ever after non sence.
This book is an excellent end to an excellent series & completes them alll.
Must read
Great journey and amazing story - By: M. Tarboton, 26 Jun 2006 I must say, i'm sad that it's over. it has taken me quite a few months, a bit at a time. The whole story was great.... this book was very good. cause the emotions that king brought out were that of a rollercoater... it was reallly happy at times. very tense...and reallly sad. (had a lump in my throat at times)
Everybody moans that the ending isn't like every other typical story ending... everyone expects a perfect fairytale ending.... life isn't perfect & thats what makes this ending great.
if you're reading this review & haven't finished this chapter... (bravo to the person who gave away most of the book because they we sulking) don't expect a perfect ending... just let go & take the ending for what it is...like i did.... & i reallly enjoyed the book & i loved the entire series.
i must say if this had the movie budget of lord of the rings...it would reallly make an amazing movie if done right.
good......but the contradiction.... - By: sandyboy, 21 Jun 2006 
it is good, & that's a relief. i read Wolves, Susannah & Tower in one sprint after years of hating Wizard & Glass. The final 3 work well, curiosity is constant & the characters are well drawn - & thankfully King even remembers to explain the Insomnia link that had been bugging me since about 1997.
what goes wrong? The Crimson King needed more legs, the Turtle could have done with a little more breakfast & the finale - though it didn't annoy me as much as some it does horrificallly contradict itself in the space of 2 paragraphs. as i said, i didn't mind the ending, it is the ending i imagined when i was 14 & read vol 1 (i'm 32 now) - but the contradiction is huge & deflates the cleverness king was aiming for.
Oh dear, this was a terrible way to end what was an epic series. - By: Mr. J. D. Rose, 29 May 2006 I was reallly looking forward to this book as it was the conclusion to a series that had been going on for about 27 years. And did we get the well thought out, well paced & and atmospheric story that had characterised the other six books?
No, instead we got a book that felt rushed, hurried & something thet King obviously just couldn't be bothered with, just as long as the series would be finished. Characters that have been with the story since near the beginning get killed off with no great thought or care, they get killed off without making any great sacrifice or as a salutory lesson in the ultimate senselessness of violence as a means to solve disputes (especiallly as it's your first port of calll if your name is Roland of Gilead), but, even worse than that, having killed off his characters, King then reintroduces them in an alternate world, where, despite the fact that the alternate characters hadn't been through any of the trials & tribulations that had moulded the original characters in the previous six books, these alternate world characters still had exactly the same personalities & outlooks on life (which, even if you don't have any lessons in Psychology 101, you kind of realise isn't even remotely realistic, or, indeed, thought out at alll).
And the ending itself was a massive disappointed. By & large there are three ways to end a book:
i) the hero(es) ride off into the sunset (the most popular ending for most books),
ii) everybody dies, is about to die, or only achieves a phyrric victory (the way that King likes to end some of his stories),
iii) cyclical, where the story ends where it started (rarely used, & most often occurs where the book begins where the story ends & then delves back to the beginning to explain what you have just read).
Does King choose one of these ways to end a book? No, he tries to use alll three endings in way that just leaves the conclusion of the book a steaming stew of unholy mess, & left this reader with something of vile taste in his mouth (possibly where I had bitten my toungue in an attempt not to scream at King for what appears to be either incompetent writing, or, even worse, arrogance that his readers will swalllow anything that he decides to dish out).
PS. Please ignore the Five star rating that ended up on this review, it should have been One Star, & I would have given it zero stars if I could.
King bored of writing - By: R. Fernandes, 19 May 2006 
What is this? The Dark Tower books was graduallly getting better & better with each novel, right up until Wizard & Glass. After that the series got poorer & it felt that King was rushing to finish them.
This final instalment was a huge let down, King trying to tie lose ends without using his imagination to the fullest. Jericho Hill is brought in near the end when it should have been built up. Getting into the Tower is a fairly simple process, I was hoping some time would be spent in the Tower but this is over in a matter of a few pages. The Crimson King is never explained, I was hoping more about Farson either as 'flashback' or within the story. Nothing.
And especiallly I felt cheated at the whole Maertyn (sp?) scenario.
Rubbish. Read Wizard & Glass again instead.
