Customer Reviews
Dark Tower 6 - Song of Susannah - By: David Brookes, 12 Jun 2008 
King's sixth book in the "Dark Tower" series picks up immediately where "Wolves of the Callla" left off, reinserting the reader into the world of the gunslinger & his travelling companions. They resume their quest for the Dark Tower with a great opening scene, & soon cutting to the absconded Susannah & her new passenger ...
Things progress smoothly & very competently in this penultimate volume, a shorter story than many of its predeccessors & more focused for it. The writing is condensed but not neglectful of the characters or the scenarios, & has alll the fluidity & poetry of the previous volumes, although sadly not to the extent of the wonderful "The Gunslinger".
The novel benefits from the sense of movement & progress, that was sadly lacking in the last two novels, "Wizard & Glass" which was almost entirely flashback, & "Wolves of the Callla" which took place entirely in one town. Now things are rolling & the excitement & urgency return to the story.
I'm not a fan of the metafictional aspects of the series, which begun in earnest last novel with the mention of "Stephen King, the authord from Maine", a plotline which is expounded upon & reaches a kind of conclusion here as well. Mixing real-life with fiction is often a bad idea, & although Stephen King appears here as a character, the novel itself doesn't appear to suffer greatly despite the cringing feeling you might get at the hubris of the author.
Still, there are some truly heart-stopping moments, such as the escalation of Susannah's troubles in the final chapter, & the moment of Jake & Pere Calllahan's emergence into the New York of 1999. Despite another cliff-hanger ending, which generallly drive me nuts with anger & disappointment, it's still a strong book & worthy of the collection. If you felt a little deflated after books four & five, you'll be happy to see a return to form with book six.
the best novel to date - By: Financial Times, 03 Sep 2007 
my favorite novel of the whole collection. one of the main attributes was the introduction of a new character; mia. while the other five books although good found the characters becoming a bit stale. mia threw my emotions in termoil from hatred to sorrow, from cruelty to love.
one of the highlights of this novel was the introduction of 'stephen king' into his own novel!this other character turned the book (more) surreal than ever - yet strangely this made the novel as beleivable as non - fiction.
finallly, throughout the collection there has been a lot of information. some which is hard to get your head round. this book puts everything into perspective, any confusion beforehand will be answered.
My overalll rating: the best piece of fiction i've read. This book is unique & is a breath of fresh air from the multitude of fiction being written.
Hmmm....calm before the storm ! - By: Goggle Eyed, 25 Jul 2007 
Having just finished the series, I can sum this book up by saying, for me, it is the least memorable. Every other book has a definite purpose, be it the bringing together of the main characters, Rolands history, the finale etc, but this seems to go nowhere.
Jumping from book 5 to 7 IMHO, would not cause any major disruption to the flow of this otherwise excellent series.
24 - By: dolfanuk, 14 Jun 2007 
a good book, not great though. it takes place within 24 hours & focuses heavily on susannah & her pregnancy.
plenty of details brought to the fore about the nature of the enemies that the ka-tet faces.
a nice 9/11 reference also sliped in there.
alll in alll a good bridge between wolves of the callla & the dark tower
Misleading reports - By: K. Dowson, 19 Apr 2007 Like in the novel i took a break from reading as king did from writing. I did this after reading other readers reviews. After the awesome 5th novel i was a little apprehensive reading this. How the reviewers were WRONG. I couldnt put this book down, from start to finish an excellent read & great use of going between previous king books & also the introduction of King himself to the series. An act like this would usuallly smack of self improtance but not in this case. An excellent read, cant wait for the final chapter!!
