Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...
A 3 movie series would have been awesome!!
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Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...
A 3 movie series would have been awesome!!
Read more: > Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' <
Damn that looked really promissing, but wait...there is going to be an 8th book? When did this happen?
Ka is a wheel.
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Damn that looked really promissing, but wait...there is going to be an 8th book? When did this happen?Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooooooooooooo ...
A 3 movie series would have been awesome!!
Read more: > Stephen King's 'The Dark Tower' <
Probably shortly after he got a zillion nastygrams from people who hated the last two books and the cop-out ending.
Ka is a wheel.
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Probably shortly after he got a zillion nastygrams from people who hated the last two books and the cop-out ending.
^ This. And I would not want a movie, because it would take 20 years to film, and then would be a huge disappointment when released.
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Damn that looked really promissing, but wait...there is going to be an 8th book? When did this happen?Probably shortly after he got a zillion nastygrams from people who hated the last two books and the cop-out ending.
The newest book won't change the ending... which I thought was completely appropriate.
There's this disconnect with fans of long-running series (be it television [Lost], books [The Dark Tower], movies [any number of examples here, Spider-man springs to mind]) that says "Well, author, I know you're in charge of how this goes, and I know that you're at least as emotionally attached to these characters as I am, but you didn't end the story how I wanted so it sucks."
You can't satisfy everyone. You can rarely satisfy most people.
Not attacking you, HD, but I just don't understand where people come from these days.
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In my opinion, everything from the giant cyborg bear and the riddle-loving death train onwards was progressively more and more disappointing, and by the time you got to the final two books, everything is completely lamesauce.
Say what you want about "you can't satisfy everyone", but he spent a few decades building up the Crimson King as the biggest baddest Eldritch Horror in his entire multiverse, and in the end is revealed to be a impotent clown locked on a balcony throwing grenades, who is defeated by a kid drawing a stick figure of him and then erasing it.
Ooops, sorry, spoilers. The Dark Tower sucks. [/spoiler]
Bummer! That would've been cool.
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Damn that looked really promissing, but wait...there is going to be an 8th book? When did this happen?Probably shortly after he got a zillion nastygrams from people who hated the last two books and the cop-out ending.The newest book won't change the ending... which I thought was completely appropriate.
There's this disconnect with fans of long-running series (be it television [Lost], books [The Dark Tower], movies [any number of examples here, Spider-man springs to mind]) that says "Well, author, I know you're in charge of how this goes, and I know that you're at least as emotionally attached to these characters as I am, but you didn't end the story how I wanted so it sucks."
You can't satisfy everyone. You can rarely satisfy most people.
Not attacking you, HD, but I just don't understand where people come from these days.
Well, considering mine is the widely held opinion, I stand by it. It isn't a small cadre of disgruntled fans, it's a whole lot of people who started reading it back when the first book came out going "I waited almost thirty years for THAT piece of garbage?".
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I wouldn't mind the
Then again, it was sometime between The Waste Lands and Wizard and Glass that Stephen King began to start sucking in general, so maybe the disappointing progression of the Dark Tower was just a sign of that.
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Actually I didn't mind the ending. It made sense for a character as obsessed as Roland to NOT have a super-happy-fun ending. He was a flawed hero and I thought the ultimate ending captured that nicely.
What I DID have a problem with and DESPISED...
...was killing off the other members of the ka-tet one by one in such a stupid and cliche manner. After the first death it was so stupidly predictable "Oh. We're going to lose one of them in each of the next fights/encounters. Wow. That's not exciting or heroic that's just... dumb."
But he didn't stop with just the heroes of the ka-tet. Oh no! He went on to do a rapid-fire kill on the awesome bad guys too. Randal Flagg, the spider spawn from It (did it even have a name? I remember thinking it was a pretty cool concept... then it was mowed down like grass...), and even the Crimson King.
Oh the Crimson King. To be killed by a late addition character seemingly only stuck in at the last moment as a deus ex machina for... actually I have no idea why he stuck that stupid artist in.
So yeah, I hated everything in the last book right up to the very end. It just felt like a rushed and lazy series of events all stuffed in the last book.
I actually really enjoyed the series right to the end of book 5. Book 6 was a bit weak but largely forgettable. Then Book 7... wow. What a stinker.
I actually enjoyed most of it, not all of it, but most of it. Flagg getting killed how he did was almost enough to make me stop altogether, but, the biggest problem was that you had to read a lot of other SK novels and short stories to really understand everything right. Such as "the artist" was a character from the book Insomnia. I honestly dont think SK wanted to ever finish it. I'm also not sure I want to read this new one coming out either as I dont think its going to add too much to the overall story.