Anyone into the Dark Tower books?

[pintoca]

After a 4 years pause, I finished books 5 (Wolves of the Calla) and 6 (Song of Susannah) in about 1 month (that good they are).

Now I'm sitting here, dreading the final one, book #7, since I know it will be the end of it all. This is a serie that comprises more than 10.000 pages and it took longer than 30 years to write, to read the last book, find out how it all ends and know there are no other books to come is, shall we say, not really appealing.

Then again, there is no denying it, it shall be read.

So my question it, how did you like the last book, both as a stand-alone book and as a culmination of the serie?

"Go then, there are other worlds than this"

 

[Raina]

They're on my "to read" list.

 

[bluepeter]

Fantastic series, I've read them all. Last book is excellent, you WILL be surprised.

 

[jackangel]

read 'em all. one of better/best series i've read. i liked the book, as i recall...but i think in terms of the overall story. individual books in a series are interesting primarily in correlation to how much of the backstory they reveal. from that perspective, i guess it did a whole lot of revealing and so was pretty cool. the ending of the series didn't leave me satisfied (and you'll see why), but that's how SK wanted it and i'm fine with it.

 

[bigmann245]

wish i had time to read.. my day is filled with my son, homework (for both of us), and work......

 

[Raina]

I think I'm going to read the dark tower books after I finish up George RR Martin's Song of Ice and Fire series.

 

[bluepeter]

read 'em all. one of better/best series i've read. i liked the book, as i recall...but i think in terms of the overall story. individual books in a series are interesting primarily in correlation to how much of the backstory they reveal. from that perspective, i guess it did a whole lot of revealing and so was pretty cool. the ending of the series didn't leave me satisfied (and you'll see why), but that's how SK wanted it and i'm fine with it.

Absolutely. I'm still not sure how I feel about it.

 

[The Shadow]

Im pissed at waiting so long

 

[milo hobgoblin]

could you guys give me a rough idea what they are about? saw them in B&N and it looked interesting. Havnt had a chance to look into them yet.

 

[pintoca]

could you guys give me a rough idea what they are about? saw them in B&N and it looked interesting. Havnt had a chance to look into them yet.

It's really hard to describe, I don't think there's anything quite like that series out there, except by other books by Stephen King (The Talisman, for example) and the grand daddy of thema all: The Lord of the Rings.

If you wish, it's the story of a quest, a somehow fiction-western style, with elements of different styles, all bundled together.

Read the first book (The Gunslinger)and see if you like it (that one is really short too, when compared to the other 6)

If you enjoyed books like: The Talisman, Black house, The Stand or Insomnia you WILL like this series.

 

[foreigngirl]

I read almost all SKs books, but never got to the series. Reading this I think they are worth reading.
Thanks for the heads up Pintoca

 

[HardHat87]

Those are way too out there for me, I read one of them.

 

[Cuthbert]

Never read them.

 

[dirty~d~]

I've never really tried reading them since typically I struggle through his books. Are they a little easier to read than some of his others? He gets a little too involved with his descriptions at times and I lose interest quick.

 

[javaguru]

I've heard good things but haven't read them....

 

[Island Son]

i've read the first 4 but I don't know most of his other stuff so I know i'm missing a lot of references to his older work

 

[pintoca]

A funny thing happened to me during Book 5... With all the talking about doors and references to ka as a wheel, I found myself thinking abut a picture I took in Puerto Rico some years ago, in a Spanish castle. The picture is basically a corridor full of doors and it diffuse into white, like one door into another, into another and so forth

Well, LOW AND BEHOLD, the picture is below,

look at the date...


spooky

If you don't get it, you need to read Book 5 again and the "too-many-to-count" references to 19, 9 and 99... The ka-tet of 19 and the ka-tet of 99

 

[chewyxrage]

lord of the rings western style?

Sounds like my kind of shit.

I was actually just about to re-read the hobbit and rest in succession.

 

[pintoca]

lord of the rings western style?

Sounds like my kind of shit.

I was actually just about to re-read the hobbit and rest in succession.

Ypu could say so, throw in so magic and some technology (whoich tried to replace and explain magic) and you are good to go.

Really man, if you enjoy fiction, DO IT

 

[pintoca]

up for BluePeter... that pic (with the date) is really spooky, given the circunstances...

 

[bluepeter]

up for BluePeter... that pic (with the date) is really spooky, given the circunstances...

lol, nice. I see you as Eddie Dean, any merit?

 

[bluepeter]

By the way, I read books 5, 6 and 7 in just over a week. You're slow

 

[pintoca]

lol, nice. I see you as Eddie Dean, any merit?

not at all

more like Oy

 

[bluepeter]

not at all

more like Oy

lol