Has anyone read the dark tower by Stephen King?

No i haven't The Dark Tower is the seventh and final book of novelist Stephen King's Dark Tower series, published September 21, 2004 (King's birthday) by Donald M. Grant Publishers, and illustrated by Michael Whelan. Fans worldwide, concerned that King would never finish the series, especially after the author was nearly killed in 1999, breathed a collective sigh of relief at the long awaited completion of the epic story that took King more than thirty years to write.

i had been meaning to read it for awhile now but could never seem to find the first book. See i only thought about it when i was in a bookstore looking for something to read. I'd usually pick something else out and forget about the dark tower series by the time i got home and never ordered it online. One day in a store that only had a small book section, there it was, the gunslinger, the 2003 version so of course i bought it and just finished it the other day. I've picked up the second one and will begin it shortly.

I went back and forth between loving the ending and wanting to slap him and make him do it all over again. I think the ending fit the story when you really think about The Dark Tower itself, what it holds together and what it's supposed to represent. Still doesn't fix me wanting to change the end. This reminds me how I almost drove myself crazy waiting for him to finish the series. I read the first four books within a month and waited years for the final three.

I am reading the sixth book (The song of Susannah) Mine better book is the third

I've started reading the Dark Tower Series way back when I was still in college and only recently did SK finished it. To say it was very good would not do it justice. Momumental maybe a better adjective to describe it.

(I know this is eight months late). I felt the same way when I read this book. At first I was disappointed about the ending. But then I thought about it and it was great. Roland is a great complex character who has learne so much about his life, but has still made so many mistakes. Eventually, he will learn about all his mistakes and do the things he has to save the world, so to speak. My favorite book was Sussanah's Song. I loved reading about Roland's past. I couldn't put that book down for a minute.

To be honest, I found the first book of the series a little boring, but loved 'Drawing of the Three'.. and as for the ending, I was surprised it ended the way it did. But I suppose I've been waiting so long that my expectations were way too high anyway. Who knows, I'd have been a little disappointed no matter *how* it had ended at this point.

I am so glad the series was rec'ced to me only after most of the books were out. IO think I was in the middle of reading the fourth or fifth when they last one was released, so it was just smooth transition from one book to the next. It's the first series I've read of Stephen King's and I really did enjoy it. I even read some of the peripheral Dark Tower books (Salem's Lot, Talisman, Black House, Low Men in Yellow Coats etc) and enjoyed all the little insertions of 'Dark Tower in jokes' he's sprnkled throughout them. All in all, I found the series itself to be very engaging and a fun read. I love series that have such involved character devlopment and bonding. And even though SK's affintiy for being so utterly post-modern and po-culture-referential sometimes became over-the-top, he always managed to hone it down with a sense of wry irony towards the references. Definitely books I'd read over and over again!

The Dark Tower could really only have ended the way it did. Yes it is a bit anti-climactic, but the entire series leads to the idea that Roland's quest is cyclic in nature. As a character he is damned by his own errors in judgement. He is doomed to repeat his history until he makes the right choices. It is like the wheel of karma. You are reincarnated over and over so that you learn lessons during each lifetime. If you may the right choices your condition improves in each progressive life. If you choose poorly your condition gets worse. When his quest begins anew at the end of the Dark Tower his condition is better. He now has the horn which he needed to complete his quest. He did something right this time around, maybe it was enough to succeed this time.

The books are indeed monumental. They are known as King's magnus opus--his great works. They could only have ended the way they did, and wingedman took the why right out of my mouth. My favorite book was Wizard & Glass, and I'm surprised no one else chose that as their favorite...I loved learning about the past, and the what brought Roland to where he was. The other aspect of the Dark Tower series that intrigued me is the fact that it interconnects with a number of King's other works and forms an overarching mythology of the world(s). King is a true modern literary master.

I completely hated the ending but there is absolutely no other way it could have possibly ended. Moving on, I love the series. I read the books again and again (Hi, Blaine, you're a pain, but I do love you so). I cry every time Susannah goes to New York at the end and she's going to meet Henry, and... well, you know. When I first read Wizard and Glass, I didn't dig on it at all, but it has seriously grown on me since the initial reading. It's become one of favorites (Behind Wastelands)