Ultimately, King's character has little or no control over the story. This is reflected in King's appearance in the series.
If a person's genes can be King's influences (Lord of the Rings, The Song of Rolande) then a person's actions can be the act of writing the story. The death is inevitable as all things are finite, but what makes them a person is not just their genes but their actions. While that sounds pithy and aphoristic, there's a greater truth hidden in that didactic simple thing.Ī person's death doesn't define who they are as a person.
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I wasn't disappointed with the ending because you're not reading the series for the ending you're reading the series for the journey. In the logic of King's oeuvre, in which all things are cyclical (The Cycle of the Werewolf, IT, Dreamcatcher, Insomnia, etc), there is literally no other ending the Dark Tower could have had. We have the Oz stuff, Clint Eastwood, Dying Earth stories, Harry Potter, Doombots, Seven Samurai, and even his own fictions (eg. The Dark Tower, as a series, is already heavily obsessed with the idea of other stories being folded in. This shouldn't have been a surprise considering that King himself folds into the story. Which is to say that the story folds upon itself. Since King is smart enough to know how basic stories function (eg Danse Macabre) he structured The Dark Tower as an Ouroboros: This is why stories are often cyclical, as to represent the cycle of life and death. The beginnings are always filled with hope (for a good story) but an ending is a death. The long answer is that King is smart enough to know that after writing a singular (but branching) story over 30 years, readers will be disappointed by any ending he concocts. The simplest answer is that all stories are cyclical, like The Hero's Journey. If it were me, and I knew I was going to waste time reading 6 books, most of which were HUGE, and the."
Vicki wrote: "Spoiler Alert: Don't go past this sentence if you don't want to spoil your reading experience. It's just that the seventh was a letdown. I don't believe I can tell someone else "Don't read it." The first 6 were okay. Misery was wonderful and, if he could do that then, I suppose he can still do it now. I may be missing some subtle piece of the literary puzzle.
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I suppose there are scenarios that could work in but this one IMHO (and not a professional viewpoint either) doesn't work to start where it ends and end where it starts. I'm really asking, not just being sarcastic. Why would someone devote almost half a million words to a project and then have it end the same as it began?
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Anything's better than wasting your time going through an entire series of books and arriving at the destination being greeted by a monster and then eaten alive for a reason you didn't understand then and still DON'T.Īnd to make it come full circle, so that it ends the exact same way it began.well I'm sorry to sound judgmental about it, but I don't understand the point of it, especially in THIS book. If it were me, and I knew I was going to waste time reading 6 books, most of which were HUGE, and then get to the seventh and be told off in the Author's Afterward - AFTER his making a joke that was neither a joke nor funny - I could have saved myself all those words on a different book. Spoiler Alert: Don't go past this sentence if you don't want to spoil your reading experience.
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