Books The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (King, Stephen) (v. 7)
Books and Publications Average Rating:

Rating: - Scary letdown...
The true horror was seeing such an amazing series get axe murdered in the last 2 books. My suspicion is SK was plugged into a vision so extraordinary that the Crimson King had to run him over with a van in 1999 to prevent the true story from being written. Too bad for us...

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Rating: - Excellent
The book was in amazing shape: It was hard, huge, filled with fullpage drawings, and heavy. Holding that in your hand is almost the same as holding a gun. Powerfull feeling. As for the book itself, anyone who's read DT so far knows the last story is just another amazing book in the saga, so this is a Win-win book for me. Very Satisfied.

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Rating: - It is What it is
I spent last winter reading the DT series from page 1 to the end of VII.
Everyone speaks with great prose about the series...both positive and critical.

However, I don't read a book to analyze, critique, or attempt to peer into the authors mind. I read to be entertained.

Was the series entertaining? You bet! I saw stuff momma never told me about.

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Rating: - And so the saga ends...
The final battle is about to begin. Pere Don Callahan and Jake Chambers, as always accompanied by his pet Oy, get ready to enter the Dixie Pig, a New York restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first, to get face-to-face with the vampires. These evil foes are the only things that stand between the ka-tet and the door through which the pregnant Susannah-Mia disappeared. Susannah is going to give birth to something that might jeopardize their quest for the Dark Tower. But that is not the only danger, as Roland Dechain and Eddie Dean find out in the Main of 1977. The life of the `writer' turns out to be strongly linked with the existence of the Dark Tower and time is running out.

Writing the final episode of a great fantasy series that has captured the hearts of millions of readers was a lost cause right from the start. No denouement will ever satisfy fully the imagination of that massive audience. So, how do you deal with this if your name is Stephen King. You let the narrator state that the fun it is all in the journey itself and surely not in the finale. Also you make clear that the audience will be utterly repulsed by reading the conclusion, say true. So stop reading! Honest indeed. Even fair, if you are willing to ignore the fact that people pay some good bucks for the book. But why not pay more attention to delivering the promised excitement? After writing six wonderful novels and raising quite some anticipation on what the evil force will be all about, it is quite silly to portray the ultimate evil as something that can be wiped out without much fuss, not?

Although the story is decent and the narrative excellent, as can be expected from King, you better be prepared to be disappointed in the end. Maybe it will turn out to be not so bad after all? Let's hope.