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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Furtive Noise" data-source="post: 1783200" data-attributes="member: 273">I was really disappointed with this book, maybe I just expected too much from the ending.  I've kind of liked the Dark Tower series less and less after book 4, not really sure why, maybe because it seemed to be less about this epic journey than about scrambling around back and forth between this world and different times.Specific things about book 7:A lot of time was spent working Mordred up but he turned out a big disapointment.  I mean, he easily kills Walter (or Randall Flagg, etc.) who was one of my favourite villains throughout a lot of other King books.  This kind of surprised me, but it made me think Mordred was going to be an even more potent foe that would perhaps be the final obstacle in the quest.  Not some pitiful follower that we're supposed to feel half sorry for and ends up little more than a speedbump before the Tower.  (Ok, he serves to give Oy a heroic death, but I knew the final member of Roland's band was going to die anyway)  What happened to Mordred's 'spooky' mind control powers- in the end he's just a hungry spider.The Crimson King was an even worse disappointment- An evil father Christmas?!  Who throws sneetches and hurls lame insults back and forth with Roland as a final confrontation? C'mon.  I thought he was some nigh-all powerful force with a legion of followers besieging the Tower.  Instead he's got an old illusionist minister and a pleasantville town w/ 60 good ol boys keeping the breakers breaking.Finally, the coda.  I figured my other complaints would fall by the wayside once we finally got to go with Roland inside the tower.  King writes about how the journey is all that matters and we shouldn't even bother wanting to know what goes on in the tower.  BS; a powerful ending helps to frame and support what leads up to it, validates the quest somewhat.  Roland finally gains entrance to what is supposed to be the ultimate metaphysical center and support for all reality- and its just a summation of his life leading up to a lame twilight zone twist.  A big trap for him, a cheap mind-f**k.  "But wait, I'll throw the readers a bone, now he's got the Horn of Eld so it might work out after all."  Bleh.  This whole thing is just so lame and out of the blue- I think King knew it was lame and tries to fend off potential criticism w/ his whole 'don't read the end' thing.Don't get me wrong, the book wasn't utterly terrible.  Very readable and page turning.  Roland and Sussanah actually going about the ardous final journey was great.  I didn't even mind King putting himself into the story so much, kind of made a certain sense seeing as how its his lifes work and cross references so many other of his books.  I'm just venting because the story seemed to have the potential to have been so much better and the end was so disapointing.</blockquote>

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