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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zulithe" data-source="post: 1978609" data-attributes="member: 4708">Starman: that sums up my own feelings on the final book as well. Those were my biggest problems with it, all the others I could forgive or let slide as my own personal quibbles, but the three things you mention are increadibly anti-climatic and you get the feeling that King INTENDED for the ending to be disappointing.I don't mind what happens after Roland enters the Tower. I do think it is a little unfair to write a seven volume series (not to mention the dozen or so books that tie into it) and then have the character back at square one again, but I can live with it. I just can't stand how the most pivotol characters are dealt with in such unsatisfying ways. With the Crimson King perhaps being the worst of all. I can't stand it. I would love to just rewrite about 1/3 of the 7th book.I can sit here and convince myself why things panned out the way they did, and that the way Mordred and Walter's stories may be different durring Roland's next journey to the Tower (now that he has the horn and all), but it doesn't change the fact that I greatly dislike the way they were handled in the BOOKS, which is all that matters.I wonder if King realizes how he has sentenced his most valuable and important work to a mediocre place in history because of the way he handled things. Sigh.</blockquote>