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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ShadowDenizen" data-source="post: 2085436" data-attributes="member: 16485">Just finished reading VOlume 7, and I have mixed feeling about this book, and the series overall.  So, I decided to resurrect this thread and see how people feel about the books after they've distanced themselves from it for awhile.The first four books? Were excellent. (I see no need for a "Revised Gunsligner" but that's neither here nor there, I think.)But then, I read Book 5, and it seemed to drag to me, only to pick up at the ending.Book 6, I plowed through, and is probably my favorite of the series, along with "Wizard and Glass".Book 7? While I liked it, (it was very readable, and it went by quickly) much of it seemed anti-climactic to me.  More specifically: The death of Flagg? Was completely silly.The death of Jake and Eddie? While I get that I was supposed to be sad, and to a degree I was, but for some reason their deaths didn't carry the significance for me that some other fictional characters' deaths (books and movies) did.  Does that make sense?Mordred? After the build-up they gave him, was a complete waste of time and pages. The Crimson King? Boo! I get what the author was trying to say, but it just didn't work.  IMO, John Farson (who was a servant of the Crimson King, and caused the fall of Gilead) was a cooler villain than the Crimson King, and we never even saw him.And the part where Patrick the Artist has to "erase" the Crimson King? Again, good in theory, not so much in practice. I think bringing in a character that late in the final boko and having him play a pivotal role was a bit of a let-down (and maybe a cop-out.)  That, and that is how also similar to how he ended the "Kingdom Hospital" series, which was a mediocre end to a decent TV series.I thought the "Coda" was actually completely unnecessary, and I'm actually regretting reading it.  Much like "The Force", the Dark Tower and what it represents can and should be different for each person reading the books.  The more you try to quantify and explain things that are better left to the imagination (Midichlorians, anyone?) the more you take away from the wonder and mysiticism of that object.</blockquote>

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