The Dark Tower Series

**SoCalChelle** · 11-11-2004, 03:32 PM

I've been a Stephen King fan since the beginning and have read everything he's ever written. I can't believe Roland's journey is finally over. Well, sorta

**lms2** · 11-11-2004, 06:18 PM

I also am a Stephen King Fan... Hell of a writer, and you are right the dark tower series is a good read, but you know, that series did not stick with me the way his other books have.

**bueno bob** · 11-11-2004, 06:58 PM

Originally posted by SoCalChelle
I've been a Stephen King fan since the beginning and have read everything he's ever written. I can't believe Roland's journey is finally over. Well, sorta

Honestly, I don't think the "change" Roland had at the end (?) of his quest is going to make any real difference; mayhap it might, but ka is a funny bitch, ain't she?

I take the fact that he's dreamt about blowing his horn at the base of the tower as evidence that, well, maybe he already HAS...for whatever good it's done him.

Mayhap I'm just a sick bastard and like the idea of his suffering to continue, who can say...lmao...

Still, maybe someday there'll be a door and behind that door will be a clearing with a blonde girl who once sat at a window - THAT would be cool. I loved Susan and thought Wizard and Glass was one of the best installments of the series, if not THE best.

**SoCalChelle** · 11-11-2004, 07:45 PM

The ending of DT7 blew me away. Ka really IS a wheel, eh?

What did you think of that 9/11 reference he threw in there? Do you think he's saying Black Thirteen drew the planes to the towers?

Also, the house by the lake is called Cara Laughs. There was a house in Bag of Bones called Sara Laughs. Whaddya think.....same house on different levels of the tower?

I love how he brought it all together....it seems almost as though everything he's ever written was a part of Roland's journey. Almost like he planned it that way all along.

**POJO_Risin** · 11-15-2004, 01:17 AM

Just about everything WAS about the journey...I've read every one of his books up to the past 4...I'm in the middle of Black House right now...with Straub...and am loving it...and obviously...Talisman and Black House are directly related...and about 15 or so other books...including the stand...and a couple of other of the big ones...

I love going back and finding the shit...

but yeah...in an interview way back...he said most of his books start off as installments of the series...he knew the ending...and feared that the end of the Dark Tower would be the end of his creativity...that his journed would be over...

He also calls it his "Lord of the Rings..." for what it's worth...

I still have 5, 6 and 7 to go...and will start up with 1 after I finish Black House...

I'll let you know as I go through...I may reread Talisman as well...just to fill that story up...

**WACF** · 11-15-2004, 12:35 PM

I got half way through and then forgot about them....

I will have to pick up the remaining ones.
When I was reading them as they came out I could not put them down.

**WACF** · 11-15-2004, 12:37 PM

Look at that...I am a Crazy Ass Mofo....

**diamondsgirl** · 11-15-2004, 12:40 PM

Originally posted by WACF
I got half way through and then forgot about them....

I will have to pick up the remaining ones.
When I was reading them as they came out I could not put them down.

don't forget your wrist supports for reading these...damn those are some BIG ASS books. Seriously heavy.

I need some wrist exercises to strengthen my wrists for that shit..

oh Maaaax!?

**McCarrens** · 11-15-2004, 01:35 PM

Those are some of the greatest book sever written. I think there is a hole in my life now, what with Roland and his ka-tet's literary journey over.

I cried after reading the last page of the last book.

That's how long I've been with them, and now that it is over, I feel like I've passed on through one phase of my life into another.

I know that sounds a little (or a lot) weird but I've been reading the Dark Tower books for years and years and somehow I don't think Harry Potter can fill the gap that lives on my night stand now I don't have a story about the Gunslinger and the Man in Black there.

**SoCalChelle** · 11-15-2004, 04:11 PM

That's exactly how I feel, McCarrens.

**bueno bob** · 11-15-2004, 05:06 PM

I noticed the Sara Laughs/Cara Laughs references as well...King recently did an interview and said there were something like 28 other references that NOBODY has discovered yet...worth the re-read

Well, if the black 13 didn't call the planes to it, then al-Queda did the U.S. a favor on 9/11 if that was the case...lmao...

**SoCalChelle** · 11-15-2004, 10:31 PM

28 references to other books?

**bueno bob** · 11-16-2004, 12:09 PM

Yup, somewhere in the vicinity of 28 references to other books; he said there's also a LOT in the way of plays on "19" that hasn't been discovered either.

My biggest complaints? Nobody will ever know what happened with Rhea (the Coos witch), that belt from his Mother that somehow saved Roland's life, and I'm willing to bet that there's a LOT about Jericho Hill that wasn't told (why they were there, what the fuck happened, et al).

On top of that, we never met Aileen, don't know anything about the girl he left in Kings Town, his interactions with Thomas and the other guy from Eyes of the Dragon...nor whatever happened with the whole "fall of Gilead" bit other than, well, it fell!

Devil's in the details, and I think there's still another DT novel yet that could cover ALL that shit! But I ain't holding my breath.

Good news though, 'cuz there's talk of making the ENTIRE SERIES into an HBO miniseries (animated - who in the CHRIST could actually carry those roles effectively?!?).

I REALLY hope that happens!

**WACF** · 11-16-2004, 12:13 PM

That would be cool!!!!

Went to a used bookstore last night....could not find a single Dark Towers book....

I have got to pick up those last few!

The Dark Tower Series

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