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[Doc]

I have completed my advanced readers copy signed by the man himself and filled with special artwork for club members.

Dark Tower VII is, well, with out revealing spoilers, is TERRIBLE!!

Worst letdown ever. We are talking Episode I Phantom Menace kind of bad. Near the end, with out giving it way, Mr. King himself recommends that the hardcore reader stop reading and never bother with the end of the book. And he was right. I should have took the warning and just put the damn thing down and forgot all about it. This one book pretty much destroys and cheapens everything else Stephen King has ever wrote. Awful, awful, AWFUL. Farking awful offal.

What is it, 12 more days till the actual commercial release? I can tell you right now, DO NOT bother getting this book. Just make up what ever ending you want in your own head, it'll be lots better. Reading this book will cause irreversable damage to your mind concerning every other SK novel.

What a prick.

What an insufferable self righteous stuck up flip your middle fingers at your fans little prick bastard.

I wasn't kidding about the warning. SK really does break from his flow to post a warning not to read further. Frankly, THAT SHOULD BE THE FIRST FARKING PAGE OF THE BOOK! YOU FARKING ARSEHOLE!! Ahem. Pardon me.

I am inconsolable. I am grief stricken, torn, and mourning the loss of one of my heros. And not Stephen King either.

Way to go. Completely destroy the whole series and every book that ties into it. Good job.

So much potential, only to stumble at the finish line. How sad.

[Sirian]

One of my goals as a writer is never to put a fan into the position you describe, Doc. One wonders what happened that he should choose to do so.

- Sirian

[Doc]

Originally posted by Sirian@Sep 9 2004, 07:42 PM
One of my goals as a writer is never to put a fan into the position you describe, Doc. One wonders what happened that he should choose to do so.

- Sirian

Might I recommend that you read this whole series and the turd at the end as a good example of what not to do and how to not crap on your constant readers? It is really the best example I could think of.

Now I must return my gaze to the out of doors to seek and destroy vermin.

[Sirian]

One of the great aspects of sharing wisdom is NOT having to go through an experience ALL THE TIME to learn from it. What others say, if one listens, can often spare one much grief.

Thanks for sharing. :wub:

- Sirian

[Justus_II]

Someone once told me the difference between Wisdom and Experience:
Experience is learning from your mistakes, Wisdom is learning from other's mistakes!

[Roland]

...after the decline with both V and VI, and especially with the "re-write" of I, that he was going to spit in the faces of his fans. He's been doing it since 5, IMO, and it's been a slow but steady decline through each page after IV. I haven't read it yet, I WILL buy it and read it, but something tells me I know what the ending is, just from your reaction. Not that it's hard to read into it, if you're a fan of the books.

I can't say I'm surprised, though. I've had that feeling since around Boook IV, or maybe even earlier. I just didn't expect SK to take it in the direction he has, and in such a way. The last two books have been a bigger and bigger disappointment. I expected the final chapter to follow suit.

I'm sorry to hear I was right.

[Doc]

Don't do it.

Don't waste your money.

Just don't do it.

It's not worth it.

This is wrong of me to say, but, go out and look on your local filesharing network and download a text copy. Yeah, illegal. Big farking deal. He screwed us, screw him back. Or get a copy from a local library. Just don't waste your money on it.

Better yet, don't read it at all. Wolves of the Calla and Song of Susanna were so so. But Dark Tower; Dark Tower is a piece of crap. Honestly, avoid it at all costs.

I think Stephen King's little accident a while back rattled his brains loose.

[Roland]

I was hell-bent on getting it anyway, for myself. So, my wonderful g/f (I love her to pieces), KNOWING how stubborn I am and how I was intent on getting the book - did one over on me and got it herself as a gift to me! :D

Only read a little bit before I put it down, and latent insomnia coupled with MASSIVE console gaming resurgence has eaten up all my time, so I haven't gotten enough itch to read yet. May pick it up right now, though.

Off-topic:
I just have to say one thing: I love my GameCube. I am SO glad I got it when it first came out, and I don't much regret not getting a PS2 nor an XBox yet. They may be fine and dandy for others, but for me, my 'Cube is just TOO much fun! Can't wait for the DS, too. Oh, and did I mention my all-new retro NES-styled GBA SP, fresh in from NewEgg? :D Coupled with "The Legend of Zelda - Classic NES Series" I'm praying to the retro-gaming Gods with thanks. :D It's just SO right... I feel at peace finally, after a long time of not. G/f's getting a matching SP, along with a couple games to start her off, too. She's addicted to Super Smash Bros. Melee, which is a nice replacement for Mario Party 4. Like the game, but it gets old fast. Just last night unlocked the last character, too, and almost all the stages, to boot. Only a few more to go, and then it's just a matter of continuing to beat the pants off everyone I play against. I'm a happy gamer once more - and I owe it to my GameCube and my GBA SP - nay, to Nintendo itself. I've lost faith in the past, a lot of which was due to listening to others rag on them, but they've kept the ball rolling quite well, and I'm once again riding high on a peak of gaming ecstacy. :D

On-topic:
I'll let you know my reaction when I finish the book. Some things are just inevitable Doc. Besides, you know what they say - better to have loved and lost, than never to have loved at all. I'd rather lose that love than continue on with no ending. I need that closure, for better or worse.

[Doc]

SK himself says that reading the ending is not a good idea.

I think King got a whiff of his own mortality and realized the scope of what spread out before him. He then rushed a hackjob ending straight out of the Matrix Movies. He stumbled at the end rather then finish the story.

Dark Tower VII is full of plotholes. Big enough to sail the USS Ronald Reagan through. Gaps. Contradictions. Not just within the book, but King's other stories as well. The Crimson King, Gan's crazy side, has been botched beyond belief.

I understand now why King went back and reworked the original Gunslinger. The pussification of the ending would have clashed badly with the first book, so it had to be tweaked to allow King to back out of his little blunder.