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The very best books in my opinion of the entire series were “Dark Tower III: The Waste Lands” (5 stars) and “Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass. (4.5 stars). All the juice in those two basically.

What I liked about Dark Tower 7:

The setting of coldness. I felt cold myself and grateful that I didn’t have to endure it.

Basically, disappointing. I can see why people like SK's writing and some turn out to be good films.

mrbananacheeks's review

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5.0

“Ka is a wheel.”

Early in the series, Roland is warned that the top floor of the Tower is empty. That’s partly true. But it also contains the entire series itself.

This book was long, sad, and powerful. All but the original ka-tet survive for what could be close to a happy ending, but the idea of Susannah going to some version of NYC that Jake and Eddie live in made me pretty emotional while driving. Even during that moment, when I believed that Roland’s story would end with the doors of the Tower closing behind him.

In a book where they literally save the life of Stephen King, and a moment of deus ex machina where SK literally writes in notes to a character, the inclusion of Patrick at the end felt a little cheap. But I can’t imagine that there would be very many satisfying endings to such a long series. The joy is in the journey, after all.

Amazing how we can read thousands of pages while wishing along that our “hero”, gets to the Tower, climbs the stairs, finds peace at the top, and maybe becomes whole again. And feel so disappointed when SK leaves us hanging; telling us to stop reading. Then Roland opens the last door, and sees nothing but the desert and cold campfire in front of him that the first book begins with; forced to go to the Tower again and again, with this next time maybe being different, with hints provided by the Tower itself that he immediately discards from memory once he steps through completely.

So I dream of a tale where he is simply content with disposing of the Crimson King and finds his way to NYC with his ka-tet. Though SK has made it clear that reading each of his books is one of the Tower, I am sad to finish it. Maybe we’ll get more, maybe not. But for now, every time someone starts reading the series, we’ll have to be okay with the greatest opening line of a book, and greatest final line of a series:

“The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.”

Long days, and pleasant nights.

jijibug's review

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4.0

The perfect loop doesn’t exi… DX

closteroven's review

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5.0

(10/10)- I did it. More than one “it”. The first “it”. I finished the Dark Tower, and followed Roland through to the end, if you want to get poetic I guess. Second “it”: I rated a book 10 on 10, because this was just that good. Yeah, there were a few minor flaws that bugged me a tiny bit. But then again, the character arcs were amazing. The story itself came full circle in a way I really liked. It changed, but that change just led right back to the start. Ka is a wheel, I guess. I can’t even begin to explain how much I love this series, so I won’t. Just know that it’s a lot.

Also it had my name in it at one part so that’s cool too.