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Thursday, December 30, 2004

Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

I've been working my way through Stephen King's final volume of his Dark Tower series for the longest time. Life kept getting involved and as a result it took me a lot longer to finish than I thought -- Tania would be mortified! I finally finished it a couple of days ago. Wow!

Seeing King write himself into the series was different enough, but to then realize that this hadn't been the first time that Roland Deschain had been to the Dark Tower really threw me. To have Roland reach the top of the tower only to be transported back to where we picked up his journey in volume one, The Gunslinger, was a twist I had not been expecting. The series is set up as a never-ending cycle -- "Ka is a wheel and it must turn" -- but there are signs that this may be the last time Roland will have to restart. With King though, you're generally left hanging and not entirely sure that the last words you've just read really are the "end of the story" or not ... most times, I would guess "not".

I'm not going to go into detail about what the series is about; if you're a fan, you already know it. If you're not, you can read the books for yourself -- I would highly recommend them to people looking for a darker and sometimes bizarre alternative world to wander into. The journey is over for us, the Constant Reader, if not necessarily for Roland.

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