91_Aggie said:
I finally trudged my way through the final book.
What a huge mess of a horrible story.
Gunslinger, drawing of the three, and the one about his past in Mejis were the only interesting ones.
The other 4 books are just complete crap.
I just don't know how anyone could be a superfan of this. It took me about 6 weeks of trying to get through book 7... nothing in it made me want to keep reading... I only finished it because I had to see how bad the ending was.
Yep. bad.
I get it that he supposedly tied his entire "universe" together, but that was not what he intended in the first 2 books. Think he just got stuck and the thought "Oh, yeah... this is what I'll do" and then forced it all together.
Just a really bad story.
The man in black is made out to be the ultimate villain early on, then later he's just an after thought... and Oh, yeah... this character and this character and this other character all with other names was really the man in black... way after the fact
The crimson King... WTF. The ultimate bad guy... and all he has at his disposal is box of sneetches. Oh and he dies because some kid draws him and then erases him
Geez, that woman with cancer who wrote King back in the 90's wanting to know how it ended and King couldn't tell her because he had no idea what he was going to do. I think she would have been really disappointed had King been able to tell her that this was how it was going to end.
UGH!
Stephen King owes me a lot of time back.
And on that note, I think I'll start Audiobooks over again.
Seriously though, I don't think it's a series for everyone, or maybe even most people. But dammit I love it and I wish everyone else did as well.