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**Sadder But Wiser** lop guest User ID: 77388 04-24-2012 02:25 PM

I spent $30 on a hardcover copy of The Dark Tower when it came out because I just had to see how the series ended.

It's been a couple of years now but the pain still lingers. I want my money back Steve, so if you read these forums you can contact me about making restitution, ya shameless con man!

Ka is a wheel (snort!) What, do you write fortune cookies to supplement your income or something?

Thirty bucks, King. Make it happen and maybe we won't discuss the mind boggling arrogance of lecturing your readers in your unbelievably pretentious 'coda'.

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. (Yes, I realize this is an old saw, but you see Ka is a wheel! And Stupidity is an inclined plane. Also, I heard that stealing any idea that's not nailed down and guarded by rabid mastiffs is a pulley. Go ask King; he knows all about it.)

I haven't read a single word you've shat out since the massive, bloated insult that was The Dark Tower, so I will settle for just the original $30. Call it $50 to cover pain and suffering.

Hack!

**Coolhandluke74**

No one forced you to buy it.

All sales are final....

Jhikpghf

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-24-2012 02:29 PM

Expect a visitor soon.
If you don't have a book worthy of publishing when they arrive........

Don't use your imagination.

Caveat Emptor!

**Galaxy**

If i didn't had the book already, you could sell it to me.

Is Ebay an option?

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 78542 04-24-2012 02:31 PM **Posts: 11,974**

That was a Great ending, imo. I guess I shouldn't be that surprised other readers didn't like it, but I thought it was keeping in with the story arc in general. Plus, I hear King's working on a prequel, or sequel or something, so maybe that'll be a better 'ending' for you DT ending-haters doomed

"The story of Roland Deschain and his quest for the Dark Tower has been a part of Stephen King’s literary agenda from the beginning. The opening sections were written in 1970, when King was an ambitious, unknown 22-year-old. The seventh and final volume, “The Dark Tower,” appeared in 2004 and brought the story — all 4,000 pages of it — to a startling conclusion. It’s therefore both a pleasure and a surprise to encounter “The Wind Through the Keyhole,” a new, largely independent narrative set in a previously unexplored corner of Roland’s universe..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainm...inment_pop

**NEESIE**

rumor has it that they are filming the dark tower movie this summer and they are going to have vampire bill from true blood play the Gun slinger, Heartflowers

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 77388 04-24-2012 02:35 PM

Coolhandluke74 Wrote:

No one forced you to buy it.

All sales are final....

So the victims of massive consumer fraud are just stuck with their purchases? Is that the way these things work?

If someone robs you, you're just stuck with it? No recourse is avaailable? chuckle

**Coolhandluke74**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Coolhandluke74 Wrote:
No one forced you to buy it.

All sales are final....

So the victims of massive consumer fraud are just stuck with their purchases? Is that the way these things work?

If someone robs you, you're just stuck with it? No recourse is avaailable?

KY jelly might help you ease the pain....

**Motherduck** · **Motherduck** Kiwi Duck User ID: 49375 04-24-2012 02:36 PM **Posts: 8,968**

Well personally I really enjoyed the Dark Tower series Heartflowers

each to their own I suppose Heartflowers

the movie will be interesting, will there be riots if its not up to expectations?

**The Evil AC** I am not a number!!! User ID: 666 04-24-2012 02:37 PM

LoP Guest Wrote:

Coolhandluke74 Wrote:
No one forced you to buy it.

All sales are final....

So the victims of massive consumer fraud are just stuck with their purchases? Is that the way these things work?

If someone robs you, you're just stuck with it? No recourse is avaailable?

No-one is stopping you from being a space cowboy.
If you want something badly enough........
And grab me a pizza and a beer will you.

**Zardoz**

It's a good thick book. If a leg breaks off your couch, I guess that would be the book to put under that corner. Personally, I've been using the dictionary but often end up retrieving it to look up something.

chuckle

**LoP Guest** lop guest User ID: 77388 04-24-2012 02:40 PM

Shakey1 Wrote:

That was a Great ending, imo. I guess I shouldn't be that surprised other readers didn't like it, but I thought it was keeping in with the story arc in general. Plus, I hear King's working on a prequel, or sequel or something, so maybe that'll be a better 'ending' for you DT ending-haters

"The story of Roland Deschain and his quest for the Dark Tower has been a part of Stephen King’s literary agenda from the beginning. The opening sections were written in 1970, when King was an ambitious, unknown 22-year-old. The seventh and final volume, “The Dark Tower,” appeared in 2004 and brought the story — all 4,000 pages of it — to a startling conclusion. It’s therefore both a pleasure and a surprise to encounter “The Wind Through the Keyhole,” a new, largely independent narrative set in a previously unexplored corner of Roland’s universe..."

To me the ending was a total cop-out. A cheap rip-off. It read like poorly crafted fan fiction. It seemed evident to me that King just wanted it to be done with it and squeezed something out like a drunk frat boy who writes a shitty 15 page term paper at 4 am of the morning it's due.

I actually felt embarrassed for the guy as I read it.

If Ka is a wheel then Roland would have reincarnated at his birth, not halfway through his quest. That makes no sense whatsoever, except writing it that way provided a cheap literary flourish to distract people from the over-all low quality of the endeavour.

it's such a shame! It started out so well and wound up a wince-inducing episode of Sliders.

And insulting the reader for wanting to know the ending is unbelievable. How can self respecting people read that verbal diahhrea and not feel insulted?

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 78542 04-24-2012 02:41 PM **Posts: 11,974**

What's up with King? Is he an occultist? Does anyone know if he's an atheist or has a religion he affiliates himself with?
I am sure there are occult references in his novels. Just like in Hollywood, I think many writers might have some 'supernatural' help, or else they incorporate occult symbolism or metaphor into their craft.
Just my thoughts-I enjoyed reading his books when I was growing up. He seems like a decent guy from what little I've read about him.

**Shakey1** · **Shakey1** Subscriber User ID: 78542 04-24-2012 02:43 PM **Posts: 11,974**

Shakey1 Wrote:

What's up with King? Is he an occultist? Does anyone know if he's an atheist or has a religion he affiliates himself with?
I am sure there are occult references in his novels. Just like in Hollywood, I think many writers might have some 'supernatural' help, or else they incorporate occult symbolism or metaphor into their craft.
Just my thoughts-I enjoyed reading his books when I was growing up. He seems like a decent guy from what little I've read about him.

"....King articulated his religious views in an interview with Salon magazine, King told novelist John Marks, "I was raised Christian, and I was raised to believe in the idea of the Antichrist. My wife said that -- she was raised a Catholic -- the attitude of the Catholic Church is, give them to me when they're young, and they'll be mine forever. It isn't really true. A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life...."

http://talkstephenking.blogspot.com/2009...-king.html

**Guitar Doctor**

LoP Guest Wrote:

Shakey1 Wrote:
That was a Great ending, imo. I guess I shouldn't be that surprised other readers didn't like it, but I thought it was keeping in with the story arc in general. Plus, I hear King's working on a prequel, or sequel or something, so maybe that'll be a better 'ending' for you DT ending-haters

"The story of Roland Deschain and his quest for the Dark Tower has been a part of Stephen King’s literary agenda from the beginning. The opening sections were written in 1970, when King was an ambitious, unknown 22-year-old. The seventh and final volume, “The Dark Tower,” appeared in 2004 and brought the story — all 4,000 pages of it — to a startling conclusion. It’s therefore both a pleasure and a surprise to encounter “The Wind Through the Keyhole,” a new, largely independent narrative set in a previously unexplored corner of Roland’s universe..."

To me the ending was a total cop-out. A cheap rip-off. It read like poorly crafted fan fiction. It seemed evident to me that King just wanted it to be done with it and squeezed something out like a drunk frat boy who writes a shitty 15 page term paper at 4 am of the morning it's due.

I actually felt embarrassed for the guy as I read it.

If Ka is a wheel then Roland would have reincarnated at his birth, not halfway through his quest. That makes no sense whatsoever, except writing it that way provided a cheap literary flourish to distract people from the over-all low quality of the endeavour.

it's such a shame! It started out so well and wound up a wince-inducing episode of Sliders.

And insulting the reader for wanting to know the ending is unbelievable. How can self respecting people read that verbal diahhrea and not feel insulted?

The ending was obvious from a long way out I thought, from the 5th book you could see quite clearly what his intention was.

All of the great fiction writers have linked up all of the books they have written into one book or idea.
It is a tradition, Asimoiv did it, Micheal Moorcock, and many more.
It is always a circle to do so, the circle may repeat but be slightly different every time but a circle it is.

Many conspiracy theories use circular logic, keeps things simple and tidy, easy to understand for simple minds.

Little stevie steals his ideas from the same pool all authors do.