Re-Reading The Dark Tower

wayfriend · Posted: Tue Jan 31, 2012 4:27 pm Post subject:

I don't know ... that's why I don't try to write stories about dark towers.

People often claim that King's stories have disappointing endings. (I never really did.) If so, then in a way it's fitting that the Dark Tower, once you climb it, is a bit of a disappointment.

But I can't think of an ending that would be more satisfying AND stick to the metaphor he used.

Doesn't mean I hadn't hoped to find one.
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Avatar · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 5:40 am Post subject:

So you can't imagine a better ending either. Very Happy

It was...right. (I don't usually have a problem with his endings, although I know people who do.)

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wayfriend · Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2012 3:44 pm Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:30 am Post subject:

Hmmm, I like that actually. Excellent idea.

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Horrim Carabal · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 3:15 am Post subject:

Avatar · Posted: Thu Feb 09, 2012 5:07 am Post subject:

Certainly I could too. Maybe "arrived at more elegantly."

But it's a subjective, subjective world. Very Happy

What's better? Laughing

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Horrim Carabal · Posted: Sat May 16, 2020 10:58 pm Post subject:

Then again, maybe a totally different ending where Roland battles the Crimson King (the scary version from Insomnia, not the little old guy chucking Harry Potter snitches) and defeats him using his wits and the relics of Arthur Eld?

And Mid-World regains the majesty it had before it "moved on"?

Avatar · Posted: Mon May 18, 2020 6:36 am Post subject:

Dunno...the "happily ever after" style isn't really King...Ka is a wheel after all...

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Horrim Carabal · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 12:29 am Post subject:

A wheel implies turning, as in Roland restarting his quest over again as King wrote the ending. A wheel could also imply the glories of the past returning.

Avatar · Posted: Mon Jun 08, 2020 5:59 am Post subject:

Sure, only to fall again inevitably. Very Happy

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