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Posted on 02/24/2006 9:54:35 AM PST by screaminghurl
I did a search for Stephen King-related web rings a few weeks ago, and that's one of the few sites that stands out.
It's not surprising that it focuses on the Dark Tower, since that's his magnam opus.
I'm always surprised by how many Stephen King fans have never read the DT, or only one or two volumes of it.
He even alludes to this in the last argument, IIRC.
Yes, I noticed that he alluded to it. I wonder if he would have finished it had it not been for the fans that really got into it?
I think I'll have an early night, goodnight everyone!!
I would love to know how many letters he's received about The Dark Tower.
Probably more than all of his other novels, I'm willing to bet.
Some of the excerpts he's included in introductions to other works make for interesting reading.
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I liked Flagg as a character, and liked the way he kept showing up. Having Mordred dispose of him pretty much canceled any "resurrection" for future books. Which was part of the fun of reading SK's books ~~ you never knew who was going to show up and throw a monkey wrench into the machinery. It was usually Flagg...
Maybe SK will answer a fan letter, if you ask how many letters he actually got about the DT...? And maybe he could also tell us who he is going to use as the resident antagonist...
'Night, Irish!
Another great part about DT VII was Dandelo.
Someone on another forum referred to him as an "emo-vampire," which I thought was a perfect description.
I thought that was one of the best parts of the final volume, especially when you place it in the context of his encounter with the Crimson King's Secretary of State at Castle Roi de Rouge.
You would have assumed that he would be on his guard against strangers, but he just succombs to the charms of this guy-and doesn't question his intuition, even after viewing the polaroid of the Can Ko Rey-while Susannah retains some of her suspicions.
I thought that part was phenomenal.
Calgon, take me away...
Hi GJP. I disappeared for a while because I had work to do.
I still have work to do, but I need a break.
Yah...the last few chapters were excellent. They made up for a lot of stuff...except of course, the reunion...that could have been left out.
SK does state several times in that last volume that you have to be on your guard when you get close to home, and knowing how he has done with other works, I was expecting something like that. Not necessarily Dandelo, but SOMEthing.
LOL!
I haven't heard THAT for a while!
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dunno. can't find out at the moment - not at that office now. why?
I had a problem with the huge gap that's left between the defeat of Farson's men at Mejlis and the fall of Gilead-it's never explained just how this happens, so I guess it had something to do with Marten's sorcery-but aside from that, what's the significance of the horn of Eld that's lost, but returns at the very end of the book, when Roland cycles back to deserts of Mid-World?
I've heard people say that this means he is being elevated from his previous state, and that in this cycle he'll finally attain nirvana-or whatever the equivalent of Nirvana is in that universe-but there are others who claim that his unrelenting search for the Dark Tower itself-and not merely its outward manifestations, e.g. forsaking friends, is the cause of his misery, and that he will keep returning to the same state-in some sort of karmic retribution-until he abandons his unending question for the Dark Tower, and all it portends.
I think this makes sense, since he could have stopped after saving the beams, but chose not to.
LOL! Mmmmm... KitKat...
Now I wish I had some chocolate here.
It doesn't work - I didn't end up in a bubble bath!
I took it to mean that in his quest for the Tower, he was to remember not just "friends" but the people who helped him along the way, or he would be in a "life-loop" forever.
He would continue to reach the Tower, but it would always be the same until he also reached "perfection" in himself. Then the Tower would be his destination instead of a "way station." Of course, second-guessing SK is not always "healthy."
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I'm on my way to bed...have a good night, OK?
I'll be looking for more from you...
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Catch you later.
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