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The more I think about it, each character really does represent what could be seen as different aspects of a person's overall being.

I don't know how much of this could be considered spolier or...

do you think Roland would be a republican if he lived here?[/QUOTE]

Would Gunslingers, by defenition, be Republicans?
Granted, each individual may struggle with personal opinions and desires....

I loved the first half of it. Mainly because I devour post-apocolyptic books like they were candy.
But at the point where things started becoming super-natural, I got bored. And at the end, where...

Everybody screams, or goes spastic, immediately after a "reveal".

Little kids are smarter <and more sarcastic> than their parents.

Dad is the dumbest member of the family.

The pharma...

1. Wastelands
2. Drawing
3. Gunslinger
4. Wolves
5. Dark Tower
6. Wizard
7. Song

Yes. But it is so much more than that book ever could be.
It's a new take on the genre. Plus it really bitchslaps all the different regions of the world and their societys' hypocricies.

Not so much that it intentionally drew the evil, but that it's presnce made the evil manifest itself there.

And, as I believe that book 7 felt forced all the way through, it almost seems like an...

My first read through was fevered.
The 2nd was centered on the individual locations and actions.
The 3rd was for the social aspect and how different societies dealt with it, from iron fisted...

Another thing. And one that had me almost throwing the book across the room, was the Crimson King, manifested as a petulant old man, stuck on a balcony, with a crate of grenades. :scared:

After...

Obviously, the final location where it known to have been, was something only current events could have dictated.
Do you think it was meant to be seen as a dark force that actually drew evil to...

I think we can get only disappointed if we expect things we have in our head really hard to appear in a book.



It was me who renamed it.
Cry your pardon.[/QUOTE]

I was getting nicely buzzed...

Has anyone else read this fine study on modern societies and the human condition?
I've been through it 3 times, and have often returned to it in random places when I needed something to grab on the...

Finished it last night.

Am conflicted.

Not so much with the actual ending, but the overall book as a whole, so that aspect probably is dealt with in another thread. :orely:

I think it's an...

It'll still be here Monday.

Which is why I feel that the final book is, for lack of a better word, forced. Granted, I'm only half way through it, so my opinion is fluid at this point.

The story was never meant to end. At...

I figured as much, but just wanted to make sure, as it seemed random.

Thanks.

Example:
http://www.thedarktower.org/palaver/showthread.php?p=289129#post289129

I made this thread last night, and the original post popped right up. But a response, made just a few minutes ago,...

Not bad issues, just something noticed.

I see nothing directly related in the FAQ, so I'll ask about it.

Some, but not all, of my posts will be made, but pending mod approval. Are there...

Part of what spawned this particular train of thought for me, was reading around the forum last night. Something that really got the wheels turning was a long thread about the "rape scene" in Tull....

My history with the series is that I read the first book and part of the second, in the early 90's, and lost interest, but recently, felt drawn to it again, and have plowed through everything,...