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Thread: Bracket #11: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)

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    Default Bracket #11: The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (2004)

    The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower, 2004

    Please vote for The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower using the following scale:

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    4.5

    0.5 deduction because I was very bored by all the taheen stuff

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    5. AMAZING... The Magnum Opus comes to a close in all it's glory...
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    4.5

    Great book overall. Loved the ending. Perfection personified. I didn't know how King was going to pull it off, what with 7 tomes of build-up. But he did. I can't imagine any other ending being even remotely as satisfying.

    My 0.5 deduction was the whole Dandelo business.

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    2.5

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    2.5????????????????????????????
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    Quote Originally Posted by divemaster View Post
    4.5

    Great book overall. Loved the ending. Perfection personified. I didn't know how King was going to pull it off, what with 7 tomes of build-up. But he did. I can't imagine any other ending being even remotely as satisfying.

    My 0.5 deduction was the whole Dandelo business.
    I agree with you on the ending... I had no idea how he was going to and I DID NOT see that coming...
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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by divemaster View Post
    4.5

    Great book overall. Loved the ending. Perfection personified. I didn't know how King was going to pull it off, what with 7 tomes of build-up. But he did. I can't imagine any other ending being even remotely as satisfying.

    My 0.5 deduction was the whole Dandelo business.
    I agree with you on the ending... I had no idea how he was going to and I DID NOT see that coming...
    same here

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    5.

    I think I'm one of the rare ones who loved the ending.

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    Which ending exactly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Girlystevedave View Post
    5.

    I think I'm one of the rare ones who loved the ending.
    many people did, and all bears

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    5.

    I don't know of any other book series that has an ending that immediately made me want to read it all again from the start.
    "A real limited edition, far from being an expensive autograph stapled to a novel, is a treasure. And like all treasures do, it transforms the responsible owner into a caretaker, and being a caretaker of something as fragile and easily destroyed as ideas and images is not a bad thing but a good one...and so is the re-evaluation of what books are and what they do that necessarily follows." - Stephen King

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    Yes!

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    3. Too much buildup (anticipated greatness), too much superfluous stuff, and the ending was a cop-out

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    I gave it a 4. Loved the ending. In fact, as "ka" would dictate, it was the only logical ending to have. However, I didn't expect the Crimson King to be a gibbering idiot, so I had to dock it a point. I expected someone a calculated and ruthless as Flagg. G'head. Shoot me. Tell me I've "forgotten the face of my Father."

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    3.
    The only reason I didn't give it a 2 was because this is the only book that has actually made me cry.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andrew Campbell View Post
    I gave it a 4. Loved the ending. In fact, as "ka" would dictate, it was the only logical ending to have. However, I didn't expect the Crimson King to be a gibbering idiot, so I had to dock it a point. I expected someone a calculated and ruthless as Flagg. G'head. Shoot me. Tell me I've "forgotten the face of my Father."
    Bears don't shoot, they maul.

    Seriously, though, I never thought the reasoning "I expected this and got that" is very convincing. I'd much rather people (and animals) argued with what they got, not what they expected. I know, however, that many have found the Crimson King thing disappointing, expectations or no expectations. Couldn't never really understand why. I would say having a dead insane king in the centre of the universe was just about the worst thing that could happen to us.

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    3.

    Could have been a 5, but the ending knocked it down a full 2 points.

    Yes, I'm irate.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pablo View Post
    Which ending exactly?
    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    3. Too much buildup (anticipated greatness), too much superfluous stuff, and the ending was a cop-out
    So glad I'm not alone in feeling like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by fernandito View Post
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    Could have been a 5, but the ending knocked it down a full 2 points.

    Yes, I'm irate.


    I swear, I cannot even think about the ending of DT without thinking of you.
    In fact, I had to come in here just now to see you rant about it.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Girlystevedave View Post
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    3.

    Could have been a 5, but the ending knocked it down a full 2 points.

    Yes, I'm irate.




    I swear, I cannot even think about the ending of DT without thinking of you.
    In fact, I had to come in here just now to see you rant about it.
    yes, bears love seeing it too. It always makes them marvel at how big, complex and diversified the universe is

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    I'm that predictable, huh?

    The ending has been the reason I can't bring myself to complete the reread. I don't want to go through that frustration again.

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    All laughs aside, I think I've said before that I really do feel bad that you can't re-read the series. I have a feeling that, if I was ever granted 3 wishes, I'd use one of them to grant you the ability to appreciate the ending.

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    at the expense of world peace?!

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    I'd still have 2 wishes!

    Besides, wishing for world peace would be tricky. I've thought about this before, and it always leads me to an episode of The X-Files where a genie was to grant 3 wishes. Mulder used one of the wishes for world peace, and suddenly found himself in an empty world with no other human, no sound, etc.
    So, I'd be a bit afraid to wish for world peace.

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