Quote Originally Posted by candy View Post
i felt that Roland should have reached the tower alone, not with patrick who had only come into the story, 100 pages or so ago.
That's what actually made the story ring so painfully true to me. He had lost everyone he'd just learned - the hard way - to love; and he reached his ultimate goal with someone whose life he had managed to save, but who he didn't care a fuck about, nor who could care a fuck about the Tower.