I mean, yeah it was probably a hard series to end, but wtf? Sending Roland all the way back to the beginning? Killing off the entire ka-tet? And did Oy really have to die? Stephen King is no longer on my list of favorite people...
2006-07-17 09:25:56 · 9 answers · asked by havenharleyb81 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
People are very literal here, aren't they? Yes, Susannah did not die, she just went home. And I don't remember Jake asking Oy anything. I remember Oy being broken in half and impaled on a tree by Mordred. That was probably the most disturbing thing I have ever read. I just didn't like to see that happen.
2006-07-17 09:45:34 · update #1
Oy sacrificed himself because Jake asked him to. Oy was reunited (in the form of a dog) with Jake, Suzannah, and Eddie in a New York of another time/place.
As Jake was dying he told Oy to look after Roland and stay with him. Oy was depressed after Jake died but he kept his promise to Jake and stayed with the gunslinger.
I thought the ending was magnificent. Roland was a selfish monomaniac. He sought the Tower and got what he deserved. He'll do it again until he gets it right. The remainder of the Ka-tet escaped their horrible pasts and were reunited to live a happy and peaceful life.
A Hollywood ending would have ruined the series.
2006-07-17 09:31:27 · answer #1 · answered by Samuel C 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i could say, i understand precisely what all people capacity while they say how problematic it became into to get into the 1st e book. I study it, hated it, and did no longer %. up quantity 2 for greater or less 8 years. I choose i might had greater faith. From quantity 2 onwards, the dark Tower saga is the main spectacular feat of mind's eye a human suggestions can conceive. think of Lord of the jewellery taken to the perfect point. via the perfect quantity you have invested plenty emotionally into the tale that it actually drains you. relatively, i've got not at all experienced something like it on an identical time as examining a e book. What you may remember is that the 1st quantity became into relatively a determination of related short thoughts, printed in numerous magazines in King's early years. The characterisation and plot circulate is marred extensively via this. yet from quantity 2 onwards, King got down to jot down a real epic, and that's a masterpiece. A poorly fleshed out lead character turns right into a deeply regarding, tragically human hero (rather in the heartbreaking fourth quantity, Wizard and Glass), and the different lead characters (who are not even in the 1st quantity), are basically besides realised... Please, once you're a King fan and you have been positioned off this sequence via the 1st e book, do no longer provide up. interior twenty pages of quantity 2 you will desperately choose to journey the rollercoaster all a thank you to the top, I promise.
2016-10-08 00:51:11 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, I thought it was one of King's better endings (he's terrible with them). In the very end, when Roland is back at the beginning, none of his ka-tet have died. He hasn't even met them yet. Everything that happened was undone when he reached the top of the tower, and will have to be redone - in the right ways - all over again before the quest is completed. Who knows how many times he's traveled the same path, getting one or two little things just wrong enough that he gets sent back?
2006-07-17 09:29:36 · answer #3 · answered by effin drunk 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My biggest problem with the series was the last three books not the ending. This group of action heroes that King created sat aroudn and talked for the majority of the thousand or so pages. The ending, however, was worth suffering through those books. The ending shows that Roland's redemption is not complete, which is really what his quest is all about. He seeks the tower for redemption, but commits more sins seeking this redemption.
2006-07-18 09:48:22 · answer #4 · answered by lilejeff 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah I was a little disappointed too. How may times did Jake die? Three? He kinda reminded me of Kenny from South Park. I advise anyone not to read that last part. It really isn't part of the story. Stephen King even advises you not to read it. Why he put it in there is beyond me. Not all of the Ka-Tet died. Suzannah didn't she just went home didnt she?
2006-07-17 09:32:37 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
FINALLY! Someone who agrees!
What a terrible ending, all for a damn horn. I was so dissapointed, but i also felt cheated. I bought all the books to see the ending and it was simply pathetic.
Yeah, hes off my list as well. Cop Out ending or what?
NB
Ok, you two have good points. I like Roland as the Megalomaniac, i think thats a great description of him! He's definatly one of Kings best caracters
I thought the ending was ok but i just feel..i dont know, like King didnt want to answer some of the tougher questions..i like how everyone is reunited in a strange way..very sad actually..
2006-07-17 09:27:29 · answer #6 · answered by thomas p 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hated the last book. Was suspicious when SK inserted himself into the story. But, yes, the ending was horrible...made me feel like reading all the rest was a waste.
2006-07-17 09:41:19 · answer #7 · answered by Carl J 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I loved the ending
2006-07-17 13:12:25 · answer #8 · answered by CuriousCat 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
bad ending
2006-07-18 07:52:28 · answer #9 · answered by mopargrl73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋