Finish reading Stephen King's Dark Tower series

god, its been a long time since i wrote that last entry, and ive progressed to book 4, but then had a looooong break, because i wanted to read something different.
I shall have to get back to the grind though soon!

I haven’t had the time to devote myself to this until christmas break. Now school’s started again, and I would have a dozen other things to do, but all I can do is read the book. And oh my god it’s good. I thought I could remember even a part of it, but it’s all new and exciting to me. I guess it’s because I’m understanding it so much deeper now.

I can’t believe I finished it!! I finished it last night at 8:30 or so!!

It was a long, hard road. Some parts were difficult to get through, but I fell in love with all of the ka-tete and don’t regret spending so much time on it at all! I really feel like I’ve accomplished something!

Now I don’t know what to do with myself! I think I want to go back and start all over again. . . just. . . not for a while ;)

I &heart; Roland, forever and ever!

I read the first four books when I was about 15, but forgot about them for years, because the other ones weren’t available in Finnish or even written in the first place. At that time I never actually believed King would ever finish them. I think it was about a year ago that I heard that the last one was published. I got excited and made this decision. This summer I started all over again. I want to read them all at once. I’m now reading The Drawing of the Three and although I’ve read the first books already years ago, I’m totally addicted.

ooh ive just finished the first book in the series, the gunslinger. I have given myself untill september 1st to finish the whole series. Im really looking forward to reading on!

this series is so frustrating. i want to hate it, but the pages keep turning. thousands of pages have gone by and little has happened. I recently read half of The Wolves of the Calla and put it down for awhile because I bought other exciting books. I will finish this eventually though.

Through Song of Susannah. . . It’s starting to get really weird now. . . and I’m loving every second of it.

The first half was really slow, but the last half totally made up for it.

Which is funny- that’s pretty much how the fourth Harry Potter book went too. . .

Then the ending was just plain weird- but interesting-

Wolves of Calla here I come!

serously epic.

The story is choppy throughout the series. It reads like a work that the author revisited from time to time over many years, which is essentially how it came to be. These discontinuities are distracting, but it’s still a remarkable work and well worth reading. I enjoy the parallels to the LOTR trilogy and the references to King’s other novels. As a memorable charater, Roland of Gilead is one of King’s true masterpieces.