Just love it! Each time I take the journey, I fall in love with different parts. A culmination of 4,000+ pages. My heart hurts for Roland. It feels like such an accomplishment to finish the journey to the tower again.

I feel like I'm broken in 10 different places. It's over. It really is over. Roland Deschain of Gilead has finally completed his quest to reach The Dark Tower - none for the better, none for the worse.

There were so much losses, heartbreaks, and blood. SO MUCH BLOOD WAS SHED. And I have suffered through every....damn..... bit .... of......it. Cried my way through too.

When I've patched up all 10 broken pieces of myself, I'll be doing a super lengthy review of the entire Dark Tower series. It really is a true magnum opus . And dare I say it? This is the best series I've ever read in my short life so far. First to Harry Potter even. (and I thought no other series could top The Harry Potter series).

Say sorry, sai-Rowling.

My journey with The Dark Tower series is over and what a journey it was. Its hard to sum my experience up in one review so I will just focus on the last book in the series. I can say it was heart-breaking and devastating in multiple chapters and it’s been one of the only books I’ve ever shed a tear over.

This did take me a while to get through and not just because it’s a sizeable read but also because you really need all your concentration to get through this masterpiece. This wasn’t my favorite book in the series only just falling short of a five-star review. They way this book come full circle I absolutely love; however, don’t expect and definitive ending or resolution. I think King allows us to make our own minds up about some of the outcomes at the end of the book and I love it, he puts the power in the audience’s hand perfectly.

Eddie, Susannah, Oy, Roland and Jake are amazing characters, and their development is next to non. Stephen King is known for his depiction of horror better than anyone but rarely for his character development and story building. This book is the perfect blend of plot driven and character driven and it’s a non-stop thrill ride. I know a lot of people say this book is drawn out, but I thought it was perfect. I’d say the only negative thing about this book is that sometimes the chapters flit between two characters and it isn’t always clear who’s who.

This book isn’t short on gore, and I would say it is the most gruesome of book of the series closely followed by the Wolves of Calla. There were parts of this book that made me feel physically ill to think of, so if you have a good imagination BEWARE. This is not a book you can read as a standalone it would make next to no sense. This series has been immersive, and I couldn’t think of anything else while reading it. I was fully invested into this journey. I don’t think there could’ve been a better ending to this series, and I am gutted its over. I am now going back and reading Stephen Kings books in publication order as there were some things referenced that it didn’t quite understand. I can’t wait to come full circle and start this series all over again.

“Long days and pleasant nights.”

“And may you have twice the number.”

WARNING!! Although it’s a non-review review, it’s still spoiler-y.



This spoiler-laden review was brought to you by the number 19!

With Special Guest Star: The Eraser



Hi kids! I’m the Eraser. Remember stay in school and don’t do drugs!

The gunslinger waved to his pal, The Eraser, and thanked him for his help in dispatching the Kooky Krazy King of Krimson.

“Thank you, Mr. Eraser!

“That’s The Eraser, you twit!”

“Sorry, Mr. The Eraserhead.”

“Bah. I’ve got the holiday fever. I wonder if there’s an interdimensional door to an alternate universe Festivus celebration or maybe I can return to Batman continuity.”

And he was gone.

The gunslinger, now alone, turned towards the tower which not coincidentally towered into the clouds. From a loud speaker at the tippy-top of the tower, he heard, faintly, Elton John’s “Someone Saved My Life Tonight”.

He hated that song.

“Good golly, that tower sure is tall. And dark. Ish”

He had to turn the song off, so he lumbered into the doorway of the tower looking for an elevator but only found a winding stair case. On the first floor he encountered Musty, the six-legged smelly mutant cat.

“Gee Musty, you’ve grown a pace. Now get along and let me up those stairs.”

Musty, now big enough and mean enough to block the stairwell, wouldn’t budge.

“I reckon I ain’t goin’ nowhere until I gives ya a tongue bath.”

Two hours later as the gun slinger, slipped past a sleeping Musty, he was pulling strands of cat hair from his mouth.

The next level of the tower offered a buffet of cheese and mayo sandwiches and a case of Nozz-A-La Cola to wash it down, but all the gunslinger could think of was pound cake.

Pulling more even longer threads of cat hair from his mouth, the Gunslinger grew queasy, but strains of that horrible song put him back on track and he climbed upward.

The next few floors offered nothing more than a few lobstrosities here and some slow muties there. After he completed the painful climb through those floors the gun slinger reckoned he could get along without a few less fingers and toes. Dad-a-chim.

Reaching the twelfth (or was it the eighth floor, it could have been the fourteenth floor) the gunslinger saw the big Gan, Stephen King himself all trussed up, just like the gunslinger left him back in Jeff’s last review of this series.

“Oh, Mr. Gan, you got to help me turn this furshlinger song off!”

“But I love this song. I wrote into the series and I won’t help you.”

“Well then I reckon I’m just gonna have to leave ya tied up.”

As Stephen King’s curses echoed in the stairwell and the gunslingers ears, he felt fatigued from his climb but knew instinctively that he was getting closer to the top of the tower.

Cackling laughter floated down from the next floor. He knew it was the legendary gunslinger, Quick Draw.

“Get up here, graymeat! I got somethin’ for ya.”

He was scared, but terror and curiosity compelled him further up the steps.

Quick Draw greeted him with a huge grin. Behind her was the door to the off switch.

“I’ll let ya through this door, but first ya have to listen to a long-assed tale, I got to tell ya. It’ll only take me a couple a days and it will have little or nothin’ to do with this here adventure, so if ya have to use the can, hold it in.” She cackled. “And ya better listen to this story like ya mean it!!!”

He felt himself drift off after a few minutes but a swift kick in the head woke the gunslinger up and he was pointed towards the door. He opened it, only to be greeted by a familiar bright light and a hot desert sun.

As the door was slammed behind him and his brain swirled inside his head, he felt something in his pocket. He pulled it out to reveal – curiously - a magic wand…

I want to thank my Goodreads Buddy Readers for an incredibly epic journey that spanned years, and especially our din, Sai Stepheny, who always makes buddy reads an enriching and fun experience. Thankee and long days and pleasant nights, ya crazy Mah Fah!!.

WARNING! THIS REVIEW IS FULL OF SPOILERS, ONCE YOU GET PAST THE PART "THE ENDING:". DO NOT READ ON UNLESS YOU WANT IT SPOILED FOR YOU! YOU WERE WARNED!

I finished the Dark Tower last night. I hadn't plannet to, I really needed to get to bed, but once I got so close, I had to continue.

Wow ... hard to find the words, really. (This email will likely be longish)

THE SERIES: I think the Dark Tower series is King's crowning achievement as a writer. He has created a world as rich as any other fantasy/Sci-Fi/Horror epic, replete with a fasincating history and characters that make you aching for more. In Roland Deschain, he's created I think his greatest and most dynamic character. He is dark, brooding, yet classicly heroic all at once, full of, like all real people, many contradictions and inner turmoils. His quest for the Dark Tower I feel is not only a holy one, not just his destiny, but something of his own personal validation, an obsession, the only way he could justify the deaths of so many loved ones and companions over the years.

The series clearly has taken on a different life from the one it started with, as most series probably do. I think King switched gears a number of times which makes for slightly shaking continuity, but I think he did his best at finding ways to weave it together. A lesser writer wouldn't have been able to do so. He has said he plans or at least would like to rewrite them, and I think that is interesting and would love to read them again. I probably will whether he does so or not.

THE ENDING: The part you're waiting for. The part we all read seven big books for.

I realized at least two or three books ago that there would be no way he could end it that would please everybody. And as I read on, I had no idea how he'd end it and decided to have no preconceived notions or hopes.

But boy, I sure didn't expect that!

I have to say, that upon reading the intro to the final chapter from the Storyteller himself, the warning to not read on and leave the story as it is, I was tempted to do so. I know many wouldn't agree with me, but I think Roland entering the Dark Tower and the doors shutting behind him wouldn't be a bad way to end the book. It would leave it to your imagination, what he would find there. I really almost put it down to sleep on it. But then I thought no, I have to go on. I've come this far!

Yes, in a way, the ending is tragic, sad, and extremely unfair. We have read now thousands of pages worth of Roland Deschain's torments and struggles he's gone through to get this far, and then only to have been blasted back to the beginning? It's horrible. It makes you angry. Or at least shocked. A knee jerk reaction might be to say that it was a cop out, that King didn't know how to end the book at went this route at the last minute.

I don't really believe that.

In a way, yes, I find the ending bittering. My heart really is broken for Roland. I don't think I've ever read a book with an ending that has left me so effected. I even reread the very end of it again this morning over breakfast. Yes, the ending is bittering, and yet, I love it in a lot of ways too. Not love it as in this is the way I think it should have ended, but love it because it knocked me on my backside, love it in the way that you can love a bad thing at times. In a way, to me at least, the ending just might make a little sense.

It you really think about it ... what did you expect to happen to Roland once he reached the top of the Tower? Would he pass into a sort of Heaven, rejoined with his love Susan and his former Ka mates? That is probably the ending some people wanted. And if that's what happened, I would have been fine with that too. Would he have confronted God himself? And if so, what would Roland have done before such a God? Roland, one of the things that makes him so wonderful, is kind of a jerk. After all that trouble, all that sacrifice, if said God said something Roland didn't like, I think, much like Conan, he'd tell his Maker to take a flying leap, maybe even draw his gun on him and get blasted into nothingness.

But why this? Why the torture? I think the answer is in Roland himself. I think it's a sort of punishment for Roland's arrogance and pride. I think Roland's destiny was to save the Beam, save the Dark Tower. He did that. But he insisted on moving on. He insisted on going to the top of the Dark Tower, something that is perhaps forbidden by Gan or the Powers That Be. He saved the Dark Tower, saved the Beam, and yet it was not enough. As always (and as echoed by the voices he hears at the end of the book) he has to have it His way. And for that, I think, like something out of Greek myth, he has to pay a price.

And as King himself says in the Afterword, there is a bit of hope. In the next incarnation, he has the Horn of Eld. Something he didn't have in the previous. Perhaps, just perhaps, with some more trial and error, once the Beam and the Tower saved (perhaps stilling getting all the way, so as to kill the Crimson King), Roland may just turn around and go back to the Callas, and live out the rest of his days quiet and peacefully, maybe as a sort of Sheriff, then going to the Clearing at the End of the Path, and THEN be united withi Susan, Cuthbert, Alain, and the rest.

Maybe I'm just grateful that King didn't end it the way I feared. The more I read on, and the more sai King appeared, I was terrified and more and more certain that once Roland met face to face with the Crimson King, that it would be Stephen King himself. I even started to fear that the name, the Crimson KING was a clue. Thankfully, I was wrong. And then, I feared even worse, that once he got to the top of the tower, that there he'd find Stephen King, sitting in a pseudo office of sorts, surrounded by old books and manuscripts, as mad as the Hatter, banging away at an old typewriter and tossing the crumpled up pages over his shoulder making a big pile. That's what I feared, and compared to that, I like this ending just fine.

n  Los finales son descorazonadores.
Final es otra forma de decir adiós.n

Todo lo que no sucedió en los 6 libros anteriores pasó acá. En este todo se desencadena y concluye; todo adquiere sentido y se explican las mayorías de las incógnitas que se sembraron a lo largo de toda la saga.

Somos ka-tet, uno de muchos. Hemos compartido nuestra agua al igual que hemos compartido nuestras vidas y nuestra búsqueda. Si uno cayera, no estará perdido, porque somos uno y no olvidaremos, ni siquiera en la muerte.

9/10

What a finish to possibly one of my all time favourite series which I've ever read. I can only think of a handful of other books/series which have infiltrated my brain and emotions as much as this one and what a way to finish off. Like King said, it may not be the ending we wanted but it was the ending that was needed.

This book starts with a bit of a lag from the last book but that was to be expected after the cliffhanger finale. Once things got going though there was no stoping this, let's head out and get to The Dark Tower with a few stops along the way!

There were a number of points which chocked me up here, I was expecting some emotions but not at the level I received. I'm sure for those who have read this they would be easy to identify such as Eddie's final words to Roland thanking him for a second chance and Roland requesting a rose to be planted where Jake lays his head one last time as an example.

I think the ending is one of those things that will be divisive amongst fans of the series but it really clicked with me. I finished this and sort of took a moment and worked it all through my head and had a little smile after. Like King says at the end, it's all about the journey and that was really apt here.

There are truly so many parts to this series that will stick with me which makes a re-read inevitable in the future. Never will I be able to listen to Elton John's "Somebody Saved My Life Tonight" however maybe it should have been "Circle of Life"… without my thoughts coming to Roland and his ka-tet.

This book rates at the top of this series for me, just pipping The Drawing of the Three and Wizard & Glass but it is really 5*s for the series and each individual book will probably get a boost up on the re-read. If you haven't started this series then I recommend it at the highest level and if you do try it I would request that you wait until after book 2 before making a judgement on the series.

If you like this try: "11/22/63" by Stephen King

„Кеф, ка и ка-тет...“ ❤️


„Тъмната кула“ е не само чудесна фентъзи поредица, но и невероятно пътешествие из Вселената на творчеството на Стивън Кинг! Писана е в продължение на много години, затова в нея определено са обхванати и навързани голяма част от книгите на автора.
Спокойно може да бъде прочетена като самостоятелна поредица от любителите на фентъзи жанра, дори все още да не са се потапяли в някой от незабравимите романи на Кинг! Обаче, ако вече харесвате една или повече негови творби, то „Тъмната кула“ със сигурност ще ви достави по-голямо читателско удоволствие, а пък и отново ще срещнете любими герои и култови злодеи...

За мен, най-въздействащата част от поредицата е „Вълците от Кала“, но всяка една от книгите има своите достойнства и ми е направила силно впечатление! Приключенията на Роланд от Гилеад и останалите, преживени в обикалянето на различни светове и търсене на загадъчната кула, представляват страхотно съчетание от фентъзи, уестърн, хорър и научна фантастика...
Разбира се, Стивън Кинг не пропуска да направи и вълнуващи препратки към творби на други автори, освен че по зашеметяващ начин въвлича своите книги в това огромно и епично произведение!

“It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your way to hell.”

How does one even begin to review the conclusion to what I believe is one of the greatest series of all time? I simply cannot put into words what this series means to me and how much of an emotional rollercoaster this final book is. It’s also really freakin’ hard to review any book in a series!

If you’re in any way invested in this series, the last book is pretty much 800+ pages of saying goodbye, which is incredibly heartbreaking. And King makes a decision in this book which I will honestly never forgive him for. If you’ve read the series, you’ll know. I’m talking in code here, of course, but I just feel it was totally unnecessary. I’m already crushed, why you gotta pummel my heart even more?!!

There are so many parts I love in here that I want to fangirl over, but I’m trying to remain as spoiler-free as possible. However, there are also some anti-climactic moments too. And I got a little impatient reading a particular character’s backstory early on in the novel. I feel a little disappointed with those parts, but I still thoroughly love this book.

In terms of the ending itself - whether you love it or hate it, I can’t think of a more perfect ending for this series. And for the record I am firmly in the love camp! Even though it depresses the heck outta me.

I’m so glad I made another trip to the Dark Tower in 2019. I’ve loved every single page and am already looking forward to my next reread. This little ka-tet feels like family and Mid-World feels like home.

Say thank ya. 5 stars.

"And will I tell you that these three lived happily ever after? I will not, for no one ever does. But there was happiness. And they did live."

Isuse Hriste na biciklu...

Bilo je potrebno toliko toga da Roland učini i toliko prepreka da zaobiđe. Na početku sam, a potom sa svojim saputnicima. Bilo je potrebno da Džejk umre, da mu Valter prorekne sudbinu, da svojim rukama nasilno dovuče Edija i pomogne Odeti da prihvati Detu, da naiđu na prvi pravi putokaz u vidu Zraka medveda, da se ponovo sretnu sa Džejkom i prihvate bambura Oja za saputnika. Bilo je potrebno upoznati Rolanda i njegove prijatelje, njegovu voljenu koja je nastradala i njegove tajne. Bilo je potrebno proći kroz neka užasavajuća mesta i pomoći mnogima, poput stanovnika Kale Bin Stardžisa. Bilo je potrebno susresti se sa autorom lično u različitim vremenima. Bilo je potrebno da se prevali poslednji deo puta i da se pređe poslednja prepreka: Grimizni kralj i njegov sin Mordred. Na posletku, bilo je potrebno da preboli gubitak svojih prijatelja.

Bilo je potrebno 3464 stranica dok Roland nije ugledao Mračnu kulu i susreo se sa Grimiznim kraljem. 15 stranica kasnije, Roland ulazi, vrata Mračne kule se zatvaraju za njim i priča se, naizgled, završava. Melem na bolnu ranu predstavlja epilog u kojem saznajemo šta se desilo sa Suzanom. "Ima još svetova pored ovih" nikada nije pružilo veću utehu. U drugom delu epiloga pratimo Rolandov uspon uz Mračnu kulu i ultimativno bivamo oduvani onog trenutka kada otvara poslednja, "Roland" vrata. Od početka uspona pa sve do vrha, vidimo sobe koje se nalaze unutar Kule i svaka od njih sadrži neki artefakt iz Rolandovog života, počev od kopče i pupčane vrpce kao prvi artefakt sa početka Rolandovog života.

Postaje jasno da nema mnogo opcija koje nam kazuju šta se iza poslednjih vrata nalazi. Jedna od njih je revolverašev susret sa samim sobom i sjedinjavanje dva dela Rolandove ličnosti, što bi moglo da objasni njegovu čvrstu rešenost da do Kule stigne, kao i neobjašnjivu silu koja ga je gonila do samog kraja. Druga opcija je da ga sa druge strane vrata sačeka Gan lično ili svi njegovi preminuli prijatelji koji bi ga sa radošću dočekali. Na taj način bi Roland konačno našao svoj mir. Obe opcije su opcije koje označavaju smrt.

"Smrt, ali ne za tebe, revolverašu. Nikad za tebe. Ti tamniš. Ti blediš. Smem li biti brutalno iskren? Ti nastavljaš. I svaki put zaboravljaš prethodno iskustvo. Za tebe je svaki put prvi put".

Malo je reći da sam oduševljena i da me je ovaj serijal pomerio na toliko načina. Da li je ovo nešto najoriginalnije što sam pročitala? Svakako da nije, kome god je poznata legenda o Vavilonskoj kuli ovakav kraj može biti loš, glupav, očajan, kakav god. Jednu od varijacija na temu je obradio Ted Ćang u svojoj priči, objavljenoj u zbirci Priče tvog života koju iskreno preporučujem. Iskreno me je pomerilo saznanje da je pred nama samo jedan isečak Rolandovog putovanja i da verovatno nikada nećemo saznati da li se Roland promenio i samim tim prekinuo začarani krug, da li je uvideo da na greškama ne uči i da cilj ne opravdava sredstvo. Svakako će postojati zamerke na to da Stiven King piše očajne završetke svojih knjiga, za dobar deo bih se složila, ali ne i za ovu priču.

Edi, Suzana, Džejk i Oj su najdivnija bića opisana u nekoj Kingovoj priči. Prava je šteta što Roland nije više učio od njih. Što se njega tiče, želim mu svu sreću u daljem putovanju, nadajući se da će se jednom iskreno preispitati i shvatiti.

Grazie-sai Stephen King del Maine, il viaggio è stato lungo, duro, emozionante e molto molto doloroso, ma lo rifarei di nuovo e di nuovo accompagnerei Roland nel su ka verso la Torre Nera

So, the first time I read this book I rated it 3 stars, and that was probably a bit high for it, because I hated the ending. I hated it so much, left such a bad taste in my mouth, that it sort of spoiled my thoughts of the whole series. I wanted to reread it, been meaning to for awhile, since there were details that escaped my memory entirely, but I was afraid to - afraid that I would end up still hating it as much, if not more than before.

(Allow me to specify. When I say ending I don't mean the loop. I was ok with the loop. It made a kind of sense, and it left you with hope that this was the last loop. Roland had the horn. It "felt good, like he never felt it before", and you knew - just knew that this would be the last time.

No, it wasn't the loop.

It was Patrick fucking Danville being introduced to the story in the last 100 or so pages, and magically erasing out the Crimson King, the ultimate Big Bad of the story who ended up being some asshole on a balcony throwing sneetches!

There was no final confrontation between Roland and Mordred (not really), between Roland and the CK, or between Roland and Walter/Flagg (and I won't get started on how lame of a death that was).

But this time I went in with a purpose, and I fanwanked. Oh, I wanked like nobody's business to make this thing make sense, and to make me not hate it so much.

And I did it with such aplomb that I ended up actually being quite at peace with the ending.

And I'm glad that I did because, honestly, it's a good series. Oh, there are some parts that aren't quite as good as others (Waste Lands and Song of Susannah, for instance), and there are parts within individual books which get a bit bogged down, or don't entirely make sense, or have some continuity issues - but, overall, I liked it, and I wanted to like it more. I liked the world(s), and the characters. I loved watching them develop as people and grow as a tet. I love the many sides of Roland. There was just so much to like about the series, that I didn't want it to end on such a bad note.

Besides, the start of this book is pretty damn awesome. I was caught up in the whole thing from the get-go, even though I was hesitant to pick it up and start it because of my fears of impending doom. The whole first third of the book is pretty much non-stop action and awesomeness... and we couldn't just let that all go because of King's inability to write an ending some crap at the end.

So - here's my wank.

* Climax: Did you feel that the defeat of CK was a bit anti-climactic? Of course you did - because it's not the climax. The real turning points happen when the Beams are saved - first the taking of Blue Heaven and then the saving of Sai King. Sure, as battles goes, the one at Blue Heaven isn't exactly the most exciting of final, epic showdowns - but that was, in many ways, the final showdown. After that point things are sort of winding down and wrapping up.

*Patrick Danville: Deus ex Machine from Hell - or a dan-tete (little savior) put in the path of ka? I mean, sure, there's this person that isn't mentioned before who comes out of nowhere and becomes really important to the story - but haven't we seen this before? Isn't the series full of these people? Some called dan-tete, like John Cullum and Irene Tassenbaum, others random people who later become important, like Calvin Tower and Aaron Deepneau, and some pulled from other stories/worlds, like Pere Callahan and Ted Brautigan. Isn't the entire story about ka pushing them along and helping them out? So why not one final dan-tete to help them on their way? And, hey, at least he is mentioned earlier in the story, and Insomnia is brought to Roland's attention, though he leaves it behind.

* Crimson King: I'm still disappointed that there wasn't a big, final battle between the White and the Red - but I wouldn't say that Roland didn't have a hand in defeating him. The entire series is Roland chipping away at him bit by bit, in a way. Afterall, CK, being the embodiement of the Red, gains in power from Chaos - when the world is moving away, and the Beams are breaking, so on and so forth. But Roland's entire quest, as champion of the White, is about working against him. Every battle he wins, such as at the Calla, and saving the Beams, and Sai King, is chipping away at the CK - chipping away at his power and, apparently, his mind. Granted, as hubbie puts it, this is victory "in the most ass way possible" - but, still... it's something. ;) And, anyway, aren't we told, time and time again, that the Crimson King is bugfuck insane? Well, guy on the balcony certain qualifies. (p.s. As a reading tip - it really helps if you mentally skip over the 'EEEEEEEEEEEE's.)

There - now isn't everything ever so much better?

I'll do you one better. I'll tell you how the final loop could go, and how everyone could live happily ever after:

So, Roland as the horn. According to 'The Road to the Dark Tower' book, the horn is a talisman, a connection for Roland not just to his old life/world/tet, but to his Self, his humanity. When he left the horn, he lost a piece of himself that matters.

This time he has the horn - and, thus, his humanity. Because of this, he doesn't let Jake fall. He still catches Walter because, honestly, he was always going to anyway, but Jake's there to watch his back. When they get to the beach, because there are two, Roland doesn't lose the two fingers on his right hand. Maybe Jake does instead, or maybe neither do, but, however it goes, Roland's hand is saved.

Because of this, when Roland shoots Pimli at Blue Heaven, he shoots with his strong, perfect hand, and kills him flat out. No lingering death means he never gets a chance to shoot Eddie, which in turn means that they don't have to delay their trip to 1999 to save King while Eddie has his slow, drawn out death. So they get to 1999, all four of them, and with enough time to get where they need to be to save King, and no one has to sacrifice himself in order to do so.

Since Eddie and Jake don't die, Susannah (the bitch) doesn't have the need to leave, and Oy doesn't have to sacrifice/suicide himself to save Roland, since all 5 are there, they can take turns taking watch, and Mordred never ends up being much of a threat at all.

Everyone survives, and, hell, they can still come across Patrick Danville on the way, 'cause, like I said, what's one more dan-tete - one more convenient coincidence - in a story full of them?

Roland gains the Tower, this time worthy of it - a true champion of the White (which he wasn't before, because he failed by letting Jake fall, by losing his humanity and sacrificing anything for his obsession) - and renews the Tower/Universe, and is thus renewed himself... and they live happily ever after.

Maybe they get transported to some where and when where they can live out their days... maybe they even come across another Susan or Cuthbert or Alain. I mean, Susannah got copies of Eddie and Jake - so why not? (Ok, I have an answer for why not, actually, but shush.)

So, there you have it.

But, really, it's not that much fanwank. Some of it actually makes a lot of sense, all things considered. I still think some of the ending was weak, and I'm not going to say it was perfect - but maybe it wasn't quite as bad as I thought it was the first time.

(Sort of like how I liked 'Order of the Phoenix' much more on the second read, and 'Deathly Hallows', too, for that matter. Of course, I rationalized those a bit, too. I have a grand gift for it, it seems. LOL)