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Laddar... The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower (Volume 7) (urspr publ 2004; utgåvan 2005)av Stephen King (Författare)
VerksinformationDet mörka tornet av Stephen King (2004)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. I don't know that, having finally finished all 5000 pages or so of the Dark Tower series, I really am impressed as much as I think I maybe should be. An odd statement, no? I definitely liked this series. At times more, at times less. Coming to the end after several months of reading, on-again-off-again, the conclusion seems both appropriate... and disappointing. I do feel like I've missed out on some key insight, some key "Ah-ha!" I was supposed to get, given all I've heard about this series over the years. And yet I am impressed. I did like it. There is a certain kind of satisfaction in the incompleteness of the ending, the... dare I say it... fallback... to the infinite regress. Perhaps. After all, the first book, written, what 35 years earlier, did start abruptly. You just dropped into the story. I don't know, the more I think about it, the more tied together it all does in fact feel. And yet... :) I wish I could give this 4.5 stars. But I think, perhaps for a change, I will round up. there's a lot that wasn't quite right with this - namely roland acting out of character too many crucial times to count - but this ending felt so perfect and right that i can't help but be left with the feeling like i loved this. i didn't - i liked it a lot, mostly - but that ending soared. it somehow wasn't what i expected at all (at all, at all) but in retrospect it really is one of the only ways to end it, and definitely the right way. loved, loved, loved that last line and what led up to it. what i didn't love about the book is partly confused with what i didn't like about the overall story in places, like how susannah is picked up and carried the way she is just doesn't feel right to me (but what do i know). things that were in all or most of the books. or things that felt unresolved (or were we supposed to assume that the still, none of those things are really what i'm left with. i found that throughout this journey i didn't even mind the vampires, which are one of my least favorite things to read about. especially when i thought of them more as metaphoric vampires, which tracks with all kinds of ways governments or people in power take from the people they're supposed to be representing. it's not my favorite way to talk about that, but it worked. and i really enjoyed seeing some characters from other books reappear here, and just the way this entire story is an umbrella for basically everything else he writes. i can see why he talked of retirement once this was done, but i'm glad he kept going. i also really really loved the way he inserted himself into the story, and how it wasn't indulgent, but just so fun and interesting. there's a lot of really great stuff he did here. i'm so glad i finally read these. "Anyone who doesn't think the imagination can kill you is a fool."
N 1970, when he was 22, Stephen King wrote a sentence he liked: ''The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed.'' It's an innocent sentence -- pulpy and suggestive -- but it grew to become a monster. As the first line in the ''Dark Tower'' series, it begins a story King intended to be the longest popular novel in history. With the publication of ''The Dark Tower VII,'' the series has topped the 4,000-page mark and, mercifully, reached its conclusion. King's "The Dark Tower" is the culmination of a saga that spans 3,000 pages, seven primary volumes, at least 15 ancillary ones and more than three decades of effort on the part of its author. PriserPrestigefyllda urval
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HTML:Creating "true narrative magic" (The Washington Post) at every revelatory turn, Stephen King surpasses all expectation in the stunning final volume of his seven-part epic masterwork. Entwining stories and worlds from a vast and complex canvas, here is the conclusion readers have long awaited??breathtakingly imaginative, boldly visionary, and wholly entertaining. Roland Deschain and his ka-tet have journeyed together and apart, scattered far and wide across multilayered worlds of wheres and whens. The destinies of Roland, Susannah, Jake, Father Callahan, Oy, and Eddie are bound in the Dark Tower itself, which now pulls them ever closer to their own endings and beginnings...and into a maelstrom of emotion, violence, and discove Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Non tutte le ottocento pagine de La Torre Nera sono ben riuscite, ma il finale è così giusto da far dimenticare qualunque imperfezione. Non che sia stato inaspettato (tutto sommato abbiamo letto indizi in proposito per sette libri e l’uomo in nero ci aveva rivelato parecchio già nel primo libro), ma è stato giusto.
Il che non vuol dire che non sia stato doloroso. C’è tanto dolore e strazio per chi legge La Torre Nera: niente in confronto a quello che avete incontrato finora in questa serie. Ma c’è anche tanta intimità tra i personaggi del ka-tet: Roland, Eddie, Susannah, Jake e Oy non sono mai stati così vicini e così consapevoli dei loro legami.
C’è anche tanta epicità: per il finale King ha attinto a piene mani sia da Il Signore degli Anelli sia dal ciclo arturiano e l’intero romanzo è pervaso dalla solennità del momento. Roland e i suoi sono finalmente vicini alla Torre Nera e sono ormai parte di quelle storie che si racconteranno finché il Sole risplenderà su le sciagure umane, quindi perché non rendere tutto più memorabile?
Ho amato tantissimo il doppio finale: l’ho trovato un colpo da maestro (c’è qualcunə che si è davvero fermatə al primo?) e una riflessione interessante su cos’è il finale di un libro, su quale dovrebbe essere l’approccio alla lettura e su cosa c’è oltre la parola fine. ( )