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Grant/Scribner (September 21, 2004)
Audioworks; Unabridged edition (September 21, 2004)
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All good
things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King
can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain's
relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried
the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters.
But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is
the last, and often the last things are best.
Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered over wheres and whens.
Susannah-Mia has been carried from the Dixie Pig (in the summer of 1999)
to a birthing room -- really a chamber of horrors -- in Thunderclap's
Fedic; Jake and Father Callahan, with Oy between them, have entered the
restaurant on Lex and Sixty-first with weapons drawn, little knowing how
numerous and noxious are their foes. Roland and Eddie are with John
Cullum in Maine, in 1977, looking for the site on Turtleback Lane where
"walk-ins" have been often seen. They want desperately to get back to
the others, to Susannah especially, and yet they have come to realize
that the world they need to escape is the only one that matters.
Thus the book opens, like a door to the uttermost reaches of Stephen
King's imagination. You've come this far. Come a little farther. Come
all the way. The sound you hear may be the slamming of the door behind
you. Welcome to The Dark Tower.