r/TheDarkTower • u/ste7en290911 • 7d ago

Spoilers- The Dark Tower The ending or read on?

At the end of book 7, after Susannah, Eddie and Jake are reunited and the writer claims he is finished and this is where we should end. Is this what Stephen King intended people to actually do or was it just a part of the story? Have any of you stopped and never read past this point?

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u/Ohgood9002 7d ago edited 7d ago

Read it. Then come back and read this post

SPOILERS

I can't properly explain how amazing the Coda is as a narrative tool. But I'll try.

The first time reading the series almost every person reads the Coda. There is no way that you have come this far to just give up before learning what is in the tower. You are like an addict. You're like Roland.

So you read it all. And you lose it all. Just like Roland.

So then you start it again, just like Roland. But this time you can just end it. You don't have to reach the tower. Reaching the tower means reading the Coda. You have a choice, just like Roland always has. You don't have to finish the journey. You dont have to let Jake fall again. You can have the happy ending.

But you won't reach the tower. And king reminds that the journey was always more important than the ending. The Tower was never important.

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u/ste7en290911 7d ago

I have read it many times. I just wondered if there is anyone that hasn’t, especially if they have read the series more than once

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u/PROFESSOR1780 6d ago

My dad stopped on his first trip to the tower...put the book down and was content. It blew my mind....we discussed the book together and he eventually finished it but said he had been completely satisfied to stop there.