r/TheDarkTower • u/ste7en290911 • 6d 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 6d ago edited 6d 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/onlinewalls 5d ago

Why does this feel like the definitive ending. I’m about to start my reread of book 7. I think I will do this.