dark tower 7: probably the last review I'll post before the next version of books.gameofthe.net

Dark Tower 7: Fiction and Metafiction by rwx


The Dark Tower (The Dark Tower, Book 7)
Stephen King et al.

Dark Tower 7 is a superb work of metafiction, that is to say it’s a story about the writing of stories. I think that it’s an understandable conceit from Stephen King to write this sort of story, and it touches on a lot of themes explored earlier in the series. There are several narrative threads in this book, and some of them (Susannah’s thread) are relatively straight action writing that King does well, and some of them (Roland’s thread) are mostly metafiction. I found them fascinating, but perhaps less well done than the full-ahead writing of the other books.

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So, yeah. Good book. Interesting end to the series. Possibly not everyone’s cup of tea, but I highly recommend it.

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