22.08.2006, 22:00
Hi Leute, hier ist ein artikel den ich gefunden habe und einfach hier posten musste.
Er erhebt die ganze Geschicht (ENDE) in ein ganz anderes licht. ---
Ich sag nur eins in deutsch... ka-tet of 99
den rest muesst ihr euch verdienen...
Ok, I'll admit that I didn't get it immediately after finishing (I felt like I'd just been Matrix-Revolutioned to be honest)....but after re-reading it a few times I did get the ending and I must say it is ABSO-FRIKKEN-LUTELY the best damn ending King could have possibly written. Sheer genius no matter what others might think. Reread it, think about it, let your subconscious play with it and you will be enlightened....or read on and I'll spoil it for ya and you will ken the ending....you will ken it well
The ABSO-FRIKKEN-LUTELY Genius:
For those of you who want the ending spelled out for you. Here it is. I encourage you not to read this until you have thought about the WHOLE series and the last 20 pages of the book for at least a week. If you have not had a head slapping AH-HA moment like I did last night, then come back.
Still here? Ok.
Hint #1 The real ending to Roland's saga wasn't written by King
Hint #2 "It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your walk to hell." - Cort
Hint #3 The Dark Tower series is Robert Browning's poem in narrative form....except for one glaring difference.
Hint #99.....100
Get it? Ok. Here's the deal-io. The story is fundamentally about addiction, in this case Roland's addiction to the song of the Tower (a 'Tower Junkie' as Eddie calls him and I say thankya) and Roland breaking the addiction to his one true deviant love (who he loves more than Jake or Susan). Roland has been stuck in a time loop and the Dark Tower series is about loop #99....the loop that matters, the final loop, the one where he finally overcomes his addiction (through his love for Jake and his ka-tet) and earns his redemption and final reward, the Horn of Arthur Eld, the horn that he will use to play his own song and hence overcome his addiction to the song of the tower. When does he play this song? In the REAL ending to the story....in Browning's poem, which is the real end to Roland's saga (loop #100). What he does after is irrelevant. Maybe he starts a family or meets Susan at the end of the path. The bottom line is that he breaks his addiction to the tower, exits the loop and is free.
Why not write loop #100 some might ask? Well then we would have never entered the tower and we can't have that!
This is probably the cleverest end to any series I've ever read. He hides the ending in plain sight and many people don't see the veiled happy ending! There are no more books in the story folks....the story has been told...and told well!
Er erhebt die ganze Geschicht (ENDE) in ein ganz anderes licht. ---
Ich sag nur eins in deutsch... ka-tet of 99
den rest muesst ihr euch verdienen...
Ok, I'll admit that I didn't get it immediately after finishing (I felt like I'd just been Matrix-Revolutioned to be honest)....but after re-reading it a few times I did get the ending and I must say it is ABSO-FRIKKEN-LUTELY the best damn ending King could have possibly written. Sheer genius no matter what others might think. Reread it, think about it, let your subconscious play with it and you will be enlightened....or read on and I'll spoil it for ya and you will ken the ending....you will ken it well
The ABSO-FRIKKEN-LUTELY Genius:
For those of you who want the ending spelled out for you. Here it is. I encourage you not to read this until you have thought about the WHOLE series and the last 20 pages of the book for at least a week. If you have not had a head slapping AH-HA moment like I did last night, then come back.
Still here? Ok.
Hint #1 The real ending to Roland's saga wasn't written by King
Hint #2 "It'll be your damnation, boy. You'll wear out a hundred pairs of boots on your walk to hell." - Cort
Hint #3 The Dark Tower series is Robert Browning's poem in narrative form....except for one glaring difference.
Hint #99.....100
Get it? Ok. Here's the deal-io. The story is fundamentally about addiction, in this case Roland's addiction to the song of the Tower (a 'Tower Junkie' as Eddie calls him and I say thankya) and Roland breaking the addiction to his one true deviant love (who he loves more than Jake or Susan). Roland has been stuck in a time loop and the Dark Tower series is about loop #99....the loop that matters, the final loop, the one where he finally overcomes his addiction (through his love for Jake and his ka-tet) and earns his redemption and final reward, the Horn of Arthur Eld, the horn that he will use to play his own song and hence overcome his addiction to the song of the tower. When does he play this song? In the REAL ending to the story....in Browning's poem, which is the real end to Roland's saga (loop #100). What he does after is irrelevant. Maybe he starts a family or meets Susan at the end of the path. The bottom line is that he breaks his addiction to the tower, exits the loop and is free.
Why not write loop #100 some might ask? Well then we would have never entered the tower and we can't have that!
This is probably the cleverest end to any series I've ever read. He hides the ending in plain sight and many people don't see the veiled happy ending! There are no more books in the story folks....the story has been told...and told well!