Thread: Worst Ever Ending to a Book
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Old 03-28-2011, 05:47 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by WilliamVitka View Post
I'm seconding this because, man, King really deus ex machinas himself into some terrible endings.
Thirding.

I began the Dark Tower series when The Gunslinger as serialized in F&SF in 1978, so by the time the last book came out, I'd spent something like 28 years waiting for it.

I should have been warned by how bad the two books leading up to it were, but the last one was just bad, bad, bad. One deus ex machina after another, and an absolute cheat of an ending.

I haven't read a King book since, I felt so disappointed and cheated. I used to love him, but I don't trust him as an author anymore.
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