Wow, this thread has changed topics a nice bunch of times, hasn't it?
Well, for what it's worth (I'm late getting here):
(1) I gave Twilight an honest chance but couldn't get through it.
(2) I hated the ending to The Dark Tower AT FIRST. As I thought about it (and read the series again), I realized it was the only reasonable ending to the story. Do we have spoiler tags here?
Spoiler:
Oh, excellent.
Okay, the way I look at the ending to The Dark Tower, which is to say, Roland climbing the Tower and coming to the final room and, upon entering the room, finding himself back at the "beginning" of the story, is that it's a recognition that Roland's world is a story world. His story never ends, as it's always there for you to read again.
However, King is nice enough to give the reader -- and Roland -- a shred of hope. While the story may be going back to the beginning, in this telling Roland recovers Cuthbert's horn. That small difference, we are allowed to think, may give Roland the "happy" ending we crave for him.
Like I said, it pissed me off royally at first. But given the recognition of Roland's world as something out of a story (and, if you've read Heinlein's "The Number of the Beast", that does sort of inform the ending), how else could it end?
Roland is always there, waiting for us to take up the adventure with him again. And after giving it some thought, I decided that while the ending may not make me happy, it felt absolutely appropriate (and really, what were the chances Roland would get a happy ending, when you get right down to it).
Also, Susannah gets to go to a New York with Eddie, Jake and Oy, and there's your happy ending right there.
Also, yeah, I thought Cell was kind of lame, but Duma Key was pretty awesome. I keep meaning to try Twilight again, if for no other reason than, once I've read it, I'll feel alright expressing an opinion on it.