All Good Things

I finished Stephen King's The Dark Tower series today. I've been reading the quest of the gunslinger Roland Deschain for...how many years now? Five, I suppose. That's not nearly so long as the journey has been for many readers, but it's long enough that I'm sad to have no more ahead of me. It was well-written and engrossing throughout, and I was left with no doubt that King earned his Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 2003. He is a gifted storyteller, and The Dark Tower captures his ability to bend language, creating new words that by the end of a story seem as familiar as any we can find in the Oxford English Dictionary.