I hated the ending initially, but later I began to really appreciate it. It was a long journey which never gets to the end -- it starts all over again. The important part is the journey: what has been done and what has been learned.
When I first finished the series, I tried to think about what ending would've satisfied me. The truth is that the ending that King wrote is the only way to "finish" the story. Anything else would either be cheezy or wouldn't make sense.
It some ways, the ending was similar to the Wizard of Oz which the Dark Tower frequently paralleled. At the conclusion, Dorothy ends up right back where she started -- but changed. She needed the journey to "nowhere" for that to happen.
Roland's universe is the Stephen King universe. I also like the implication that the universe is eternal.
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