Finished The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Spoilers ahead.
No, seriously, there are spoilers ahead.
You've been warned.
I have to admit, I laughed out loud at the ending. The fact that, in my edition, the ending was followed with the first chapter of the first book (as a part of promotional cycle for the re-release of all the editions) didn't help at all. I felt like it was some kind of trolling by the author (especially before the ending was prefaced by a chapter that basically read "hey, you got your happy ending, but if you keep reading, it'll change into a not happy ending, so maybe stop reading now".
I don't know the whole story behind the books, but I've gathered that after his near-death accident King hurried to finish the series, and that didn't help its quality at all. I would say the books 2-4, where King took his time to find the inspiration to write these, they're incredible. Book 5? Still pretty much great with a few flaws, I guess he got a lot of ideas between the fourth book and this one, and some of them are pretty great.
However, after that? Book 6 felt like King on autopilot and pretty much had nothing interesting at all for me. Book 7 had some great ideas (I loved the whole storyarc with Ted Brautigan and Roland's ka-tet opposing Algul Siento and getting Breakers free). And then it had some not-so-great ideas. The whole Mordred character was ridiculous and out of place for me (and he was basically useless except being used as a plot-device to get rid of some characters - I still can't get over how Walter/RF got died in basically his first actual scene after Wizard and Glass). The thing with Patrick Danville felt contrived as hell. I don't know, I guess I don't except the characters that play a huge role in the plot to be introduced in the last book of a septalogy. They mostly fell flat for me. And I can't say the last book was bad, I think it was just rushed and not very polished.
Still, I've enjoyed this ride. I'm pretty sure I will reread at least Wizard and Glass after some time, this book was incredible. My overall rankings would be:
4 >>> 2 > 5 = 3 > 7 >>> 1 > 6
I was pretty tired of New York scenes after 6 though, so on reread I think 2 will go down and 3 will perhaps go up.
Now onto Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. I'm 50 pages in and already enjoying it more than his First Law Trilogy.