Weird scene from the book "It" Stephen King. *spoilers*

Great book for 1000 pages, then turtles and spiders fighting through space with a 12 year old gang bang for the last 150 pages?

Maybe it went over my head, but it seemed like a great story where he wrote himself into a corner and pulled some hocus pocus with a side of weird child sex.

If I'm off base please correct me.

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I feel like he blew up a masterpiece right at the end

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That’s kind of Stephen King’s thing. He’s terrible at endings.

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That’s kind of Stephen King’s thing. He’s terrible at endings.

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I understood this going in.

The 12 year old gang bang situation caught me by total surprise. No reason for that, it had nothing to do with the story I can see.

Really bizarre.

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That’s kind of Stephen King’s thing. He’s terrible at endings.

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He really is. Best King endings: Salem's Lot, The Running Man, The Long Walk.

I agree it's weird. The only thing I see is maybe it's symbolic of the change from child to adulthood that they have experienced within the novel.

I actually enjoyed the ending of the Dark Tower

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The part where he puts himself in the book in cringeworthy,

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I didn’t love that aspect. What I was referring to was when Roland finally reached the dark tower and what happened afterward.

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I personally thought that ending was a huge cop out, and a weak payoff for that long of a series. Though I can understand why some people like it.

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Me too. The series that connects the entire Stephen King universe together and explains what the purpose for everything and that was the ending? Just a really big build up.

There was never going to be a satisfying finish for Roland or the reader. Whatever the dark tower turned out to be, it was never going to fulfill the expectations. So I kind of liked how it ended, with a reset. And do all the characters go through all that shite again, or just Roland? How many times had he been through that loop, and does he reach the tower every time? Does he find new ways of reaching it?

Anyway, the first few books are so good and then the story got a bit too wonky so I was glad to reach the end. After the Wolves of Calla I was ready to be done. The Susanna and her multiple personalities got to be a chore and the gay alcoholic priest was a bore. Finally, at the end, it was once again just Roland, following the man in black across the Desert. Back to being a sort of western.

Yeah, it was definitely weird. I think the general idea he was shooting for was that to be able to fight It as adults they had to find a way to recapture their childhoods, and to be able to fight It as children they had to find a way to enter the world of adulthood. I guess he thought, "What's more adult than sex?" but still, it's a weird and off-putting scene.