:: Darkness falls across the land, the midnight hour is close at hand

Winding up the last of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It's much better, and Roland is a much more sympathetic character, than I remembered from my first reading four or five years ago. Definitely worth a revisit; even if King does suffer from verbal bloat on occasion, it's all so vivid you don't really mind being led round the mulberry bush five or six times before getting to the point. However, ( Spoiler involving something not a dog but very much like one )

which is a tad annoying.