SPOILERS BELOWI still don't like this book or the direction king took the series after the 4th book. The 5th book was decent and kept me into it throughout, but with the finding of the king novel "Salem's Lot" i was afraid of where he was going. This book goes there i'm afraid. I still don't get why King put himself in the books. What complicates matters even worse is the fact that the 5th and 6th books should have been combined...at least in my opinion because they seem so much shorter than the first 4 and the 7th. However, if you've made it this far in the series you should finish it. I personally liked the ending of the 7th book but the 5th and 6th books were pretty terrible. Heck even the 7th could have been so much better.