Instruct: Classify the given Amazon review as either positive or negative.
Query: Disappointed

Basically, this series went downhill for me once Mr. King tossed himself into the story as a character. I hoped that, unlike Song of Susanna, that this wouldn't be a major part of The Dark Tower; that he got this out of his system with the 6th book. This hope is thrown in the garbage not only with the continued emphasis on the Stephen King character, but with the totally lame death of one of the most important characters in the book; a lame death directly related to King's presence as a character. It seems to me that time spent on the King character could have been spent developing Mordred beyond the nothingness that is his character, and involving the man who has been Rolands nemisis from the start instead of killing him off early and simply without Roland's involvement.I really didn't mind the ending and could put up with the other little things not so great about the book, but put those on top of the presence of the King character, and you simply have failure.