Tate Modern Extension + The Shard

Today we visited the Tate Modern extension for the first time. HarlingDarling describes the adventure very eloquently in her Blip so I'll just give my personal viewpoint that the view from the top was wonderful, some of the galleries were fun, others seemed less interesting. The all-round viewing platform gives really good views over London including
However, for me the Shard always seems a little threatening. This is probably because it is an almost identical twin of the tower I saw on the cover of a Stephen King book I read many years ago "The Dark Tower". It’s interesting that a book cover (+ the book series itself) can have such an effect when I view a real building many years later.