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Authors who have no idea how to end a book?
Posted on 8/1/22 at 10:00 am
Posted on 8/1/22 at 10:00 am
Dean Koontz at the top of my list.
I don't know why I keep picking these books up. Every book starts out so promising and I get really into only for it to fizzle out by the end.
Can't remember the name now but there was a really good story awhile back that ended with the protagonist jupming a ramp and riding a motorcycle through a 2nd story window to rescue the victim. :cringe:
it turned a good story into trash and i couldn't help but think this was put in there to appeal to some hollywood types who might want to make it into a movie.
which authors have you blacklisted because they pulled a M Night Shyamalan on you over and over?
I don't know why I keep picking these books up. Every book starts out so promising and I get really into only for it to fizzle out by the end.
Can't remember the name now but there was a really good story awhile back that ended with the protagonist jupming a ramp and riding a motorcycle through a 2nd story window to rescue the victim. :cringe:
it turned a good story into trash and i couldn't help but think this was put in there to appeal to some hollywood types who might want to make it into a movie.
which authors have you blacklisted because they pulled a M Night Shyamalan on you over and over?
This post was edited on 8/1/22 at 10:01 am
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Posted on 8/1/22 at 1:46 pm to CAD703X
The ending that I hated more than any other was Infinite Jest, but it's still become my favorite book.
A lot of people hate the ending to No Country for Old Men but it's one I've come to understand and appreciate.
Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors but he struggles with endings at times because he's really exploring ideas, and those ideas don't come to a neat ending. Hell, he wrote the 8 book Baroque cycle and I think that was basically because he didn't know how to put in an ending.
I can live without a tidy ending to a book if it is good enough.
A lot of people hate the ending to No Country for Old Men but it's one I've come to understand and appreciate.
Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors but he struggles with endings at times because he's really exploring ideas, and those ideas don't come to a neat ending. Hell, he wrote the 8 book Baroque cycle and I think that was basically because he didn't know how to put in an ending.
I can live without a tidy ending to a book if it is good enough.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 1:49 pm to CAD703X
Stephen King is the master of this.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 1:53 pm to Tigris
quote:i have only read a couple of his books. time to do a deep dive on his other stuff.
Neal Stephenson is one of my favorite authors but he struggles with endings at times because he's really exploring ideas, and those ideas don't come to a neat ending.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 2:50 pm to CAD703X
Haruki Murakami.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 7:49 pm to CAD703X
Which book? I've only read Watchers and that ending was ok as i recall.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 10:04 pm to boxcarbarney
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Stephen King is the master of this
Came to post this but you beat me to it.
Posted on 8/1/22 at 11:36 pm to CAD703X
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Dean Koontz at the top of my list.
Most of his books (at least early on when he was good, I haven't read anything by him in 20 years) have pretty solid endings. Watchers, lightning, Twilight eyes all have good endings among others.
Stephen King is the top of the list in terms of this to me.
Posted on 8/2/22 at 9:49 am to Tigertown in ATL
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Grisham
Came to post this. I don’t know if he has no idea, or if he hits his pages and says to hell with it.
The girl taking the money and running on the last page of The Partner still ticks me off.
Posted on 8/2/22 at 11:30 am to StringedInstruments
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Haruki Murakami.
One of my favorite authors but you aren’t wrong. I remember reading all 900 pages of 1Q84. It had so many great parts but the ending was like…”what?”
Posted on 8/2/22 at 10:15 pm to boxcarbarney
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Stephen King is the master of this.
I stand by the ending of Dark Tower
Posted on 8/3/22 at 10:58 am to biglego
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I stand by the ending of Dark Tower
Hated the ending. Especially when he insults the reader for expecting a solid ending to a seven book series they spent years reading.
Posted on 8/3/22 at 1:18 pm to biglego
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I stand by the ending of Dark Tower
Do you stand by the ending King gave the two primary antagonists?
Posted on 8/3/22 at 3:34 pm to Esquire
The ending is the ending. It's his story.
I get not liking an ending, but some people get angry, and that I don't understand.
I get not liking an ending, but some people get angry, and that I don't understand.
Posted on 8/3/22 at 4:00 pm to boxcarbarney
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Stephen King is the master of this.
This. Only endings of his that tend to work are the downers.
Posted on 8/3/22 at 5:05 pm to biglego
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I stand by the ending of Dark Tower
I'll agree. The problem was the several books leading up to it.
Posted on 8/3/22 at 8:47 pm to S
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Haruki Murakami
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One of my favorite authors but you aren’t wrong. I remember reading all 900 pages of 1Q84. It had so many great parts but the ending was like…”what?”
I only agree with this for 1Q84, but that book has more problems than just the ending.
Posted on 8/4/22 at 9:02 am to Jay Are
Wasn’t really a fan of how he concluded wind up bird or killing commendatore either
But i just love his descriptive writing
But i just love his descriptive writing
Posted on 8/5/22 at 9:23 pm to CAD703X
George RR literally cannot end a book.
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