Meaning, the ending was just SO unexpected you thought about it for days!! In The Cut did that for me. What an insane book that was!!
2006-10-10 08:21:30 · 13 answers · asked by Shelley L 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. I won't blow the ending, but suffice it to say that I was quite shocked and dismayed when I finished, and I seethed about it for a few days. I was definitely, definitely NOT expecting that ending.
2006-10-10 08:32:11 · answer #1 · answered by fancybrowneyes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Naked Lunch by W.S. Burroughs was not only shocking to me in content, but most definitely in form. That book came about abruptly and was intellectually at the moment completely uncalled for, I was like 19 or 20, and I was still babying myself with Salinger, Hemingway, etc.
But to truly answer your question properly, the ending was EXTREMELY unexpected. And, -this will sound veeery corny, but if you have in fact ever read the book you'll know what I mean: I was shocked by the very fact that the book actually ends. I find it unacceptable that that book has an ending. I was pissed off when I got to the last page. The final phrase was good enough though: 'No glot. C'lom Fliday.', in reference to what Chinese heroin dealers would say to the Westerners due to their financial unreliability. OK, fine, I admit it, he wraps it up quite brutally, which for that book, means skillfully.
2006-10-10 13:09:03 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ptolemy's Gate book 3 of The Bartimaeus Trilogy
2006-10-10 09:22:31 · answer #3 · answered by Mae 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Horse Whisperer
I wouldn't say the ending to this book was "shocking" at all, just not at all what I was expecting. I was mad for many dayafter reading it - mad at the characters for making stupid, poor decisions, and mad that I had wasted my time reading the book!
I tend to read a lot of thriller/horror (Stephen King, Dean Koontz,etc) so this was definitely a genre that I don't usually read.
2006-10-10 08:36:41 · answer #4 · answered by FeistyLady 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Great ending, only way to solve the cyclical trap of the book.
2006-10-10 08:57:29 · answer #5 · answered by innocencemocker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Romeo and Juliet!
No matter how many times I read it, I always wish someone would change the ending before I read it again!
2006-10-10 08:50:03 · answer #6 · answered by Sparky5115 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anarchist Cookbook, wow everybody should not be allowed to have access to such things. It was put out by Paladin Press and it tells too much to those who do not need to know such things.
2006-10-10 08:27:55 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Hannibal was kind of disturbing at the end with the suggestion of some kind of romantic feelings between him and Clarice Starling.
2006-10-10 08:29:17 · answer #8 · answered by practicalwizard 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the Giver really good, butr so surprisijg and Fahrenheit 451 was shocking, so was 1984
2006-10-10 12:33:45 · answer #9 · answered by upcoming_author 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Of Mice and Men" by John Steinbeck. I was embittered for days and kept wondering why George killed his not-so-bright mate, Lennie, in cold blood.
2006-10-10 14:21:13 · answer #10 · answered by Arigato ne 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋