I love surprise endings, but they have to be believable and not totally outrageous.
Anyone know any good ones?
2007-05-22 06:13:39 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I read "Sleeping Dogs" by Sonya Hartnett recently and its ending left me breathless. Very shocking and unexpected. The book is about a family (mother, father, five children) who live on a farm and who also run an adjoining caravan (trailer) park. An artist comes to stay at their park and finds the family interesting and mysterious. He sets out to discover their secret and does so to a devastating conclusion. I really didn't see the ending coming and after I closed the book I was left speechless. It's been weeks since I first read it and it's still haunting me. I highly recommend this book.
Happy reading! :-)
2007-05-22 08:00:00 · answer #1 · answered by Bookworm 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Sword of Shanarra - Terry Brooks
The First Trilogy of Thomas Covenant - Stephen R. Donaldson.
I love the way these book end and it was a complete surprise. Of course, good triumps over evil - it's just the way it does that surprising.
2007-05-22 16:11:14 · answer #2 · answered by txkathidy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tick Tock by Dean Koontz, The Dead Zone by Stephen King, The Cat Who Wasn't There by Lilian Jackson Braun
2007-05-22 14:01:20 · answer #3 · answered by lastdazeman 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Battle Royale.
2007-05-22 13:33:18 · answer #4 · answered by The Question Samurai!!! Lv.5 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz.
2007-05-22 13:37:41 · answer #5 · answered by pj m 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Life of Pi
Fight Club (different from the movie)
The Reader
2007-05-22 13:18:40 · answer #6 · answered by Satia 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The very best I have read was in "The Valley of Fear" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
2007-05-22 14:03:27 · answer #7 · answered by Liath 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
SEARCH FOR THE SUN by Ellen Anthony. You spend most of the book wanting to find the murderer, but after the murderer is caught and kills himself, you discover what else he did and it is heart-wrenching.
2007-05-22 14:06:43 · answer #8 · answered by loryntoo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie.
Best murder mystery of all time!!!!
2007-05-22 14:45:57 · answer #9 · answered by queenbee0889 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋