was it a good surprose or bad ? Did it make the book any better ?
2007-06-11 08:51:59 · 32 answers · asked by The Unknown Soldier 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Harry Potter and the half blood prince.
i was so shocked when Dumbledore died, i didnt see that coming.
anyway whats yours?
2007-06-15 10:14:58 · answer #1 · answered by missmollie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A couple of years ago I was keen that my wife should finish a Donna Leon novel so that I could have it. The holiday wore on, but she would rather lie around in the sun than finish the book. Anyway, I got it in the end only to find that the last few pages had come unbound in the heat and were lost - didn't realise that until I'd read the preceding 200 or so pages.
That was probably the most unexpected ending and didn't make the book any better, I can tell you. Didn't do much for intra-marital harmony either!
2007-06-11 09:25:28 · answer #2 · answered by J S 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Have read several with "surprise" endings.
The biggest disappointment in a book ending was Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. What a waste of time reading that! The books ends so numbly. I love reading and I just wondered why I had bothered reading it, as it had no resolution, no cliff hanger, nothing.
For me that was the worst "surprise" I have ever found in a book.
2007-06-11 10:14:59 · answer #3 · answered by i_am_jean_s 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Loop by Koji Suzuki
Very surprising ending. Very surprising book, you find out that all the events of Ring and Spiral (the preceding books which inspired The Ring/Ringu films) was all part of a computer programme to create natural life online and that someone had come out of it into our world was a major brain-twister, especially when he goes back in, it was all maaaaad!
2007-06-14 05:35:23 · answer #4 · answered by Helen F 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Phillip Pullman Amber spyglass
loved the first two books and got halfway through the last in the trilogy and felt really disappointed. He built up an emotional plot point in the story, Lyra and Pan being separated, He describes the pain and devastation the characters are feeling over it. When they are Finlay reunited there is no sense of joy at them being reunited. it was a bit of a let down
2007-06-16 11:20:05 · answer #5 · answered by tootnuts 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Villette by one of the Brontes. I read it more than 20 years ago now and I still experience the same irritation that she changed everything on the very last page. From happy ending after travails to tragic senseless literary twist in one bloody paragraph. These days, editors would just say, hey you can't do that, the readers won't buy anything else of yours if you do that. It still annoys me!
Since then, I've never managed to be surprised by the ending of anything. Gentlemen and Players by Joanne Harris had me falling off my seat with one twist but it wasn't the ending.
2007-06-11 20:35:07 · answer #6 · answered by Vivienne T 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Whitemantle the final book in the Robert Carter Language of Stones trilogy really surprised me with the ending. I didn't see it coming at all and it was an exceptional ending.
2007-06-11 09:02:18 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1991 The Wasp Factory. It wasn't good or bad it was just a surprise. It didn't make the book any better. It seemed a very contrived device to try to give sense and meaning to the rest.
2007-06-11 08:58:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
not so much books--a couple short stories or novellas got me, though, partly because they were unexpected for the author. Bad ending for the characters. It made the stories better for a couple of reasons: not having been predictable, but also logical for the course of the story, that the author didn't chicken out of the hard ones.
Anne McCaffrey's Crystal Singer novellas, found in the 4-vol Continuum (R. Elwood, ed.) from the 70s, esp: "Killashandra--Coda and Finale". She did soften some of it quite a bit when she turned these into the novels Crystal Singer & Killashandra. (if you can find them, read them in this order: 1,2,4,3)
Mercedes Lackey's got a couple short stories that I esp recommend like this. Both were (re)published in Fiddler Fair:
• Last Rights. (Animal Liberationists Free the Dinosaurs. But what if the dinosaurs don't understand the rules?) this one is kinda funny IMO
• Dumb Feast. (A Victorian widower is pining for his dead wife. But when he finally Summons her, she isn't quite as he remembered.) this is the one that zapped me, though.
2007-06-11 09:18:03 · answer #9 · answered by Amethyst 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
My Sisters Keeper by Jody Picoult
I've read all her books so i always expect a twist but that one really suprised me. It was pretty good until the ending which made the book
2007-06-15 20:08:18 · answer #10 · answered by Stephanie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The last book of the gunslinger books by Stephen King. The dark tower the last chapter was so infuriating, I read all the books and at the end it was not what i was expecting, i wont say what happens incase it spoils it for any one reading it
2007-06-11 09:04:29 · answer #11 · answered by p d 1 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋