Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

We've all been there.

Reading a book that is absolutely amazing!

Until, that is, you get to the end.

Its so bad it makes you want to throw the novel across the room. But the middle had you so hooked you'll probably buy the next 2 in the series...

You just can't help thinking you could of done it better...

So? Which book was it?

A Catcher in the Rye. I was praying for Holden's death. I hated that book with a passion.

Hah, I absolutely hated Catcher In The Rye too. Didn't help that I was sort of falling out with a friend at the time of reading who completely idolised Holden and the book.

I was quite irritated by the rushed ending of Anno Dracula too.

And it wasn't just the ending, but Ready Player One...

I am among the heathen. ;-) I tease as this matter involves personal taste.

So I thought the ending of the His Dark Materials series by Phillip Pullman was atrocious. The main characters need to be separated right after they've fallen in love, for weird metaphysical reasons that don't even hold up and make logical sense within the framework of the author's own universe. So having a portal between worlds causes a little Dust leakage? So what! Will and Lyra will generate hella dust to replace it through their own creative efforts!

Pegasus, by Robin McKinley (one of my favorite authors) also had a terrible ending- it ended in incredible chaos and emotional disruption and was open-ended. It was like stopping at a cliffhanger in the middle of the book. You read the Amazon reviews and they are like, "Whaaaat nOOOoooooo"

I've not finished that series yet so I'm not reading your post lol

Mystery Girl by David Gordon was so incredible from a descriptive, narrative, and reference point of view, but then ending was so brief it was like..."what just happened?"

The Discovery of Witches was like "Oh crap I've got to get another book..."

The Devil's Nightmare by Robert Pruneda was a really good horror novel that had the perfect ending, but then it went on for another chapter that should have been edited out and really left you feeling like the book was far less than it could have been with a better editor

Seed by Ania Ahlborn didn't really end bad as much as it just ended wrong. After that book I was left with a feeling of despair wondering how life could be that unfair and mean.

One of those books made me really really angry at the author and I almost wrote a scathing review. But I didn't.

I should add it was mostly because all the 5* reviews were blatant lies lol

Nobody gets better unless you tell them what they did wrong... I'm a firm believer in calling it like I see them, and yes I read your posting on criticism and being run over the coals for posting a bad review, but a book with problems is a book with problems and you've got to be honest, if they can't handle it, they shouldn't be putting themselves out there in the first place

I'll still wait to do it until I have more followers than him... lol just incase...

You have a gazillion followers... And he probably paid for all his followers, like he paid for his reviews, write the honest review... Daniel Pearl's The Dante Club infuriated me and I was very unkind in reviews...

He has more :p though you are probably right, he auto spams. I dwnloaded the book before I realised what auto spam was. Probably the reason I get so angry when I see them on my groups/blog haha

I only review books I like I decided :] Until i have afew books out there and feel comfortable in my writing ability, I'll resist the urge and stave off backlash :]

Interestingly (i had to look the book up again because Im a snarky cow) he had more 5* reviews when i first read it. Does amazon remove reviews?

Yes they do, if they figure out you wrote a review for your own book.... Or so I hear... But every review that's been written for my books is on there, even the bad one, where the lady says "I didn't even read this book, because I didn't like the way it started..." But the book that was written for, The Bainbridge Killings, has outsold my other three books combined and multiplied by four, so bad reviews will not kill sales

And that dude has got to be paying for his reviews, if its as bad as you say it was

I read entire books before I write a review, what an idiot she was lol.

I don't know. You liked it. Maybe I'm just being persnickety :x

Really? Now I'm interested to know which one... But there was only one book I really liked in there, and when I wrote my review of that one I said readers were going to either like it or hate it, so you fell on the hate it side

it actually totally rips off another lesser known (lost the name lol) YA book I read when I was younger as well.

it was so clique :X And I found it through auto spam... Not alot going for it really.

but as I said, I wont review it. I'll just grumble about it to people who like it like the grumpy Bisky I am at 8 am in the morning :p

Uh? Isn't it like 8am on that side of the world? I mean its 11pm here but your off in a bunch of times zones away

Yeah I got up at 6 today for some random reason. Northern europe where its cold and going to start getting dark pretty soon... haha

Yeah I'm pretty much hell on earth before 9-10ish which isn't very good for my job since as a stockbroker I'm supposed to be up when the market opens here which is 6:30am...

i want to get one of those lights that fakes a sunrise :p

I'm on the other side I'd rather be way up north where the sun only comes up like two hours a day... I guess you'd say I'm more of a night person

When I read The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, I was infuriated by most of the novel honestly--there were supremely gripping sections alternating with horrifyingly ridiculous ones--but the end in particular made me want to punch the wall. Maybe I wasn't in the right frame of mind to get fully engaged, but it was a bit too surreal and out there for me. I treat surrealism like spices: can be insanely delicious and potent, but too much will make your dish bizarre and confused.

That is brilliant haha i think I'm going to use that one to describe myself :p

"Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. I wanted to throw that library book across the room.

And get a "SHHH!" from the librarian :p

The ending to Incarceron infuriated me because it was just so unbelievable and ridiculous. The story itself was pretty cool and was building itself up, and then you find out Incarceron is just some charm on a bracelet, and your belief just isn't suspended because there isn't a whole lot through the story that hints that--except for the prison quakes, maybe. But otherwise, it was so unbelievable that I don't care to pick up the sequel.

Carl wrote: ""Foucault's Pendulum" by Umberto Eco. I wanted to throw that library book across the room."

I agree. I do remember that book mainly because of its so-very-bad ending.

I couldn't stand the Act 3 of Mockingjay. In fact, if you view Mockingjay as the Act 3 of the entire Hunger Games trilogy, it too is a weak entry. It kind of retro-graded Katniss' entire character development and robbed the reader of a couple important payoffs.

I don't know if anyone of you've read Wolves of the Calla, but the ending was the most infuriating I've ever read, (view spoiler)[we are so close to the rose, and yet Mia takes charge WTF... (hide spoiler)]

Demons on Bourbon Street book 3 of the Jade Calhoun series..can't remember the author. I loved the first books but the 3rd just got ridiculous, at least I thought so. Made no sense.

I hate it when that happens! >.< so many series I have read get like that. First is great then they just seem to run out of ideas lol

Bisky, LOL!

Hated the end of Inheritance. It was just meh.
Mockingjay too. I was like, that's it?
I'm sure there are more, can't think of them now.

Open endings that really don't tie up the story, which are obvious gates for a sequel, drive me bats !

And here I am contracted to do that very thing for an 8 episode series...*sigh * ...the irony !

@Mark, that made me laugh! It all depends on the ending for me. As long as the main storyline that I've been following is wrapped up, I really don't mind a hint of a sequel or something I wasn't expecting that makes me go :O at the end.

There isnt anything wrong with wanting more from a story :D So long as the author is willing to write it :3

I agree Bisky-I like a good series as long as the main storyline is pretty much wrapped up. What I don't like is a on the edge of your seat cliffhanger and you have months before you know what happens. But if it is an author I love and a series I love I can even forgive that.

Why an ending must be always outstanding?

Having read the last few comments, I hope that if any of you happen to pick up my series, you take mercy on my cliff-hangers

I think having to wait a week for another episode for Dragonball z has scarred me for life with cliffhangers :p

I have read The Wolves of Calla. The first book of the Gunslinger series is fantastic, but King always has to make every story make a turn for the weird. It really ticks me off in most of the books of his I have read. He sets it up and gets you hooked then makes it strange towards the end. I have heard that Allegiant is a terrible ending to the Divergent trilogy. I really enjoyed the first two books, so I'm hoping it's not as terrible as the Amazon reviews I read make it out to be.

Brian wrote: "I have read The Wolves of Calla. The first book of the Gunslinger series is fantastic, but King always has to make every story make a turn for the weird. It really ticks me off in most of the b..."

Why King makes a turn for the weird in his books? Because he can, and because it sells, and because he's an exceptional writer, and because people expect it. The rest tend to watch Walt Disney movies.

King really is a fantastic writer. I just prefer his works where the evil entity doesn't morph into a mechanical spider that only exists in an astral form from planet 96X that manifests itself as a fluffy bunny unless you take LSD. Some of my favorite stories are ones where he doesn't take that path, or at the very least the strange is subdued.

Speaking of King, I really enjoyed Doctor Sleep. It was the first book of his I've read in years and it was really good...
... I only throw that in because I haven't read those other ones...

(SPOILER ALERT) Writing this before I read everyone's answers so I don't let them influence me. ;) I have to go with The Stand by Stephen King. You have this monster build up that goes on forever, supposedly leading up to, um, THE STAND between the heroes and the villain. And when it finally gets there, THERE IS NO STAND. None! The bad guy loses because of an utterly random action by a loose cannon on his own team. UGH. Infuriates me to this day.

Agreed J. David. I hated the ending of The Stand.