Tall Tyrion Lannister! Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I'm sure there has been a book or two in everybodies life where the ending has dissapointed them, whether it was a stupid ending, or just didn't live up to expectations you had.I finished The Reckoning by Kelley Armstrong a while back. while it was a good book, better than the second at least. the ending was so goddamn wide open. Since it was the last book in the series i wanted mosto f the loose ends tied up. but the ending felt like a ending that would suit a middle book in a series, not the finally.Anyway, what books left you being really dissapointed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
murphy Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Is that the Kelley Armstrong book? There are a lot of book titles with that name. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Poobah Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Am I allowed to say A Feast For Crows without getting frowned at? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tall Tyrion Lannister! Posted December 31, 2010 Author Share Posted December 31, 2010 Is that the Kelley Armstrong book? There are a lot of book titles with that name.yeah, i geuss i should edit and put the author in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronn is God Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Harry Potter series (yes, I do consider it a series and not garbage in written form). I didnt think it was possible for an ending to not only ruin one book, but an entire series. It was done in Harry Potter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolverine Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Am I allowed to say A Feast For Crows without getting frowned at?As long as I am allowed to agree without getting bludgeoned to death. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teng Ai Hui Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 For me, the most memorable disappoints are Stephen King's Salom's Lot and The Stand. In both, the big baddies are defeated in the space of a paragraph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tehol Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 1. a feast for crows by grrm.2. fool's fate by robin hobb.3. duma key by s. king.4. best served cold by joe abercrombie.5. scott lynch's second book, whatsisname.6. wheel of time, from book 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MinDonner Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Anything by Alistair Reynolds. That guy does NOT know how to wrap up a plot. The ending of the Revelation Space trilogy was bad enough that I gave all the books away to charity.Stephen King is also pretty bad; he seems to have so much fun in dragging the story out as long as possible, and ends them with the grace of a 5-year-old being told that it's time to stop playing now and go to bed. Bag of Bones was memorably awful for that, but it happens to a varying degree in far too many of his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ran Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Most of Jack Vance's novels pretty much end in a rush of serendipity and "The End". He's rightfully a grandmaster of SF/F, there's so much wonderment in his work, but good endings escaped him at almost every occasion (there are a handful of exceptions, such as the tragic final line of the Demon Princes saga).Erikson's House of Chains and Midnight Tides, but I think my perceptions of the ending are probably colored by my general disaffection with what preceded in those novels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polishgenius Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Anything by Alistair Reynolds. That guy does NOT know how to wrap up a plot. The ending of the Revelation Space trilogy was bad enough that I gave all the books away to charity.I liked the endings of Pushing Ice and Chasm City, but apart from that, oh so this. It's like he treats all that pesky story and character stuff as necessary to give his Big Scientific Idea something to work against (even though he's actually really good at it), and once he's revealed said Big Scientific Idea he gets bored and wraps up the book as quickly as possible. House of Suns was particularly painful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 i always thought that hawthorne's blithedale romance had a flawed ending.and edith wharton never really described sufficiently the fate of the pickledish in ethan frome for my taste. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eyelesbarrow Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 A recent read that disappointed me was Connie Willis' Blackout. I know it's supposed to have a sequel, but it's no excuse to end it on a dud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tormund Ukrainesbane Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Law of Nines by Tairy Goodkind. Worst ending ever, no competition. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Selig Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 The Dark Tower. It failed on so many levels. The worst was probably King's "OK, here's the ending, but you better not read it, and if you do and dislike it, it's your fault" rant just before it. On second thought, the fact that the main villain was literally erased out of existence by some random guy who appeared out of nowhere in the plot towards the end of the last book of a 7 book series, was even worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Horselover Fat Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 A recent read that disappointed me was Connie Willis' Blackout. I know it's supposed to have a sequel, but it's no excuse to end it on a dud.To be fair to Willis, "All Clear" is not a sequel, it is the second half of a single novel. I have not been able to figure out why they were published separately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 I second Harry Potter's ending. Completely ruined the series for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sologdin Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 ruined the series this sounds like a complaint that someone barfed on your shitburger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yagathai Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 Anything by Neal Stephenson. The books don't end so much as just... stop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cantabile Posted December 31, 2010 Share Posted December 31, 2010 ruined the series this sounds like a complaint that someone barfed on your shitburger.I never thought the series was well-written, but I was still able to find a mindless, childish enjoyment from it when reading it with my grandkids. But the ending killed even that guilty pleasure. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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