Stupid book endings....

[wvjules]

I finished Night Fall by Nelson DeMille the other night and I was extremely disappointed in the ending. Up until the end the book was a definate page turner. I like his writing style so I'll try reading Plum Island next. Hopefully I'll like the ending better.

Have you gotten to the end of a good book and been disappointed by the ending????

 

[diznygirl]

Wuthering Heights comes to mind...

I read one book - DD 2 1/2 picked it out for me at the library cuz it was pink LOL! - The Cinderella Rules. She really wanted it for herself, but I ended up reading it. So the love story goes along and in the last 5 pages it turns into a mystery with spies and international espionage!

 

[castleview]

Have you gotten to the end of a good book and been disappointed by the ending????

Yup, the Bridges of Madison County - which was a stupid book anyway and The Horse Whisperer. This should give you an idea of the last time I read an adult book.

Anyway, The Horse Whisperer was quite good but I just didn't like the ending. Or I just don't like it when someone has to rekindle their marriage by having an affair.

 

[marybet]

The Other Side of Midnight by Sidney Sheldon. It was a good book with a really crappy ending and I never read another one of his books.

 

[Bbgrizzle]

The Wedding, by Nicholas Sparks. Very hokey ending. It made me feel like I wasted all the time I had invested in the book.

 

[Judy from Boise]

off topic, but have you read "the charm school" I think it is his best.

 

[adamak]

I was disappointed with Da Vinci Code. It's just so far fetch.

 

[wildviper]

I travel in my car quite a bit to visit clients. So I decided to try a book on CD. The first one I selected was The da Vinci Code. The story was engaging and entertaining. Then I reached the end. I had to check to make sure there were no more CDs left. I even stopped at a book store to read the last page. I couldn't believe that was it...what a disappointment.

One good result of the experience; I am listening to more books on CD.

 

[BeNJeNWaFFLe]

I HATE when I read a whole book, it's going along good, and the ending is just junk. I feel like I wasted my time.

The Key to Midnight by Dean Koontz. I don't even remember what the book was about but I remembered that I was so mad at the ending.

 

[Syrreal]

Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. The whole book was great until the very end when things just happened too conveniently (I won't ruin the book for anyne ) Talk about deus-ex-machina!!

 

[ChrisnSteph]

One that comes to mind is Stephen King's "Rose Madder". If you've ever read it, you probably thought WTH too!

 

[clarabelle]

I travel in my car quite a bit to visit clients. So I decided to try a book on CD. The first one I selected was The da Vinci Code. The story was engaging and entertaining. Then I reached the end. I had to check to make sure there were no more CDs left. I even stopped at a book store to read the last page. I couldn't believe that was it...what a disappointment.

One good result of the experience; I am listening to more books on CD.

My whole family are books on tape freaks! I get mine through a rental program and recordedbooks.com and sometimes I buy them from audioeditions.com. I think they are the best! I often listen while cleaning house.

 

[clh2]

off topic, but have you read "the charm school" I think it is his best.

The Charm School was an awesome book! I loved it!

But to answer the OP's question...the one book that had, for me, a really disappointing ending was The Runaway Jury, by John Grisham. The whole book was going along very nicely, until the end, when they made millions by "selling stock short." I just never understood that. I'm not a stock kind of person, and many people have tried to explain it to me...I JUST DIDN'T GET IT. While I had read several of his books prior to this one, I haven't read any more since then.

 

[Bearvet]

I agree with the Da Vinci Code! I loved the book but felt that the ending was just too far-fetched!! DH didn't feel that way, which surprised me because he's such a stickler for details!

I'm still looking forward to the movie however....

 

[Feralpeg]

That is how I felt about "IT" by Stephen King. It was an incredibly creepy book until you got to the end. I was so disappointed at the lame ending. It felt to me like he just got tired of it and came up with a really bad ending. I wish he'd go back and redo the ending.

 

[Rozzie]

The Horse Whisperer!!! It always seemed to me he just got tired of writing.

 

[Pinnie]

I finished Household Words and when I came to the end, all I could think was "HUH"?

pinnie