30 Day Book Challenge - Day 30
30. The End: do you prefer everything tied up or to be able to 'make up your own mind'? What is the worst ending to a book you have read? And the best? (careful, spoiler tags!)
This is an easy question to answer (for me personally, anyway). I definitely prefer to be able to make up my own mind about story endings, instead of having it all spelled out for me and tied up in a nice pretty bow (like with most epilogues in stories - I find it really quite irritating really. I just finished reading a series that I really enjoyed and then there was a short, 3 or so page Epilogue that tied it all up in a shiny, happy, everything's-going-to-be-okay. Well, maybe not totally okay, but...pretty much.
That's why in the stories I write I like to leave it to the readers to make up their own mind as to what will happen to the characters next and use their imagination.
The worst ending I can think of involves an epilogue.
(I think the worst endings to a book usually involve epilogues). And the worst ending is to the Harry Potter Series. If you haven't read the Harry Potter series and don't know the ending to the Deathly Hallows, don't read below (by clicking 'read more') where there is spoilers and I mention what happens at the very end!
The best ending to a book? I'd have to say The Dark Tower (before the epilogue happens, when Stephen King I think would rather have ended the book instead of tacking on the sappy (but still nice) epilogue at the end. I won't spoil what happens in it, since it's...the best ending. That's all I'm going to say about that. To say any more would spoil it!
When Harry and Ginny, years later, marry and have lots of kids. I know lots of fans love that, but I was like, blah, how BORING. But I guess you have to end a series somehow, especially one fraught with so much peril and destruction and death. It must have been difficult for JK Rowling to end the story after all the stories, and end it satisfactorially for herself AND all the Harry Potter fans.
This is an easy question to answer (for me personally, anyway). I definitely prefer to be able to make up my own mind about story endings, instead of having it all spelled out for me and tied up in a nice pretty bow (like with most epilogues in stories - I find it really quite irritating really. I just finished reading a series that I really enjoyed and then there was a short, 3 or so page Epilogue that tied it all up in a shiny, happy, everything's-going-to-be-okay. Well, maybe not totally okay, but...pretty much.
That's why in the stories I write I like to leave it to the readers to make up their own mind as to what will happen to the characters next and use their imagination.
The worst ending I can think of involves an epilogue.
(I think the worst endings to a book usually involve epilogues). And the worst ending is to the Harry Potter Series. If you haven't read the Harry Potter series and don't know the ending to the Deathly Hallows, don't read below (by clicking 'read more') where there is spoilers and I mention what happens at the very end!
The best ending to a book? I'd have to say The Dark Tower (before the epilogue happens, when Stephen King I think would rather have ended the book instead of tacking on the sappy (but still nice) epilogue at the end. I won't spoil what happens in it, since it's...the best ending. That's all I'm going to say about that. To say any more would spoil it!
When Harry and Ginny, years later, marry and have lots of kids. I know lots of fans love that, but I was like, blah, how BORING. But I guess you have to end a series somehow, especially one fraught with so much peril and destruction and death. It must have been difficult for JK Rowling to end the story after all the stories, and end it satisfactorially for herself AND all the Harry Potter fans.
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