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What do you guys think about the ending? Did you like it or not?

Tomislav Mlinac I found the end very disappointing and felt fooled and deceived. If the young man is the author, as usually perceived, than the conclusion is basicall…moreI found the end very disappointing and felt fooled and deceived. If the young man is the author, as usually perceived, than the conclusion is basically 'everything happened the way it happened because I wrote it that way'. I mean, come on! Really?!? If the young man is some personification of God, pretty much the same thing. Nevertheless, I think that Zusak annihilated his own premise and message of the novel. If everything in the book happened because it was written that way (young man said that he already knows the question and the answer because it is written in the papers he gave to Ed) than Ed's choices were not choices. They were simply actions assigned by the author, like to a machine. And the young man said that he wanted to send a message that if someone like Ed can change then everyone else can change as well. But if everything was written, or let's say assigned, than he didn't change by his own choices, and the whole concept goes down.(less)

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