Have You Ever Predicted a Book's Ending?

[moderntimes]

Ha. I made the mistake of reading "Da Vinci Code" all the way through, despite his tirade against the Roman Catholic Church and the very placid and harmless Opus Dei organization. The book was as bad as I feared halfway through. And of course I've never read another book of his since.

[Spud]

I do question my sanity when I try to remember why I ever read more than one of his books ....

[Jesska6029]

I read a lot of mysteries. I always try to predict the ending. I feel satisfied when I guess an ending that I really wasn't sure about. I really do not like when I the ending is too obvious. I feel cheated in a way.

[Ama Idim]

I have and still do. Sometimes, I get it right, other times, it's wrong or close. I usually feel satisfied knowing that the author and I are viewing from a common perspective.

[ebethina]

That's a real tricky question. With most romance books you know what is going to happen in the end so I try to stay away from those because most of the time they are unrealistic. However there are some books that you know what is going to happen but they do a good job of a lot of twists to make you keep reading and then you get mad because you are wondering why it's taking so long. Than at the end it's like a phew feeling. So I guess it just depends on the story.

[AliceofX]

I usually feel a little thrill when I can say, "I knew it!" when my predictions come through. That said, it's always more exciting when a book blows you away with something you never saw coming. I guess that's why I loved Mockingjay so much because it didn't go the typical "the bad guys were defeated and they all lived happily ever after" route.

And like others have said, in mysteries it's especially disappointing when you can see the reveal from a mile away. Often you just have to ask yourself, "What is the last person you would suspect?" and that's usually your villain. That's why I think Scream is such an interesting film because basically the plot twist there is that the most obvious suspect is the true killer. Really tells a lot about modern storytelling.

[Ubheeram Nina]

I have once but i was wronged. That was the twist in the story. To make you think why that person committed the murder?

[Facennagoss]

I predict the end of everything and nearly always get it right! That’s why I loved Girl on the Train so much - I had no idea!

[ObsessedBookNerd]

I read a lot so I have predicted endings to books many times & most of the times I’m okay with it. It usually just makes since like the story was leading up to that ending. Sometimes though you can tell the author is going to go completely left field when reading & you know it’s going to end a certain way but it sometimes makes no sense & doesn’t fit.

[Bluebird03]

Yes, especially in mysteries. I love to guess who did it and their motive. Still love the book

[_Delly_01]

Yes. Hurt tried to hide what the awful thing was the protagonist experienced from the first page, and who did it to them. I guessed the 'what' a third of the way in, and the 'who' at exactly 67% on my Kindle. I also guessed what the 'plot twist' would be at the very end when it all came to light. Tabitha Suzuma is a very melancholy writer, and once you've read Forbidden, her books are easy to predict because she carries the same tone throughout all of her novels. But the writing is beautiful, and the character development is written with incredible empathy. I admire her as a writer.

[SunVixen]

I often predict the end of the books. Once I predicted the content of the next book in the series.
When I read “The Legacy” by Robert Salvatore, I immediately told my father (who had read this book before me) that Catti-brie would go looking for Drizzt in the Underdark. In the next book, she really went to the Underdark to look for Drizzt.

[Aniza Butt]

They are usually different from my guess.

[finebunchofnothing]

Dan Brown has a gift of writing ~500 pages of gold and 20 (last) pages of rubbish, that's why I could guess how most of his books would end. I can also make pretty good predictions about how romantic books will end, but I guess that's something many people can do. You know, like saying "these two will end up together" or "she'll certainly dump this guy for that guy" from the first moment that you meet the characters.

[jgrimshaw]

Well, as I’ve learned, every idea has been done at least once. It’s pretty easy to predict most books and movies; it can be a bit frustrating reading the characters run around in circles when you know the answers, but as long there are original themes and thought out characters, I don’t think it takes much away. Now, if the plot is completely different from how I expected it, with an amazingly done plot twist, it’s a pleasing surprise.