Yes!!! I hate when I have to guess what is going to happen next.. but to answer the original question, I would PREFER happy but I don't want that if it doesn't fit in with the rest of the story.darkhuntress wrote:I don't really care what kind of ending the book has, as long as it's not a cliff hanger ending. there is nothing that annoys me more the a cliff hanger ending.
What ending of a book do you prefer
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Re: What ending of a book do you prefer
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Some books kind of dictate that the ending be something other than sunshine & butterflies.
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Certainly a well defined ending. Personally, I don't mind the ending of a book. Scratch that-- I like couples to end on a happy note!
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Otherwise, I like stories which do not conclude, but just stop. Tolkien once wrote an essay about writing fantasy fiction, and he recommended this way of doing a story. Life began long before the story begins, and life will continue on after the story ends.
Some classic novels would have been improved if they had been written that way. Huckleberry Finn, for example, where the plot lines are neatly tied up, in the best Victorian fashion. It would have been better if Twain had just stopped telling the story at some point. Another which could be improved this way is Rudyard Kipling's Kim. Like Huckleberry, a magnificent work, with the glow of genius about it--apart from its conventional ending. It's best to stop reading these novels a chapter or two before the end.
Chekhov once recommended that when you write a short story, when you have finished it, you chop off the beginning and the end.
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