Books you never quite understood

[Ifeyinwa]

Any books you never got the ending too?
Those in the know can help, those in the state of confusion.
For instance i did not understand the beach by alex garland

i did not understand the end - who were the people cutting him? And why didnt anybody help him until, the end? And i thought Daffy Duck was in his imagination, but how come Jed saw him too? And why was everyone going crazy, hash does not make you hallucinate.

 

[novella]

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro. The protagonist got crazier and crazier as the novel progressed, and it wasn't even clear at the end what country he was in--or had ever been in--or whether anything that he had said had any truth to it. The whole thing collapsed. It was such a weird, disjointed book. I don't understand what he's about at all.

Now he has a new one out, Never Let Me Go, and I'm thinking, based on the reviews, that it has some equally confusing territory.

 

[«FickleMinded»]

--The Lord Of The Rings,I'm always confused everytime I read this book.

 

[jenn]

song of solomon by toni morrison. while i really enjoyed the language and the characters, some of the plot eludes me and i am unsure of milkman's fate at the end. and if he did die, why?

 

[Geenh]

A Clockwork Orange


Whew.......

 

[Wolhay]

A Clockwork Orange


Whew.......

One of the editions that I've read even had translations of the words in the back of the book. Don't think I noticed it until halfway into the book.

Burgess supposedly wanted the readers to sit with russian dictionaries to get a better understanding of the words however.

 

[NessaC]

Anything by Faulkner -- I typically never have any problems with dialects, but for some reason I read the first 40 pages of As I Lay Dying and still have no clue what the book is about, lol. Same with The Sound and The Fury, tried it, with some luck, but still....I gave up.