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Disagree with ending?

This could be a tricky topic as we have to be careful not to give away the ending to books that others may be reading or are going to read, It reminds me of when I was in the middle of reading "Cold Mountain", a very good book btw, and I happened to see a review of it in the Washington Post and proceeded to read it. I could hardly believe my eyes, the book critic told the ending of the book. :(
 
Hated the ending...........

This has probably been done before, but I’m going to take a shot at it. Have you spent your precious time reading what you think is a decent or good book and then the ending totally pisses you off? What book or books have you read that has an awful ending?

I’ll start:

I read The Last Time They Met by Anita Shreve. It took me around 2 days to read this book and it seemed like it was a pretty good book, and then at the end something happens that made it seem like the book never really happened. I think you’d have to read it to believe it, but that was mine. What’s yours?
 
A Long Way Down (by Nick Hornby) had a weak ending. I can't say I was angered by what happened, just let down. I still like the book; just think the ending needed work. The same could be said for his previous book, How To Be Good: perfectly fine up until an inconclusive and rushed ending.
 
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier. Interesting until the end when you find out the main character is mentally disturbed and the book you just read was his fantasy life. I think that's just the way it is with lots of classics (assuming this is a classic).
 
jasmine99 said:
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier. Interesting until the end when you find out the main character is mentally disturbed and the book you just read was his fantasy life. I think that's just the way it is with lots of classics (assuming this is a classic).
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I LOVED that ending. Robert Cormier always has depressing endings that you don't expect. He's awesome.
 
claybugg said:
I LOVED that ending. Robert Cormier always has depressing endings that you don't expect. He's awesome.
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I think that's the only book of his I have read. What else has he written? It's nice to know there are people more flexible than me who can appreciate a less than happy ending.
 
jasmine99 said:
I think that's the only book of his I have read. What else has he written? It's nice to know there are people more flexible than me who can appreciate a less than happy ending.
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The Chocolate War is his most popular book and it's a bit better than I Am The Cheese I think.
 
Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay. Schmaltzy crap tacked onto the end that was very anti-climatic.
 
War and Peace Can you really believe that someone like Natasha wou develop into the sort of woman who obsesses about her baby's nappies?
 
My Sister's Keeper by Jodie Picoult. The ending is a real cop out and spoiled the whole book, which wasn't as good as the idea anyway.
 
I don't know if this really qualifies as an "ending", but the last two hundred pages of The Thorn Birds was pretty hard to get through. It's about 560 pages total, so I absolutely had to finish it after having gotten so far. The gist is: everyone dies, everything is taken from everyone who is still alive, and they're all happy anyway, in a quiet way. Not quite what I was looking for.

France: I completely agree! That's another one I had a lot of trouble with. I skipped a lot of pages here and there.
 
The Reluctant God by Pamela Service. It was a fairly enjoyable read about the modern daughter of an Egyptologist meeting the teenaged son of an ancient Egyptian pharaoh. Then at the end they did this stupid explanation about how all gods worshipped by different cultures were the same. It made me so mad because it robbed the Egyptian mythology of its mystic qualities and ruined the entire story. Grr.
 
I have quite a few....

The World According to Garp - John Irving. In here the ending is supplemented by the fact that the last 150 pages are about the deaths of every character in the novel.

The Cirque Du Freak saga (12 books) - Darren Shan. A wonderful series until the ending, which completely ruined the entire setting of the book. Basically, the narrator that you've been following with cheats out his destiny by killing his enemy and himself at the same time. For this, he then suffers in a Lake of Souls and is pulled out back in the past, when the child him is still alive. He is then reformed into a monsterous Little Person who scares himself from ever having the first 11 books ever happen.

A Series of Unfortnate Events series (13 books) - Lemony Snicket. Self-explanatory. The ending is confusing and makes no sense except for the fact that the orphans house the author until he is old enough to document these stories, but never reveals what happens to anyone else in the story.

Books like this almost make me wanna stop reading.
 
jasmine99 said:
I am the Cheese by Robert Cormier. Interesting until the end when you find out the main character is mentally disturbed and the book you just read was his fantasy life. I think that's just the way it is with lots of classics (assuming this is a classic).
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I had to read that for a literature class. I didn't even like reading it up to the end. I forced myself to get through it though because I used our next reading assignment as incentive. Once I finished that I could start on Mississippi Trial, 1955.
 
I second The Lovely Bones. I loved the book...until the ending. It made no sense with the theme of the rest of the book.
 
France said:
War and Peace Can you really believe that someone like Natasha wou develop into the sort of woman who obsesses about her baby's nappies?
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Yes,also i doute the answer would go through France being gone for a while,but i could not resist.

Stephen King leave often an after taste of unfinished.

I know it's a bit stupid but i'm a happy-ending-type of guy,i alway's hate bad ending(even when justified)
 
Sadly, almost anything I've ever read by Michael Crichton. I love his stories, they're so imaginative and well thought out, but the endings always seem rushed and unfinished.
 
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