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A website should exist where we can write to the author and ask why a book ended a certain way. Or, if there are holes in the plot, we can demand an explanation. I'm infuriated at rececntly finishing a real page-turner, only to find the ending was ambiguous - and no one else who has read the book understands
the ending either. Grr.
You're not alone...
http://www.amazon.c...os/ASIN/0749325054/
[egnor, May 13 2001, last modified Oct 04 2004]
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The answer to the question is always "Because that's the
way I ended it." If you need to pursue it further many
authors have web sites and email addresses (as do many
publishers).
Perhaps the author is a realist, real life is rarely
unambiguous. Perhaps you missed something. Is the book
the first part of a series? (For that matter what was the
book?) |
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Yes, I'm not sure why this needs its own site. |
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Popular authors often have a fan community that maintains Web sites, mailing lists, newsgroups, FAQ lists and the like. If the author's works are notoriously ambiguous, there's usually a lot of hypothetical discussion, and anything the author says that might clarify it is usually siezed and repeated. |
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At least, that's true in the sci-fi world, anyway; I'm not sure if fans in other genres are equally tenacious. |
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What were you reading, in particular? |
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The book was just a silly novel - "Cruel Venus" by Susan Lewis. But it kept me turning the pages all night to find out who committed the murder, and then at the end, we still weren't told. |
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My sister then read the book of her own volition, and sent it to me to see if I could figure out what was going on - so she'd missed the point also. I did log on to the publisher's website, but there is no facility for discussing the actual books. |
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Maybe another way to solve problems like this would be to have the library put a "flag" on a particular book, so that the next borrower can finish it then contact the previous borrower for a discussion on plot, ending, etc. |
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I really hate when they don't figure out whodunnit. Like that Jack the Ripper series of books or the Kennedy assassination or... |
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Prominent Lunatic. That sounds like a good name for a band. |
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