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I hate unhappy endings. This rant/essay/whatever contains a spoiler for the end of the Uglies serise by Scott Westerfeld, and for the book I just finished which will remain unnamed and unspoiled if you don't already know what it is.

I want happy endings. I don't care if it's trite. I don't care if it's unreal. I want happy endings.

Yes, something can be good without it. There are MANY wonderful thing out there...well made, beautiful, with unhappy endings. And I will occasionally go and enjoy them despite them having unhappy endings (Hello, Tokyo Babylon)

But I hate reading something, and becoming involved in it, to get a sudden pointless, unhappy ending. I just slugged through a whole 800+ page book, only to have the romance end with the male being killed, rather pointlessly. Not only did it ruin the end for me, it ruined the whole trilogy for me. And now I feel like crap. The same thing happened in Uglies, although in that the death was even MORE pointless. At least this guy went out a hero.

I read to escape. This world has enough unhappy endings. I want my crack and romance and ridiculously happy endings.That's what fiction is for for me. And there's nothing wrong with it not being that for anyone else, but I'll keep my happy fluff thanks. Now I'm off to be FUCKING MESIRABLE.

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Me, too, darling.

I like angst as much as the next person, but I'd rather keep the CLAMP with the CLAMP and everything else be unrealistic and Disney. I get enough bs from CLAMP, after all. :/

I just don't understand...the more I think about it, the more horrid I realized the ending was all around, and why would you want that for your characters?

Exactly how I feel. In an old interview with CLAMP, they said the reason they can let so many characters die is because "they died protecting the people they care for or defending their ideals," or something like that. Basically, they implied they were happy.

Who am I to argue? It's their characters... sigh. :/

Sometimes I see clamp's choice, sometimes I'm like "..."

You have to have a balance. I think, in general, JK Rowling dealt well with killing off people who a) Had emotinal impact and B) a realistic amount for a war, without leaving you with a complete downer at the end. Tokyo Babylon...not so much, althought we'll have to see (*cough*hopefully*cough*) how X ends but like...there are character in X who have taken way too much on their own (KEICHI D:)

My mom's poltical news just had a bunny fight being broken up by a bunch of chickens.

Happy/Unhappy endings are meant to evoke a response from the reader/watcher/whatever. Perhaps the author's intent was to make you feel the way you did once you finished.

I know a lot of the stuff I come up with has unhappy endings because in my own little head, the world doesn't always work out the way I want to, and thus it is reflected in my work.

Most creative people I know/talk to are just expressing the world as they know it.

Like I said, I totally understand WHY they do it. I just don't enjoy it. Which is why, even thought something like Atonement is probably hands down a better books then say, "The highlander's bride" or whatever romance novel happens to be laying in my house, I'll read the romance novel over Atonement.

I read, and watch to escape. I don't want to be made miserable.

I don't care if it was her intent (And I'm sure she did), I still didn't enjoy it.

Perhaps there is a website you could go to that doesn't spoil the book you want to read and it just says whether or not it has a happy or a sad ending.

I think after this I have Julia trained to let me know. It's not even a matter of not reading it, there's things I'll judge a non-happy ending is worht reading it. That just...wasn't one. It was suppose to be happy fluff feel good YA.