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[penguinfaery]

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.

Comments

[donotttrust.livejournal.com]

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.

[penguinfaery.livejournal.com]

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.