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Anyone else have problems with endings?

i.e. You finish a series and are depressed for a few days? Wishing it would just go on forever?

LOTR killed me. Harry Potter, if I ever get around to reading the rest of them, will probably kill me, Narnia did the same, though it was a comforting ending, and so have various other books and TV shows.

What about you folks? Perhaps I'm too attached?

Hahahaha... smaur would be with you.

I usually skip to the end when I first start reading so I know what happens. *is lame* Endings don't bug me. Crappy endings do.

Snoinkus you suck! That just recks everything. I'm in agreement Waffles I get far too attached and am usually depressed for a while ahaha, omg when Harry Potter ends I'll just die *cuts self*

No I am not strange! SHUT UP!!

*is totally normal* Yes, I agree. *nods*

I hate getting to the end because I know the rest of the story won't be told to the reader.

I used to skip to the end but that ruined everything else while I was reading, I've stopped now. Sort of.

I'm always really really tempted just to skip to the end. Sometimes books have ikkle previes of the next one coming out, and I usualy end up reading them.

I've never really got the end of a series though hmm. Thinking about graphic novels, I know it would make me sad when they ended.

You deffinatly aren't to attached. LOTR killed me too. Same with Narnia. Those series get you sucked int them and when you finish you have nothing to do. When you finish a series or a book, I just want to know what else happens to them during their lives.


Jearjioe

Ngh, I hate it when I finish something (it doesn't just have to be a novel - could be a movie or a tv series) and yet I don't feel satisfied... I want to learn more, want the story to carry on.

But then the feeling goes after a day or two, and it's onto the next shiny thing .

As a rule I never skip to the end, but if the book is really horrid or I just have enough of it, I do it. Especially on crime stroies. Don't know why, I just hate crime books.
If the ending is mildly stupid, i end up making my own. -And here goes another hour or so staring at the bedroom wall... No, seriously, I do.

P.S. Narnia is soooo boring. No offence meant to anyone who likes the series.

It doesn't kill me to finish a series. I'm actually a lot like Snoink in that I will often read the end before I get to it, and that I don't read the story purely for the ending so they don't bug me unless they're crappy.

I know why it doesn't kill me to finish a series.

It's because I can read it again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again. THen I'll probably get sick of it for a month or so, but then I'll read it again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again ... and again ...

I dont hate endings at all. I like to finish a story to see how it ends. Then I move on and read another 50 books then I can go back and reread.

I don't like endings. I mean, I can enjoy and appreciate a well-planned and executed ending, but I don't like for books to end. At least not ones I like. It's just too sad.

I was sad when I finished the Narnia books the first time, and reeeally sad the first time I finished the Mark of the Lion series. But I resist change anyway, so there you have it.

Agh! Endings are the worst thing ever invented! You just want the horrible evil that was just conquered to come back so that the story will just keep going on, and on, and on. But I can imagine that after a while the author might run out of interesting things to write about the character, and the series would just end up being stupid, unless they were like the best writer ever! But endings come, and endings go, so eventually I just reread, until I've practically memorized the book(I do that with movies too.)

Endings make me sad...does anyone have a tissue?

the Genius

LOTR killed me. Badly.
Yeah, generally, when I like a series (or even just one book) that's fairly long, I feel quite sad when I get to the end. It's bittersweet.

Yeah, I have trouble with endings. I'm probably the fifth or sixth person that's said this, but LOTR killed me too. I got so depressed after they were over, I just wanted Sauron and all them to come back so the story could keep going.

Huh, I don't remember anything special when I finished LOTR. And I've never read Narnia. But I understand how you feel (I think) Back in middle school and high school I read the Animorphs series. Good series, worst series closer you could possibly have (in my opinion). The last book was really good, until the last 20-50 pages (Don't remember exactly where it started going downhill).

In general endings don't bother me. After all, all good things must come to an end. A story that never has an ending anywhere just gets, dull, no matter what's in it. You just gotta enjoy the ride while it lasts. And think about, would you really care what happens next if nothing ever stops happening? It would be an endless journey in which no one would every really achieves anything. where's the fun in that? Then again, I'm also not the kind of person who enjoys knowing every detail about a person's day to day life. That information I can generally fill in on my oen and don't need to see the character do it. After all, once the story's over, it's over. What more do you really need to read?

As for reading endings, I used to do that on rare occasions. However, the ending made almost no sense without the rest of the book, and so was both almost meaningleass and ruined the book a bit.

However, it's ending my own writings that there's a problem. But, that's not what what this thread's about, so I'll stop here.