Bisky's Twitterling's Scribbles! discussion

Is there a book, or a series you would change?

Did an ending leave you unsatisfied?

What would you do differently?

I'm going to get screamed at for saying this, but the ending to the third Hunger Games :x

DON'T YOU DARE! The movie isn't out yet ;-;

I just can't read things in present tense like that. It's uncomfortable for my brain o___o

Lol it's uncomfortable for my brain to write in present tense xp

The end of the Hunger Games was bad, but the end of the Divergent trilogy was worse. Talk about a boring mangled mess.

I tried reading Divergent, I found her thoughts soooo boring. I felt terrible I didn't like it, I thought the idea was cool.

*Waits for the movie*

I'm right there with you @Nicole. I even came up with a whole alternate ending in my head (view spoiler)[ How many times can you have a character recover in the hospital in one book. (hide spoiler)]

I agree with both of these. Hunger Games was a real let down. And Divergent, don't get me started. Why, why, why?

Haha riiiight David?

Nice one Bryan!

totally agree with the endings on the hunger games and divergent trilogies. It's really to bad both of these had to be series. As stand alone books they would have been classics.

anyone want to change the end of Deathly Hallows??

hahaha Bryan!

OK, here's a completely random one:

I just finished reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James. Yes, the classic.

So, the ending is completely abrupt, almost as bad as Bryan's post.

It starts off as a group of people saying, "We want to hear a scary story!" And then a writer sends off for a supposedly true life story he transcribed from a woman who was a nursemaid to two children haunted by ghosts. Then rest of the book was her story. But it's like he ended a paragraph because he got called away, and then never came back to it. First, he never wraps up the introductory part with the ghost-story-asking people. But second and worse, the story just ENDS. A shocking thing happens and it's done.

Honestly, at first, I thought that because it was free on Kindle, they hadn't sent me the entire story and I needed to pay for the rest. I had to go look up the wiki page just to see the plot and confirm it was done.

Anyway. Long ramble. No one else may have read it, but it really bugged me. This is a classic?? C'mon.

I know I've brought this up on books that disappointed me threads before, but THE STAND by Stephen King. It has always and I guess always will, annoyed the hell out of me that such a fantastic book has such a terrible anticlimactic end. The entire book leads you up to the MCs "making their stand" and then...they don't really make a stand at all and someone else stops the bad guy. GRR!! I'd revamp the whole end so that they do in fact make a stand and it is they who discover what Trashcan is keeping and take it to use against Flagg, sacrificing themselves to save their people. Fixed. You're welcome.

Turn of the Screw is one of the only books to have freaked me out afterwards. I think the abrupt ending was to make you think about it. I think the author left it open because of the suggestions of pedophillia. Which I think was the only way they could have done it in those days.

Gone With The Wind.
As if, after alllll that storytelling, Ms. Mitchell wanted to just end it.
Pfff.