Fix This Ending: The Lovely Bones

[psychedeliceyes]

I'm not in such a creative mood and even if I was, I would have no desire to write this ending myself. The Lovely Bones ending was so gratutitous and so out of nowhere than a page with a troll face captioned "and then Susie woke up in her bed and it was all just a dream" would have been less jarring.

Comments

[simon_alexander]

I read this book back in my junior year of high school, and while most of it wasn't bad (I will unashamedly admit that it made my eyes tear up in some places), that part just...threw me right out. There is so much wrong there.

Plus the way the Harvey gets it is kind of cheap :/

[psychedeliceyes]

I won't lie, I loved the concept of the book and a lot of it did make me want to give people in my family big hugs, but the ending just... ruinined it. I can't even take the book seriously now.

[kniferomance]

Never read the book, but I knew about the ending from Wikipedia. I feel like the author was trolling her readers.

[psychedeliceyes]

I like to think that SMeyer was trolling too.

In fact, I like to think that most failure is due to trolling.

[kniferomance]

Meyer is probably the trolliest troll.

[psychedeliceyes]

She probably laughs as she reads comments from anti-fans. And I bet she's a fan of Growing Up Cullen.

[psychedeliceyes]

<3

[greenconverses]

THANK YOU. I really couldn't stand this book, and that scene is a big part of the reason.

[in_excelsis_dea]

Wait...what? Seriously? THAT is how they end it?

Damn, this book has been on my reading list for years and well, now I'm not feeling guilty that I haven't gotten around to it. The premise sounded great, but man. I can't think of a worse ending, especially since other books by the author seem to be sound.