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Fix This Ending: The Lovely Bones

Dec 15, 2010 16:02

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.

( Cut due to spoilers and some talk of sexual activity and rape )

lets fix this ending!, theme days, kill it with fire, author last names m-s, sex scene failure

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cyranothe2nd December 16 2010, 04:32:55 UTC

Um, WTEVERLOVINGF? I have never read that book (because it is a depressing book about a dead kid and who needs that?) and now I never will.

theartichoke December 16 2010, 05:45:16 UTC

I have never read that book (because it is a depressing book about a dead kid and who needs that?)

That's always how I've felt about this book and that's why I've never read it. I mean, I love sad stories sometimes, but this just sounds like torture.

spooky_miss December 16 2010, 17:19:49 UTC

Luckily its a pretty quick read, so although it is really sad, you're not reading it for long! :)

pokegirl0251 December 17 2010, 02:32:32 UTC

Same feelings here, when I heard the concept I was hoping that the killer would get at least in trouble but, as a friend of mine gave me a play by play as she read, I was just turned off. After reading about a dozen sad books in college (One of my professors was really into the whole realistic depressing ending thing in some books, example, Beat the Turtle Drum)I kind of avoid stories like this.

Seriously, wouldn't have been easier if she came to him in a dream and they did it in the dream and he told Ruth about it?

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bobbybob87 December 16 2010, 08:41:03 UTC

I love this book, apart from the ending. It always seems to me like the author lost her way in writing it.

lots42 December 16 2010, 10:39:18 UTC

Lord, even 'Supernatural' got this part 'right'. Due to some crazed contrivance of plot, the body-hopping demon of the week has to have sex with one of the boys. She uses the body of a girl who really, really wanted to bone 'em anyway.

future_guardian December 16 2010, 14:37:36 UTC

Weird/awesome that someone said this book, because I would change the very very ending. So, the way it's written is all members of her family and her friends live happily ever after without her. I would change it to her thinking "Okay, I've completed my unfinished business. I'll be leaving you all now" followed by The End. At least that way she acts like I'd think a literary fiction ghost-character would act (realistic, believable), instead of sounding like the author wanted a happy ending, couldn't think of a happy ending, realized she was on a tight deadline, wrote a forced happy ending montage, called it a day.

*Fizz* jarredgoddess December 16 2010, 17:52:37 UTC

I loved the beginning of the book; it was different, it was engrossing, it totally hooked and reeled me in. But after that...it just was a steady progression downwards. It was like the author used up everything in the beginning and had nothing left to make the REST of the story good.

The ending was just a final nail in the coffin for me.