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Philliph:
With the most uneventful ending you have ever read?

For me it was every book in the Wind On Fire Trilogy.

...This isn't a hate thread or anything, i just want to know if they have anything in common so future authors who view this thread don't make the same mistakes.

But i cant remember the ending to those books. just that it was extremely anticlimactic.

This thread was inspired by the movie The Forbidden Warrior.

Warden John Marcone:
Uneventful end?  HP 4&5

Starbeam:

--- Quote from: Warden John Marcone on October 01, 2009, 07:22:22 PM ---Uneventful end?  HP 4&5

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I don't think I'd say they were really uneventful.  Not like some books.  The most anticlimactic and obvious book ending I've read in a long time has got to be Da Vinci Code.  The entire book tries to steer you away from the obvious, which is there almost instantly, and is just no surprise in any way when it's revealed.  The Inheritance books are pretty bad, too.  Especially if you've read LotR or seen Star Wars, you can pretty much guess what'll happen.  And know that it will also be deus ex machina.  Same with the end of the Terry Goodkind series.

Aludra:
Every book I can think of that I've read had some kind of final climactic event, wether or not it was predictable.  Except maybe F Scott Fitzgerald's stuff.  He tends to have much more plod-along very realistic to life type stories with youthful vibrant people who become old and so un-noteworthy as to stop writing about their terrible lives.

Which isn't to say I don't like his books, because sometimes I just want a change of pace and I enjoy his writing.

the neurovore of Zur-En-Aargh:
Probably Caleb Carr's truly terrible Killing Time.

Spoilering this in case anyone cares:
(click to show/hide)This book has a detective who is picked up by a femme fatale who turns out to be the sister of a brilliant Lex Luthor-type scientist in a rather nasty future world, who goes around setting up scientific hoaxes like planting human skeletens in hundred-million-year-old geological deposits (which for some unaccountable reason everyone believes) just in order to laugh at the people he fools, and waves off any suggestions that he might help with this nasty future world's growing  bunch of problems with "Oh, don't bother me now, one day i'll invent time travel and go back and fix it all".

And at the end; he does. Suddenly the world is nice. No explanation as to what it was the scientist did to fix it. Book over.

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