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What is the book?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: neurovore on October 01, 2009, 08:01:27 PM ---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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Wow. That sounds like it's so bad I almost want to read it.
Warden John Marcone:
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there are books that bad?
Aludra:
--- Quote from: neurovore on October 01, 2009, 08:01:27 PM ---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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To be honest, I don't really see the difference between the type of ending you described and the ending of The Giver. There's no explanation in that either it just all goes blank. So would you say The Giver also lacks a climactic ending?
Starbeam:
--- Quote from: Warden John Marcone on October 01, 2009, 08:05:50 PM ---...
there are books that bad?
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Quite a few, and sometimes by pretty good authors. Like Cujo by Stephen King. Dunno bout anyone else, but I thought both the book and movie were absolutely horrible. King himself loves them both, and in On Writing even said he wished he could remember writing it cause it must've been a fun ride.
Warden John Marcone:
--- Quote from: Starbeam on October 01, 2009, 08:13:57 PM ---Quite a few, and sometimes by pretty good authors. Like Cujo by Stephen King. Dunno bout anyone else, but I thought both the book and movie were absolutely horrible. King himself loves them both, and in On Writing even said he wished he could remember writing it cause it must've been a fun ride.
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I thought Cujo was pretty cool.
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