No spoilers, but if you could completely change the ending to any book, which one would you choose?
No spoilers, but if you could completely change the ending to any book, which one would you choose?
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Gone with the wind
Agreed! Gone with the wind…definitely…
Oh, I was going to say that!
Ohh no! Definitely not, it’s the ending that makes it so great.
Predictable
Animal Farm. Things never change!
Errmm…… My minds gone blank??? Lol (I know, I know, how would you even notice ?) I’m going to have a think about this one now…. Hhhmmm ???
Gone girl.
Baby doll
Shutter Island. Then I wouldn’t have had to throw it out the window.
I loved it till the end (and love Lehane generally) – I was just hoping he’d come up with something more unexpected for the ending.
He’s a terrific writer, I think.
Definitely.
The problem with Shutter Island is that it was as plain as the nose on your face from the begining what the ending was 🙁 I was really disappointed
That was my problem, really. I was hoping he’d come up with something unexpected (though in fairness no idea what that might have been!).
Whereas I genuinely didn’t have a clue
One of my favourite books , so excited he is going to be at Harrogate this year !!!
Betsy Freeman Reavley so cool isn’t it ! We will have to go stalking !! Xx
Love Rosamund Lupton ♥️. Afterwards one of my top 10 books ever. Just given it to my mum to read and she is loving it. Love a bit of Author stalking ?
Hahahahaha. A few.
The Ice Twins
The Big Sleep didn’t end like the film so maybe I change that
Not a crime book but definitely Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
Agreed- I’d have the current ending at the beginning and save us all a lot of bother -hehehehehe sorry 😀
I loved it but like I say, !it’s maybe not an appropriate mention on a crime book club.
It’s fine Gail. It is still a book you wished had a different ending!
It would not have the same impact.
Yes but I’ve forgotten which book it was
I know who author is though
Who is the author?
Samantha Hayes
Until You’re Mine or You Belong to Me are the only 2 I can think of
I’ve read 4 and can’t remember what one I was puzzled over the ending
Having upset you all now 🙂 I’d say Tale of Two Cities although I appreciate that there is no other ending really
First time I read it, I kept waiting for the punch line! Yes, even then,at a young age apparently I had set my mind to crime thrillers! After I finished the story, I read it again years later and could enjoy the descriptions and Dicken’s style!
Ok, not crime fiction but : A Suitable Boy
Many, many years ago I read Daphne du Maurier’s Frenchman’s Creek and, due to it being an old copy, had no idea that the last page(s) was/were missing. So I believed there was a happy ending .. when writing the synopsis for class, I had to check a name and borrowed a copy .. to find out the story went on!!! Was devastated!
Gone girl
One or two by Stephen King
Captain Corelli’s Mandolin . After all the misery you have to plod through in the book about the awful war in the mountains, you deserve a happy ending like the film.
Me before you by jojo moyes
I said the same Jane x
Lovely book so wanted a happy ending
I know! 🙁
@Michael Cujo by King. He let the boy die.
Titanic 😀
A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway. There’s a reason why Bradley Cooper throws the book out of the window in Silver Linings Playbook!
The Butterfly Garden and Me Before You
It by Stephen King