Good books with unsatisfactory endings

[007fair]

Lord of the Rings. Thousands of good pages build up to "And they all sailed away in a boat"

Disagree! The Hollywood ending would have been just after the ring was destroyed. But I liked the fact Tolkien tied up all the loose ends and what happened to who etc. To get the sailing away in a boat end you would have to have read the silmarilion

Worst 'cop out' ending I have read My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult (Book group read - not my choice) They changed the ending for the film which her fans were up in arms about but it was much more realistic

 

[007fair]

Aaaaagh! Nooooh!

ultimate geek? Actually I couldn't read it but for a while i had a long drive to work and so rented it on tape and listened to it that way Tedious stuff on the whole but makes the ending of LoTR more undestandable

 

[GrumpyGregry]

Jane Eyre.

 

[User482]

Lord of the Rings. Thousands of good pages build up to "And they all sailed away in a boat"

But the boat thing was just a metaphor for the afterlife (hence the reference to the "Grey Havens"). I much preferred the ending in the book to the film, where, having defeated Sauron, they then had to reclaim the Shire from Saruman.

I also think Captain Corelli had a good ending - and not quite as sad as some suggest.