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SheilaT

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3. I read it a while back

Reply to raccoon (Original post)

Wed Mar 20, 2013, 01:40 PM

Mar 2013

and thought it was overrated. Like you I thought it started out well but ended poorly.

There are an awful lot of books out there like that any more, and I just don't understand why.

The most egregious example, in my opinion, was "Cold Mountain". Up to the very last chapter it was excellent, with wonderful language that I just loved. The final chapter? Excuse me, I absolutely did not by that ending. I don't see real people behaving like that.

So I wish I knew why so many books do stuff like that. Are the writers using some sort of novel-writing software that tells them they must absolutely have some kind of a twist at the end? Do the editors demand it? Are the writers so lacking in imagination they can't come up with something better?

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Anyone read THE MEMORY KEEPER'S DAUGHTER? Started off good POSSIBLE SPOILERS [View all] raccoon Mar 2013 OP

Didn't read the book but Ineeda Mar 2013 #1

Yes, it is a favorite of mine libodem Mar 2013 #2

I read it a while back SheilaT Mar 2013 #3