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I can’t finish a book satisfied, can I?

I don’t know how many times I’ve said this in the last few posts, but I’ve been reading a lot lately. It’s insane. I’ve also mentioned once or twice that I’m not good at writing endings. Apparently, I’m no good reading them either.

Every time I finish a book, my stomach starts feeling weird because I’m just that annoyed. It doesn’t even need to be a good book for me to be irritated. For some reason, I find it so hard to deal with the fact that I’m not going to know what happens next, I’m never going to know what happens next, and that everything’s just gone. All the characters will just suddenly disappear, and I’m never going to know how things turned out. It’s a stupid reason to be annoyed because you can never really end a story. There’s always going to be something that happens after. Unless, of course, all the characters died. Not even then – how are their families and friends going to deal with the death? Even if the entire world exploded, it would probably have to cause some kind of universal disturbance.

No, you can’t really end a book. That doesn’t make it any easier to sleep when you accidentally finish a book in the middle of the night and realize your stomach’s hurting too much for you to go sleep. I thought it would make it easier to sleep, but it turned out to be a terrible idea. Next time I do some late-night reading, I’ll just make sure I don’t finish it. It won’t matter if I’m one chapter, one sentence or one word away from finishing it, I just can’t ever let myself end a book before sleeping.

Wish I felt the same way about books, too, but unfortunately i’m not much of a bookworm. Usually after reading a book, I just end up closing it and moving on if you know what I mean. Haha. Wish I read more, though, coz it would be nice to broaden my vocabulary even more :p

BTW I love how simple and neat your layout is! <3

Comment by Gel • May 18, 2011 • 5:37 pm

It’s a little strange to me when you say you can’t end a book as I can’t even start one! I’ve always wanted to write a book. I’ve got all these stories in my head but whenever I try to pen them down, they simply vanished.

But I think I agree that writing an ending isn’t as easy as thought. You’re right, things don’t simply end. There will always be something after that. I always feel that way whenever I watch film endings. I would be like, “what’s going to happen next?”

Comment by Kitty • May 18, 2011 • 8:48 pm

I can’t end a book either. I end up sleeping 4am because of my fave book. :D
and I agree. Writing an ending is like….GAHH.

Comment by Clauie • May 21, 2011 • 7:03 pm

I feel the same way…to some extent. It depends on the book. For instance, I don’t think the Harry Potter series could have ended in any way that would have completely satisfied me. I wasn’t that unhappy with the ending, but it wasn’t what I wanted. Really, I don’t know what I did want. I think what I did want was for it not to end at all, but of course, that couldn’t happen.

It’s not that I care what else happens to the characters. There are just some books I love to much to let go. That’s why I reread certain books after a few years.

Comment by Gabi • May 22, 2011 • 10:11 am

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