Jackie says, “I love books with complicated plots and unexpected endings. What is your favourite book with a fantastic twist at the end?”
So, today’s question is in two parts.
1. Do YOU like books with complicated plots and unexpected endings?
I love books with complicated plots and unexpected endings!
2. What book with a surprise ending is your favorite? Or your least favorite?
I suppose my least favorite would be Dan Brown’s The DaVinci Code. I did like the ideas it represented, but the writing style combined with the chapter-to-chapter plot twists left me feeling manipulated and rather mulish.
One of my favorites doesn’t really have a surprise ending as a surprise middle! It’s Sarah Waters’ Fingersmith. I can’t tell you how much I love-love-love this book! It’s suspenseful, romantic, mysterious, sexy, has loads of historical details, very in-depth characters, an extremely intricate and well-spun plot, loads of twists and turns and I adore it so much I’m gushing. :)
Another favorite of mine is Chuck Palahniuk’s Invisible Monsters. I don’t really know how to describe it. It’s a dark comedy, I suppose, with fashion and models, and many, many unexpected twists and turns. I’ve heard that they want to make a movie of it, but I don’t really see how a film could do the book justice. Many of the twists work simply because it’s a book.
So, what about you? Do you like twists and turns and surprises in your reads?
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I personally enjoyed Da Vinci code for its entertainment value and working out the mystery, but it was rather overdramatic and needlessly twisty I agree
I’ll definitely check out that Palahniuk book, I love his writing style and the supreme amounts of glee his twists evoke in me =D
The Da Vinci Code was awful. It was meant to persuade people about these codes that I believe are lies. It’s disrespectful and inconsiderate to us Christians.
I too have a surprise middle than a surprise ending.
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I didn’t enjoy the book simply because of the writing style. I thought the ideas represented in the book were interesting and that the author showed some spunk in going there. I remember the book was part of quite a few interesting discussions in my western philosophy class when it came out. I didn’t read it until years later, though. I wonder if I would have enjoyed it more had a more talented writer written it. It seemed too much like a serial novel than anything. I would have loved a little more exposition and historical detail.