If you look up some of the ebook romance or erotica publishers, you'll see that many of them require a happily ever after ending or at least a happily for now ending from their authors (you can see this by looking at their submissions requirements). So you can imagine readers of current romance, at least, apparently pretty strongly want happy endings. Personally, I don't like knowing how a book ends, but I HAVE found over the last few years I'm having a tougher time dealing with endings that unexpectedly leave me feeling sort of, well, grieving. There's an SPN fan fiction, one that's over 100,000 words, and the authors didn't warn at all for the ending (not that I expect it or anything, but I do know in SPN fandom a lot of authors give fairly specific warnings for stuff), which was WAY less than happy, and in fact near the end you think everything is going to end fine just before it all goes completely and utterly to shit. It took me days to stop thinking about it and really, just being very upset by it. I don't think the author owed me anything different, but I do felt the shock of the ending was an intentional thing on the authors' part. Lately I read Suzanne Collins YA series and was very anxious about the ending as I got closer to it. It was all I could do not to check the end of the final book, just to be sure I wouldn't be crying in my beer:) Still don't normally check, though - I do prefer the anticipation and normally really dislike having the ending disclosed to me beforehand. I just seem to be getting more sensitive.
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Date: 2011-01-31 02:33 am (UTC)Personally, I don't like knowing how a book ends, but I HAVE found over the last few years I'm having a tougher time dealing with endings that unexpectedly leave me feeling sort of, well, grieving. There's an SPN fan fiction, one that's over 100,000 words, and the authors didn't warn at all for the ending (not that I expect it or anything, but I do know in SPN fandom a lot of authors give fairly specific warnings for stuff), which was WAY less than happy, and in fact near the end you think everything is going to end fine just before it all goes completely and utterly to shit. It took me days to stop thinking about it and really, just being very upset by it. I don't think the author owed me anything different, but I do felt the shock of the ending was an intentional thing on the authors' part.
Lately I read Suzanne Collins YA series and was very anxious about the ending as I got closer to it. It was all I could do not to check the end of the final book, just to be sure I wouldn't be crying in my beer:)
Still don't normally check, though - I do prefer the anticipation and normally really dislike having the ending disclosed to me beforehand. I just seem to be getting more sensitive.