~The End...Not Really~

The other day I posted a quote on my FB status. It was...

"My test of a good novel is dreading to begin the last chapter." by Thomas Helm

There have been many books that this has been the case. The last book I read it was NOT the case.

I actually could not WAIT to start that last chapter. Not because it was a horrid book and I couldn't wait until it was over...if it was not a good book I wouldn't have even gotten close to the last chapter, I would have stopped reading well before that.

I remember when I was a freshmen in high school our assignment was to read 'Wuthering Heights'. I could NOT get past past the 1st chapter. Obviously it wasn't because it is an awful book, I just could not get into it. I reread the pages I had already read, I guess I was thinking maybe it would work this time if I restarted the book. I did this several times! My mom ended up writing a note to my teacher excusing me of reading it. They both knew I was a reader, so there was no thoughts on me just not wanting to do the work. To this day I have not picked up that book to read it. I have thought about it. But I am very intimidated by that book. That's silly, but true.

I could not wait to get to the last chapter because I wanted to see what happened to the main character. She built me up..and then HUGELY let me down. HUGE. MASSIVE. KER-PLUNK!

The book I finished yesterday was 'The Almost Noon' by Alice Sebold. (This is the same author who wrote 'The Lovely Bones') I seen it for $5 at Walmart. I thought 'The Lovely Bones' was a GREAT book. So DUH!..this would be a great book too. NOT!

This book was...Insane. Morbid. Freaky. Odd. She HAD to have been in a very dark state of mind while writing this. I felt as I was going a little crazy as I was reading it. It still gives me the willies..

I read this whole book. It was like a train wreck. I couldn't look away. I couldn't wait for the last chapter. I HAD to see what happened to this obvious mentally-ill character.

The book DIDN'T end!

Well, that's not completely true. Literally it ended. As in there were NO more pages to read. Nada. Zip. Zilch. I was LIVID!!!

I thought okay on the next page there will be the "2 years later...". NOPE. NOTHING. I kept looking, thinking I was missing something. I was missing something alright...A FINALE. UGGGHHHHH. I really really dislike that.

I looked to see if there was a 'sequel'. Nope. Just a bunch of reviews saying that this was a horrible waste of time....Tell me something I didn't know.

Anyone have any good suggestions for a GOOOOOD read to totally get my mind off of this crazified novel????