Hahaha, yeah, I think this was a common complaint - the epilogue. PLUS, I couldn't keep track of the characters! Why oh why did they name them after Harry's dead parents?
Durrr, but that's what the end was all about! Naming the kids after dead characters! XD
I just finished The Book; I can certainly imagine that the epilogue is a source of consternation for many, but I haven't gone about reading opinions yet!
One moment they're all collapsed together post-battle, we have an inkling that maybe understanding and relations will improve, then back to business as usual.
Sort of like real life.
That actually reminds me of an article I read years ago, a "one year later" follow-up piece on the first World Trade Center bombing. An interviewed person was saying how right after the bombing & evacuation lots of people who worked there were saying how they were going to keep in touch, how this experience was going to change their lives, how they were going to all have this bond because of their shared trauma, and all that sort of stuff - but how all that pretty much faded in a few weeks as things got back to normal.
Fact is, most traumatic events don't change most people's lives as much as you think they would.
And to some extent, that's good - you're more likely to get post-traumatic stress disorder as a long-term effect from trauma than you are to get lifelong friends.
Still, that doesn't mean that we want to read about it! Epilogues are generally about making with the warm fuzzies, after all.
you're more likely to get post-traumatic stress disorder as a long-term effect from trauma than you are to get lifelong friends.
Unfortunately far too true
Epilogues are generally about making with the warm fuzzies
I dunno, I always feel kind of cheated when I read a book or watch a movie that has a certain negative dramatic mood to it, and at the very end they tack on a happy ending; IMHO sort of trivializes everything that came before it in most cases.
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I just finished The Book; I can certainly imagine that the epilogue is a source of consternation for many, but I haven't gone about reading opinions yet!
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Sort of like real life.
That actually reminds me of an article I read years ago, a "one year later" follow-up piece on the first World Trade Center bombing. An interviewed person was saying how right after the bombing & evacuation lots of people who worked there were saying how they were going to keep in touch, how this experience was going to change their lives, how they were going to all have this bond because of their shared trauma, and all that sort of stuff - but how all that pretty much faded in a few weeks as things got back to normal.
Fact is, most traumatic events don't change most people's lives as much as you think they would.
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Still, that doesn't mean that we want to read about it! Epilogues are generally about making with the warm fuzzies, after all.
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Unfortunately far too true
Epilogues are generally about making with the warm fuzzies
I dunno, I always feel kind of cheated when I read a book or watch a movie that has a certain negative dramatic mood to it, and at the very end they tack on a happy ending; IMHO sort of trivializes everything that came before it in most cases.
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