Truth.Heppenfeph said:Harry potter comes to mind. Mainly the 7th book.Harry should have died. It would have made a lot more sense and that's where it was heading anyway. Than the writer chickens out
Try reading the Soldier Son Trilogy.. that ending will really mess up the perception of your question.shwnbob said:I've noticed that most books end with a happy ending and I've got to ask this: If the main character died at the end would the book be better? Hear me out. Let's say your reading a book and you grow really attached to the character and you want them to leave happy. Then at the end they win or don't win, I don't know, and then they die. I honestly think that would make the book better because it makes the book dramatic, sad and plus it's a twist ending. So what do you all think? Killing off people in books, awesome or not?
Or Cain who's too smart and cowardly to die.ReincarnatedFTP said:You should read the Black Library books for 40k and WH Fantasy.
Normally half of the main characters who have been given background and personalities are wasted before you're 2/3rds through the book.
They usually end with the Imperium/Empire "winning" in the sense that they're alive to get killed off in the sequel and most of what they cared for is dead.
Unless you're Gaunt. Then you're just too badass to die.
I hated the harry potter books ending, it made it seems so "yay everyones happy and love each other very much and live happily ever after" which is not fitting with the tone of the rest of the book.D-Mic said:Truth.Heppenfeph said:Harry potter comes to mind. Mainly the 7th book.Harry should have died. It would have made a lot more sense and that's where it was heading anyway. Than the writer chickens out
I love when the main character dies at the end, especially if it's not built up and it comes as a surprise. It adds a lot of emotional punch.
I read one like that as well. Did the same thing, and it fit perfectly with how I imagined it to end. I still got a shock then they were killed, though.Hubilub said:Depends if the book is good or not. I read a book (Which I can't say the name of, because that would spoil the entire fucking thing) that did it, and it was really, really good.
Well, it's really only the same person who's brought back as a ghola for thousands of years, unless you're referring to the several preborn characters' memories.Hugh Mann said:Anybody read the Dune series? People die by the droves and they just keep coming back, sometimes exactly the same, and sometimes in crazy new bodies
Yeah Idaho a billion times over once with cool robot eyes, then the Baron possesses Paul's sister, then Scytale comes back later on in the original series, Miles Teg comes back as a little kid and is killed again, and then towards the end pretty much every character gets a ghola bodyMethos12 said:Actually, I think he's referring to old books and the whole Ghola thing with certain swordsman.Delock said:I'm pretty sure he's talking about the newer stuff by the son. Seriously, if you establish any form of connection or preference for a character THEY WILL DIE. Except for one person I think. I couldn't go on after awhile.SuccessAndBiscuts said:Ive read the whole series as far as I remember, and I honestly have no idea what you are on about.Hugh Mann said:Anybody read the Dune series? People die by the droves and they just keep coming back, sometimes exactly the same, and sometimes in crazy new bodies
Sorry, but I don't understand your comment. What do you mean by "rats"?alexdulcianu said:Rats?No, it's
Winston dies at the end