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Roshigoth
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Anyone else get that empty feeling...

Anyone else get that empty feeling when you finish a good story? Whether a book or TV series, or occasionally even a movie, often when I reach the end of a good story, I just feel really empty and depressed. It doesn't usually matter whether it ends happy or sad, it's more a matter of it ending. With a good story, I find it so easy to identify with the characters, so I guess it's the feeling of saying goodbye to some friends when it finally ends.

I dunno. I guess I'm just feeling down right now. Just thought I'd share.

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Reading that just made me depressed.

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karen
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yeah. I get that too, rosh.

the weird thing is.. I read a LOT of biographies(mostly british royalty.. tudor house especially).. so I know the end is well, the end. There will be no sequels. So I just go out and get new books on the same person.
I hate coming to the end of each book.

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karen
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I dont get depressed about it, btw. I just dont like coming to the end of it.
I know I can always just go to my mom's house and borrow more of her books. She has the same taste as me.
Luckily.
Saves me tons of money.

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When I finish a good book or TV show or movie, I feel very empty inside. Just like I did when I began it.

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start book #2 repeat till joy comes

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what brim said.
I only notice that when it was a series of really good books and the ending is flat. if it really bothers you, try starting your next book when you hit the last chapter of whatever you are reading, and dont finish the last one off until you are already into the next one.

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I only felt down at the end of reading a book if it had a dissapointing ending, or if it was kinda sad.

The ending of the Prydain Chronicles really got me.

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I loved the Prydain chronicles. I read them when I was nine.

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quote:
Originally posted by Mugtoe
I loved the Prydain chronicles. I read them when I was nine.

Lloyd Alexander is the sole reason I even began reading at all. I think I was in the sixth grade when I randomly picked up "The Black Cauldron" because we were required to read something for a class and it was on the shelf. I didn't care for reading and suddenly I was in the library once a month to grab a book from the series. I ended up finishing the series while in Kansas City while on vacation after I checked it out from one of the zillion libraries in that town.

The Prydain Chronicles, to this day, is probably one of the best written series I've ever read. Most people would consider if fluff, probably, but it engaged me on levels that no other series has yet to do. I mean, I was completely emersed in it. I almost cried like a baby when I read the last page of the series.

Then I moved on to Terry Brooks and from that point on I was reading books non-stop until I graduated. I used to get yelled at by teachers FOR reading in class, as opposed to NOT reading in class. Probably the only student they've ever had to yell at for reading, too.

So, that's my story. Or something.

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I was reading in class long before I came across the Prydain chronicles, but at one point I found a bound copy of all five books plus a few short stories, so I sat down and read them and became hooked.

That bound volume disappeared a while back along with a box full of other reading books, but I'm slowly working on getting the series individually to replace it.

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missjo
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I was addicted to Ann Rices the Vampire chronicles till she put out Memnoch the devil it was the first book in a long time I didn't bother to finish because it just plain sucked

& most of her recent releases since then have been a tad dissapointing

The witches books weren't too bad

But the last couple in the vampire series seem like she'd just trying to milk a cash cow

Cry to heaven would have to be my alltime favorite of her non series books

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quote:
Originally posted by missjo
Some authors need to realised when a series needs to reach an end
instead of destroying it by putting out second rate books

Now that's something I'll agree on.

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