The books you read in English usually have really empty endings: //The Catcher in the Rye//, //The Giver//, and //Of Mice and Men//, as well as many others, amirite?

+58 The books you read in English usually have really empty endings: //The Catcher in the Rye//, //The Giver//, and //Of Mice and Men//, as well as many others, amirite?

by Anonymous 11 years ago

What do you mean by empty? That there's a bit of uncertainty at the ending? (I read the first two but not //Of Mice and Men//.)

by Anonymous 11 years ago

It just leaves a lot unexplained and you feel lost at the end.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

In my experience a lot of the books that have ended like that are really good books. For example, //The Trial// never gives away anything. Everything in the book is completely arbitrary, and you never learn just what crime Josef K committed in the first place.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

They leave too much open to interpretation.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I absolutely love The Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men... I thought each ending suited its respective book quite well.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

The Giver really pissed me off. It was a great book, but it just got me mad.

by Anonymous 11 years ago

I hated the ending of The Grapes of Wrath. Of Men and Men was brilliant, but Grapes of Wrath was definitely not one of my favorites.

by Anonymous 11 years ago