# Books that when they ended you went "WHAAAAT?" **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 23, 2014, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489 "2014-01-23T00:39:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489/61 "2014-01-24T13:47:12Z")
_Galactus Ryan_, perhaps? ---
**Author:** ![Finagle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b19c9b/32.png) [@Finagle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Finagle)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489/62 "2014-01-24T14:58:26Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > _Lord Foul’s Bane_ > > Suddenly, I turned the page, and was confronted with a “coming soon” advert for “THE SECOND CHRONICLES OF THOMAS COVENANT THE UNBELIEVER.” > > It’s difficult to describe the sense of hurt and betrayal I felt, but I’m pretty sure the actual emotion was both preternatural and chthonic in its intensity. It was sort of astonishing how Donaldson could write the same books so many times. I only made it through the first two chronicles, but I got the impression that in the third chronicles, things had gone to shit in the Land \* once again \*. C’mon, folks. Take care of your stuff. That’s why we can’t have nice things. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489/63 "2014-01-24T16:56:06Z")
I knew it was part one of two, but when I got to the end of _Proxima_, **Stephen Baxter** ’s big new sf novel, or rather, when I got to within **300 words** of the end, our heroes travel to a strange planet and are greeted by an airship manned by Romans!! WTF! No hints whatsoever anything lke this might happen; I’ll have to at least read the start of volume two to see the explanation but I doubt I’ll bother reading the whole book… ---
**Author:** ![HelenGawn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a88e4f/32.png) [@HelenGawn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HelenGawn)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489/64 "2014-01-24T18:33:30Z")
Louis-Ferdinand’s [Death on the Installment Plan.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_on_Credit) But then, I said that on every page. ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 7:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489/65 "2014-01-24T19:05:15Z")
Arturo Perez-Reverte has trouble finishing his books. **Club Dumas** was OK I guess, but both **The Flanders Panel** and **The Seville Communion** ended so implausibly and abruptly that I cancelled my library waiting list for his other ones. It’s saying something when you believe that a character from one book was a fallen angel more than you believe the abilities and motivations of normal people in his other books with no supernatural elements in them. ---
**Author:** ![GargoyleWB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gargoylewb/32/199_2.png) [@GargoyleWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GargoyleWB)\ **Post date:** [January 24, 2014, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489/66 "2014-01-24T20:31:39Z")
Frank Herbert’s series capstone **Chapterhouse: Dune** The supreme rulers/ascendants/mystery/manipulators/endpoints of the Golden Path are…Archie and Edith Bunker. “Boy the way The Baron played Schemes that made the Guilds afraid On the backs of sandworms Fremen played Those were the days…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-that-when-they-ended-you-went-whaaaat/679489.md?page=3)