# Books with WTF?! endings?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-with-wtf-endings/788199>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [June 5, 2017, 6:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-with-wtf-endings/788199 "2017-06-05T18:25:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-with-wtf-endings/788199/81 "2017-06-08T17:44:25Z")

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> [@terentii](#):
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> It was supposed to be the first in a series; Gogol burned the second manuscript.
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> [Nikolai Gogol - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_Gogol)

Did you Gogol that?:smack:

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**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-with-wtf-endings/788199/82 "2017-06-08T17:59:25Z")

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> [@astorian](#):
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> I once started a thread on this very subject. I was inspired by the weird ending of Evelyn Waugh’s “A Handful of Dust.”

I agree.

I didn’t get the ending to _The Spoils of Poynton_ the first time I read it. On further reflection, I understood what was happening, but it still was a real twist. I was only about 13 when I read it, which explains why I was so dense. I don’t know if I would have been less surprised if I’d read it when I was older, though.

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 11:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-with-wtf-endings/788199/83 "2017-06-09T11:39:22Z")

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Every bloody thing written by Michael Faber ends right when it’s getting to the good part! He is chronic.

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**Post date:** [June 9, 2017, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/books-with-wtf-endings/788199/84 "2017-06-09T12:14:40Z")

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> [@madsircool](#):
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> You deface library material but it’s ok because…

> [@Amateur\_Barbarian](#):
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> [ol]  
> [li] It was in pencil.[/li][li] It was 30 years ago.[/li][li]I have found many such notes in library books over the years.[/li][/ol]

Ah, well, why didn’t you say so? :rolleyes:  
mmm

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