Both Forever Peace and Forever Free sucked IMHO. I much prefer Haldeman’s Tool of the Trade, Mindbridge, Worlds, The Hemingway Hoax, Marsbound and Camouflage. And of course the original Forever War, which was just fine by itself.
A 12-year-old girl getting gang banged by six boys is not “heroic,” it’s disgusting. It also was not at all necessary to the novel.
I’m still puzzled by how sex could be “not sexualized”.
Sex that is an act of bonding rather thsn pleasure.
How can you expect anything else from a Stephen King story?
Bonding?
Shed a tear for the couple named Kelly
Who are stuck fast, belly to belly
For, in their haste
They used library paste
Instead of petroleum jelly.
The ending to The Reincarnation of Peter Proudcaught me totally off guard.
Good film too.
We can both be right! 
Gogols’ “Dead Souls.” In fact, it doesn’t really have much of an ending at all.
Ooh, I thought of one: the final novel in A Series of Unfortunate Events. Lemony Snicket seems to have a bone to pick with novel structure, especially after the fifth or sixth book, and they get weirder and weirder. The whole thing, by the end, doesn’t so much peter out as seem to be a specific fuck you to the idea of a story having a tidy ending.
Some books have, well, just really lame endings, if you can even call it that.
You read the book and you’re like “I just read this whole book just to have it end like that?”
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck. The ending seems to be just the lead-in to another episode in the Joads increasingly impoverished and desperate lives, and then you turn the page and there’s just no more book there. I’m like “Huh? Was there supposed to be another chapter here?”
Several, if not all, novels by Christopher Moore. Well, at least all three that I’ve read. Practical Demonkeeping. Coyote Blue. The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove. All have “surprise” but rather lamely anti-climactic endings that even sort of look like they were grafted in from some other novel. This guy was supposed to be the next Kurt Vonnegut, and I can kinda-sorta see that style of humor in his books. But no. He’s not the next Kurt Vonnegut.
The happy(ish) ending of Crime and Punishment always seemed a bit out of place to me.
It was supposed to be the first in a series; Gogol burned the second manuscript.
John D. MacDonald’s last novel, Barrier Island, is like that. The story just meanders around for 300 pages and then… just kind of runs out.
Granted, he wrote it late and old, but I was so frustrated by it that in the library hardcover, I wrote on the flyleaf facing the last page, “Hey, John, where’s the rest of this book?” He died shortly thereafter, but I refuse to take the blame for that. 
You deface library material but it’s ok because…
The ending of the movie was much better!
Another case where the ending of the movie (made in the USSR) was better.
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[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]
The Chung Kuo series by David Wingrove
By the last book almost all the main characters are dead and Earth has been taken over by intelligent plant life. Suddenly the few main characters left alive find themselves on an alternate Earth were most of the main characters are still alive. Also it turns out that the big villain is actually an immortal superpowerful alien.