I seem to remember wanting to give up after about 100 tedious pages
and then it suddenly clicking and loving the last 250 or so.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 8:47, 2 replies)

Oh. this
and i cried like a little bitch at the end.
( janet aylia y'all motherfuckers need jesus, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 8:48, closed)

I think it's probably the last time I cried while reading a book.
(Windy Militant, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 9:20, closed)

Agreed.
I guess I could've worded myself better. It was an overlong depressing ending, but I got the feeling that it was meant to be, and I was meant to hate it.
It could certainly make you resolve not to waste your life.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 11:50, closed)

No,no, no
You've misunderstood, or I've not been clear, I loved the last 250 or so pages, it was the first quarter-ish of the book that I struggled through.
( scarpe We Stole Bikes, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 12:22, closed)

Haha! Shit, it seems I'm *really* struggling this morning.
I too found it to be a bit of a drag in the beginning, but the Mrs told me to plug on, and that it was worth it, so I did. Then it hooked me and I loved it, but after the main plot had wound up and the endgame was playing out (trying not to leave spoilers here!) it left me in a very real funk of depression; I'd lived these characters lives to such an extent that when things didn't work out the way they wanted I felt bad for them.
I liked the ending, and I loved the book, but I really didn't like the ending, despite the fact that I liked it. Or something.
I didn't hate it in a "this is a bad book" kind of way, but in a "bloody bastard nasty author" kind of way.
(Paolo Nutini's Bikini Better than Frederick Fleet's optometrist, Sun 8 Jan 2012, 12:31, closed)