Okay, so maybe my commenter was right. I can't stand tragedy. Actually, it's not so much that I can't stand it, it's more that I can't handle it. I'll cry and be depressed for weeks. Unless it's bittersweet. Then I'm good with it. But all I can ask you tragedy-loving fiends is...why? I mean sure, you could simply use the excuse that not everything in life is all sunshine and lemonade, but really, isn't that the point of liking happy endings versus the sad ones? Don't you want to get away from the horrors of life and relax knowing that there's a beautiful, happy ending at the end of a book?
Besides, it's not even about the tragedy versus comedy (or happy, whatever), JB. It's about the ending. When you're reading a long, boring book, and from beginning to late-middle chapters it's a fight to keep your eyes open, but then the ending hits you with a wham, it's like...
"Wow. That was an amazing book." And then you rant to all your friends about it and how great it was and then they start to read it and think you're a boring person. What a buzz-kill, eh?
What I want to do more than anything is write a book with an ending at which people will cry in happiness and frustration at it taking so long to get to that point. I think that when this book of mine comes out, you will read it, you will cry, and you will think of me. And then you will be motivated to write one of your own. You, in turn, will than make many more people cry. Wow, how sadistic (Zsadistic!!:) of me...wanting to make people cry. Well, what can I say, there's been crueler authors out there.
One example I'd like to give is Sherrilyn Kenyon's "Dark Hunter" Series. The leading men in these books are beyond tortured. It's like she wants to rip their souls out of their asses and feed it to them! Now, these books are, by far, some of the best books I've read, but they just eat away at your heart! I die a little everytime I read one, but oh my god, do they have the most amazing endings. It warms you to your core, how they turn around in the ending! It's a struggle to get there though. Throughout the course of one Dark Hunter book, I'd say I cry twice. Once, right before the end when you realise nothing will ever work out for these poor guys, but it will, in fact, get worse. The other time would be when it ends and I cry tears of joy that it worked out. God, those books just...they're love 'em or hate 'em, I tell ya.
This has been another of my most random rantings.
'Till next time.
Chloe.
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Oh, wow, Chloe. You're calling the Dark-Hunters tortured, but then you LOVE the Black Dagger Brotherhood, which, in my opinion, is WAY MORE TORTURED than the Dark-Hunter Series. I mean, really, their names just practically scream "HELP" in my opinion, not to mention their hobbies. :P
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But I do agree with you about the happy endings. If you want a moment of peace, just reading, shouldn't you be rewarded with a HEA? But, sometimes, you want the villain to get the happy ending, by killing off all the heroes/heroines. Sometimes, you like the villain more than the hero/heroine (Starcraft! :P). But that's my opinion, anyway.