I feel...a little betrayed

[WhiteRose]

You know it won't last, but you cannot stop yourself. They reel you in with their tantalizing teasing. You should know better, but you fall for it time and time again. Promising yourself that maybe this time you'll only lightly skim the surface, you enter their world, and the next thing you know they've wrapped themselves around you, involving you, sharing their lives with you.

You laugh with them, you fear for them, you cry for them. The more you open yourself to them, the more they get to you every time. And you don't see it coming until it's too late. That's when they have you, and they know this. And you need them, crave them, can't stop thinking about them when you're apart. As if they're there, just out of your reach, beckoning to you, calling you close again. It's like a drug, and you can't resist.

And you go willingly, whether to share their triumphs or wrench your heart with their sorrow, and once they have you surely within their grasp, when they know you'd rather be with them than anywhere else, that's when they drop you. Suddenly, devastatingly, you're left with absolutely nothing to hold onto.

You try desperately to cling to it them, to keep that world alive for just one moment longer...only you can't. It's just gone. They've left you behind and gone on with their lives without you. There's such a great sadness, and yes, a feeling of betrayal. Your world gone suddenly flat and grey. And all you can hope and pray is that someday in the not to distant future, a sequel will be written. So you can find them again and rejoin their world...

I hate reading the last page of a really good book

 

[Bob Peale]

Although WR, you know what's worse?

Reading a book with potential, suffereing through the irritants, only to get to the end and it never delivers.

You know, where you sit there and think, "That's it!?!"

I just read two, both by Brad Meltzer: The Millionares and The First Counsel.

Both had interesting plots, both could have done SO much more with the characters.

And in the end, both took the easy way out.

grrrr

 

[unclej]

wow...i wasn't sure if your dog died or you SO left you for a starbuck's clerk but you sure sucked me in...and if you've never felt the feeling you described you don't read or you're just reading biographies of really boring political figures....thanks for the thread...

 

[riff]

Yep. Been there!

I just don't know what to say.

 

[LukkyKnight]

Although WR, you know what's worse?

...in the end... ...the easy way out.

Justifiable manslaughter.

 

[Guest]

 

[InnocentAngel81]

ugh bad whiterose, I thought something was wrong, I was going to tell you I know how you felt when it comes to things like that, but I get I can still say it because I read all the time.

 

[erosman]

In the 'meantime'...seems to be most of the time.

 

[morninggirl5]

You know it won't last, but you cannot stop yourself. They reel you in with their tantalizing teasing. You should know better, but you fall for it time and time again. Promising yourself that maybe this time you'll only lightly skim the surface, you enter their world, and the next thing you know they've wrapped themselves around you, involving you, sharing their lives with you.

You laugh with them, you fear for them, you cry for them. The more you open yourself to them, the more they get to you every time. And you don't see it coming until it's too late. That's when they have you, and they know this. And you need them, crave them, can't stop thinking about them when you're apart. As if they're there, just out of your reach, beckoning to you, calling you close again. It's like a drug, and you can't resist.

And you go willingly, whether to share their triumphs or wrench your heart with their sorrow, and once they have you surely within their grasp, when they know you'd rather be with them than anywhere else, that's when they drop you. Suddenly, devastatingly, you're left with absolutely nothing to hold onto.

You try desperately to cling to it them, to keep that world alive for just one moment longer...only you can't. It's just gone. They've left you behind and gone on with their lives without you. There's such a great sadness, and yes, a feeling of betrayal. Your world gone suddenly flat and grey. And all you can hope and pray is that someday in the not to distant future, a sequel will be written. So you can find them again and rejoin their world...

I hate reading the last page of a really good book

When i'm completely immersed in a book, i'm dazed at the end. It takes me a while to reorient myself to the real world.

Of course, the really good ones are in my "First thing out in case of fire or other emergency" box. They can be read over and over and i still feel the same way at the end.

 

[Wiggles]

Man, I love reading.
I hate the ending too, even the second time around.
It leaves you a little empty, and yet oddly fufilled.

 

[WhiteRose]

Re: Re: I feel...a little betrayed

When i'm completely immersed in a book, i'm dazed at the end. It takes me a while to reorient myself to the real world.

Of course, the really good ones are in my "First thing out in case of fire or other emergency" box. They can be read over and over and i still feel the same way at the end.

*nods* I guess I have to start at the beginning of the first book and read them all through again. When you're reading a big series (well, this one is 5 books so far, but the latest book is 979 pages hardbound), sometimes it's a long time waiting for the author to come out with the next book. In this case it's Diana Gabaldon's "The Fiery Cross" from her Outlander series. Somehow she can make even living without heat or running water and not bathing or shampooing your hair all winter still sound so romantic. It's that whole Highlander-warrior thing *drools* And the whole premise of time-traveling through a circle of stones appeals to the pagan in me.

But then I've also been waiting for the next Harry Potter book for over a year. Not nearly as emotionally involving as the Outlander series, but definitely entertaining. My grandma's 92 years old and says she can't wait forever for the rest of the Harry Potter series, but that's her goal.

Another big series I'm slogging through is Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I finished book nine a couple of weeks ago, and I'm to the point that about the ONLY reason I'm still reading them is because I'm very stubborn and refuse to give up (particularly when I've invested a fair amount of money in the series.) The first three books were good and he did a great job of vividly describing different cultures, but just when I make it toward the end of one of his 1,000+ page books and think I'm near "something happening"...he stops and writes as if it's already happened without writing about it at all. He's said he was going to stop at nine books, but then decided to go for an even dozen, so sometimes it's as if he's just filling in pages.

 

[moondoggie]

Re: Re: Re: I feel...a little betrayed

*nods* I guess I have to start at the beginning of the first book and read them all through again. When you're reading a big series (well, this one is 5 books so far, but the latest book is 979 pages hardbound), sometimes it's a long time waiting for the author to come out with the next book. In this case it's Diana Gabaldon's "The Fiery Cross" from her Outlander series. Somehow she can make even living without heat or running water and not bathing or shampooing your hair all winter still sound so romantic. It's that whole Highlander-warrior thing *drools* And the whole premise of time-traveling through a circle of stones appeals to the pagan in me.

But then I've also been waiting for the next Harry Potter book for over a year. Not nearly as emotionally involving as the Outlander series, but definitely entertaining. My grandma's 92 years old and says she can't wait forever for the rest of the Harry Potter series, but that's her goal.

Another big series I'm slogging through is Robert Jordan's Wheel of Time series. I finished book nine a couple of weeks ago, and I'm to the point that about the ONLY reason I'm still reading them is because I'm very stubborn and refuse to give up (particularly when I've invested a fair amount of money in the series.) The first three books were good and he did a great job of vividly describing different cultures, but just when I make it toward the end of one of his 1,000+ page books and think I'm near "something happening"...he stops and writes as if it's already happened without writing about it at all. He's said he was going to stop at nine books, but then decided to go for an even dozen, so sometimes it's as if he's just filling in pages.

I agree with you on Robert Jordon. I have read every one of them, and by the time he puts out the next one, I have to reread all the others to remember what was happening. I tried paperbacks, but their all worn out, so now I have collected all nine in hardcover. But Book Nine came out almost two years ago, and I'm starting to have withdrawls. Just started rereading them with the hope that the next one is on the way.

Another writer I like is L.E. Modesitt, Jr. He has a series called the Saga of Recluce. With this, he actually started in the middle of everything. Took me about three books before I fully understood the plots. Now I tell people to read them in the chronological order instead. Of course, for those who prefer the authors method, I suppose you should read them as he wrote them. He's a tease too; put out two books together about two years ago and nothing since.

 

[WhiteRose]

I used to have the whole Agatha Christie and Louis L'Amour collections (well the ones published up through his death plus a couple afterwards), but they were all lost in a move Someday I hope to get the Christie collection again. It's been so long since I've read them that I probably wouldn't remember whodunit. They're great quick-reads.

For those into the occult, Katherine Kurtz' The Adept series are pretty good. I never got into her other fantasy series, but the occult-ritual magick aspect of The Adept series is played out well.

Tom Clancy writes a good story, though sometimes I end up banging my head against the book on his detailed submarine descriptions. Definitely interesting, but sometimes I don't want to have to THINK when I read...legacy of a housefull of textbooks I haven't read his non-fiction yet, but my dad says they're decent.

I enjoy Dean Koontz a little more than Stephen King simply because he's an easier read, though I read them both. They're both good and scary, while King concentrates on the horror and Koontz deals more with the human element.

Maeve Binchy, for when I'm in the "I need to get away from men and only another woman would understand what I'm feeling" mood.

A local author, Stephen White, has been publishing a lot of murder mysteries with one main char, and while not yet in the league of more well-known authors, I enjoy them because I recognize all the places in town he talks about.

*gets a nasty look from the cat and stops procrastinating to go shopping for cat food* It's not like she's out completely, but she can SEE the bottom of the bowl and starts fussing.

 

[Zamdrist]

I used to have the whole Agatha Christie and Louis L'Amour collections (well the ones published up through his death plus a couple afterwards),

I'm reading L'Amour's book The Walking Drum right now, it's about my third or fourth time around. Excellent book, I rate it as one of the top three or four books I've ever read. Outstanding.

Never read any of his westerns, which is the bulk of his material I believe. Just not into the westerns.

 

[Starblayde]

Tom Clancy writes a good story, though sometimes I end up banging my head against the book on his detailed submarine descriptions. Definitely interesting, but sometimes I don't want to have to THINK when I read...legacy of a housefull of textbooks I haven't read his non-fiction yet, but my dad says they're decent.

I'm interested in the stuff he writes about, like i know what an RAH-66 or a B2 or whatever is when he mentions one... and I still get confused...

He does do some interesting concepts and ideas of what nations might do

And the Japanese guy flying a Jumbo Jet into the Whitehouse at the end of Debt of Hono(u)r was eeriely premonition-istic