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Hmm. I'm ... a bit confused now over whether I can say I finished I Capture the Castle or not.
I finished the ebook (the perfectly legitimate, Random House published ebook, which Kobo sold to me for real money last year). On the other hand, after being completely confused by the abrupt and odd ending, wondering for a while if the author just got bored or ... what (I don't mind open endings, but there are open endings and then there are endings that just don't look right!), I went and Looked Inside the Kindle version on Amazon, and ... lo and behold, the book has another, third part.
It's not an omnibus or trilogy etc, but one single book with continuously numbered chapters in three parts, and I cannot see any indication whatsoever why the Kobo-bought epub (which is now not available on their site any more, although I could still download the bought version - I did, just to check, and it's still the same incomplete one) should only have had the first two parts.
I didn't buy the Kindle version - it's a bit too expensive just for an extra third when I've already paid a not insignificant amount (nearly $7 with a Kobo coupon) for what I believed to be the entire book (Kindle one is, for me, $14.39, although if I were to have a vacation in the US, I could get it for a mere $9.99) - but after some considerations (I admit, the thought of the underworld of ebooks did occur to me - my morals wouldn't consider it wrong to download a full version, when I've already paid for it anyway), I decided I'd enjoyed the first two thirds so much that I wouldn't actually mind having it in hard copy.
So I've bought a 1950 good condition hardback edition (for much less money, including international shipping, than what Amazon wants from me for the Kindle book - and yes, I know, I don't usually compare ebook prices with second-hand DTB prices) off eBay. With any luck, in a few weeks I will know how the story ends.
(And if I'm already talking about prices - I also noticed there's a translated version from 2011 available in our local shops. €25 for a paperback. Uh. No. Not even if I were still inclined to read translations from English, which I'm not.)
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