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Originally Posted by montsnmags
I never liked the very ending of The Dark Tower, by Stephen King. You could see it coming a mile off, picking such a near-clichéd idea for finale, and, for me, it felt like he caved to the openness of his created universe (that is, that he consciously left room to always create a synecdoche of the series in new books).
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synecdoche |siˈnekdəkē|
noun
a figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole or vice versa, as in Cleveland won by six runs (meaning “
that still does not make sense to me ... I think I should get me a "one-complicated-word-a-day" calendar too
I haven't really ditched a series because of a "finale", a lot of them just lost their appeal. I either got tired of reading the inner monolgues of a female protagonist (written by a man, forgot the name of the author, as well as the series), or the books were just boring "remakes" of the previous ones with some minor changes.
I did not like the way the Alex Cross series from James Patterson turned out, I also got bored by the descriptions of his love for his family and how superior his kids were in everything they did.