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Agerak t1_jds5n0l wrote

Reply to comment by [deleted] in Thoughts on Annihilation? by kczbrekker

Stephen King ending

What's the connotation or underlying meaning here? good? bad? middling? honestly curious.

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Love-That-Danhausen t1_jdsdbuh wrote

King used to be known for setting an amazing story for 95% of it and having the ending fall apart. I don’t think that’s quite fair but some of his work does have weaker endings that maybe stop them at good stories rather than great/masterpieces.

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schlitzntl t1_jdsec4n wrote

This right here.

You want an example - he made a short novella - The Langoliers - which is great character building, great tension, and then we get to the reveal and the end - it is impressively awful.

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