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Books read in 2019 # 74-75 - WTF Endings
74. There is a Tide... by Agatha Christie - I liked this book. I enjoyed the fact that Hercules Poirot doesn't show up until halfway through. I was relatively pleased that Christie gave an obvious answer to the murderer (the guy being blackmailed by the man claiming to know something) and then subverting those expectations and but then also fulfilling them. The basic story is that a woman inherits everything from her rich husband who has been taking care of his family. The woman and her brother are in town with the entire family resenting them both. Then someone shows up claiming that the woman's marriage wasn't legal because her first husband is really alive and he has proof. That guy ends up dead. Not going to give away anything except for the epilogue ending.
The epilogue ending involves one character who finds the brother sexy and doesn't want to go back with her fiance. Her fiance is boring. The brother is sexy. Her fiance has been engaged for years. But at the very end, she decides that she doesn't want the brother. She wants her boring fiance. So happy ending right? NO. The fiance tries to STRANGLE HER at one point in the book. So the only reason why she wants to be with this guy is because he tried to murder her. This is the most depressing ending in a Christie book and it's even more depressing because she frames it as a happy ending.
75.The Omega Men: The End is Here by Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda - This is a grand space opera with a minor Green Lantern (a white Lantern no less) getting involved in a rebellion/revolution against an interplanetary tyrant who killed everyone on a planet in order to prevent another Krypton. There's a lot of tyranny, space battles, sacrifices and it ends with everyone that we expected to be heroes trying to run their planets in the worst way possible. I liked it even with the bummer ending. Still I saw the ending only because I'm reading On Revolution by Hannah Arendt.
The epilogue ending involves one character who finds the brother sexy and doesn't want to go back with her fiance. Her fiance is boring. The brother is sexy. Her fiance has been engaged for years. But at the very end, she decides that she doesn't want the brother. She wants her boring fiance. So happy ending right? NO. The fiance tries to STRANGLE HER at one point in the book. So the only reason why she wants to be with this guy is because he tried to murder her. This is the most depressing ending in a Christie book and it's even more depressing because she frames it as a happy ending.
75.The Omega Men: The End is Here by Tom King and Barnaby Bagenda - This is a grand space opera with a minor Green Lantern (a white Lantern no less) getting involved in a rebellion/revolution against an interplanetary tyrant who killed everyone on a planet in order to prevent another Krypton. There's a lot of tyranny, space battles, sacrifices and it ends with everyone that we expected to be heroes trying to run their planets in the worst way possible. I liked it even with the bummer ending. Still I saw the ending only because I'm reading On Revolution by Hannah Arendt.