Anyone else have trouble reading Bentley Little?

I loved the Association and the House was ok. He's very hit or miss for me. The Walking is a great example of his lousy endings.



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In the Walking, once they figure out what's going on, they defeat the menace so easily that it's a bit of a letdown. A lot of his stuff is like this. The Burning I've been dying to discuss with someone, but I don't want to ruin it for you if you plan to finish it. PM me maybe?

I read the Dispatch. There was just to much vulgarity. He had an overuse of swearing and too many juvenile revenge thoughts and moments -- especially with the asian penpal. Just wierd. I'm holding off on purchasing more of his books for awhile.

Just my one book experience with Bentley Little.

For those of you who have been put off by his books- check out the Ignored. It's the best horror novel I had read in some time, and kept me reading through a lot of crap.

I like the guy but like a lot of you he lets me down with his endings. He starts off strong and has some very good ideas but it seems that he just fizzles out and wants to hurry up and finish the book.

I've read a lot of his work but I also still have a lot to read. The Mailman, The Ignored, The Store, Dominion, The Summoning, and The Association are sitting on my shelf waiting to be read. The Walking I liked, ending not so much, but thought it was almost as good as The Revelation. I haven't bought any of his newer books since he has let me down.

With me he is one of those authors that you buy the books and they sit around for awhile and then you get the inkling to read him and go through two or three books at once and then you find yourself not wanting to read him for awhile. Ann Rice is another one of those authors for me as well as Keith Ablow and John Saul.

But you know Koontz has done this sucky ending with a few of his books as well. The Taking was a good book but by the time the ending came I was like "You got to be kidding me! This blows, it could have been so much better."

I read The Association. Unfortunately, I could see the ending coming from a million miles away - and that's disappointing to me.
I haven't read anything of his since.

You saw that ending coming? I'm floored.

jbal-
I do that with most movies I watch too, and my hubby is now used to my predictions. Within the first few moments of a movie I'll say:
"I bet this and this happens and it ends like this"
Many times I'm correct. Scary - I'm a twisted individual.

GhostAuthor said:

jbal-
I do that with most movies I watch too, and my hubby is now used to my predictions. Within the first few moments of a movie I'll say:
"I bet this and this happens and it ends like this"
Many times I'm correct. Scary - I'm a twisted individual.

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You must be talking about the fight at the end. I can see predicting that one, although I didn't. The whole Article 90 thing came out of left field though.
ETA: my wife and I both got the ending to the movie Identity. I got the first plot twist about ten minutes in.

With a lot of books and most movies I can figure out the ending pretty easily, it always use to make my wife mad and then surprised when I got it right. Horror movies are the worst, I can usually figure about 90% of them out within the first ten to twenty minutes. If I can't figure it out and the ending surprises me then I usually like movie. The first saw movie was that way, I never expected the guy in the room to be alive. Stephen King's Dark Tower series surprised me as well, I never saw that ending coming.

Little is to easy to figure out and that kind of perturbes me. Maybe it comes from being a writer, I don't know. I know that when I get to the end of a movie or book and I hated the ending I will have figured out one or two ways I would have done it better.

Pike-if you haven't finished it yet don't read this!!!!



















The thing that bugged me was that none of the characters that the book follows seem to have any relevance to the ending. Even the one who gets on the train, at the end he gets off. So what? The others just happen to be there. That screwed the whole thing for me.

sorry. I read a review that spoiled the ending of the Sixth Sense. It had a spoiler alert on it, but there's just no way not to read it anyway.

Bentley Little is suppose to be a real a$$ in real life. The man is almost a recluse and he mentioned that there are more than a few reviewers out there that would beat the crap out of him if they ever saw him. The man speaks his mind no matter who it hurts.

But, he can make up some good stories even if his endings are found wanting.

I know this thread is years old but it was the only one I could find about Bentley Little so I thought since i just started reading him that I would comment anyways. I just finished The House. Now the story was a little confusing, the ending was kinda lame, and the little girl wanting to be you-know-whated in the you-know-where was kinda freaky for me but I think my main point of contention is that the prologue made no sense with the rest of the book. Am I the only one who felt that way?

Tried one book, won't try another.