Do you feel sad when a book ends?

Yes! Finally someone so that I know I'm not crazy. I really love to read, and if it's an especially good book then I really can't wait until I finish and read the end, but at the same time I never want the book to end. I need to read the end or my heart will break, but when I do it's like it just did. Wierd huh?

Yeah, I get the same feeling sometimes, since it deponds on the novel I read. What kind of books you read mostly?

Sometimes towards the end of the book I am only looking forward to finishing it off. Sometimes if the book is very nice then I kind of dread the end of the book, I keep thinking Oh no! its getting over :( Some books are like that, that we would just not want them to end. And when such books end it makes us sad. And most of the novels especially have a very harsh way of ending. I call it harsh because we want to know so much more like what happened to so n so after that etc but they abruptly end if off in just one line! :o I wish they would show some more mercy and give in some more details :P But I guess its just the part of the novel, to leave the reader wanting to read more otherwise it might become the case where we just anxiously look forward to finishing it off. Is the same reason that makes u sad?

Maybe! It's decisided by the type of the book I read. If it ended with a sad ending, it will fill me with sad feelings. While a happy ending gives me regret, that is, I cannot live in their happiness any more. But, I like continuing the story in my mind forever!

I do feel sad sometimes especially if the book is finished and then the matter is unresolved like in the book of James Patterson "Roses are Red" where the murderer is not known to Alex Cross even at the end so I felt sad and very angry also.

well ,i seldom read a book,but i do have such expeirence.when i read the ending ,i really want know how will it be go on.however it is happiness or not.and after a while,maybe the next day i would forgot all of the novel.

i feel sad that the book ended that i will have lesser chance to rea more about it especially if the story is really interesting. i think that will surely make a booklover sad.

Yes, I do especially if I particularly enjoyed it. I'm into the last half an hour of The Time Traveler's Wife on Ipod, and I'm so sad because I won't have Henry and Clare to make long bus rides more bearable. If I feel this way about characters I didn't even create, I can't imagine what will happen when I actually publish a book into the world and have to let my characters go.

I feel disheartened when the journey has finally come to an end. This is what a good book generally does to me! After I have finished reading a good book I feel that I want more and more adventures and so I pick up another book that I may have read over and over but it doesn't matter, it's a good book so I will persevere with it once more! I love the Harry Potter books and I have all of them! I think I have read all of them twice now and the Harry Potter books are fully of amazing adventures! I don't feel the same way about movies. Books are the only form of escapism for me! Andrew

that's how i felt too right after i finished reading harry potter and the deathly hallows. there is something inside of me that still wants to know what happens to harry and his friends after they defeated voldemort. i felt depressed too when there were a lot of people (and dobby and hedwig) who got killed in the last book. so sad.

well i do have such experience, i felt so depressed to finish a good novel. actually i seldom read a book, it only helped me to go to sleep. but few days ago, i read the book the kid running for kite. when i finished, i found that i have nothing to do but to read the book, since the reading was over, i did not know what i should do in the next days, that's why i feel depressed.

yeah i know what you feel. I experience that too. It is a comics or manga called in japan When i finish reading the STOry of ICHIGO 100 i fEel dEpress. I want the auThor extend the story. The thing i do to pRevent my SADness is to reaD the story many times.

Ya why not but the condition is that the book should be according to our mood and taste. Story should be closed in that manners we makes us happy, then there is no bad feeling about writers. But if ending without pleasant moral is not good for reader to comment the book best.

Re-reading a good series a few months later always cheers me up. It's only natural to be upset to see a wonderful series end.