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ENDING OF BOOK SUCKED! Spoilers

posted 18 years ago by Redstar5288
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I saw this movie first before reading the book. I anticipated the book being better having more interactions between Alix and Lee that kind of thing. For the most part the book did contain some things that I liked better.

For example, in the movie, Alix shows Mark the drawing of Lee and says, "this is the man you're so damn jealous of." I HATED that, Beauty would never do something like that it was just low and awful. In the book, Mark makes a snide remark while looking at sketches of Lee without her permission and says, "This is what you let me be jealous of?" and she gets mad. Soooo much better.

However-- remember how dramatic it was to see the painting in the movie at the end and how wonderful it was with him skating? Well, not in the book, they reveal the painting's contents kind of anticlimatically and it's not him skating!! I was disappointed.

The end... just, omg, so bad, Alix dies in childbirth, what kind of ending is that? It's not appropriate at ALL. I was very upset about it. So, I pulled out my recorded copy of the movie and watched it to console myself haha.

Sorry if I ruined the book for anymore but I did warn you.

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[–] pianoplayer32751 17 years ago

I completely agree with you! I taped the movie when it originally aired on CBS but it cut off the ending so I read the book to find out what happened... I was so disappointed. Could you copy your tape of the movie? I would love to own it.

[–] likaspike 17 years ago

Hi! Did you get the copy of this movie at last? If you did, please, please sell it to me! I love to show it to my boyfriend and of course, be able to watch it again myself! My email is likaspike@ yahoo.com. Thank you!

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[–] Redstar5288 17 years ago

I'm sorry, I don't have a tape, I recorded and saved it on Tivo. I haven't figured out how to transfer it to video yet. Plus, my roomate accidentally erased it on my Tivo. :( Oh well.

Erik Destler: Only Love and Music are Forever

[–] ch201142 17 years ago

hey guys: right now it's on lmn (lifetime movie network)...wed sept 12 2:30-4:50 then it goes to never never land.

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[–] dreadpiratejulie 16 years ago

I liked the book, but yeah, the ending really sucked! I wanted Alix to live!

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Scully: *sighs*"Oh, brother"

[–] freefall79 15 years ago

that's the ending of the book...that god awful. thank god for the happy ending

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[–] red_rackham_77 14 years ago

I haven't read the book and ordinarly I wouldn't ask but you started it so is that true, Alix died in childbirth?

[–] MarthaJonesSmith 14 years ago

So, basically...they let her die...just like tv's Beauty and the Beast? Remeber when they killed off Katherine after she had Vincent's child and they tried to continue the show without her? What a truly terrible ending. The author should not have done that in this book 'Beauty'. That is very disappointing to here.

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[–] NotEven_TheRain 13 years ago

^that's what I thought about to when I read the book. The ending made absolutely no sense whatsoever. Alix would never had risked her life and the life of her baby she so desperately wanted when she was already a high risk pregnancy AND already dialating by going with Lee to the mansion. It was almost like the author was in a bad mood or had gotten into a bad break-up right at the ending of writing it and decided to butcher it. Either that or she watched the TV show BATB. :/

The death of the father was tragic enough. It was stupid to kill Beauty. It was a good book until that point, and made a very cute movie with the change of ending. My advice to anyone who chooses to read the book: Stop reading when it switches to Lee's POV last second. Put the book down. It ended there. lol.

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