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Need more closure? Here's the (cut) ending from the book!

posted 7 years ago by xronbo
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WARNING: This PDF contains an epilogue that firmly resolves the ending. If you like the idea of always wondering what happened in the end, don't read it.

http://www.orbitbooks.net/wp-content/uploads/GWATG_SecretChapter.pdf

So the author wrote this chapter as the epilogue, but took it out on his editor's advice. At some point it got posted online. I thought it was a nice short read and it helped tie up a lot of loose ends for me. I prefer to know what happens than wonder about it :P

Thought anyone out there who was also curious about "what happens next?" would find this epilogue interesting!

[–] smoke0 7 years ago

Thanks for posting this, although I have not read the book. This chapter may be written pleasantly, but it's still an unpleasant ending, and the comments from people who for some idiotic reason think it's a happy ending are just astounding in their utter stupidity. It also doesn't answer the question of whether Melanie was either a very bright, gifted, infected human child who could pragmatically and unemotionally do what was necessary to survive and plan for the future, or just an outlet for the fungus intelligence, and certain decisions she made throughout the film suggest the latter.

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

[–] Ithilfaen 7 years ago

but it's still an unpleasant ending, and the comments from people who for some idiotic reason think it's a happy ending are just astounding in their utter stupidity.

Do you really go through life thinking of everything in terms of good vs evil and "happy" vs "bad"? Are you 10 or just a product of Disney brainwashing?

The ending is neither "happy" nor "sad". It's no more idiotic to think of it as hopeful than it is to think of it as "unpleasant".
The evolution of a species is a clinical affair. Do you weep every day thinking of the poor dinosaurs who had to go extinct just so we could take over the planet and turn it into a dump?

For every lie I unlearn I learn something new - Ani Difranco

[–] smoke0 7 years ago

Ask your teacher to help you learn better reading comprehension. I didn't say the ending was happy, I was commenting on how so many others immediately decided that this was a happy ending, which is idiotic. All your other statements directed towards me are so ridiculously vitriolic that you're either just trolling for a fight or you obviously never speak up in the real world and have to vent all your frustration at being a nobody here.

Revenge is a dish that best goes stale.

[–] Johndass (47) 6 years ago

I agree mate. How people view it as more happy or less depressing IS stupid. Your species is becoming extinct, even if there was remnants outwith the spores then these little fu**ers are now smart enough to form plans of attack etc to eradicate us completely.

[–] foxfall 7 years ago

"Justineau has started to think of herself as the monster"

This is basically the plot of I am Legend.

[–] himiyio 7 years ago

thank u! i think so as well. and the book, not the film.

[–] Oblivion14 7 years ago

Yay. Someone else who read the book and thought of the parallels!

[–] DreamingOfASong 7 years ago

Just finished the book - thanks a lot for posting the secret chapter!!

I don't think I would have removed it from the book; there's such poetic irony in how Melanie and Justineau's roles have reversed in the end. And the last mention of Pandora was such a good nod to the title and the overall theme of the novel.

[–] andipopescu 7 years ago

Thank you!
This made the ending not suck, at least, for an otherwise boring film.

http://andipopescu.com

[–] paulbeardsley 7 years ago

Thanks for posting the link. Very much appreciated - it does add to the book.

This whirlpool's got such seductive furniture
It's so pleasant being drowned

[–] troy2000me (34) 6 years ago

This doesn't seem like a real epilogue or chapter, it seems like poorly written fan fiction to fill in the gaps the writer had with the movie. No writer would start a sentence with "And" as displayed here. It's too short, too concise, I call bull.

If this is indeed how the author writes I am glad I did not read the book.

[–] Devotee (98) 6 years ago

"No writer would start a sentence with "And" as displayed here."

You definitely must hate the Bible, then.

And (pun intended) you must be a poor reader, too. Lots of (well-known) books by lots of (very well-known) writers contain sentences starting with "And".

[–] db20db (16227) 6 years ago

M.R. Carey, the author, was also an extra in the film as one of the 'hungries.'