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So, I've just finished reading a book once more and realised that the ending made me feel... Giddy? inside. I've grown to wonder about how many other readers feel such a feeling once reaching the conclusion of a much loved story? I have no doubt now that once I begin writing once more, be for a game on this site, an assignment for school or my own tale that the book and its contents would impact and influence them. So basically, who else has this happen to them? And what kind of story was it?

Mine surprised me with a subtle twist in not only plot, characters and their development, setting, but also a change of the genre. It went from feeling like a dark Stockholm Syndrome to an action adventure and the characters were so precious and delicate and the Author crafted what is in my eyes a masterpiece and I loved everything about it I wouldn't mind reading it for the rest of my life though I kinda am glad it ended where it did and ahhhhhhhhhh

There's nothing like a story that ends in the perfect way I don't know if it's really happiness that I feel when the story's over. I tend to be a little sad that the ride is done. It's the same way I feel when completing a TV series. I can say "Wow. Well that was a great ending," and mean it, but I still feel like... "Well, what do I do now?" I guess I feel bittersweet after finishing something. Well.. if it had a good ending, that is Some books have made me like rage quit in the middle of them.

Ummm I rambled a little. Sorry.