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Speaking for myself, I would have been pretty depressed if I read that book, got to know all those people, watched them struggle to survive, begin to care about their lives (especially that boy on the farm left alone by himself) and just to have them all die.........I dunno......given the set up and the story about the bullies and the obvious corollaries between that story and the aliens I really don't see how he could have ended it differently unless one of two things happened.

Despite their pleas for mercy, it falls on alien, deaf ears and they all die

This would be preferable for a horror story. The ending doesn't always have to be happy.

or

some techno-babble answer about temporarily defeating the force shield and letting a small group escape. The first would have been depressing (much like the end of the movie version of the Mist) and the second would have been like a Star Trek solution to a problem.

What would you have preferred to happen in the last 100 pages....? They discover the device at the barn, they recognize a malevolent alien presence..... then what?

Your option one, like I said.

......there's no struggle and no potential for struggle........like ants under a magnifying glass, they are completely subject to the whims of their captors....that was one of the central points of the story in the end.

Which means their captors have absolutely no reason to show mercy, and realistically, they wouldn't have.

It was a cheap tearjerker cop-out.

Joel_Kirk wrote:

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Random post:

I want to see Julia Stiles as the lead in an adaptation of 'The Breathing Method.'

So...you want to see Julia Stiles in a movie where she'll be headless for most of the third act?