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>Death threats, suicide threats and more prosaic threats to cancel book orders have followed the publication of Charlaine Harris's final novel about the telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse this week, after the American novelist gave her bestselling series a romantic conclusion that not everyone was happy with.

>Running for 13 years, the series – on which the television show True Blood is based – is set in a world where vampires and other supernatural creatures live alongside humans. The 13th and final novel, Dead Ever After, concludes Sookie's romantic adventures and sees her making a choice between three potential suitors: the vampires Bill and Eric, and the shapeshifter Sam.

>An early copy was leaked online by a fan in Germany last week, prompting an outpouring of bile on Amazon, Goodreads and Harris's Facebook page, with thousands of comments posted by fans furious about the choice Sookie made.

>"After that ending, who wants to egg Harris's house with me?" wrote one reader. "Well I wanted to read this book but now I have no desire to. In fact, I cancelled my order," wrote another.

>Harris told the Wall Street Journal that she had also received emails saying "if Sookie doesn't end up with Eric, I'm going to kill myself", as well as death threats.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2013/may/10/charlaine-harris-sookie-stackhouse-true-blood

>> No.3742833

>these are the exact people making the world a terrible place

>> No.3742839

I don't even read this series, and I hate the fans.

>> No.3742845
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3742845

>women

>> No.3742849

Well prisons tend to stock more literary books in their libraries so maybe they will learn something.

>> No.3742854
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3742854

If only there were websites where fans could write fictitious stories about their favorite characters doing things as the fans want them to, when the actual story disappoints them, instead of killing themselves and being raging lunatics.
If only.

>> No.3742860

>>3742818
See, this is why we do not write for people who hopelessly cling to things like it's a religion... oh wait...

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>>3742845
>sexism

>> No.3742876

>>3742871
please just stop this, you are ruining /lit/

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>>3742871

>getting buttflustered

>> No.3742895

I remember hearing Harry Potter shippers being stupid too when the final book was released.

>> No.3742905

>>3742895
Yeah, but the ending really was shit, whether it was a ship thing or not.

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>chick lit
>women readers
>book series

It's all to blame.

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3742931

There was a similar backlash when Breaking Dawn was released.

They would buy the book from Barns and Noble, read it in a day, hate it, then return it and get their money back. I think they called it the "Don't Burn It, Return It" campaign.

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3744831

This always seems to happen with any series of books. Writers should do standalones if they want to avoid it.

>> No.3744938

>>3742871
>>>tumblr

>> No.3744976

>13th and final novel,
Into der trash it goes.

>> No.3745132

at least the fans didn't kidnap her, tie her to a bed, break her legs and force her to re-write it.

yet.

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3745154

>>Harris told the Wall Street Journal that she had also received emails saying "if Sookie doesn't end up with Eric, I'm going to kill myself", as well as death threats.

Women.

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3745164

this is the woman who is writing all their vampire fuck lit that these teenage girls are flicking their little beans over

hahahahahahah she looks like she's fucking 60

girls who are obsessed with vampires are just like creepy bitches who are obsessed with cats. they all turn weird.