#i have other books to read but i might reread it . downside to book fixation. i dont wanna read anything else

[lesbianraskolnikov]

Ive never really shipped much myself but i always feared "blorbofying" him would make it seem like i understand nothing and so on and so forth. Well i can understand the book well and get silly with it. Its okay! I do not have to clarify my self..

[j259abcd]

Cliffhangers (stupid)

A cliffhanger ending is a plot device in fiction which features a main character in a precarious or difficult dilemma or confronted with a shocking revelation at the end of an episode or a film of serialized fiction (or even a chapter of a book, where this is not even, as stated later, economical). A cliffhanger is hoped to incentivize the audience to return to see how the characters resolve the dilemma. (wikipedia)

I do not like cliffhangers because of the way they alter the writing style of writers apparently addicted to them for no clear reason, and also because if the reason is clear, it is to give the audience a reason to return beyond the continuous quality of your series (assumed: for money), though this only slightly explains why this is done in book chapters.

The apparent need for them

On the one hand, ending especially a chapter at all if your story is multi-threaded is probably hard, but then there's chapter 16 in "The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy" where Doughlas Adams rather obviously makes fun of this device, stating that "Stress and nervous tension are now serious Social problems in major parts of the galaxy" and going on to 'spoil' events and facts which would have slowly unfolded in the next chapter, including that they are of course not in mortal peril.

This shows the approximate (u|dys)topia I would apparently want instead, where no suspense is created across chapter boundaries, especially if the next chapter switches to a completely different perspective and thread of the story (though this is not actually on display in chapter 16). Imagining the cliffhanger would not exist in a more serious novel I'm rereading does not appear to have any downsides, except that it might get down the readers engagement with the novel if they have less points at which they have to continue reading, and so their sessions reading the novel are shorter overall, and so they think they like it less, because surely the way I binged through this book indicates it was well written all the way.(?)

Stress and nervous tension are actually at least mildly annoying in at least one part of the Galaxy

I would subjectively state that the feeling a cliffhanger induces just does not feel good. This does however call into question what I want to feel reading, and alternatively how bored I must be to consider feeling nothing an acceptable free time experience. Sample feelings include:

Romantic giddiness (e.g. in twilight by Stephenie Meyer) (not actually much more relaxed than suspense)

Considering the Implications of the presented Setup or Universe

Considering the authors intent behind some pun, character trait, or cliffhanger (oops)

Indignant awe at the absolute planning they must have to write 300 pages at all, which are also on average nonboring, especially considering the shortness of my school essays (of course not in comparison to a novel but to other essays of my friends or whatever)

The maybe-Contradiction in this with what I otherwise want from a book

I also do not like cover texts because they apparently ruin some of the suspense by just telling you the weird people in the book are vampires or even what the name of the most important one is. Considering there are different types of suspenses, this one kind of makes sense: it means that apparently I like slow revelations of the plot only if they do not seem delayed on purpose.

The strange fixation artists of a medium where they do not obviously boost sales have with Cliffhangers

It may just be some social self-expectation from hearing the phrase "to be continued" too many times, it might be the reader engagement, but I couldn't imagine a novelist who thinks to themselves: "my readers are sure going to consciously like how I am withholding information from them, and also wouldn't they like it so much if I did that at a chapter boundary". Firstly, chapter boundaries don't really mean that much, and conventional suspense feels less forced to me, as I would apparently want a novel to sound like it's not plying psychological tricks on me. Secondly, thinking a cliffhanger is good like a consistently constructed fantasy world that isn't confusing, or a joke, or a sudden reveal i didn't expect, I still don't get what I'm supposed to like about a cliffhanger.

Do tell. I have 0 novel writing experience