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Agh! There are no happy endings anymore! Okay so the real conflict got resolved, but who the hell cares? That's the problem with authors nowadays: they write a novel which is really a vehicle for some idea they'd like to present. They make you care about the characters to get you hooked, present their idea and opinion, make a suitably powerful point, wrap up their little lecture, then, realizing they're still a few chapters from the end of their novel, DASH THE LIVES OF THEIR CHARACTERS ON THE ROCKY SHORES OF HORRIBLE, CRUEL, TRAGIC REALITY! Agh!
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Because happy endings are usually sappy, deus-ex-machina scenes. Point in case: Lord of the Flies.
I know what you mean though.