Do you like it when the author kills off one of the main characters?

I really dislike it when a main character is killed off, particularly in a series where the character has appeared in novel after novel. I was like that when JK Rowling axed Sirius, the Dumbledore, now I am holding my breath to see who she axes next.

I completely understand what you are talking about there are a few books that I have read that I feel have made me very upset to the fact that I just wanted to cry because right in the middle of the book the author kills my favorite person/ the lead character. I would have to say that I dislike the fact that the author does that I don't know if it's to get the reader half way thru the book or if it's just to keep you in suspense until the last minute.

I guess I never really thought about it...I know I pretty mad at the last Harry Potter book, that she killed off Dumbledore. I really liked him and how he kept Harry Potter under his wing. I was disappointed, but oh well. I suppose all good things must come to an end.

I hate it when a author takes away a good charcter like the Harry Potter books it is going to be over with the last book. Either one of the 3 will be gone. It will proberly be Harry since the story is about him.

When i am studing an interesting novel with suspense and the main characters find to be interesting, and it will be curious to know about the end how the main character is going to solve the problem. But suddenly if i come to know by reading that the author kills the main character, i feel very sad and my interest in continuing goes off.

I think I would like an author more if he makes me care enough for the character that i would really be sad (even annoyed) if he kills the character. Characters can die depending on the story; any author can kill his characters at will but only good writers can make you wish they live.

that really depends. if he is the villain then go ahead. but sometimes it would really take on me. i like i stop reading and trying to absorb what just the author did. hehe.. i get carried away sometimes.

I think first one is more realistic and better.

I once read a book by Guy Gavriel Kay in which you get very interested in several of the main characters, and throughout the book, it's kind of inevitable that one of them will die. In fact, they can't all survive in order for the book to work. I was quite upset.

It is not worth it to see that kind of movie, you are spending 2 hours and a half to see that movie and then the main characters will die..hmmmmm..it is not worth it.

I don't like when the main character die. But if I not like that main character I don't mine the character die .. :D

well. i have seen a movie about this kind of killing. the movie is about a guy being narrated in a novel. and he is narrated to be killed, but he himself just thought that he was being followed by sb else. and it is pretty weird that finally he noticed sth , and he found the writer. who is about to kill him, and the author was quite surprised that the man she is narrating in her novel is standing in front of her. and it is prescribed that the man should be killed in teh car accidnet. but at last .he was saved by the author. i simly do not like it when the author kills off one of the main characters in his or he novels...................

I think it depends on the story. Some stories really need to kill off the main character for a reason. I mean, tha uthor didn't just do it just for fun. He/she did it for the story to be good and to also benefit other characters. I would understand the author for killing off the main, like maybe HARRY POTTER in the 7th book. But sometimes like you, authors kill off the main/protagonist but I dont see the reason behind it. That for me is a book not worth reading. Or not just in my list of favorite or most read for my friends.

hmmm not really..if its really needed in the story why not..and i wanted to have a story which is not the typical story.lets have something new..not the so happy ending story..the they lived happily ever after..

I hate this and hate those also who continue with the same spirit.

I've been reading a fantasy series for a number of years now called A Song of Fire and Ice. It is told from the point of view of several characters -- mostly the members of a large noble family. In the third book of the series, I nearly stopped reading it altogether because the author killed off one of the three main characters! It was months before I picked up the book again (literally! When the character was killed off, I threw the book across the room and left it there). It is now two books later in the series and several more prominent characters have bit the dust. I'm still not used to it, and I felt angry all over again when a major character was killed off in the last book. I'm wondering who will be left after the last book in the series! On the other hand, I'm really enjoying the TV show Lost, in which several main characters have been killed off already.

When reading a book or watching a movie or a Tv serie, I like when the authors keep me in my toes, and the stories are filled with twists and turns, and no character is "safe", regardeless of his importance, of corse I don`t like when one my favorites characters is killed of, but i think that is prefereble to a monotonous and eventful tone, where some books series fell.

killing of important characters may increase the rating of a novel.according to the story killing of that particular person may be apt.i heard that in last part of harry potter she is going to kill one of the main characters .

I like the possibilty that the character could get killed off. It's far more realistic.

no