Not always. I read The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and with how many pages were left when he went in the gas chamber, I assumed he was gonna get outta there. Turns out the rest of the pages were an interview with author and, well, that certainly added to the ending’s shock factor.

Antkind by Charlie Kaufman. I think I would have struggled to read it as it’s very long, very convoluted and very self-indulgent. But as an audiobook it’s amazing. So funny and so bizarre.