A Prayer for Owen Meany, one of my fave books of all time, has a great ending. The entire book builds up to it, and it doesn't disappoint.

God, I adored this. It made me think of endings differently, and love the book forever. Nothing I'd thought of as a digression turned out to be one.

I should reread, huh? Except it makes me cry and cry.

Oh, that's such a good book. Maybe I'll re-read too. Although I just got Hotel New Hampshire for Christmas, one of the few Irvings I haven't read yet, so I should probably read that first.

Hotel New Hampshire

Jesus, I love that book. It is SO fucked up, and I love it to bits.

Hotel New Hampshire is probably my favorite modern book. I can't even put my finger on what about it speaks to me, and I think my friends think I am a sick fuck for loving it, but I just do.

The Girl's been begging me to read it for ages. It's her favourite book ever. Don't know why it's taken me this long to get round to it. I generally love everything I read by Irving.

The first time I read Princess Bride I was pissed as hell at the ending but now I love it and often tack it on myself when I watch the movie.

I don't think the Princess Bride ending belongs on the movie (since the book is bigger than the movie), but it works in the context of the book.

I like to think of it as a bridge to a whole other story. Someday I'll tie William Goldman up in a remote cabin and force him to write it.

The only thing coming to me in "endings" is the ending of Diaspora by Greg Egan. It's kind of a great science fiction novel most of the way through (at least, I thought so at seventeen) but its ending is an absolute disaster, as bad as the last half hour of A.I.

I tend to like most endings, though most of the books I love have pretty predictable endings as I tend to love pretty simple books.