I think Tigana has his best ending and is his best standalone novel.
Two steaming cups of chocolate goodness. Courtesy of whomever I swiped it from out of the cupboard.
Ben ,'The Killer In Me'
We're Literary 2: To Read Makes Our Speaking English Good
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Betsy HP - Mar 10, 2004 4:48:23 pm PST #1205 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Consuela - Mar 10, 2004 5:00:55 pm PST #1206 of 10002
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
I loved the ending of Tigana -- both Dianora's fate and the way the last few pages ended.
I also loved the weird business with the, um, I forget the name. The people who fight in their dreams? Straight out of an anthropological text, and completely out of place in the novel, but so very cool.
Katie M - Mar 10, 2004 5:03:45 pm PST #1207 of 10002
I was charmed (albeit somewhat perplexed) by the fannish sensibility of many of the music choices -- it's like the director was trying to vid Canada. --loligo on the Olympic Opening Ceremonies
*goes and looks*
The Night Walkers of Certando.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2004 5:20:57 pm PST #1208 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
This leads to a literary subject I've been thinking about.
Endings are hard. What are your favorite endings in books?
Susan W. - Mar 10, 2004 5:22:52 pm PST #1209 of 10002
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Specific endings or types?
Steph L. - Mar 10, 2004 5:23:55 pm PST #1210 of 10002
Unusually and exceedingly peculiar and altogether quite impossible to describe
Off the top of my head, Gatsby. The Glass Menagerie, if we're counting plays.
The Prince of Tides.
Oh, oh, oh -- Kavalier and Clay might have the most perfect ending ever.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2004 5:24:34 pm PST #1211 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Prayer For Owen Meany.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2004 5:25:07 pm PST #1212 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Specific endings or types?
Specific endings. I just want to reverse engineer them a little bit and get a sense why they work.
DavidS - Mar 10, 2004 5:25:37 pm PST #1213 of 10002
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Did I mention I'd like a little commentary on why the ending worked so well? I don't think I did.
§ ita § - Mar 10, 2004 5:26:46 pm PST #1214 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
God, some guys are so needy.
I liked the Owen Meany ending because it double-purposed so many things. It was a huge callback/tying up. So many things that functioned perfectly well on their own were revealed to also be foreshadowing the climax.