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Wesley: And how does your kind define love? Demon: Same as all bodies. Same as everywheres. Love is sacrifice.

'The Girl in Question'

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."

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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

I look more rad than Lutheranism

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.

Dana - Mar 10, 2004 5:26:57 pm PST #1215 of 10002

I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Oh, yeah, Gatsby. The language makes me shake.

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