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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."
I'm having a hard time thinking of a specific favorite ending. Really, any ending where the climax flows naturally from what led into it, and there's enough denouement (sp?) that I don't feel as if I was left hanging makes me happy.
Well, there's The Shawshank Redemption, but since it's the movie rather than the book that makes my desert island list, I'm not sure it's germane to this discussion.
Oh, yeah, Possession. Makes me cry too.
(As opposed to Joyce, who just gives me hives. Not the good kind. To clear that right up.)
I'm better at identifying bad or problematic endings.
The Poisonwood Bible? Check.
Corelli's Mandolin? Ohhh, yeah.
And so forth.
Good endings have to wrap up the plot, at least kinda sorta, and give emotional closure with the right kind of weight. They can't be too fast or too drawn-out (see Poisonwood Bible), they may include some kind of interesting twist, they shouldn't be stupid.
Which I quite seriously want as my epitaph. Well, with my name instead of Charlotte.
Get in line.
Which I quite seriously want as my epitaph. Well, with my name instead of Charlotte.
Get in line.
Well, I'm in no rush to kick off, so....
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Thanks for the wrod, Nilly: my day is now officially made in the shade! Wow! I'm already happy, because it's the two-year anniversary of my current employment. Yay income. So very useful.
About endings: Completely in agreement about Charlotte's Web. The first time I read it, at I think age 8 or so, as soon as I read the horrible news that Charlotte had not been saved, but had actually died, well: I actually hurled my book across the room and refused to touch it for a week because I was furious with the author. I finally came back, though, because I had to know how it ended. Charlotte's epitaph is a thing of beauty, and a fine thing for either for this fictional spider or a Buffista.
Another ending that makes me cry every single time is the end of The Incredible Journey, but that's probably due to the great satisfaction that things did work out after all, all hope abandoned, and the old dog was finally seen gallantly "coming as fast as he could."
Oh, the endings of Gaudy Night and Busman's Honeymoon.
I love the end of The Wizard of Oz. I love that it's not a dream, because, as much as I love the movie, the ending always rankled.
Yes, Gaudy Night. It's just complicated to say why, since it's the romantic ending you want after three books' worth of proposals and evasions.