Favored endings..

What are some of your more well liked endings to books? Not the whole ending of course, nor to give anything away, but a mere ending statement or so... I just finished the book I was reading, and I enjoyed the end.. And of course was inspired to create this thread.

Anyway, it was thus (well not exactly, but to make it more plain):

"In this life, in this World of Tears, you need a sense of humour, neh?"

Quite fitting to be sure, and it rather pleased me.

So what are some of yours, recenty read, or more generally favored?

 

From Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises:


"Oh, Jake,” Brett said, “we could have had such a damned good time together.”

Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly pressing Brett against me.

“Yes,” I said. “Isn’t it pretty to think so?”


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The ending in book 7, to Stephen King's Dark Tower series. It's really interesting to see, after spending so long on the series, how he finally wraps it up at the end. I thought it was very fitting...

 

"Like Spain, I am bound to the past"


William S. Burroughs - 'Cities of the Red Night'

 

... the conviction, often betrayed but nonetheless firmly held, that men are brothers.

The Great Ajmerican Desert - Jon Manchip White

 

I might get a few lauphes at this, but when I was 10 or 11, I read Peter Pan, and I wouldn't read the end because, I didn't want it to end.......... I guess thats not my favorite ending, but this thread reminded me....

The Rules of Attraction has a good ending........

 

yeah, definitely

on some levels it seemed a little bit of a cheap ending,

but all in all, very fitting

 

when i am reading novels, i often like depressing endings because sometimes i get tired of books, tv shows and movies too often having extremly happy and unrealistic endings.

 

I kind of thought it was a bit cheap at first, too...

And then I thought...how else could he have ended that series? What else could've possibly been waiting for Roland, at the top of the Tower?? So, yeah, I think it was pretty fitting.

 

man, i've been trying to get that book or a while... that was a really good series. I started to get a little down about it though in the 4th to 5th book. They just didn't seem to deliver the same punch as the first three

 

I can see what you're saying, Sandman. Wolves of the Calla, and Song of Susannah weren't as intriguing to me, though I sitll loved them.

But, Wizard and Glass??? Man, I absolutely love that book, it's my favourite in the series. I love the detail about Roland's childhood, and the story of Susan. Young love, can't go wrong with that.

Keep looking for the last book man, it's well worth it. Definetly one of the best in the series, and just the way he wraps it up, makes you wish he'd write more. It's great.

Also, have either of you read the Little Sister's of Eluria? It's actually the prequel to the Gunslinger book, but it wasn't written until after Wizard and Glass. Go figure. Great story though, it talks of Roland's travels, before the events in the Gunslinger. It's a short story, only about 200 and some pages, and it's in a compilation novel, with a couple other short stories, from other writers. I also wish Little Sisters would have been longer, it was such an enchanting story.

 

"No One Writes To The Colonel" by Gabriel Garsia Marques

 

i'm gonna go ahead and say what i think is the worst ending ever: the darren shan saga. wtf happened there!?!?!?!?! if anyone ever reads this series, then put it down about halfway through the last book, because it would have worked if it had been left there. then, tear out the rest, and burn it.

 

I hate endings.. when I was younger I used to prefer books that went on for a thousand pages if possible and even better was a series of books that all went on for a thousand pages. nowadays I'm a little more discriminating though I still love a good long book.

favorite ending? any book in which the main protagonist goes through a series of struggles that ends in them knowing/understanding themself better. it's a theme of my life .

 

1984 has a great ending, but to quote it would to be to give the end away. the very last sentance is harrowing.

 

animal farm was classy, but to quote the end is also to give it away

 

"I know that knowledge and intelligence are not the same thing - but they do live in the same neighborhood."------ The Know-IT-All by A.J. Jacobs

 

i love the end of interview with the vampire. i read it a few months ago, and i actually cant remember what happened. i just remember that it was awesome. *sigh* that old goth side of me just loves anne rice to death.

 

oh, and i've read Little Sisters, too. isk what to think about it. certainly not my favorite, but still pretty good. i read it in a stephen king collection of short stories that was absoloutley amazing though.

 

God I thought this thread said "flavored endings". Wouldn't that be sweet? You got to the end of a book and there was a Snickers bar or something?