Best Closing Pages/Ending

[Balbi]

I thought it was the Road. I may be blinded by raw emotion mind.

Oh Pieface, stick to running long distances

 

[Geri]

The end of My Sister's Keeper - such an utter shock, I was in floods of tears!

 

[Diamond]

coincidentally, I've read Reflections in A Golden Eye and Ballad of the Sad Café in the last day or so. Love McCullers, and yes, that ending is wonderful.

I really rate the last - quite long - section of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers, where the grief he's bottled up for the rest of work (by being all tricksy and post-modern and evasive) comes rushing out in this tremendous outpouring of love and loss. Makes the hairs on my arms stand up thinking about it.

I'll have to look those two up. Short stories presumably?

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter sort of felt like a collection of short stories well knitted together until the end that elevated and interwove all of them that bit tighter.

 

[El Jefe]

I'll have to look those two up. Short stories presumably?

novellas - one's about 90 pages, the other 125 or so.

to be fair, she's... well, not formulaic exactly, but all her stuff is about people lost in love or lovelessness, failing to communicate, and projecting their loves or needs onto other people with usually awful consequences.

 

[Diamond]

novellas - one's about 90 pages, the other 125 or so.

to be fair, she's... well, not formulaic exactly, but all her stuff is about people lost in love or lovelessness, failing to communicate, and projecting their loves or needs onto other people with usually awful consequences.

Excellent, shall search them out.

Her life story's pretty crazy too. Was reading about her husband begging her to make a suicide pact in Paris and stuff.

 

[Badger Kitten]

The end of The Time Traveller's Wife had me weeping uncontrollably despite being on a beach with a cold beer having a marvellous time up til that point.

'He is coming, and I am here.'

 

[Gavin Bl]

'True Story of the Kelly Gang' and 'The Life of Animals' (I think, v.short book about someones elderly mother becoming obsessed with animal rights) are both a real kick in the guts at the very end.