tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post114130228490570948..comments2024-03-28T03:14:14.607-04:00Comments on Shorty PJs: . . . And she/he/it/they lived happily ever after.MaryBhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02412656596874731198noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post-1141412644136715202006-03-03T14:04:00.000-05:002006-03-03T14:04:00.000-05:00Ooh, Chris - thanks for the Winchester suggestion....Ooh, Chris - thanks for the Winchester suggestion. I do love his books.<BR/><BR/>So, I guess we've all pretty much squelched the "happy ending essential" theory here. But then, we're waaaaaaaay brighter than the folks in the survey, I bet. ;-)MaryBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02412656596874731198noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post-1141392008315349472006-03-03T08:20:00.000-05:002006-03-03T08:20:00.000-05:00Reading, like watching movies, is done for enterta...Reading, like watching movies, is done for entertainment. I'm with you on wanting the major threads resolved. Just make it interesting, be it warm and fuzzy, sad and melancholy, angry as hell, whatever... Just don't leave me hanging and "sputter out" as you say. The hanging part is OK if anticlimactic to resolution of the storyline, AND if it leaves/leads to opening for a sequel. I hate watching a movie that builds a story, gets you to the edge of your seat, and then the credits start rolling. I feel cheated. This is not whay I invested the last 2 hours. Give me an ending! I view books the same way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post-1141377518316981142006-03-03T04:18:00.000-05:002006-03-03T04:18:00.000-05:00I love a good book and don't really mind what the ...I love a good book and don't really mind what the ending is as long as it is enthralling. The only thing about good endings, though, is that it's the end and I always have that slight feeling of disappointment that I've finished a good book and now have to find another.<BR/><BR/>BTW, Mary, have just finished Simon Winchester's 'The Surgeon of Crowthorne' and can't recommend it highly enough. A really good read and a true story to boot.Chrishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07697792053955724924noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post-1141325553723003892006-03-02T13:52:00.000-05:002006-03-02T13:52:00.000-05:00I invariably find endings an anticlimax, I would m...I invariably find endings an anticlimax, I would much rather be on the journey rather than arriving.<BR/><BR/>The best ending ever was to the film 'Birdy' - excellent.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03548969874395633339noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post-1141324275272392362006-03-02T13:31:00.000-05:002006-03-02T13:31:00.000-05:00I am with liz, hate those fourth quarter... "oh, I...I am with liz, hate those fourth quarter... "oh, I better end this, maybe I can have some Martians land, uh, a world war, uh... etc.". Life is nothing but loose ends, they come in every flavour from sweet to bitter.<BR/><BR/>I just want to thank you, Ms. PJs, for mentioning my fav-0-rite dance (the panty-waist, I like to do it around the kitchen when I am cooking). I would share more, including good luck, but it is too hard to type with my fingers crossed.Peter (the other)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13566863953900423495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15254331.post-1141310024660763442006-03-02T09:33:00.000-05:002006-03-02T09:33:00.000-05:00I read Little Women about a million times and neve...I read Little Women about a million times and never understood why Jo didn't marry Laurie. <BR/><BR/>I don't like books that have what I would call a cheat ending. I've read a few recently that do it: Margaret Forster's Diary of an Ordinary Woman; Ian Mckewan's Atonement; and almost Life of Pi, but I chose not to accept that. <BR/><BR/>Gone with he Wind has a perfect ending.Liz Hindshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04646532093872561703noreply@blogger.com