Booking Through Thursday

A weekly meme about (mostly) books and reading.

Endings July 31, 2008

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I had a couple of people (Readerville and Nithin) leave me suggestions in response to last week’s post on Beginnings, but this one was already on its way! I mean, it was the obvious next question….

What are your favourite final sentences from books? Is there a book that you liked specially because of its last sentence? Or a book, perhaps that you didn’t like but still remember simply because of the last line?


Don’t forget to leave a link to your actual response (so people don’t have to go searching for it) in the comments—or if you prefer, leave your answers in the comments themselves!

And also–don’t forget, folks–sometimes WordPress’s spam filter seems to decide that a lot of perfectly valid answers are spam. I periodically check throughout the day for lost comments. But, PLEASE–if your comment doesn’t show, don’t post it four more times in the hopes that one of them will go through. I get very, very tired trying to sort out the duplicates.

 

68 Responses to “Endings”

  2. BTT…endings « Violet Crush Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 2:00 am

    [...] as you expected I don’t remember the last lines too. But ‘A thousand splendid suns’ ends with a very beautiful [...]

  3. mari Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 2:11 am

    You can find my very first post on my bloghere.

    What a great question. :)

  6. Traci Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 2:51 am

    I had a lovely time reminiscing with some favorite books. Famous Last Words.

  9. Sally Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 5:59 am

    Happy BTT everyone.
    Here’s mine.
    http://smilingsally.blogspot.com/

  13. JLS Hall Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 7:06 am

    I was expecting this, but that doesn’t mean I’m ready for it. Anyway, mine’s up:

    http://jlshall.blogspot.com/2008/07/booking-through-thursday-endings.html

  16. thekoolaidmom Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 7:28 am

    I liked this one better than the beginnings last week… don’t know why. In the Shadow of Mt. TBR

  19. Karen Harrington Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 8:04 am

    You do realize that as a writer, I am loving these questions! So much wonderful inspiration.

    Here’s mine

    http://scobberlotch.blogspot.com/2008/07/booking-through-thursday-favorite-final.html

  20. Matthew Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 8:13 am

    This is more difficult of a question than last week’s. But still fun. :)

    Here is my answer. Happy BTT everyone.

  21. readerville Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 8:30 am

    Here’s The Last Word

  22. Meghan Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 8:33 am

    Mine’s up here.

  24. Shannon Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 8:43 am

    My response is posted on my blog also:
    http://shaycv.blogspot.com/2008/07/booking-through-thursday-endings.html

    One line that stands out is my mind is “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn.” That line was stated by Rhett Butler in the book “Gone With The Wind”. However, it was not the last line of the book. The very last line is uttered by Scarlett O’Hara – “After all, tomorrow is another day.”

  27. readerville Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 9:39 am

    Oops! Looks like my first link didn’t work. Let’s try this one: <a href=”http://readerville.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/btt-the-last-word/” The Last Word

  31. Suey Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 9:58 am

    I listed a few here.

  34. mizb17 Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 10:28 am

    Again, this week, I didn’t have an answer for the week’s question… so I took one of the old BTT posts and answered that question, instead (again, I hope that’s all right):
    http://shouldbereading.wordpress.com/2008/07/31/booking-through-thursday-statistics/

    MizB

  37. Becky Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 10:58 am

    Here are my answers for this week.

  39. Nithin Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 12:18 pm

    Here’s my answer:

    BTT: Endings.

  41. Confuzzled Books Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 12:34 pm

    LOL. I kinda had to pan handle to fine the last line of a book I because my book is packed away but you can see it here.
    http://confuzzledbooks.blogspot.com/2008/07/booking-through-thursday_31.html

  43. Jessica Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 12:42 pm

    I mean here:http://thebluestockings.com/2008/07/booking-through-thursday-17

  46. carol Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 12:55 pm

    Hello everyone. My post is up and I look forward to reading all of yours. You can read mine at http://charliandme.blogspot.com/

  47. Jaime Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Hooray for Thursday! Tonight is the beginning of my weekend.

    http://www.bookconfessions.com/?p=607

  48. nicole Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 2:26 pm

    This was impossible! Mine’s here.

  50. cathyskye Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 3:00 pm

    I could’ve sworn I posted this, but it’s not showing up. Sheesh! If it shows up twice, just blame it on fried brain cells. I just came in from pruning trees, and it’s only 104 degrees out there!

    http://cathyskye.blogspot.com

    Now I’m going to cool off, guzzle my ice water, and have fun reading everyone else’s replies.

  56. unfinishedperson Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    Even though I have a wicked allergy headache, I still did it. Without further adieu and so I can go and try to get rid of this thing, which has been with me all day, here is mine.

  57. Alea Says:
    July 31, 2008 at 9:06 pm

    Here’s mine. http://aleapopculture.blogspot.com/2008/07/booking-through-thursday_31.html

    If you can call that an answer! I’m having last line brain block!

  59. Bluestocking Says:
    August 1, 2008 at 7:28 am

    Sorry everyone I had a deposition yesterday.

  61. princesshoney Says:
    August 1, 2008 at 6:05 pm

    Mine’s here.

  63. LoriG Says:
    August 1, 2008 at 8:42 pm

    Okay, it’s not Thursday, but it sort of feels like it still is.

  65. Thom Says:
    August 4, 2008 at 10:37 pm

    After a long absence from Booking Through Thursday, I’m back at it: http://thoughtsmadebald.typepad.com/thoughtsmadebald/2008/08/seeking-closure.html

  66. Booking Through Thursday #16 - Endings « That’s the Book! Says:
    August 5, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    [...] that it’s not Thursday but I wanted to still answer the question posed for last week’s Booking Through Thursday, as it’s sort of a continuation from the previous post.  So, without further waiting here it [...]


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