Posts Tagged ‘ending’
The author Julian Barnes would kill me, and defacing books is a terrible thing, but don’t you think this is also an AMAZING idea?
While attending a book club recently, a woman told me that the book they read before my book was Julian Barnes’ The Sense of an Ending. “And something really strange happened with that book,” she said. Almost as soon as the discussion began, the woman became confused. “It was as if they had all read…
Read MoreOne of the greatest sources of disagreement in my marriage centers on Kevin Bacon and a questionable dance number.
My wife and I don’t fight, and we disagree on very few things. One of the sources of our greatest disagreements centers on a moment in the movie Footloose. My contention is that the ending of the movie, with its choreographed dance number and strategically-timed glitter bomb (which looks ridiculous), is also ridiculous. It’s a…
Read MoreI had problems with the ending of The Lord of the Rings, but it had little to do with Frodo and Sam’s fate.
Quora recently asked the question: Would the Lord of the Rings have been more satisfying with a different ending. Specifically, what if the eagles hadn’t rescued Frodo and Samwise from Orodruin after the destruction of the One Ring? In other words, should Frodo and Samwise died after destroying the ring. J.R.R. Tolkien was a firm…
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