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What book has the most beautiful ending ever written?

>> No.9600799

>>9600793
Dubliners
>inb4 not a book

>> No.9600801

>>9600793
Is there any correct answer besides Ulysses? The ending is absolutely sublime.

>> No.9600803

Moby-Dick is probably up there.

>> No.9600804

La Fou Follet by Pierre drieu La Rochelle

>> No.9600805

>>9600793
not Umineko, that's for sure

>> No.9600809

>>9600799
I thought about The Dead, too. But ulysses is a bit superior. The Dead is more a novella anyways, so it's a fair assesment.

>> No.9600818

>>9600793
my diary desu

>> No.9600819

Stoner, if I can't say The Dead

>> No.9600829

>>9600793
TBK has quite a lovely ending

>> No.9600846

There are many, given that beautiful endings are pretty much stock-in-trade. I'll go Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia.

>> No.9600848

>>9600793

>Timshel

>> No.9600853

>>9600793
that poem that ends not with a bang but with a whimper

>> No.9600861

>>9600853
not even the best Eliot ending

>> No.9600864

Umineko desu

>> No.9600873

Divine Comedy has best ending of all time.

>> No.9600879

>>9600848
fuck off

>> No.9600893

The last few part of Gravity's Rainbow hit me pretty hard.

>> No.9600904

SZS

>> No.9600921

>>9600873
oo this is a good pick

>> No.9600933

>>9600793
mark's gospel

>> No.9600971

The Grapes of Wrath

>> No.9600989

I'd say Les Mis

>> No.9600992
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>>9600848

>> No.9600995

>>9600804
thats a joke, right?

>> No.9601016

>>9600995
Jokes are meant to be funny. I was being dead serious.

(But really "one knows where one's heart is." -- pain can be exquisite you know ?)

>> No.9601025

The Running Man

>> No.9601026

>>9600995
My spelling was a joke however just googled it sheesh. My copy was called "will of the wisp" so plz no bully.

>> No.9601029

>>9600893
Speaking of Pinchyawn I thought that Inherent Vice was super mediocre but its last few passages were very nice.

>> No.9601031

My personal favorite's Ulysses.
>>9600793
Honest to God thought that Episode 8 of that was beautiful, shed a tear when that Italian song started playing too. It's certainly not the most beautiful ending though.

>> No.9601038

>>9600793
Ulysses, 100 Years of Solitude, Siddhartha

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>> No.9601062

>>9601050
my man

>> No.9601089

>>9600793
Les Miserables

>> No.9601091

Anna Karenina

>> No.9601093
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9601093

The Giver by Lois Lowry

The ending to this book remains one of my all time favorites.

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>> No.9601119

Don't remember reading an ending that struck me as particular beautiful. Old Man and the Sea, I guess. I don't want to be that guy who always says
>The Bible

>> No.9601121

>>9601050
Fuck yeah

>> No.9601126

>>9600793
the red and the black. when she died hugging her children, genius.

>> No.9601128

>>9601114
I can never decide if I hate or love that cover

>> No.9601132

>>9601050
This

>> No.9601185

>>9601029
Read it again. Like any Pinecone, it Reveals itself during rereads. Either way, why did you start there instead of one of his masterpieces? Or had you read some before?

>> No.9601189

[spoilers]So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.[/spoilers]

>> No.9601208

>>9601185
It just happened to be the first one I picked up. My knowledge of Pynchon at the time was basically that Gravity's Rainbow will fuck your mind so I wanted to read the rest of his books first.
IV was just the first one I found at my local library.

>> No.9601224

>>9601208
should've gone with col49, family

>> No.9601251

>>9601224
Probably, but the good thing about starting with Inherent Vice is that it only got better from there.

>> No.9601260

>>9600793
Grendel

>> No.9601330

A Tale of Two Cities

>> No.9601346

>>9600793
The Divine Comedy.

>> No.9601349

>>9600793
Runaway Horses.

>> No.9601369
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It may seem like a strange choice, but once you understand the novel as a whole, this ending really sticks with you. I know it pissed a lot of casual readers off. I think it's beautiful because it's full of possibility. At the same time, it leaves you with this wishful hope that love will exist for the protagonist despite his flaws. Very realistic as well, which makes it relate-able. Really good feels.

>> No.9601392

>>9600793
six four had a sweet and sad ending, excluding the last chapter that had a weird friendly ending but the two had no friendly feelings at all.

>> No.9601460

>>9600861
>till human voices wake us and we drown

>> No.9601507

>>9601460
there we go

>> No.9601705

Return of the King desu

>> No.9602000
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>> No.9602054

TBK

>> No.9602076

If you don't shed a tear with the ending of TBK you are soulless. Literally perfect.

>> No.9602122

>>9601369
john fowles is a genius

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>> No.9602141

The Recognitions

>> No.9602358

Wouldn't say of all time, but my personal favorite is either the ending of Lolita or the ending of Faulkner's Soldiers' Pay

>> No.9602382

>>9602358
The ending of As I Lay Dying was beautiful as well. Just knowing that everything they went through, the one son almost dying from a broken leg, another taken to jail, was all a selfish act committed by the father.

>> No.9602417

>>9601091
"AND THEN GOD SOLVES EVERYTHING".
Yeah, nah. Cop out ending that sells out Kostya's character.

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>>9601119
Well, I'll say it.

Read the last chapter of Revelation and try not to be moved.

>> No.9602451

>>9600793
Lolita, when they live happily ever after together <3

>> No.9602464

>>9600793
The Stranger, when he gets acquitted for shooting a subhuman.

>> No.9602471

>>9600793
TCoL 49, when everything is revealed in the final sentence.

>> No.9602476

>>9600793
Stoner, right after he publishes his second book and magnum opus and gets reunited with Katherine.

>> No.9602489

>>9600793
Blood Meridian. An outhouse is such an improbable place for the main characters to declare their reciprocal love and propose, don't you think?

>> No.9602492

>>9600793
Don Quixote, when they ride off into the sunset.

>> No.9602496

>>9600793
Odyssey, when he gets home safely to his faithful wife and rescues her and their son.

>> No.9602497

Anna Karenina, when Levin gets bread pilled.

>> No.9602501

>>9600793
Mein Kampf

>> No.9602510

>>9602501
Who /Dietrich Eckart/ here?

>> No.9602512

>>9600879
>>9600992

Why are you guys so butthurt over East of Eden?

>> No.9602513

Bang the Drum Slowly

>> No.9602523

>>9602497
Kek

>> No.9602543

>>9600793
I'm gonna get reamed, but my very favorite ending is also my favorite quote. It's from a Palahniuk book, Choke:
Where we're standing right now, in the ruins in the dark, what we build could be anything.

>> No.9602552

building is for beta men

>> No.9602555

That was really great how 10 posts in a row had huge spoilers.
Probably all the same poster, too. Same format.
kys

>> No.9602563

>>9600819
appreciate the Stoner reppin'

>> No.9602566

>>9602543
Are you serious? That's one of the most boring and uninspiring quotes I've ever read. It's so trite and completely unoriginal. Have you actually read any real literature? I could pick out a random sentence from Ulysses and it would be 100x better than that.

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>>9602566
sorry dude. I like what I like.

>> No.9602574

>>9600793
A Tale of Two Cities for me

>> No.9602618

the notebook

>> No.9602783
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>>9600793
Watership Down, baka~

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>>9602430
The most beautiful chapter of Revelation (and arguably the entire Bible) is actually ch. 21.

>mfw Rev. 21:4

>> No.9603136

>>9602555
Lmao, those are not spoilers, senpai. Everybody knows Josef K. gets transformed into a bug and back again at the end of Kafka's The Metamorphosis, but the real question is: why? You'll have to read it to find out. Why does the Trojan horse trick fail so miserably in book 24 of the Iliad? Or why does Orestes abandon Andromeda on the island of oxen's sons? And why was Scylla such a bitch? Those few are just examples from Greek mythology, and not the kind that you can answer just by reading Edith Hamilton's Mythology. You need primary sources. And that, son, is why we start with the Greeks.

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>>9603136
>Why does the Trojan horse trick fail so miserably in book 24 of the Iliad?

>> No.9603343

>>9600793
Moby Dick or Don Quixote.

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>>9602783
I know that feel. Makes dying feel a lot more comforting.

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9603364

Might not be the best but I really liked pic related

>tfw no Sofya Marmeladov

>> No.9603396
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THE
WHEEL
OF
TIME

Book 12: The Gathering Storm.
Chapter 50: "Veins of Gold"

The most epic and heartwarming end of a book I have ever read. I literally sat there bawling my eyes out.

In those last chapters, over the course of one afternoon, I was utterly shattered and rebuilt.

I wish I could read it for the first time again.

>> No.9603399

>>9603396
Just wanted to add that this is also my most favourite part of all the WoT books.

>> No.9603432

>>9600793
My Struggle Volume 4.

if you've read it, you know what i'm talking about

>> No.9603438

>>9603364
>not realizing that sofya was servicing the other men in the prison to help keep herself and raskolnikov alive

you're a fucking pleb.

>> No.9603444

>>9600933
Matthew's gospel.

>> No.9603556

>>9603438
>not realizing the fondness of the prisioners and their wives towards Sonia is part of the Holy Ghost work.

Also, is this some kind of "he raped Phoebe" thing?

>> No.9603796

>>9602783
hell yea

>> No.9603824

Maybe not the most beautiful, but I think that the ending of The Savage Detectives is phenomenal

>> No.9603834

>>9600879
>>9600992
What's the joke here?

>> No.9604000

>>9600829
Down to the last sentence. I agree

>> No.9605405

>>9600793
for me? like ever? It's Moby Dick

>> No.9605442

The Death of Ivan Ilyich.

>> No.9605517

>>9600793
Catch 22. Knowing that the MC has a chance to live and makes a run for it was a great wrap up to a good story

>> No.9605822

Since no one's said it, The Count of Monte Cristo

>> No.9605833

The end of The Lily and The Lion was beautiful imho.

>> No.9605838

The Story Of The Eye and i mean Reminiscences, not the chapter where Simone shoves the priests eye up her bumhole.

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Like a dog!

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>> No.9606495

>Now small fowls flew screaming over the yet yawning gulf; a sullen white surf beat against its steep sides; then all collapsed, and the great shroud of the sea rolled on as it rolled five thousand years ago.

Moby Dick's ending is just gorgeous. Only Snow Country comes close in terms of beauty.

>> No.9606788

>>9603438
You didn't get the book lol

>> No.9606932

I like Hector's funeral at the end of the Iliad

>> No.9606937

>>9603444
Luke's gospel

>> No.9607006

>>9600793
The Time of the Hero, by Mario Vargas Llosa.

>> No.9607022

Twelfth Night's always gave me feels desu. Something about the ending speech is perfect.

>> No.9607792

>>9600793
>Objectively
the power of one. It was damn near perfect. Even if the book did have glaring issues.
>Personally
Anthony kiedis' scar tissue.

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>>9606937
The Q'u'ra'n'

They all die at the end.

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>>9600793
>This was the bottom of the sea, far beneath the waves
>A small and fragile tale, of the deepest depths of the darkest shadow, where a faintly glowing golden rose rested
Take me back.

>> No.9609961

>>9603438
>implying that between Svidgidrailov's gift and working as a seamstress Sonya would need to reduce herself to such baseness

>> No.9610039

>>9600793

For me Suttree.

>> No.9610083
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Absolutely brutal in it's simplicity of form and deepness of meaning.

>> No.9610548

The Triumph of Death

>> No.9610559

>>9600793
of mice and men?