http://americanbookreview.org/PDF/100_Best_Last_Lines_from_Novels.pdf
"obvious" selection, at least in the first 50 or so, not that thats a bad thing; they also cheat in a couple places. still. some good last lines.
― max, Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:05 (fifteen years ago)
interesting how many books on that list i could immediately tell you the first line but not the last
― max, Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:06 (fifteen years ago)
And you say, “Just a moment, I’ve almost finished If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino.” –Italo Calvino, If on a winter’s night a traveler (1979; trans. William Weaver)
^^^loving this
― dynasty is a feeling (stevie), Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:10 (fifteen years ago)
ooh, clever one, italo. so meta.
― a young thug's brutal coming of age (history mayne), Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:36 (fifteen years ago)
god
― what u think i steen for to push a crawfish? (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, 5 December 2009 16:40 (fifteen years ago)
I could do without the Calvino, the Stein, both (?!) Barths, the Patrick White AND THE COOVER.
There's nothing remarkable about the ending of The Catcher in the Rye, other than being the ending of The Catcher in the Rye.
Naked Lunch would have a stronger case if they had quoted more.
"They are rebuilding the City."Lee nodded absently... "Yes... Always..."Either way is a bad move to The East Wing...If I knew I'd be glad to tell you..."No good... no bueno... hustling myself..." "No glot... C'lom Fliday"
I don't know who Brian Evenson is, but he changed only one word of that ending from the ending of a book by... Barbara Pym, I think. Anyway I have read it before.
I would have added the tremendous ending of Alisdair Gray's Lanark.
― alimosina, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:05 (fifteen years ago)
Sorry, meant q not b
― alimosina, Saturday, 5 December 2009 17:06 (fifteen years ago)
I've read Lanark but can't recall the last line.
― Number None, Saturday, 5 December 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago)
i literally couldn't tell you the last line to a single book. And I love books!
― pentz dispenser (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 5 December 2009 20:19 (fifteen years ago)
Yeah, tbh the only one i ever remember is Gatsby but that's cos people go on about it a lot.
― Number None, Saturday, 5 December 2009 20:26 (fifteen years ago)
the ending of middlemarch is p affecting "... and rest in unvisited tombs"
― Lamp, Saturday, 5 December 2009 21:20 (fifteen years ago)
"So now we may perhaps to begin, yes?" or something like that, is that in there? Let me check.
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2009 00:31 (fifteen years ago)
RFI: Why Does Ulysses Get All Yessed Out In The Last Chapter?
― O-mar Gaya (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2009 00:33 (fifteen years ago)
why are 99% of those novels are originally english-written?
― Zeno, Sunday, 6 December 2009 02:01 (fifteen years ago)
I think the American Book Review might be mainly for an English-speaking audience.
― SBanned of Brothers (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 December 2009 02:08 (fifteen years ago)
the title - "100 best lines from novels" is misleading
or - they shouldve use more examples from translations
― Zeno, Sunday, 6 December 2009 02:14 (fifteen years ago)
am i imagining it or was there a Curb where Larry David kept reciting the last line of The Un-namable?
― dynasty is a feeling (stevie), Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:42 (fifteen years ago)
english is better than other languages.
― a young thug's brutal coming of age (history mayne), Sunday, 6 December 2009 12:54 (fifteen years ago)
Who is the writer of the best last line of the Zulus?
― Borinquen C (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 December 2009 14:32 (fifteen years ago)
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51nFu5CZF-L._SL500_AA240_.jpg
― SBanned of Brothers (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 6 December 2009 15:26 (fifteen years ago)