tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post6336969999684447187..comments2023-10-10T05:17:55.737-07:00Comments on Crushed By Ingsoc: Disaster Novels- How do You End Them?Crushedhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02479751225625007588noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-18570705495813159382007-05-16T09:30:00.000-07:002007-05-16T09:30:00.000-07:00Couldn't agree more, CBI. Great book, and it feel...Couldn't agree more, CBI. Great book, and it feels _exactly_ like Wyndham, an author I really respect, got bored at the end. I don't blame him. He'd taken it as far as he could.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-82285916171721880922007-05-16T11:03:00.000-07:002007-05-16T11:03:00.000-07:00Best ending to a disaster flick? Probably the ori...Best ending to a disaster flick? Probably the original Night of the Living Dead.<br><br>The first paragraph of this post .. like a foreign language to me I'm afraid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-24262627839395777392007-05-16T12:49:00.000-07:002007-05-16T12:49:00.000-07:00I think the worst ending was for the remake of Tit...I think the worst ending was for the remake of Titanic - where the old lady drops The Heart of the Ocean overboard. I think she ought to have sold the sapphire and spent it in cassinos. As for the scene with the old lady at stern of the ship ? She should have harked one back and gobbed a fleshy greenie over the side like Jack had taught her to do as a young girl.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-81296332052412839702007-05-16T16:14:00.000-07:002007-05-16T16:14:00.000-07:00Best ending to another disaster flick? How about J...Best ending to another disaster flick? How about John Carpenter's 'The Thing'.<br>Two men left alive, each one wondering if the other is the one infected with the 'beast'.<br>Never been bettered.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-35458906296183510252007-05-17T01:30:00.000-07:002007-05-17T01:30:00.000-07:00The invaders must have seen them, as across the co...<i>The invaders must have seen them, as across the coast they filed,<br>Standin' firm between them,<br>There lay Thunder Child!</i><br><br>I really need to dig out those cassettes. And then find something that actually plays them.<br><br>Also, I agree with the comment above about Night of the Living Dead. <br><br>Best. Ending. Ever.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-54829655749773193612007-05-17T03:07:00.000-07:002007-05-17T03:07:00.000-07:00Great post. I always did find "The War of the Wor...Great post. I always did find "The War of the Worlds" ending a letdown but I never thought why he did it before. It's a long time since I read "triffids" so I can't really remember the ending. I'm sure your theory is right - there can be no satisfactory ending to stories like these. Now, which books do you think have the most pleasing endings?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3334391160365031546.post-66838952538339637552007-05-17T03:17:00.000-07:002007-05-17T03:17:00.000-07:00I would say Wyndham redeems himsel with the ending...I would say Wyndham redeems himsel with the ending to The Chrysalids, TD.<br>On the same note, Welshcakes, Huxley's ending to Island is gutwrenching- it is one of those few Utopian novels where it describes a place where I'd like to live, and it ends with the umpleasant wotrld outside eliminating it in the person of a tinpot dictator.<br>In a general sense, I think LOR has the best constructed ending, leaving us to return to a Shire which has been damaged by the war that we saw fought elsewhere.<br>Lewis' Perelandra again, very satisfactory ending.<br>Most pointless last chapters of a novel? The winner must be War and Peace. Great book, but no need to stick three chapters of lit crit at the end.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com