Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha, ha, ha.
-Charles Willeford, " Kiss your *** goodbye."
-Charles Willeford, " Kiss your *** goodbye."
Last lines in books that you remember.
- Thread starter Tom S.
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$000.000
My bank book.
My bank book.
That quote is from T.S. Eliot's poem "The Hollow Man".
The last lines of Shute's "On The Beach" reads:
She took the cork out of the bottle. It was ten past ten. She said earnestly "Dwight, if you're on your way already, wait for me."
Then she put the tablets in her mouth and swallowed them down with a mouthful of brandy, sitting behind the wheel of her big car.
It's an interesting poem and a great book. The movie was pretty good as well.
OP
I thought the movie was very well done, and frightening as well. It's well worth viewing by anyone under 60 who wondered what life was like in the late 50's and into the 60's, living under the shadow of the threat of the mushroom clouds.
I remember reading the book, then seeing the movie as a first run which prompted me a few years later to revisit the movie, then re-read the book, then spending an otherwise summer reading all of Nevil Shute, and while I was at it, all of Agatha Christie.
That was the one that stuck in my head. I had to read it back in the late 70s in high school.
A summer well spent.
Timshel. Steinbeck's East of Eden.
"To the everlasting glory of the Infantry-"
Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Robert Heinlein - Starship Troopers
Jon651
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I don't remember the last line, but the final act of Tom Clancy's book "Debt of Honor" published in 1994 shook me to my core, where a Japanese airline pilot crashed a 747 into the Capitol Building during the State of the Union address - and this was 7 years before September 11, 2001. As I watched 9/11 happen in real-time on TV, memories of that book came roaring back...
Frankly, while I've read a lot of books, I can't think of any...
The last paragraph of Frederick Forsyth's "The Devil's Alternative" stands the entire book on its head. You're turning to that last page thinking it's all wrapped up in a neat bow, then one of the key characters turns to the protagonist and completely flips the script.
