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When you focus on the ending, you are missing the forest for the trees. The journey is infinitely more important than the destination. Often times, I feel totally satisfied with a journey without even reading the end. I have very little use for endings. Sometimes I'll just get in my car and...

Like I've said before, I am usually drastically out of step with fandom, as is evident here. :)

An author owes a reader nothing, except to tell a good story. There is no promise of anything. To expect something is bound to lead to disappointments, which is why this thread was started in the first place. Fans of things often think they are owed something, which is why fans are so often...

If a murder mystery is only good based on the puzzle being solved at the end, then what's the point of reading the entire thing? Just read the end and save yourself a whole heck of a lot of time. It is the journey that matters. It is the characters the detectives meets during his or her case...

I'm really glad to see Cisco in that collection. By god does that man deserve more readers.

Mine would be, A. Merritt, “The People of the Pit,” 1918.

It's almost as if we all have different opinion! ;)

If a story hinges upon its ending, it is not a good story.

The Croning, Laird Barron Roadside Picnic, Strugatsky Bros. Streets of Laredo Camanche Moon Dead Man's Walk, Larry McMurtry Dark Souls Design Works, From Software

In my experience, if the ending is so bad as to render the entire journey insufferable, than the journey probably wasn't worth all that much to begin with. There are bad endings - yes. And King probably has more than many authors do. He's even admitted that he's not good at endings. However...

I liked it, but I would have liked it more as a simple collection of DT-themed short stories, rather than the way it is framed now. Something like this would be a perfect place to include the flashback from WAG, as well as the DT story in Everything's Eventual. I'd actually like to see the DT...

Exactly. Endings only happen once, the journey happens the entire rest of the time. It's like death. Death is the end of life, but all it is is the end. What matters in life is the journey - the rest of it. Sure, a tragic death can be a sad ending to a life, but if the journey of the life is...

People put too much stock in endings. The journey getting there is far more important.

I am usually at odds with most kinds of fandom for some reason. It's not something I try to do, it just seems to happen. As far as WAG goes: The first part is awesome, the final battle and the last part are awesome. The 400 page flashback is not. There is no need for it. King grinds his...

The Last Picture Show, by Larry McMurtry The Last Picture Show is populated with some of the most despicable characters I've ever met. I've never encountered a group of characters as small-minded, petty, and bored as those found in Larry McMurtry's portrayal of life in the small Texas town...

The Last Picture Show is masterful.

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Not your fault at all! I really look forward to these threads every month. I'm excited to read Roadside Picnic. I was the film based on it years ago, and pretty much hated it. But then I was some of the other Tarkovsky films and hated them, too, so I realized it was probably the director's...

Never mind. The Last Unicorn is a comic book. Looks terrible. I thought it was a nice version of the novel with art work.

I love these posts. Very handy. Thanks. I just pre-ordered Roadside Picnic, and The Last Unicorn: Deluxe Edition