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SFG75

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Had Grant not been so great a general, his historical ranking as president would probably have been higher. Of the four successful American generals who became presidents (Jackson, Eisenhower, and Taylor being the others), Grant achieved the most in both areas. To anyone familiar with the period, that is high praise indeed. It is well deserved. It is difficult to think of any American who rendered his country greater service than Ulysses S. Grant.
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-Grant: A biography by James Mosier.
 
Exhausted, they lay down some distance away to sleep; in that languorous air a fire was too warm. And at dawn, finding the pyre reduced to blackened debris, they used the metal bucket to cool it from the sea, then sifted through it for Pompey's ashes.
"I can't tell what's him and what's wood," said the slave.
"There's a difference," said Philip patiently. "Wood crumbles. Bones don't. Ask me if you're not sure."
They put what they found in the metal bucket.
"What do we do now?" asked the slave, a poor creature whose job was to wash and scrub.
"We walk to Alexandria," said Philip.
"Got no money," said the slave.
"I carry Gnaeus Pompeius's purse for him. We'll eat."
Philip picked up the bucket, took the slave by one limp hand, and walked off down the beach, away from stirring Pelusium.
FINIS
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From Colleen McCullough's Caesar. A great series which pushed me heavily into Roman history.
 
Quote:
When I got off the phone I paid my bill and walked all of the way into town in the soggy heat to where the Fuente del Norte buses leave from. Just as I was about to board the bus, I looked up and saw a familiar face in the door, that same merrily bemused smirk, that very same bus driver's aydante who'd made fun of me for not knowing where I was going. Grinning, he held his hand out for my ticket and said, "Hombre, all these weeks with the mermaids and still with a sad face? Que paso?"


The Long Night of White Chickens b y Francisco Goldman
 
It was eight o'clock when I stepped out onto the street. Eight o'clock on the morning of September 11th, 2001. Just forty-six minutes before the first plane crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center. Just two hours after that the smoke of 3000 incinerated bodies would drift over toward Brooklyn and come pouring down on us in a white cloud of ashes and death. But for now it was still eight o'clock. As I walked along the avenue under that brilliant blue sky I was happy my friends, as happy as any man who had ever lived.

Brooklyn Follies, Paul Auster
 
Hmmm... I haven't finished this book yet, so I'll have to type this with my eyes closed:


"For starters, Administrator Cainen," Sagan said, "we'd like the truth."

Old Man's War (John Scalzi)
 
Luckily the last paragraph is short:

"There have been wiser politicians and greater generals than Garibaldi; but none has been more lovable or more loved."
 
This thread is just the funniest thread ever. Firstly, who is going to type a whole paragraph for no reason? (Well, I know some of you have, which is the funny part, sorry). Second, what is a bunch of last paragraphs going to do, anyway? Other than spoil a lot of books for anyone who reads the thread. And tenthly, or whatever -ly I got to... oh, doesn't matter. :eek: :D
 
Sacrilege!!! :eek:

But seriously... I haven't read any of the paragraphs posted and I don't plan on posting my own. I'd never want to spoil the story, though I do know people who always read the end of a book first. :confused:
 
I'm not ruining the book for myself, so I'll just read the last paragraph of the last chapter I finished.

When Father Boudreau reached the head of the church, he circled the casket, waving the censer, filling the air with acrid smoke. When the censer had been placed next to the boat of incense, the priest stretched out his arms in an attitude of prayer.

- Twenty-Six, by Leo Mckay Jr.
 
I think I'll post the last paragraph I just read, thank you very much:

As the two entered the clearing they saw the boy and his teacher in a customary pose: Taliesin sitting hunched at Hafgan's feet, the oak staff across his lap while the druid sat on his stump, eyes closed, listening to his student's recitation. The pose shifted as the Chief Druid slid from the pony's back. Hafgan rose and Taliesin jumped to his feet. "Cormach is here!"
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(pg. 224)
 
I'll do the last paragraph.. this book I'm reading isn't particularly suspenseful or anything. Heh.

Harriet lifted her nose in the air, haughtily, and looked round the table at her friends. "I just dare you to try!"
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Short paragraph!

Book is "The Reading Group" by Elizabeth Noble.
 
The last paragraph of an ARC I'm currently reading... a book called Harry Potter and the Vaseline Ghost?

Harry Potter and the Vaseline Ghost said:
"Alas, after an embarrassing amount of attempts to impregnate Ron, Harry pursued his initial love interest: his broomstick that shall not be named."
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