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The last sentence in the book you're currently reading.

Laughingman

Laughingman

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'My dearest,' said Valentine, 'has the count not just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words - "wait" and "hope"?'

Alexandre Dumas - The Count of Monte Cristo

P.S props to SFG75 from whom i blatently plagiarized this idea
 
AARGH! Why would you want to go and read the end of the book? What if it gives the whole thing away? :confused:
 
Well, the last sentence in the book I just finished is: "I'm in the book." It's from the first book in The Dresden Files series by Jim Butcher.
 
Sweet topic here Moon. It may give away the end to some folks, but to be honest, who really, really, really, really concentrates on the very last sentence? O.K., I do.:D

I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who.
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-Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle.
 
last sentence

It's not from the book I'm reading now, but the following kept me wanting more:

from the Fiery Cross: Diana Gabaldon

"When the day shall come, that we do part" he said softly, and turned to look at me, "if my last words are not 'I love you' - ye'll ken it was because I didna have time."

(mmm - for all those romantics out there!)
 
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'Sadly, he did not believe in angels.'

Haven't got there yet but I am one of these people that will scan the last page to make sure my favourite character is still alive at the end! Haven't done it a lot lately but I'm sure that old habits die hard!
 
I haven't gotten to the end yet, so I haven't seen what the last line is. I'm the type that reads from the beginning to the end and I don't want to look...
 
"Lights out." - from Travels in the Scriptorium by Paul Auster. Has anyone read this crazy book? I've just started it (I'm on page 5), but there is a big old horse standing in the middle of a barely furnished room, so it has got to be good!
 
I always read the last sentence either first or while I'm reading, though I never read more than that because I don't want it to be spoiled! The last sentence never really makes sense anyway until you actually get there and, for me, it's interesting to finally get there and remember it and think "...ohh...."
 
I'm definitely not a 'read the last sentence' kind of reader. Then I'll look at the second last sentence and the third last (Doh! I've ruined the ending).
 
I didn't count the appendices, so this is the last line of the final full chapter:

"(I hear, by the way, that the Mexican peso is now very strong again, and that you can get a hell of an interest rate south of the border.)"
 
Warning: Possible Spoiler...Too late for me, though!

"The boat reappeared, but brother and sister had gone down in an embrace never to be parted, living through again in one supreme moment the days when they had clasped their little hands in love and roamed the daisied fields together."

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot
 
The gunslinger waited for the time of the drawing and dreamed his long dreams of the Dark Tower, to which he would someday come at dusk and approach, winding his horn, to do some unimaginable final battle.
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Nice. Long. The first sentence is the best. This is from the revised & expanded version of The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger
I don't mind reading the last sentence since I've finished the series... but this is my first time reading the revised/expanded version.
 
Hazel followed; and together the slipped away, running easily down through the wood, where the first primroses were beginning to bloom.


Watership Down
 
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