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Oliver Schick in reply to @Eejit

Finished Things Fall Apart. Third act felt pretty rushed, and subsequently it sort of came off feeling a bit like the kind of book you'd read for a-levels. Don't know if that's necessarily a bad thing, or if I've just become a terrible cynical bastard over the years. Beautiful prose throughout though.

Yes, sadly it doesn't end as well as it starts. That's a very common ailment.

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Eejit in reply to @Oliver Schick

So true. I know endings are tough to get right, but I do wonder if this alone accounts for the fact that so many people (across the board, not just in books) seem to get it wrong.

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Oliver Schick in reply to @Eejit

So true. I know endings are tough to get right, but I do wonder if this alone accounts for the fact that so many people (across the board, not just in books) seem to get it wrong.

People just run out of steam, they have to finish the book, the money's running out, they don't appreciate the importance of a good epilogue, they haven't thought through what all that great beginning is supposed to amount to in the end.

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