Hi everyone! I hope you’re all well. Today is Wednesday, and it’s time for another post in the Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge hosted by Long and Short Reviews. If you’d like to participate in the challenge yourself, you can find the list of topics for 2024 here. If you’d like to read others’ responses to this week’s topic, you can do so here.
Books With Fantastic Endings
I know I go on about this book a lot, but I think A Christmas Carol has one of the most satisfying endings ever. We get a wonderful redemption of a character whose heart has slowly turned to ice over the years, only for it to melt when he is able to see what he’s become. I just love the story in whatever guise it comes in because, let’s face it, there are many.
Another story’s ending I like (and this may be controversial) is the ending to The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen. Unlike the Disney version (which, much to my mother’s despair, I was obsessed with as a kid), the original ends with the mermaid dissolving into sea foam after refusing to kill the Prince she is so desperately in love with. It’s such a grim fate for a children’s story (even though there is a moral finale that may or may not have been added at the last moment, in which the mermaid becomes a ‘daughter of the Air), but most stories from way back when ended rather grimly, didn’t they?
My final choice is A Dog’s Purpose. I’ve spoken about this book before, too, and reviewed it here. I could wax lyrical forever about how this book destroyed me more than once whilst reading it, only for that ending to piece me back together again. I really don’t want to give away the ending here, but I recommend reading it, especially if you’ve ever loved and lost a dog. I am still yet to read the sequels, even though I really want to; the ending of this one really affected me for quite some time.
Well, that’s post 37. I wonder what all of you will choose.
Thank you, as ever, for reading my post this week. I really appreciate it.
Until next time,
George
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GEORGE L THOMAS 
UGH – the dissolving sea foam… gosh that used to get me every time when I was younger…!! Thanks for the memory! Linda xx
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Thanks for commenting, Linda! 🙂🙂
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My pleasure 🥰
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I liked those endings, too. But that sure was a dark ending for The Little Mermaid.
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Yeah, it is a little dark.
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I’ve only read A Christmas Carol of the three on your list, but you are absolutely right. It is such a satisfying journey and I think was one of the books that taught me to look for more in people than they appear to be – even the ones who seem pretty awful! Great pick!
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“A Christmas Carol” would be yet another example of a book that’s “fantastic” all the way–both in the sense of alternative-to-realistic, and in the sense of well done.
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Great choices! I’ve seen a third version of the Little Mermaid ending, where she refuses to kill the prince, jumps into the sea expecting to become sea foam and finds herself discorporated in the air surrounded by other spirits and that she becomes a sort of guardian angel/spirit for making her choice not to kill.
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