geekyTHERE WILL BE SPOILERS.
Seriously. If anyone comments here at all, THERE WILL BE SPOILERS. So please don't read and then yell at me because you encountered spoilers. You were warned. (I will not reply to every comment; I call partial comment amnesty. But I may well join some of the discussion, or answer questions or whatnot.)
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Have fun!
May 26 2012, 16:16:47 UTC 5 years ago Edited: May 26 2012, 16:17:15 UTC
Oh God thank you.
First, because this book and this story rocked. Second, because everything that was questionable was justified (er, in reader terms; certainly not in the terms of the characters inside the world). But finally, because I was horribly afraid that the nature of this world and story would require an ending substantially more ambivalent than what we got.
I feel bad calling an ending with that many deaths and sorrows a good one, but...it was. Almost all the people we're meant to root for got out, and got back where they were meant to be, and the balance of the world got a bit better. And oh my I did not think Shaun and George would get to keep each other and they DID. And Rick and President Ryman hadn't changed into horrid people, just good people in a horrid situation. And and and....
I too hope for more future stories in the world, but I admit Shaun and George's story *feels* complete. I'm curious about Dr. Abbey, and about what the world is like in a hundred years, and lots of things. But I'm hoping Shaun and Georgia get a quiet-enough life that following them beyond their blogs would be pointless, plotless voyeurism. They deserve it.
June 1 2012, 01:34:41 UTC 5 years ago
June 3 2012, 19:35:27 UTC 5 years ago