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@futurebird @3janeTA
I don't think there's many times when I've read nearly all of a book and stopped shortly before the ending.

But it often seems the ending is the least fun part of a novel; there's cultural pressure on the author to bring all the threads together in a neat, cinematic closure, a complex and challenging task, which often ends up looking like either a mess, or an artificially slick and unnatural piece of plastic, since closure is irrelevant to the real world.