Talk:The Sense of an Ending

A news item involving The Sense of an Ending was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 19 October 2011.

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The picture used for this article is incorrect. The picture used is for Frank Kermode's The sense of an ending which is a non-fiction work. A correct picture for the novel should be used. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.104.175.154 (talk) 02:52, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I concur with author of previous comment. The actual book cover (as described and credited in the article, and imaged extensively on the Internet) is of floating dandelion seeds. Also please note that on this talk page, the date in "...In the news section on 19 December 2011." is obviously incorrect. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Determinist (talk • contribs) 06:07, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Plot[edit]

The plot section doesn't reveal the main plot point. Wikipedia does not shy from spoiling plots Wikipedia:Spoiler, so to be encyclopedic it should be there. --Mongreilf (talk) 11:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I hadn't read the book when I created the article, so I was just going on what I could find. You could add it yourself or someone might come along and add it in the next few days. - JuneGloom Talk 11:38, 19 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

I have added a brief plot summary (under the heading of "Structure and synopsis"). This is somewhat unbalanced and truncated because it is drawn from a couple of published reviews, rather than from the book itself, due to some editors of the article repeatedly removing any plot summary not referencing a secondary source.Sue Zuki (talk) 21:14, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Off topic in the "Title" section[edit]

Is there any reason why all this has to be in there?
"...the stated aim of which is "making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives".[8] Kermode's book is a well received piece of literary criticism. Critic Colin Burrow called it one of "the three most inspiring works of literary criticism written in the twentieth century", comparing Kermode's work with Erich Auerbach's Mimesis and E.R. Curtius's European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages.[9]"
The only real pertinent detail to me seems to be that Kermode's book is literary criticism, which is a helpful distinction for people looking up the Barnes book, but that can be accomplished by saying "The title is shared by a literary criticism book of the same name."--Wemedgefrodis (talk) 01:33, 6 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]