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* ''[[Jumanji]]'' ends with two French girls walking on a beach hearing strange drumming that was coming from the game, lying not too far away from the girls. |
* ''[[Jumanji]]'' ends with two French girls walking on a beach hearing strange drumming that was coming from the game, lying not too far away from the girls. |
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* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series uses this as well. The final book ends with {{spoiler|Roland making it to the top of the tower, and finding himself in the desert following the man in black - and it isn't the first time he's been sent back to the beginning. There's an ambiguous clue that he might change things this time around, though.}} |
* [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]'' series uses this as well. The final book ends with {{spoiler|Roland making it to the top of the tower, and finding himself in the desert following the man in black - and it isn't the first time he's been sent back to the beginning. There's an ambiguous clue that he might change things this time around, though.}} |
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* Another King instance in ''Needful Things'', which starts with a narrator talking to the reader about the new store coming into town and telling us a bit about the town, and ends likewise in a different town. |
* Another King instance in ''Needful Things'', which starts with a narrator talking to the reader about the new store coming into town and telling us a bit about the town, and ends likewise in a different town. |
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* Terry Pratchett's ''[[ |
* Terry Pratchett's ''[[The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]'' ends with Maurice finding another stupid-looking kid to help earn his fortune. |
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* The first [[Artemis Fowl]] book starts with the titular character researching a hunch he has about fairies. At the end of the sixth book, he's gone through a [[Stable Time Loop]] back to before the first book with past!Artemis getting [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|mind-wiped]] to preserve the timeline. The last scene is him waking up post mind-wipe, back in the past, and half remembering "Fairies. Something about fairies." |
* The first ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' book starts with the titular character researching a hunch he has about fairies. At the end of the sixth book, he's gone through a [[Stable Time Loop]] back to before the first book with past!Artemis getting [[Laser-Guided Amnesia|mind-wiped]] to preserve the timeline. The last scene is him waking up post mind-wipe, back in the past, and half remembering "Fairies. Something about fairies." |
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* ''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'', arguably Laura Numeroff's most famous work, begins with the mouse being given a cookie, and asking for various other favors until the end, where he wants a cookie again. Numeroff herself described it as a "circular story." |
* ''If You Give a Mouse a Cookie'', arguably Laura Numeroff's most famous work, begins with the mouse being given a cookie, and asking for various other favors until the end, where he wants a cookie again. Numeroff herself described it as a "circular story." |
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** Several of Numeroff's other books follow the same pattern, either with the same mouse (''If You Take a Mouse to the Movies'') or with other animals (''If You Give a Pig a Pancake''). |
** Several of Numeroff's other books follow the same pattern, either with the same mouse (''If You Take a Mouse to the Movies'') or with other animals (''If You Give a Pig a Pancake''). |
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