A link to the entire book was on the Blacklist a few months ago.

Santamonker, I've provided a link to the book at the bottom of each post since the beginning of the series. So yes, you can read it online for free.

Could be an interesting subject of a series for discussion, looking at endings that work and those that don't. I'm immediately made to think of The Return of the King, with its many layered ending, that seems to keep going and going. As the exception to the rule, having rewatched the special editions recently, I enjoyed the endings. Having spent the best part of 12 hours with the characters, I wanted the closure! And, if you work it out as a proportion of the total running time, it is probably the equivalent of a few minutes of a 90 minutes film. Just trying to think of other examples where the post ending closure might have been too lengthy...or perhaps good examples of where the ending really is the last frame. The Wicker Man springs to mind now (not the remake), where there really is no scope for anything to occur after the end event. Or Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. I was also thinking of Snyder's ideas about having the first and last images reflecting each other to show the change that has occured during the course of the film, so a post climax postscript is often required from his point of view. Perhaps it just goes to show how important it is to have you ending worked out early, so you are working back from it...rather than working towards it....getting there and realising what you haven't solved on the way and trying to cram it into the post ending postscript. I guess, as Anita suggests, and as seems to be the case with a lot of what I am learning about screenwriting, getting the balance right is an important skill to develop.