'Serenity'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Heh, Erin, sounds like me reading Pawn in Frankincense. 'cept for the balls thing.
No seriously, ten years after I read PiF the first time I thought, "Well, I know what's coming ahead of time, I'll be fine." Wrong. I won't read it again. Well, not unless I need really badly to cry and can't manage it otherwise.
I HAVE read it before, just for emotional catharsis.
The second time I re-read it, I was all "I'll be totally cool..." and then BOOM, ridiculous rivers of tears just pouring down my face.
I KNOW it's florid and baroque in places, I know it's a flawed first series...but my god, I so DON'T care. I just finished it again, and I'm a happy wreck. I love it so much.
I've never heard of Pawn in Frankincense, and now I'm going to look it up.
I'm curious, y'all -- what book or story makes you sob like a sobbing thing, every time?
what book or story makes you sob like a sobbing thing, every time?
The Velveteen Rabbit.
I've never sobbed over a book.
But I did gasp and feel almost faint at the reveal in The World According to Garp when Garp said, "I mith him."
I am not sure this would happen to me now, but I was sobbing "Nothing gold can stay" at the end of the Outsiders.
I sob at the end of Anne of Green Gables, every time.
Diane Duane's Book of Night With Moon. YA fantasy, part of the Young Wizard's series, from the cats' point of view, and there's a part that I can't even describe without breaking down, and I'd rather not explain that at work.
I get a little sniffly every time I read Beth getting the piano from Mr. Lawrence in Little Women.
Other books that made me sob, although I don't reread them, are My Sister's Keeper, The Time-Traveler's Wife, and The Sweet, Far Thing (although I probably will reread that trilogy at some point). Also cried more than once reading The Hunger Games trilogy.
Watership Down Hazel-rah!
Watership Down Hazel-rah!
Ahhh!! yes.
Though the best moment is when Bigwig drags himself up and says, "My Chief Rabbit told me to stop you here." And the other rabbits go, "Shit! He's *not* the Chief Rabbit??? There's someone *he* takes orders from???"