The Sweet, Far Thing (although I probably will reread that trilogy at some point).
I re-read the trilogy last year and just stopped before the end. Because I knew it would leave me an utter, gibbering mess.
Buckle up, kids! Daddy's puttin' the hammer down.
Spike ,'Touched'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
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."
Steph L. - Jul 04, 2011 10:15:28 am PDT #15518 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
Beverly - Jul 04, 2011 10:30:52 am PDT #15519 of 28342
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
All of those are--you realize there's a whole raft of books I'm never reading again, right? For the crying thing. As well as ones I won't read again because they were awful, and the ones I won't even finish--and that's huge for me, because for many, too many years, if I started it I had to finish it. Till one day I realized I'd never read all the books I wanted to, so why was I reading stuff unworthy of my time? I still feel guilty rereading favorites--time! Time I should spend on reading new stuff! But comfort reading is important, so I still do reread.
ANYway. Erin, Pawn in Frankincense is the fourth volume in Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles.
Amy - Jul 04, 2011 10:31:43 am PDT #15520 of 28342
Because books.
Oh god, I forgot Harry Potter. Sobbed at the end of both six and seven.
Because I knew it would leave me an utter, gibbering mess.
Yeah, that's my fear. I actually want to read her new books before I reread the trilogy -- I have Going Bovine and I need to get Beauty Queens.
Scrappy - Jul 04, 2011 10:36:14 am PDT #15521 of 28342
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Beverly - Jul 04, 2011 10:36:58 am PDT #15522 of 28342
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I still have not read Deathly Hallows. And yes, I've seen Pt. 1 and will see Pt. 2. Somehow, in this instance, I'd rather watch than read. I know it's going to be bad, but I just couldn't bring myself to read the final book. Yet.
Steph L. - Jul 04, 2011 10:43:27 am PDT #15523 of 28342
this mess was yours / now your mess is mine
All of those are--you realize there's a whole raft of books I'm never reading again, right? For the crying thing.
Confession: I have never read Watership Down and probably never will. Because of the crying thing.
Ginger - Jul 04, 2011 10:44:31 am PDT #15524 of 28342
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
a face so full of painless peace that those who loved it best smiled through their tears, and thanked God that Beth was well at last.
Hil R. - Jul 04, 2011 10:46:14 am PDT #15525 of 28342
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Confession: I have never read Watership Down and probably never will. Because of the crying thing.
I read it once and will never read it again. That was the most depressing book I've ever read.
Kate P. - Jul 04, 2011 10:48:20 am PDT #15526 of 28342
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
Charlotte's Web, Where the Red Fern Grows. Books I sobbed at as a kid will still get me now, but I haven't read much that's made me cry like that as an adult.
To Kill a Mockingbird.
Ooh, good one.
Strix - Jul 04, 2011 10:52:56 am PDT #15527 of 28342
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
I totally cried at that scene when I was a child...then as a YA, I totally was pissed at Beth's self-abnegation.
Now, if I get teary, it's more over Jo's grief, over any missing of Beth.
I had a feeling before I looked up PiF that it was Dunnett! I'm going to have to give her a re-read, I think. I tried to read the first one in the series, based of 'Ffista raves years ago, and couldn't get into it. But this has been true of many books over the years.
Sometimes, you're not ready for a book...and sometimes, you just don't vibe with it.
Also, ANNE! Yes, yes, still get teary over that.