I don't think George Orwell was going for a tearjerker, but when poor Boxer gets taken to the glue factory when he thinks he is going to retire, I cry like a baby. I am even tearing up right now. Poor, loyal Boxer.
I'm not evil again. Why does everyone think that?
Angel ,'Sleeper'
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."
Sophia Brooks - Jul 04, 2011 11:25:47 am PDT #15535 of 28293
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Connie Neil - Jul 04, 2011 11:26:32 am PDT #15536 of 28293
brillig
I sob over Sgt. Bothari.
Oh, poor Bothari.
It's so hard to read some books in public, because if you start crying someone is bound to say "are you all right?" and then they look at you funny when you say "It's just the book I'm reading."
Leave me to my emotional catharsis, people!
Laga - Jul 04, 2011 11:41:36 am PDT #15537 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Poor, loyal Boxer
totally
Consuela - Jul 04, 2011 11:42:13 am PDT #15538 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
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???"
Man, I love that scene. I love Bigwig.
My niece called me this morning looking for a copy of Deathly Hallows: she just finished HBP last night and said she cried, even though she knew what was coming.
Deaths in books don't usually make me cry, unless it's animal deaths. Kill a dog or a horse and I'm all sniffly. The thing that gets me is a last-minute rescue, like the arrival of the Rohirrim at Minas Tirith.
erikaj - Jul 04, 2011 11:46:07 am PDT #15539 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
There have got to be some...I know there must be. But none of them work as well as "Where Wallace at, Stringer?"
Ginger - Jul 04, 2011 11:49:10 am PDT #15540 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The things that get me are big, damn heroics.
erin_obscure - Jul 04, 2011 11:57:27 am PDT #15541 of 28293
Occasionally I’m callous and strange
In 5th grade one of my classmate's mom came to read to us every week. She read Where the Red Fern Grows. EVERYONE in the class room was crying. Even the guys, struggling so hard to be dudes, couldn't stop the tears.
I sob every time i watch The Last Unicorn. When i was little, it was when all the Unicorns come pouring in at the end. As an adult watching with my sister, it was over Maggie's misery and the "why do you come to me now, when i am THIS?!?" And at the end. Ok, not a book, but still. Oceans of tears.
Polter-Cow - Jul 04, 2011 12:15:59 pm PDT #15542 of 28293
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
The things that get me are big, damn heroics.
Yeah, I rarely cry over character deaths; I am more apt to cry at beautiful, selfless gestures. Like the Class Protector Award.
Scrappy - Jul 04, 2011 12:28:40 pm PDT #15543 of 28293
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Yes, noble gestures do it for me every time. In Glory, when Shaw tells the soldiers they are not being treated fairly and are free to go and they are all there the next morning. And when they are marching to the battle and the racist guys yells out "Give 'em hell, 54!" and the other men take it up. Oh, the waterworks.
Strix - Jul 04, 2011 1:09:16 pm PDT #15544 of 28293
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
The things that get me are big, damn heroics.
Oh, word. The scene in the book I mentioned that gets me going is Big Damn Heroic, True Love Denied AND Granted (all at once) and...oh, god.
Yeah. Death, be not proud and all that, but give me a Stepping Up to Certain Death to Flip The Bird to Evil, and do with with a grin and grace? Despite the cost, despite having much in this world to cling to? And an author who isn't afraid to let that death be final and the cost be real?
Hell to the yeah.