fico the fur
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Post by fico the fur on Oct 14, 2003 12:57:02 GMT -5
i thought his mom did know him. and it felt untied because there wasn't any... agreement on anything. it's like... it's like dating. i don't think i could stand not knowing whether to say "this was a dating relationship" or "this wasn't", you know? it's too loose. i don't need everything in a square knot, but i need something, some sort of agreement.
by "clean" i mean that people know what happened. not that it wasn't messy, because relationships usually do get messy. just that the people involved at least know something of how the other people interpreted stuff, so they understand at least a little of who the other people are through those interpretations. you don't have to like them, you don't have to agree with them, you just have to make an effort to understand.
... i see... i just... geh. i'm doing the thing where i have trouble seperating what i would do as opposed to what the actual character would do.
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Post by guinevere on Oct 15, 2003 23:31:46 GMT -5
I cried reading The Joy Luck Club, the Green Mile, and Hart*s War. I cried in the first two movies...and the third movie was nothing at all like the book...nothing...
and, after reading for about a billion years, those are the only books that made me cry.
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Calavera Diablos
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Post by Calavera Diablos on Oct 16, 2003 0:30:13 GMT -5
Eh, Joy Luck was sad... Actually both Joy Luck and Green Mile made me cry in bok and movie format.
Patton- Yeah, during certain parts of it.
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Post by En on Oct 16, 2003 12:20:37 GMT -5
I cried reading The Joy Luck Club a couple of places -- when the one mother had to leave her babies on the road during the war -- and a lot about the chess-playing daughter, with whom I sympathised a lot -- and then during the movie, the "best quality crab" scene gets me every time.
Pity all the guys in Tan's earlier work are such creeps, though.
I cry when Thorin Oakenshield dies in The Hobbit.
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Post by guinevere on Oct 17, 2003 1:17:51 GMT -5
whoa--I did forget one! Watership Down....when the rabbit passes (from old age) in the end. I wept like a small child--and if I walked into a bookstore and saw a copy of the book, I*d start crying again.
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Post by En on Oct 17, 2003 12:25:51 GMT -5
*flashes back to Art Garfunkel* "How can the light that burned so brightly / suddenly look so pale?" (that's from his song for the Watership Down movie)...
One that always knocks me flat, and I don't mean for grief or partings now -- this book had me sobbing (in that way that makes you need to go out and seize the day the morning after you finish it): The Woman Who Walked into Doors by Roddy Doyle. It's about a woman who becomes an alcoholic while trying to survive an abusive marriage, and it is one of the most extraordinarily realistic pieces of fiction I've ever read. Doyle's a genius anyway, but this is one hell of a book.
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Post by S.S Tigress on Oct 19, 2003 17:14:55 GMT -5
I'm a sucker for romance novels, particularly Nicholas Sparks. So A Walk To Remember got me real hard and then I saw the movie and was amazed by Mandy Moore's acting that I cried even in the movie. Also The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks, ugh, that was just amazing. They started filming for that book last november and it's supposed to be out sometime next year I think. I cried through out the last chapter of that book, it was just so touching.
Bridge to Teribethia got me too. I don't know why (well I sort of do, the girl died in a river.) but I just did, I think it was during the part about her funeral though, not the actual event.
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 5, 2003 4:31:15 GMT -5
Calantha mentioned 'Tuesdays with Morrie' - I could barely read the last few chapters, due to having to wipe my eyes every three seconds. Also, Stephen King's 'The Green Mile' - it knocked me for six. A book I always, always cry at is 'The Little Prince', by Antoine de Saint-Exupery, no matter that I've read it sixteen billion times already *sob*. I also cried at 'Jude the Obscure', and 'Wuthering Heights', and the beautiful, beautiful 'The Bonesetter's Daughter', Amy Tan. But the most recent text I've read which made me cry was a thirteenth century poem from an Irish manuscript, called 'Lullai lullai thou litel childe', which is basically a lullaby, but tells the child about life, pain and death, all the while with the knowledge that the child is too young to understand it yet, but the day will come when all these things will be clear. It's just so heartbreaking, firstly because it makes you see that all humans dread the same things, and secondly, that nothing has changed - 700 years ago, people were the same as they are now. That, to me, is incredibly touching.
*sniffles*
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Post by En on Nov 5, 2003 12:09:56 GMT -5
Tigress -- funny you should mention that, I was just talking to someone about how I almost never cry when something bad actually happens, but if I see a friend hurting about the same thing, I go all teary. So funerals are really hard on me. Nyeh.
Yeah, Ceri knows this already, but I love The Little Prince too -- and when the Little Prince parts from the fox, that always rips me up. "Because of the colour of the wheat fields." *sniffle*
Ohhh... the lullay... I love that poem (there's a musical setting of it I learnt in choir years ago, very haunting, not like the rather anglified stiffbacked version Mannheim Steamroller did).
Another poem that smashes me to useless bits: Dylan Thomas' poem about losing his da, "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night":
ehh... there I go. *reaches for a tissue*
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Post by Simply Panda on Nov 9, 2003 16:41:14 GMT -5
A Dog Called Kitty had me crying... even when I was very young. What recently... hmmm... book wise, I can't really think of much. I have just recently been getting into Loreena McKennitt (sp?)... can thank En for that one I believe... anywho... the song The Highway Man gets me everytime... it is based on a poem so it's kinda like reading? lol.
Ohhh... wait... the end of Return of the King I was crying... cause I didn't want it to be over... and I felt so bad for Frodo. Yeah... that's a whole other conversation there.
I think I cried at the end of Abhorsen too... that's by Garth Nix (the end of an excellent trilogy by the way).
Oh... Land of 10,000 Sorrows (i think that's what it's called) had me crying... it's an autobiography of a 1/2 Korean girl who watched her mother killed by her grandfather and uncle... then she ended up being adopted by these American people who were TERRIBLE!
The Lovely Bones made me cry in the beginning. It's an excellent book... highly recommended.
Lucky is a memoir by the author of The Lovely Bones I think her name is Alice Sebold? Anyway... it was also really sad.
Everyone is talking bout Nicolas Sparks... so I might as well get one in there... The Rescue WAS SOOO SAD! but good...
Sadly enough I havn't read Bridge to Teribithia or Where the Red Fern Grows. I will have to read them sometimes since I have been told time and time again that they were excellent.
Can you tell that I am an emotional person??? lol. I guess I could think of books that made me cry...
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Post by S.S Tigress on Nov 9, 2003 17:33:42 GMT -5
I only cried at The Rescue when the boy says "I love you" to his mom. Though, I read that book at a time in my life when I thought love didn't really exsist and that happy-endings never happened. Ohhh! I love Loreena Mckennitt. I found her 3 years ago, I was doing song seachers on Kazaa by my friends' names. I put in Dante and got Dante's Prayer. I fell in love after that and downloaded a bunch more from here. Songs are just poems with a tune....I think Dante's Prayer gets me everytime and another one..gr...I can't remember the title!! Ahh!! Go Ask Alice was a sad book for me aswell. It was just sad how it ends, her last entry and then the little tidbit about her after the book ends. I don't want to really give it all away, but it left the reader with hope and then...downfall. I still remember the part...in the hospital, thinking about what happened...in the closet..AHhh.. ::runs away clutching her fingernails::
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Ceridwen
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 10, 2003 4:55:23 GMT -5
'The Lovely Bones'? Eek. I cried buckets at that one, but it also made me a bit... jumpy. It's very well written, I found it to be a great book, but not one I'd normally read, it was given to me by a friend. I've just finished 'Middlesex', by Jeffrey Eugenides. It actually made me cry, in places, too. What a book! I didn't like 'The Virgin Suicides' at all, but this one is miles better. Can I actually say that I cried at the end of Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'? I was in love with one of the characters, who meets a sticky end. I actually cried on the bus, can you believe it. *rolls eyes at self*
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Post by En on Nov 10, 2003 16:25:08 GMT -5
Agh... yeah... "The Highwayman" gets me too, Panda.
oo... *shivers*
Tigress, I have Go Ask Alice, but I haven't read it yet. Now you've got me curious, so I'll start it tonight.
Oh Ceri, don't worry, everyone here has done that -- *glances around* Haven't we?
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Post by Isbister15 on Nov 10, 2003 20:54:31 GMT -5
Can I actually say that I cried at the end of Donna Tartt's 'The Secret History'? I was in love with one of the characters, who meets a sticky end. I actually cried on the bus, can you believe it. *rolls eyes at self* Grrr, have you read her other book The Little Friend? I actually wanted to read The Secret History first but it was out at the library, so I borrowed Friend and I was *sorely* disappointed. I really can't stand it when authors pull what I consider to be a cop-out, and that's what was written all over this book. I was tempted to write to Tartt and tell her how upset I was at the lack of any real sort of closure or conclusion to the book, but that I'll survive since I know who did what anyway. ;D (<--which I'm sure is part of the reason why authors do such things, but I was angry all that same. ) I've heard Secret History is much better so I do plan on reading that.
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 11, 2003 5:07:23 GMT -5
*flaps hands, a la Janice from 'Friends'*
'The Secret History' is absolutely fantastic. (Ok, I'd better not oversell it, because I gave it to a friend, who thought it was tripe, but for me.... it was great). I really thought the characters were well drawn, the suspense was perfectly honed, the story was a bit *cuckoo* and off the wall, just how I like it, and of course the writing is just excellent. Bits of 'The Little Friend' are like that - but I agree that it fails to carry off the same effect, and I have to admit I actually nearly threw it in the bin in rage when I got to the end. I was so dissatisfied! But anyway. 'The Secret History' is great, I really recommend it. It's a pity there's such a disparity between the two, because people who read her latest work first are going to be put off, and might miss out on the jewel that is her debut.
An offside: Debut novels I aspire to recreating. Jeanette Winterson's 'Oranges are Not the Only Fruit', Margaret Atwood's 'The Edible Woman' (someone correct me if I'm wrong on this one, because I'm not sure if it's a debut), Tartt's 'The Secret History', and I'm sure there's a male author in there, too, but I'm blessed if I can remember his name.. darn. To be continued.
*remembers something from her wild-eyed childhood* My father reciting 'The Highwayman' to me, and my brain seeing images of blood-soaked lace at his throat... like Roald Dahl once said, a bit of pointless terror is necessary for any childhood. *shiver*
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