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Post by En on Nov 11, 2003 13:59:07 GMT -5
*shoots a weird look at Roald, wherever he is now*
All I ever got as a kid was my da singing the theme songs from cowboy-themed TV shows... well, and my mum singing ballads about cannibalism, death by exposure and other friendly fluffy subjects. Tcchht... no "that explains it" comments please.
Confession: I wept when the Nautilus went down. It just seemed... so much beauty lost, you know? Such a treasure, and such a rare man at its helm, whether or not I agreed with him....
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Post by Simply Panda on Nov 11, 2003 16:17:32 GMT -5
AHHH! Go Ask Alice! I forgot about that one! I read it the first time in 5th grade, hehe... not exactly a 5th graders book, but eh? anyway... I've read it so many times and it gets me everytime!
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Post by Ersade on Nov 12, 2003 0:29:32 GMT -5
Bridge to Terebithia is my sad book. I cry every time I read it.
Some books make me cry completely randomly. It's strange. I'll cry when no one else does. I cried when I read Ordinary People by Judith Guest. And while it was a rather sad book, I cried at parts that no one really cries at. I'm the same way with movies, maybe it's just the way I interpret things. But if something touches me in a certain way, I just burst into tears.
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Post by S.S Tigress on Nov 13, 2003 18:16:00 GMT -5
5th grade?! That would've traumatized me in 5th grade...either that or make me want to try acid for the hell of it. Have fun reading, En! Do post about your views on it when you're done!
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Post by Simply Panda on Nov 13, 2003 21:08:28 GMT -5
Ha, ha... didn't traumatize me (well... i suppose it might have... depends on who you talk to ) I actually think it kept me off drugs... just being exposed to it when the portrayal was so negative at a young age... but, yeah... 5th grade, me and 2 of my friends would take turns reading entries on the playgound. LOL!
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Post by Sphi on Nov 13, 2003 23:40:56 GMT -5
I cry at practically everything. Some commercials make me cry.
Has anyone read Animal Farm by George Orwell? It's about the Russian Revolution. Yeah, I cried in that. Because of Boxer. I literally had to stop reading because I was soaking my book. Another one has to be Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon--easily one of my most favourite books ever. It's so beautiful. I definitely cried in that one. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, was a sad book for me, too. I don't know if many other people find it sad. *shrugs*
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 14, 2003 6:50:50 GMT -5
One I actually cried at was 'Charlotte's Web' - I've heard it's a real children's classic in America, but it's not over here. I only read it recently, and actually found myself welling up several times during it.
I really gotta read this 'Bridge to Terebithia' - it's popping up everywhere.
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Post by Nie on Nov 14, 2003 7:07:11 GMT -5
Charlotte's Web made me cry too. It's a really good children's book.
Shade's Children is my sad book. I've got tears in my eyes now just thinking about the characters in it and why it makes me cry everytime I read it. I think it's because I identify with all the characters in it so well. All of them are only young, no more than children really, and all of them had to take on responsibilty and grow up far before their time to survive. I relate to them cos I had to do that in my own way.
*goes in search of Bridge to Terebithia*
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Post by En on Nov 14, 2003 7:44:45 GMT -5
Has anyone read Animal Farm by George Orwell? It's about the Russian Revolution. Yeah, I cried in that. Because of Boxer. I literally had to stop reading because I was soaking my book. Another one has to be Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon--easily one of my most favourite books ever. It's so beautiful. I definitely cried in that one. Ender's Game, by Orson Scott Card, was a sad book for me, too. I don't know if many other people find it sad. *shrugs* Yeah, Sphi, Ender's Game gets me too -- just -- I don't know, the sheer injustice and madness of what's really going on, and how hard Ender tries and how very alone he is. Actually that whole series gets me, especially Xenocide. And ditto on Animal Farm -- this is going to sound silly, but we had to watch the old animated film in a class once, I think I was about 14 -- and I was so angry that I cried and wouldn't talk to anyone for hours. It just made my blood boil. And I couldn't believe, couldn't handle what they did to Boxer. *turns off burner as s/he is beginning to whistle*
Charlotte's Web -- man, I haven't read that in ages, but mostly I just remember being thrilled that Charlotte was such a nerd.
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Post by Ceridwen on Nov 14, 2003 9:04:28 GMT -5
Really? She didn't strike me as being a nerd. Then, I guess, when you are one yourself, maybe it makes spotting other nerds more difficult. I also cried at Anne Holm's 'I Am David', and Ian Serallier's 'The Silver Sword', though I haven't read it in aeons. But then, as Lavinia said, I cry at lots of things. Advertisements regularly have me losing the plot completely, and screaming for my handkerchief. O, and Oscar Wilde's short stories - especially 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Grumpy Giant' (I think this was the name)? I cried for about a month after reading those. No, seriously.
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Post by S.S Tigress on Nov 15, 2003 11:39:16 GMT -5
Animal Farm.. isn't that the book that's banned in some states of America? The one that has a metaphor for Communism?
I never finished it, but Interview With The Vampire got me a little. It was awhile ago that I stopped reading it, but I'm sure the part where he's explaining his feelings for Babette? Weird place to get tear-jerky but that's me.
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Post by En on Nov 15, 2003 12:16:16 GMT -5
O, I meant that Charlotte was using her prodigious vocabulary to make the world better, which seems like something that would have gotten her labelled a nerd if she'd been in my class at school Maybe that was just me looking for role models though... *realises it is a bit odd to say a spider from a children's book was one's role model... and promptly changes the subject*
Is Animal Farm banned? It wouldn't surprise me; yeah, the animals on the farm form a commune, but it fails. Once again, I suspect that people who ban books either a) never finish reading them or b) don't get them at all... or both. Anyway, it's always seemed to me that Animal Farm is more about how hard it is to maintain your ideal of life, whatever that is, than about a particular government system. That's part of what made me sad about it, anyway, because it's so tragic when people lose track of a dream while on the practical treadmill of life.
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Post by S.S Tigress on Nov 15, 2003 12:23:46 GMT -5
I think it's banned in quite a lot of states out west. I thought it a bit funny that almost no books (that I know of at least) at banned in Massachusetts. I wonder what this means...
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Post by Calantha on Nov 16, 2003 13:34:17 GMT -5
Animal Farm is banned in schools here. But you can still buy copies and get them from the library. In schools they are in the restricted section right beside the books about guns and such. Seems a bit ridiculous to me if you ask me, but hey, I don't make the rules. I can just complain about them . The boxer part got me a bit but not enough to make me really sad, granted when I read the book I was in quite a cynical mood, if I remember right. Charlotte's Web made me cry so much. I hated that Charlotte died because I really really liked her. I made my mom put the book down and I had to read it on my own so she couldn't see me crying during the book. I believe that book fell somewhere after she finished reading my sister and I Alice in Wonderland. Go Ask Alice didn't make me cry but just very upset. In some ways it hit very close to home and the ending just really tore me up. Not in a cry way, but in a sit-and-think-in-a-sorta-depressed-manner way.
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Post by Simply Panda on Nov 16, 2003 23:34:28 GMT -5
ha, ha... Animal Farm was required reading at my school... so was about 1/2 the other books on the banned books/most challenged books list.
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