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Post by Cherubic on Mar 3, 2008 22:12:09 GMT
I've just read Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro. I'm not crying but it was bloody bleak.
People raised from children to have their organs cut out of them in their 20s try to find some respite, don't achieve it and so sit their and accept it. It was completely without hope. I can't even decide if it was good or not because I feel like someone's hit me in the teeth with an iron and I'm concentrating on biting on my tongue so the larger pain won't hurt so much.
I suspect it's really a bit flimsy, but Ishiguro knows which buttons to puch to unnerve me. Fucking pretentious literary bastard.
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Post by Rad on Mar 4, 2008 8:50:29 GMT
I just finished The Kite runner. As McQueen says, it's good, but it's so darn depressing (I read Never Let Me Go a few years ago. It is pretty heavy).
I didn't cry though. I am hard.
I may have cried a little bit at OB leaving Hollyoaks.
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 5, 2008 8:34:57 GMT
The Kite runner didn't depress me that much. Not as much as Half of a Yellow Sun (which did make me cy, but that might just have been frustration at being bedridden at Christmas). For some reason men suffering doesn't seem as depressing as women to me.
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Post by francopopfille on Mar 5, 2008 15:03:10 GMT
. It was completely without hope. I can't even decide if it was good or not because I feel like someone's hit me in the teeth with an iron and I'm concentrating on biting on my tongue so the larger pain won't hurt so much. Thank you. I felt very similar to that when I read it a few months ago, I'm glad someone agrees and its not just me. I'm not convinced it's that good. Either I missed bits or there were a few plot holes...I didn't exactly cry but there was a huge lump in my chest when I had finished it. I don't like constant happy endings but a bit more resolution would have been nice. It just seemed to end. No satisfaction for the characters whatsoever
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 8, 2008 23:53:22 GMT
And now I've started to read Oryx and Crake by Margaret Attwood. I picked it up on auto-pilot in the library. I must be on some kind of "genetic engineering through the medium of a memoir of a self-indulgent adult reminiscing about their terrible childhood" binge at the moment.
Except I definitely don't feel sad about this one. Irritating little bastard deserves everything he gets.
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Post by mcqueen on Mar 11, 2008 23:37:48 GMT
I just finished The Kite runner. As McQueen says, it's good, but it's so darn depressing (I read Never Let Me Go a few years ago. It is pretty heavy). I didn't cry though. I am hard. I may have cried a little bit at OB leaving Hollyoaks.I'm glad you liked it! I am tempted to get the authors new book but I know I'm gonna end up endlessly comparing it to The Kite Runner.
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Post by Cherubic on Mar 12, 2008 19:26:13 GMT
I think the newer one is better, but then I read it first so I probably would.
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Post by lockjawsghost on Mar 14, 2008 10:16:27 GMT
no-one's mentioned "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" yet, that has some quite sad bits in it.
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Post by francopopfille on Mar 15, 2008 17:19:16 GMT
no-one's mentioned "the curious incident of the dog in the night-time" yet, that has some quite sad bits in it. Mark Haddon's second novel (A Spot Of Bother) does as well. It's very moving in parts.
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Post by Elly on Mar 17, 2008 21:43:39 GMT
Having finally finished The Book Thief (no, I'm not that slow a reader, I just had to take a big break in the middle for various reasons, and then I decided to start it again) I can confirm that the ending really is the definition of heartbreaking. If you don't weep at least once, you've a blacker heart than a dread pirate.
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Post by LoveMusic on Mar 17, 2008 22:23:23 GMT
I'm halfway through that at the moment, I almost don't want to read it because I think I know what will happen.
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Post by Rad on Mar 17, 2008 23:36:26 GMT
Oh, it is sad, but it's really good. So nice to read a book with lots of likeable characters.
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Dennis
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Post by Dennis on Apr 1, 2008 9:52:41 GMT
Helen Walsh's 'Once upon a time in England'. More than once.
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Post by fuzzydunlop on Jun 18, 2008 12:55:07 GMT
The Time-Traveller's Wife. I was going through some tricky emotional stuff myself at the time so that's what I put my blubbiness down to, cos I'm really dead hard, me.
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Post by JS2 on Jun 19, 2008 8:48:56 GMT
I seem to cry at anything. I read Moab is my Washpot too - i loved it. As i can remember, Noughts & Crosses, the five people you met in heaven, the lovely bones and the bit in Harry Potter - Chamber of Secrets - where he sees his parents in the mirror Sorry to correct, but it's The Philosopher's Stone
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Post by Becky on Jun 19, 2008 11:44:13 GMT
I've never cried at a book before last night when I was reading The Subtle Knife by Philip Pullman. The bit where Lee Scoresby and Hester die really got me.
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Post by lockjawsghost on Jun 19, 2008 11:58:22 GMT
oooh, smells, my son loves the harry books. no emotional breakdowns as yet, though.
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Post by timydamonkey on Jun 19, 2008 18:02:02 GMT
Only one book has ever made me cry and that was The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton. Possibly as the characters I liked kept dying, damnit.
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Post by francopopfille on Jun 19, 2008 19:27:59 GMT
"The Trick Is To Keep Breathing" by Janice Galloway. I've just finished it and bits of it are heartbreaking. Since it's about depression this is maybe to be expected, but still. There's not really any resolution as far as I can see,which is a bit worrying since quite a bit of the book seemed to apply to me. Great book, but oh dear.
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Post by Essexgirl on Jan 26, 2013 14:52:36 GMT
Me before You by Jojo Moyes. A great contemporary novel, well worth a read.
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Post by whalleyranger on Jan 26, 2013 15:18:22 GMT
For a heart-rending examination of euthanasia, try Wrong Rooms by Mark Sanderson. I had snot on my chin and everything.
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