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Jul. 24th, 2006 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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wemyss' journal, of the wonders of Anthony Price (and those of you who don't know them, should), it also occurs to me that Tomorrow's Ghost is one of the few books I've cried over. I don't, as it happens, cry very easily, and when I do it's usually more to do with fatigue than emotion, but there you are: Tomorrow's Ghost, the end of Effi Briest, and the final chapter of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (not, however, the death scene in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe).*
Which makes me wonder what books or scenes in books other people find particularly affecting?
* If we bring films into it, then we must add Ring of Bright Water - I was fond of otters, and the killing of a pet one as a pest came as a bit of a shock at eight - and Spock's death scene in Star Trek II.
wemyss' journal, of the wonders of Anthony Price (and those of you who don't know them, should), it also occurs to me that Tomorrow's Ghost is one of the few books I've cried over. I don't, as it happens, cry very easily, and when I do it's usually more to do with fatigue than emotion, but there you are: Tomorrow's Ghost, the end of Effi Briest, and the final chapter of The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (not, however, the death scene in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe).*Which makes me wonder what books or scenes in books other people find particularly affecting?
* If we bring films into it, then we must add Ring of Bright Water - I was fond of otters, and the killing of a pet one as a pest came as a bit of a shock at eight - and Spock's death scene in Star Trek II.
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:42 pm (UTC)I would personally suggest reading Greenwitch (which is, I think, the first in the sequence, but I might be wrong) in the summer, and then The Dark is Rising itself at Christmas.
I find myself welling up at the end of The Last Battle. The bittersweet ending where they meet all their old Narnian friends (but no Susan) and the very last bit about beginning the first chapter of the book, etc.
Still on Narnia, a couple of scenes from the Silver Chair also reduce me to tears - when they are all before the witch/Green Lady and Puddleglum gives his speech about living as a Narnian even if there is no Narnia; and near the end when they escape from the sunless lands into Narnia and it's winter and some animals are holding a bonfire/feast/dance.
The end of Finding Neverland makes me cry too (historical accuracy issues of the film in general put aside) and I'm sure there are other things I've forgotten. Oh, when Ged leaves Tenar in The Tombs of Atuan as well.
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Date: 2006-07-24 09:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2006-07-25 04:30 pm (UTC)