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I just bought another edition of a Sherlock Holmes collection because it has all the lovely Sydney Paget illustrations. & the book replicates how the original stories were laid out in The Standard, which is hell on the eyes, but makes the text more evocative of the era.
& I was discussing books with a friend. she loved the time traveler's wife & i totally hated it! i still see it prominently displayed in stores. Ugh. No. Do not recommend to anyone.
anyways, i was thinking about past reads, and i can only recall 2 authors who made me CRY while READING. that's got to be an indication of pretty persuasive writing. well, who are these 2 authors?
1. The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas
When Porthos dies, and oh, Aramis. I remember sobbing my way through the pages. By the Man in the Iron Mask, I was of course attached to the three musketeers plus one & I was stunned Dumas offed Porthos. Dumas doesn't write the scene where Aramis is alone with his anguish - he just describes the tears Aramis leaves (on the ship's railing I think it was). Aramis is probably my favourite musketeer - his delicate foppish ways concealing a cunning mind and fiery ambition! I love the scene in The Three Musketeers where d'Artagnan visits Aramis and Aramis drives him crazy with Latin, a table-toppling Works of St. John Chrysostom, & further horrifies him with talk of the benefits of self-flagellation and fasting on bread. Hee! still funny!
2. Any of James Herriot's books. I started reading these books when I was in my early teens. & I would cry all the time. All those farmers and animals & Siegfried & Tristan & company will never leave my mind. I haven't read them too much in the last few years, cos I don't want my heart wrenched. although there were some happy stories too.
3. This didn't make my cry, but it made me angry and I wasn't even 10 years old when I first read Little Women. to this day, I STILL think it completely and totally wrong that Laurie married that shallow biatch, Amy! while Jo got saddled with old Professor Baer, whose poverty and advanced age were brought up all the time. yeah right!
& I was discussing books with a friend. she loved the time traveler's wife & i totally hated it! i still see it prominently displayed in stores. Ugh. No. Do not recommend to anyone.
anyways, i was thinking about past reads, and i can only recall 2 authors who made me CRY while READING. that's got to be an indication of pretty persuasive writing. well, who are these 2 authors?
1. The Man in the Iron Mask, by Alexander Dumas
When Porthos dies, and oh, Aramis. I remember sobbing my way through the pages. By the Man in the Iron Mask, I was of course attached to the three musketeers plus one & I was stunned Dumas offed Porthos. Dumas doesn't write the scene where Aramis is alone with his anguish - he just describes the tears Aramis leaves (on the ship's railing I think it was). Aramis is probably my favourite musketeer - his delicate foppish ways concealing a cunning mind and fiery ambition! I love the scene in The Three Musketeers where d'Artagnan visits Aramis and Aramis drives him crazy with Latin, a table-toppling Works of St. John Chrysostom, & further horrifies him with talk of the benefits of self-flagellation and fasting on bread. Hee! still funny!
2. Any of James Herriot's books. I started reading these books when I was in my early teens. & I would cry all the time. All those farmers and animals & Siegfried & Tristan & company will never leave my mind. I haven't read them too much in the last few years, cos I don't want my heart wrenched. although there were some happy stories too.
3. This didn't make my cry, but it made me angry and I wasn't even 10 years old when I first read Little Women. to this day, I STILL think it completely and totally wrong that Laurie married that shallow biatch, Amy! while Jo got saddled with old Professor Baer, whose poverty and advanced age were brought up all the time. yeah right!