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theohsocurlyone

What You Forgot.

Aug 25, 2009 16:57

Oh, good grief.

I really thought I'd done all my crying about Jack and Ianto, barring actually watching them on screen (particularly in Day Four), but then I read this, which is absolutely brilliant, and just completely heartbreaking:

What You Forgot by harmyjoBecause a thousand years is something we can't even comprehend; it's too fantastical to be ( Read more... )

rec, torchwood, films, books, jack/ianto, gagh

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lucy_locket August 25 2009, 16:10:40 UTC

EFJHERJKFHEKH FRERERICK AND SALLY FREDERICK AND SALLY! I love them!

theohsocurlyone August 25 2009, 16:15:28 UTC

My mum got me the audiobook for the second book from the library when I was about thirteen; I'd never read the stories, didn't know the characters, wasn't even genre savvy enough to guess that Fred was about to die, and yet when he did, I was broken. I cried so much; it was insane. He was just...oh, he was lovely, and they just fit together perfectly! And then he...before he knew that Sally was...GAH!

It still moves me, even now. But YES, THEY ARE BOTH SO BRILLIANT! (I never bothered watching the TV versions, though.)

lucy_locket August 25 2009, 16:17:51 UTC

Meep! I read the books, in order and shit but I knew that he died before I started reading Shadow in the North because I'm impatient and flicked through and waaaaaaah I was so sad. I love them! And I was sooo pissed off when Sally hooked up with that Goldberg guy. Just ew.

The tv versions are really not all that. As in I didn't really enjoy them in any way :p

theohsocurlyone August 25 2009, 16:21:20 UTC

Goldberg's badassery is brilliant, as is his accent (I love the audiobooks so much - I have The Tiger in the Well on ricketty cassette tapes!)...but yeah, Fred was her real true love!

lucy_locket August 25 2009, 16:23:24 UTC

I don't think I really liked Goldberg at all :p and omg I should buy these books someday. It's been years and Pullman is ace. I have a copy of The Tin Princess rattling around somewhere I think, but that one totes doesn't count. Only problem is that now all the books have Billie Piper's ugly ass eyebrows all over them :p

theohsocurlyone August 25 2009, 16:26:13 UTC

Ah yes, The Tin Princess is the only one I actually own, and it's not that brilliant, is it? It's so beyond the others that it's hard to read in the same light; I always loved smoky, Victorian London, and the photography shop. Plus, Sally is barely in it, so it falls a bit flat for me. Adelaide is fantastic, though.

I wonder what generation of Sally's offspring would be alive today? Harriet's...grandchildren, great-(great)-grandchildren? I'll have to try and work it out...

lucy_locket August 25 2009, 16:28:30 UTC

I really liked the whole European feel of The Tin Princess and Jim and Adelaide are really win, but I still didn't like it that much. Plus Fred was always my favourite, sad times :(

Ahahahaha Harriet could totes have been in Victorian Torchwood being a lesbian :p

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