Lost in Some Story

When I first read Les Miserables, (not the shitty London musical, but the French tome by Victor Hugo) the entire chapter about the death of Fantine had me wretched.

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Lost in Some Story

I read that recently. It was one of the best that Sedaris has ever written.

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Joshua1181

Glad to hear someone else is reading it. I've shoved it in the face of anyone near me for the last few weeks

ClancyBoy

Chuck Palahniuk's Choke, when I realized the many hours of my life I spent reading it were lost forever.

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ClancyBoy

On a related note, Jim Goad's Redneck Manifesto made me pass out.

A one-paragraph description of a Portland crack whore was just so perfectly written it made all the blood drain out of my head and I fell over in the middle of a bus station. It wasn't particularly gruesome or anything.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

Lost in Some Story

Did anyone help you?

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A Rose for Melinda

I cried throughout the entire book.

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ClancyBoy

It was in Japan.




So no.

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Lost in Some Story

I don't know if anyone would help in the States, now that I think about it. Loads of interesting characters haunt the bus stations. I wouldn't be suprised at all to see one of them swoon. In fact, I'd probably walk to the other side of the room and avoid eye contact.

Lost

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ClancyBoy

No worries. A fiberglass chair broke my fall.

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"Mother Hitton's Littul Kittons wait for you down there. Little pets they are, little little little pets. Cute little things, they say. Don't you believe it. No man ever saw them and walked away alive. You won't either. That's the final dash, flash. That's the utter clobber, cobber." --Cordwainer Smith, Norstrillia.

Athlynne

"Les Miserables", several times..."Night", always...at the end of the last 3 Harry Potters, and in the middles as well..."The Little Prince", the last few lines...a lot of books have made me cry, actually.

meldy

I tend to laugh out loud (and get a lot of wierd looks) more than I cry.

I think I might have shed a tear or two in one of the HP books....and in The Eagle and The Raven.
Cant think of anything else of the top of my head.

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