Topic: Lost Boys (minor SPOILERS) and other emotional reads
Boon
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I've read Lost Boys (by OSC, of course!) several times, and every single time I bawl huge, wet, painful sobs at the end. I know it's because I get so emotionally involved with the characters that, even though I know how it'll end, I'm still shocked and devastated. I know I'm not alone.
My question, for those of you who empathize with the Fletchers as I do, is: are there other books that make you feel this way? Other authors who's characters become so real? Other stories that touch your heart like this one does?
<~ still wiping away tears from the latest reread
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The novel didn't hit me as hard as the original story. Possibly because in the original story, he wrote it as autobiography.
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For which he caught a lot of flak. It's not surprising he toned down that aspect in the novel.
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Haven't read the book in question, but your question brings to mind one of my own favourites. Every time I read Silverthorn (by R.E. Feist) tears come to my eyes, when I come to the scene where one of the main characters has just died. A young and impressionable lad who had become close to the protagonist, breaks into tears at the sight of such a cruel fate. Even knowing how the story continues, this particular scene moves me every time.
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