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signine
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Mr. Card, I would like to thank you for writing Shadow of the Giant. Out of all of your work that I've read, that was the first time I've felt myself so heavily emotionally invested. I nearly cried man, I nearly cried.

Good work.

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I'll squeeze those tears out yet.
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Verai
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I admit that I got misty when Petra finally found out Bean's secret plan. [Cry]
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That's not a spoiler, is it? I mean, Bean's always got a secret plan, right?
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Have you read Lost Boys? 'Cause that one gets me at the end every single time. I don't break down until the very last line, although I'm sniffing well before that. After I read that last line, though, I'll bawl for about half an hour.
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Verai
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I never read that, but I about lost it when Garth from the Elf Queen of Shannarah died.
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signine
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No, I haven't read Lost Boys, but it will certainly end up on my list.

To tell you the truth though, the first time I saw it mentioned on this board I thought about the 80s movie staring Keifer Sutherland.

"Maggots Michael, you're eating maggots."

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I can't get through Ender Shadow without totally losing it several times. I mean these kids are so young and never experience what it's like to be innocent and have a childhood. [Cry]

It breaks my heart.

[ April 07, 2005, 01:02 AM: Message edited by: Steev ]

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Clostest I've come (to crying that is) while reading an OSC book was at the end of Songmaster. Dunno why... that book just did something for me

SotG didn't really do much of anything in that area, though I guess any book is bound to affect different people in different ways

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The first time I read Red Prophet, I brought it to work with me and read on my breaks. I always do that with the book I'm currently reading, but what I wasn't counting on was the scene at Tippy-Canoe. Yeah, I had to stop and finish the scene at home. [Blushing]
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Yeah Shadow of the Giant was the first book ever that made me cry, I did... Though actully in Ender's Game when Enderm left and Val is like "I'll always love you" that wa a lil sad. I didn't cry but it was sortih.
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Lost Boys had me bawling my eyes out like very few books have ever done. I cry starting in the second to last chapter and don't stop till five minutes after I've finished the book.

I'm pretty sure SftD must've made me cry at points, although probably not that hard. I don't think it was the scene with Human, either. I think what got me was the scene with Ela by the river. And when Pipo was killed, perhaps. However, not memorable crying. The Ender books don't make me cry in that sort of way, generally.

*SotG SPOILERS*

The only place I got misty in SotG was when Petra confronted Mazer saying that she knew perfectly well it would be easier for them to kill Bean and the children, and Mazer turned around and said, "What do you think we are?" and she kept right on accusing him and he denied her accusations... that scene. For some reason that was the scene that got me. I could just feel Mazer's shock, his hurt surprise. He wasn't a character I empathized with before that scene, and I'm not sure why I empathized so strongly within that scene, but I did.

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It seems that I become more weepy with each passing year.

I really wish that I had read Lost Boys before I became a husband and a father. It hits too close to home, and I find it too painful to read. I have started it more than once, and have never finished it.

It's there on my bookshelf, mocking me.

Part of the reason why it is so painful is that I've read the short story, so I know pretty much what happens. I don't have to wait until the last few chapters for things to get tragic.

[ April 07, 2005, 11:27 AM: Message edited by: Portabello ]

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In Ender's Shadow, when Bean quotes scripture to the people about to die, "O my son Absalom . . . my son, my son Absalom. Would God I could die for the . . ." I just can't help crying. Every time.
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I don't even have to read all of Lost Boys for the end to make me cry. When I'm feeling sentimental and tired, I have a few books that I like to read the end of just for the good cry. Lost Boys and Anne McCaffery's Killashandra always do that for me.
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