Sometimes one specific part of a book will stick out in your mind more than any other part, and it's not always the climax. So, what are some of your most memorable?
1. Ender's Game- When Dragon army wins the battle versus two armies at once, despite Ender giving up.
2. Lord of the Rings- The first time I read the poem about the "One ring to rule them all," I knew that this was going to be an awesome story.
3. A Game of Thrones- *SPOILER* - - - - - - - - - When Eddard Stark was betrayed by Little Finger and eventually killed. I had never been as mad at an author as I was when I read that. Then I kept reading the series and I have sense gotten madder. And yet I still love the series.
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The end passage of "To Kill a Mockingbird" when Scout is standing on the Radley porch is one of my favorites. I like its style and what it says about perspectives.
I also like the final pages of "Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass" for its lyrical quality, if nothing else, and for memories it stirs in me.
Parts of Homer's "The Iliad" but mostly the Funeral of Hector.
I also like some of the "Spoon River Anthology" selections.
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The opening scene of Xenocide where Han FeiTzu is talking to his dying wife always sticks with me; even when it was years since I'd read the book, that part was clear in my mind.
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The most memorable part of Xenocide for me is Han Qing-Jao's test for whether she is godspoken, when her complusion to clean her hands leads her almost to suicide, and she eventually discovers the tracing of the wood grain.
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The scene in The Amber Spyglass when Lyra and Will go into hell and the one where they discovered their love for each other.
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Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, the whole entire time-turner scene. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire-The part in the graveyard
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Oh, there are so many... some tragic, some happy.
'Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban' - when Sirius tells Harry someday he can live with him
'Invitation to the Game' - the First Lines and the Last Lines. Gives me a warm glow.
'This Time of Darkness' - When James is confused about why Axel's mother had tears in her eyes.
'Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrel' - That scene on the heath.
'The Many Lives and Secret Passions of Josephine B.' - When Rose's name is called.
'The Aeneid' - When Aeneas looses his wife and she appears to him.
'Witch Week' - The very last lines. Genius.
'David Copperfield' - Steerforth's death.
'Rama' - The stairs. For some reason they always captured my imagination.
'Going Solo' - The 6:00 take-off scene in the olive grove in Greece.
'The Hero and the Crown' - When Aerin rolls the skull out of the city.
I could so go on.
EDIT: For me, the most memorable bit in Ender's Game is when Mazer Rackham shows up. And the bit when someone, I forget who, after it's all over, laughs that they'll probably be sent back to school.
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Gates of Fire, when one of the soldiers, who is dying, demands that the protagonist carry him on his back, to shield it from arrows.
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Lord of the Flies: when they step on Piggy's glasses.
The Far Pavilions: when the sister burns on the funeral pyre.
The Jewel and the Crown: when(forget character's name) is questioned by the sadistic British police guy.
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The Last Battle: the mad rush for the "door" into the new Narnia and how the non-believers are diverted away from it
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The Silver Chair: Jill being afraid of Aslan and Aslan not really doing anything to reassure her.
The Last Battle: Further up and Farther in... and meeting Reepicheep again.
Guns of Avalon: Corwin's soliloquy after his vengence -- "Until that time, I shall neither wash my hands, nor let them hang useless." Also the flight from and fight with Benedict.
Sign of the Unicorn: Random's tale of attempting to rescue Brand.
The Whole Amber Series: the various descriptions of negotiating the pattern, especially ones where there is conflict between Corwin and Brand.
Prisoner of Azkaban: Harry's Corporeal Patronus being a stag.
Goblet of Fire: Priori Incantatum
Lost Boys: the dreadful chapter where you begin to realize the truth and your mind rejects it over and over again, till you are explicitly told and you can't deny it anymore.
Freeway Games: The final image of the woman shuddering.
Ender's Game: Ender *almost* realizing that he's killed Bonzo and Stilson. Also all the game scenes (the wolves, the snake, the giant's drink, etc.)
Cryptonomicon: Pearl Harbor from Waterhouse's PoV
Snow Crash: "They'll listen to Reason."
but the most memorable of all, I'm sad to say, is Tom Clancy --
Without Remorse: Pimp - "Why are you doing this?" John Kelly - "Practice."
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Tale of Two Cities: "It was the best of times, it was the worst of time ..." and "It is a far, far better thing that I do, then I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known".
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Wheel of Time: The Shadow Rising -- Rand's vision of Aiel history while in Rhuidean. This chapter alone almost makes the entre series worthwhile.
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As a side note - I keep reading this thread title as "Most Memorable Book of Mormon."
I guess, though, that not all of us have one of those. Mine is the blue one with the angel Moroni on the front. That one was cool.
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Mine were the diminutive, plastic-covered ones that my missionary companion used to stack up on the floor in order to make his push-ups more challenging.
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When the newest ones that are all skinny came out a few years ago, the missionaries in our ward told one of the young women who had asked "Wow! Why is it so skinny?" that they had decided to take out the Book of Alma. She was shocked. "Dude. No way."
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Night Watch -- When Vetinari catches a thrown apple on the end of his fork without looking up from his book.
A Prayer for Owen Meany -- When Owen hides under a bed in the school dormitory while a teacher and his wife make use of said bed.
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