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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1926 Joined: 9 Sep 2008     | Hooray, I know the ending to Ender's Game and never have to read it ever. Transmetropolitan. Where Spider goes ape-shit at a religious convention, dressed up in a white robe with a wire halo. |
Muckraker Posts: 282 Joined: 18 Oct 2008 |
Oookay then, you're not really weird or anything. Also, if your stupid enough to never have read Ender's Game, it's not my fault you're posting on a GAMING forum filled with sci-fi geeks. |
On the Record  Posts: 5966 Joined: 7 Feb 2008     | I've never read Enders Game but I'm not dumb enough to insult it. Personal favorite moment in literature? That's a tough one, rarely has a book come down to one moment of awesome but the ending to Barry Hugharts "The Bridge of Birds" where the mystery is solved and everyone gets a happy ending was awesome. That or the climax of The Sign of The Four with the Steamlaunch Chase. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1926 Joined: 9 Sep 2008 |
You telling me you're a sci-fi geek and haven't read or heard of Transmetropolitan? Get out. No, you can't grab your things, just get out. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1151 Joined: 7 Dec 2008   | Ender's Game is fan-freaking-tastic, I've read it like 3 times (only book I've ever read multiple times... or at all). Oh, there's a book series called Pendragon (fantasy stuff) where a main character dies. It was awesome. |
Muckraker  Posts: 281 Joined: 1 May 2008     | I often find myself laughing out loud while reading Pratchett, but I'd have to say that the description of the meal given in "How Green Was My Valley" was sheer torture. By the end of it, I was starving and I wanted what they were having. Llewellyn does a phenomenal job describing a scene so that you feel like you're there. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2906 Joined: 10 Apr 2008    | I think the greatest moment in modern literature is actually one titanic moment that is all the discworld novels happening at once. If i had to narrow it down, i would have to say the greatest moment would be any moment in which Rincewind realises he needs to escape. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1394 Joined: 31 Aug 2008     | My favorite moment in literature is the last 4 words of 1984 by George Orwell. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 684 Joined: 22 Dec 2008    | There's a book by China Mieville called Perdido Street Station, if you haven't read it, I'll give you a moment. Go ahead. I also was very fond of pretty much every moment in Night Watch by Terry Pratchett. The best serious book he's written (and it was still pretty funny!). OH one more! In Catch-22, every scene with Snowden... Oh man, that is one of my favorite books and I haven't read it in so long... I gotta get back to it now. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3406 Joined: 28 Jun 2008  |
I am yet to read that. What are those words? For me, it's the ending of Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Actually made me tear up at the time. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1112 Joined: 26 Jan 2008    | The end of "The Last Wish" where geralt is forced into a fight where he is not aloud to touch his opponent wit his sword or he will be killed by the many men around men, so to get around this he forces his opponent into an awkward blocking position and slams the guys own sword into his face slices him open and wins. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1394 Joined: 31 Aug 2008 |
Bah, I can't tell you, it would ruin everything. Read the book now! |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1112 Joined: 26 Jan 2008 |
Or skip to the end and read the last four words..but i guess it wouldn't have the same impact. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1394 Joined: 31 Aug 2008 |
Don't skip to the end! They definitely wouldn't have the same impact, or any impact at all really because you need to at least read a chapter or two to understand it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3205 Joined: 10 Nov 2007    |
Consider yourself lucky, really. Also, it's Starship Troopers with all the right wing silliness replaced with left wing silliness. And stupid retcons so that the main character could be crowbarred into an entirely unrelated story which then became the sequel, ruining both the short story Ender's Game and what could have been an interesting sci fi mystery story (Speaker for the Dead). Hooray! And then it gets worse. Xenocide is the single most boring book I have ever had the misfortune to read. Anyway, I submit the final game of Azad in The Player of Games. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 63 Joined: 18 Aug 2008     | I particuarly enjoyed the moment towards the end of Les Miserables, when That moment just gave me chills from the whole sense of an impending climax. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 219 Joined: 28 Aug 2008    | when the latest "twilight" book got postponed indefinitely. i had an maniacal laughing fit of epic proportions and all the other girls in my class that heard, cried. that's not really a moment, but i thought it was great. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 94 Joined: 24 Oct 2008  | When Douglas Adams closes his series, The Hitchhikers' Guide to the Galaxy, the way he opened it. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1830 Joined: 20 Mar 2008  | Probably all of either The Giver or The Sight. They're both among my top 5 books. I heartily recommend reading both if you haven't already. For a single scene, though, I'm... Drawing the blank. I'll come back and edit one in if I think of one. EDIT: There's one part of The Golden Compass that I particularly enjoy involving Lyra and the king of the ice bears, where she deceives him into fighting Iorek. Still one of my favorite moments. Also, my favorite part of The Giver is the end of the chapter before Jonas flees, where the Giver talks about going to see his daughter. Particularly the last line of said chapter, considering the backstory. It was a pretty good twist, not to mention slightly saddening. The very end of the book was good as well. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2438 Joined: 18 Sep 2008   | the part in The Grapes of Wrath when it ended and i never had to read another page or write another essay about a chapter in that god forsaken book. 6th grade, oh what pain was the grapes of wrath. 20 or whatever years later it still pisses me off. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 426 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  | Ender... that WAS the Third Invasion. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 668 Joined: 9 Oct 2008     | the part in Oedipus the King where he discovers that he killed his father and slept with his mother. The audience know it's happening and know it had to happen...but still...it's pretty brutal stuff |
Paperboy  Posts: 34 Joined: 30 Dec 2008  |
I love that book. My major emotional point for that was As for me, my favourite moment in literature is a passage from Anthem: |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1394 Joined: 31 Aug 2008 |
/shrug I thought that was a good book, but you reminded me. When I finish Jane Eyre (Still reading this shit), it will be my new happiest moment. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 743 Joined: 4 Jul 2008 | Well, as many may know, Skulduggery Pleasant is my favourite book series. And as such, it's got one of my favourite moments. I crack up so hard whenever I read it. |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 448 Joined: 8 Jan 2009 | I crack up any time I read Catcher in the Rye, but the first time was one of my favorite moments. Or finishing Walden, leaning back, and thinking. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1394 Joined: 31 Aug 2008 |
Catcher in the Rye was a great book, one of my favorites. I was so happy I had to read it for school. :D |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2354 Joined: 14 Sep 2007   | The scene in Reaper Man where as well as later on when |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2764 Joined: 7 May 2008    | I really liked the part in the Wheel of Time series where but I also rather liked that whole period with Mat and Queen Tylin. It's a toss up between the two. |
Press Junketeer Posts: 426 Joined: 15 Jun 2008 | I read Lord of the Flies in seventh grade... and Anthem a year later (that was independent of school, I picked it up due to the cover). I didn't really appreciate them, and I'm not sure if I will. LotF, no. It was murdered for me. Just... murdered. All I remember from Anthem is that |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1151 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 | Dark Tower: The Dark Tower - |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1151 Joined: 26 Nov 2008 | Macbeth - Every minute of it. Unfortunately this masterpiece was ruined for me because all the illiterate Tupac worshipping imbeciles in my classroom, because the teacher told us the ending that I didn't read the night before. Dark Tower: Wizard and Glass - |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 765 Joined: 9 Apr 2008 | In Catch-22 there is a section where a character is wandering through a city at night and observing how much things suck. The whole section is very claustrophobic and hard to get through, and I realized the second time through that the part is in wall-of-text mode, with no separated paragraphs. Clever... Also, the part where you discover exactly what happened to Snowden is heartbreaking, and the section near the end in a hospital where creeped the hell out of me. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 846 Joined: 5 Jul 2008  | Amber Spyglass: God is a senile old man and his regent angel is the maniacal and evil badguy. That made me feel warm inside. |
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I know that book questions are way off-topic, but I'm still pretty curious:
What moment in literature, whether it be a classic Shakespearean drama or a brand-new sci-fi novel, what really got you angry, sad, joyful, etc.
For me it is a tie between the ends of Ender's Game, where you realize that not only does Earth hold no draws for Ender, but even his Jeesh has become alien to him, and his isolation from humanity is complete, where even his closest friends don't know him anymore; the end of Shadow of the Giant, where Julian departs from Earth, fully aware that he will never return, will never see his wife or other children again, and is dooming his children and himself to a slow death alone in space; and the end of the Belgariad when everyone has left, a bittersweet moment where you realize that the heroes have accomplished their desires, but that they will never truly be themselves or a group again.