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 Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 7:16 pm
I've been wondering lately; what's y'all's favorite part of a book?
For me, it's the part where everything just clicks. That part where seemingly insignificant details become the most important clues, and all your questions are answered. My favorite thing about it is (mostly this is in series, but even when it isn't it's still wicked) that even when things do come together, more questions spring up just waiting to be answered. And the way some of those questions just can't be answered, ya know? They leave it up to you to answer them.
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2007 9:41 pm
I love tragic endings. Gramma and Red really DID get eaten, the lovers get separated, the main character dies in the final standoff. For someone with such a happy persona, my favorite books are surprisingly depressing.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 7:07 am
i also love a tragic ending. but more than that, i love a tragic ending which seems to fit. the character(s) has(have) just had a huge epiphany and accept their fate. they find a sense of completeness that carries onto the reader: so even though the ending is tragic, it's perfectly fitting and would be upsetting any other way.
so i love an emotionally satisfying ending.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:11 pm
Voxxx I love tragic endings. Gramma and Red really DID get eaten, the lovers get separated, the main character dies in the final standoff. For someone with such a happy persona, my favorite books are surprisingly depressing. Yush. That's the perfect ending, right there. xd
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 3:46 pm
I like the comedic parts.
I also like the part where the secondary main character gets eaten/killed/struck retarded.
Romance scenes are kinda cheesy.
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Posted: Wed Jul 18, 2007 9:46 pm
Reese_Roper Voxxx I love tragic endings. Gramma and Red really DID get eaten, the lovers get separated, the main character dies in the final standoff. For someone with such a happy persona, my favorite books are surprisingly depressing. Yush. That's the perfect ending, right there. xd You know it! xp I hate romances where everything works out. As far as that topic is concerned, I thought the ending to the original Hunchback of Notre Dame (the book, not the movie) was perfectly suitable. I loved it. SPOILERS: Esmeralda and her mother die, the hunchback commits suicide, mon Capitaine marries another girl.
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Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2007 8:31 am
I love that, Reese....the clicky thing.
ANd the Hunchback of Notre Dame was a freaky book, and it creeped me out when I read it (a long time ago) especially after the movie, which is heart . But I like that ending now. It's so beautiful.
I'm kinda like Carri, I don't like when everything is clean-cut and happy ending-ified. I like it when characters change, when they become something that you never would have expected, when bad things happen to them and they DON'T keep hoping for better times. When they give in, stop fighting. Not just any character either, the ones that you've grown so attached to...like if Harry, instead of killing Voldemort, has a huge psychotic breakdown (which really should happen) and Voldemort kills him.
People need to realize, some heroes aren't of the type that go out and fearlessly kill the bad guy. Some heroes are just kill puppets, some die, some give up, and trouble finds them.
That's kinda how Kamile and Everan are. They're "immortal" (as in they can't die, but they can, it's just reaaaaaaally hard) but they're just kids, so most of the time they're just kill puppets trying to escape destiny and get really lucky sometimes, with bad tempers.
Bad tempers help.
(A kill puppet is like a character on SSBM that someone was playing but they left the room: it sits there and lets you beat it up, and eventually it dies. More a distraction than anything.)
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