A big crying fest...

[lithera]

The last 150 pages of The Lions of Al-Rassan make me cry. Like every ten pages there is something else that makes me teary. It's so beautiful. I can't explain it.

Someday I want to find someone who understands why I react this way to this book.

Comments

[pullthestars.livejournal.com]

I'm right there with you, hon. I think that every time that I've read it I've teared up in more than one spot. It's so beautifully tragic. I felt the same way reading Tigana.

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Tigana was the same, but it never seemed quite as tragic. Everything works out in the end in Tigana... for the most part.

[pullthestars.livejournal.com]

for the most part, definitely. There wasn't as much of an air of tragedy, lost chances, with Tigana. If you look at the overall picture of Lions, things turn out OK there too. Mostly :)

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I guess with Lions is it is so much worse bevcause you can see if things were just a little bit different, no one would have had to died. The battles would have been different... In Lions there are so many points where everything could have been different. Everything could have been perfect... if only. It just hurts me that one of them had to lose.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I hate the end of Lions. The wrong goddamned one died, and Kay knows it, and he tried to cover it up by trying to hide /who/ had died, and ... *mutter* I love Kay. Every time I read his books I want to poke my eyes out or chop my fingers off because I find his prose breathtaking and I don't write that beautifully. I hold my breath through his scenes and I read every single word he writes, which is extremely unusual for me. And I won't re-read Lions because I think he screwed up irrevocably. :P

Right. I'll be off in the corner, muttering. :)

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

See, I have to disagree with you. I think it was horribly tragic who died, but for me, if one of them had to die, it was the one who did. I really, really would have come up with a very strange alternate ending myself, but it would have been a big cop out and just not possible.

[technocracygirl.livejournal.com]

Ayup. I was glad that the one who survived did. It was still sucky, though. I didn't really cry, thogh.

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Well, ooooookaaaaaaaaay, I *suppppooooooose* you can disagree. *laugh* I know a number of people who like Lions best of all out of Kay's work, but it just didn't work for me.

Have you read Sailing to Sarantium and, er, the other one, the name of which is escaping me right now?

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[lithera.livejournal.com]

Yes. I've read those. I liked them, but they didn't strike me as distinctly. I always felt as though I was missing something. That everyone he was writing was smarter than I was and there were too many nuances that I couldn't catch.