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30 Day Book Meme (2014 version) - Day 6
May. 9th, 2014 07:47 pmDay 06 – A book that makes you sad
2010 Answer: The First Four Years
So, as I said the first time, lots of books have parts that make me sad, and I try to avoid deliberately seeking out depressing stuff, because that's what we have reality for.
There are two major things that make me cry/make me sad.
The first is animal books where the animal dies - yes, Old Yeller. I've actually avoided reading any number of animal books, including Cleveland Amory's The Best Cat Ever, because I dread reading about the animal dying. Don't need it.
The second is when authors kill off characters I'm attached to. The most recent and wrenching is Lois McMaster Bujold's Cryoburn, in which she kills off Aral Vorkosigan, a character that I have loved for most all of my adult life. (Seriously, I picked an LMB book up in 1999 in Monterey, so I was 20.) Granted, we knew it was coming, but it was still wrenching. It left me quite down for a few days. I think probably the runner up in this category (it used to be first) was in David Weber's Honor Harrington novel At All Costs, where he killed off a character who'd been with us - and who I'd been a huge fangirl of since he first pulled himself out of the ship console he was working on and went to go meet his ridiculously young and perfect commanding officer. Not just that he killed him off, but that he toyed with us, let us believe he hadn't done it, then slammed us with it. Weber killed off some more characters that we've been close to in Mission of Honor, but it didn't hit me as hard.
Yes, I'm a geek, space opera makes me cry.
( The Rest of the Meme )2010 Answer: The First Four Years
So, as I said the first time, lots of books have parts that make me sad, and I try to avoid deliberately seeking out depressing stuff, because that's what we have reality for.
There are two major things that make me cry/make me sad.
The first is animal books where the animal dies - yes, Old Yeller. I've actually avoided reading any number of animal books, including Cleveland Amory's The Best Cat Ever, because I dread reading about the animal dying. Don't need it.
The second is when authors kill off characters I'm attached to. The most recent and wrenching is Lois McMaster Bujold's Cryoburn, in which she kills off Aral Vorkosigan, a character that I have loved for most all of my adult life. (Seriously, I picked an LMB book up in 1999 in Monterey, so I was 20.) Granted, we knew it was coming, but it was still wrenching. It left me quite down for a few days. I think probably the runner up in this category (it used to be first) was in David Weber's Honor Harrington novel At All Costs, where he killed off a character who'd been with us - and who I'd been a huge fangirl of since he first pulled himself out of the ship console he was working on and went to go meet his ridiculously young and perfect commanding officer. Not just that he killed him off, but that he toyed with us, let us believe he hadn't done it, then slammed us with it. Weber killed off some more characters that we've been close to in Mission of Honor, but it didn't hit me as hard.
Yes, I'm a geek, space opera makes me cry.
