What moments do you remember, KRCox? You can't just ask, you have to join the converation.KRCox said:What moments do you remember right away from your fav books?
I have a terrible memory. But I remember when The old man in Riverwind the Plainsman died. It was a very sad moment.Betsy the Quilter said:What moments do you remember, KRCox? You can't just ask, you have to join the converation.Otherwise it becomes an "author survey" and we move it to the Writers' Café .
Betsy
Too many to mention...KRCox said:What moments do you remember right away from your fav books?
I'm not familiar with that book...but I have difficulty coming up with "moments." Probably if I looked at specific books I could come up with something.KRCox said:I have a terrible memory. But I remember when The old man in Riverwind the Plainsman died. It was a very sad moment.
- The pun Roger Zelazny sneaks into the middle of Lord of Light: "That's when the fit hit the shan.""The world is . . . different." Oats's gaze went out across the haze, and the forest, and purple mountains. "Everywhere I look I see something holy."
For the first time since he'd met here, he saw Granny Weatherwax smile properly. Normally her mouth went up at the corners just before something unpleasant was going to happen to someone who deserved it, but this time she appeared to be pleased with what she'd heard.
"That's a start, then," she said.
I haven't read The Great Gatsby for a hundred years (a prime example of how education turns even a poet off the language!), but I remember the infinitely sad moment with Daisy in Gatsby's dressing room, whirling up a storm of his shirts, her last moment of abandon as she resigns herself to life with her dull, brutish husband.TJDanko said:Nick when he meets Daisy for the first time in Gatsby. The wind catching and floating Daisy and Jordan from the couch. Beautiful.
I know! It's been over over twenty years for me, but I remember Daisy and the shirts vividly. I worry about returning to these books sometimes, whether they hold up or not.Andre Jute said:I haven't read The Great Gatsby for a hundred years (a prime example of how education turns even a poet off the language!), but I remember the infinitely sad moment with Daisy in Gatsby's dressing room, whirling up a storm of his shirts, her last moment of abandon as she resigns herself to life with her dull, brutish husband.