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Worst Kick in the Gut Moments in the Series
jeditigger:
--- Quote from: LogicMouseLives on September 02, 2012, 03:58:13 AM ---The very first kick in the gut moment I thought of when I started reading this thread still hasn't been mentioned: The last page of Changes.
Unlike a lot of the others mentioned, it loses a lot of its impact on rereading, because you know it's coming, and even more-so, you know it can't be permanent (one way or another). But thinking back to the very first time I read it, the day after it came out in hardcover, no spoilers on line, no hints from friends who'd read it before me. Completely out of left field. I was on a break at work at the time, and I literally sat there staring at the page with my mouth hanging open for more than a minute. And then I cussed a blue streak at the evil bastard who'd end a book like that for five. And then, of course, I went home and read the whole book all over again. ::)
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Yes, the page that made millions of voices suddenly cry out in terror and made a wonderful, if sadistic, author cackle in glee. It's really moments like that that bring out the best and worst in Jim. :)
Mercutio:
--- Quote from: LogicMouseLives on September 02, 2012, 03:58:13 AM ---The very first kick in the gut moment I thought of when I started reading this thread still hasn't been mentioned: The last page of Changes.
Unlike a lot of the others mentioned, it loses a lot of its impact on rereading, because you know it's coming, and even more-so, you know it can't be permanent (one way or another). But thinking back to the very first time I read it, the day after it came out in hardcover, no spoilers on line, no hints from friends who'd read it before me. Completely out of left field. I was on a break at work at the time, and I literally sat there staring at the page with my mouth hanging open for more than a minute. And then I cussed a blue streak at the evil bastard who'd end a book like that for five. And then, of course, I went home and read the whole book all over again. ::)
Other big ones for me:
* The other scene KnightShade was confabulating from in Dead Beat, when Butters gets dragged out the window of Harry's apartment by Grevane's zombies. That damn near stopped my heart the first time!
* The hospital scene at the end of SmF that several people have already mentioned. I weep every time. (Dangerous while driving!)
* The farewell scene with Luccio at the end of TC. Another total tear-jerker.
Yeah, there are a lot of them...I just hope Jim stays satisfied with continually, nearly killing Butters and doesn't actually make it stick one of these books, because I might just have to throttle him. (Not to death or anything of course, he's got more books to write, after all. ;D )
LML
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Just as bad are the opening pages of Aftermath, where the previous scenes impact is shown to us in a perspective we hadn't seen the in the series before.
Nexfalx:
don't now if it has been said, but it was a kick in the gut when one of my favorite lines from Changes (the roasting marshmallows as the world burns) got turned on it's head in GS when they mention it was one thing to watch the world burn, another to watch "molly burn" or something like that, can't think of the exact quote, only did on read through GS back when it came out, just started over though. =)
Galvatron:
For me it was Michael getting shot
stomach did a back flip
The Fish:
1st and last sight of Murphy in GS anyone? or seeing Thomas' grief? Murphy in GP when she got psycho-wammied. Micky Malone. the ghosts at Biancas
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