What line of fiction has sent a chill down your spine?

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MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 22/06/2009 23:23

Have just read 1984 for the first time (-aged 32 - late I know) We did Animal Farm at school but I didn't get around to reading this until now.

I was fairly gripped and enjoying it to the point where Julia and Winston are echoed with 'You are the dead' & omg, it was so chilling..couldn't put the blardy thing down till the end

Any MNers experienced any similar literary chills?

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rubyslippers · 23/06/2009 09:42

i was reading The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and i reached a point where the hairs on the back on my neck stood up

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MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 23/06/2009 09:41

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yappybluedog · 23/06/2009 09:33

can't think at the moment, but MrsDanvers your nn made me larf

southeastastra · 23/06/2009 08:17

freakyily i was going to say something from war of the worlds, but i just saw the concert so is fresh in my mind.

YohoAhoy · 23/06/2009 08:09

Well bearing on mind the whole Room 101 bit completely creeps me out, I think we can safely say it's a pretty chilling book!

There was a line from War of the Worlds that used to make me shiver. I'll have to try and remember Google it!

Servalan · 23/06/2009 00:20

How funny - I read the title of the thread and I immediately thought "he loved Big Brother" - from the same book!

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MrsDanversAteMyIpod · 22/06/2009 23:37

Ooh yes, that would have been No.2 for me

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YohoAhoy · 22/06/2009 23:24

Funnily enough, same book -

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face? forever."

Ugh.

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