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what book have you read and you have felt sad when you have finished it...

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colnelcustard · 26/03/2010 13:23

not because its a weepy but because you have enjoyed it so much.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say harry potter..... I actually felt sad when I finished reading it because I thought, I am never going to read anything like that again. I remember feeling so excited before the next book came out.

I will fess up to being 33 now.

Then I found twilight god help me.

I remember when I was younger reading the flowers in the attic series and felt like I had never read anything so wonderful and tragic in my whole fourteen years of life.

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Nikna · 02/04/2010 19:20

Just finished 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
by Khaled Hosseini. It's better than the 'Kite Runner'.

yogabird · 02/04/2010 19:10

just looked on Amazon for 'A Fine Balance' not there - what is it about?

yogabird · 02/04/2010 19:08

The magus too but it was a book of a time for me, rad and re-read it lots in my 20's came back to it a few years ago and it had lost its appeal rather. May need to give it another go now that you've reminded me Bendybob since i loved it back then. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brook is another great one

Nezzi · 26/03/2010 14:12

A Fine Balance by R Mistry. It was wonderful and I felt bereaved when I finished it.

I'd forgotten about the Flowers in the Attic series, gosh that brings back memories!

BendyBob · 26/03/2010 14:10

The Magus

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colnelcustard · 26/03/2010 14:08

there was a facebook group or something called 'do you ever wish you had had amnesia so you could read harry potter for the first time again'.

i can relate to that, sad but true. although it would be a bit inconvenient.

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sockmonkey · 26/03/2010 14:02

Another Twilighter here... read all 4 in about a week, then wished I had taken my time with it... but just went back to beginning and read them again.
One of my friends has just started reading Twilight, and I am a bit jealous she is reading for the first time and loving it.

Claire2301 · 26/03/2010 13:51

Catchy - same as you! The Twilight Saga is proving to be a bit of a nightmare. However many times I re-read the books I still want to re-read them! This results in me being tired and grumpy the next day as I am up till 1am reading!

WashIrving22 · 26/03/2010 13:44

the steig larsson trilogy of books, just very good thrillers that kept me hooked right til the end, an unusual occurrence in fiction these days i find.

i read the flowers in the attic series too! must've been required reading for hormonal teenagers in the eighties

IMoveTheStars · 26/03/2010 13:36

Sorry, Lord of the Rings.

meltedmarsbars · 26/03/2010 13:34

LOTR? Eh?

IMoveTheStars · 26/03/2010 13:32

LOTR. I was relieved to have finally got through it, but had spent such a long time reading it that I was sad to see it go.

I read the entire Flowers In The Attic series... all the Heaven ones too. Pretty traumatic reading for a 13/14yo

meltedmarsbars · 26/03/2010 13:31

Don't!

I too read the "flowers in the attic" series and loved them as a teenager.

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colnelcustard · 26/03/2010 13:29

i feel ashamed of my choices meltedmarsbar

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meltedmarsbars · 26/03/2010 13:27

The Long Walk this book.

Okay, its not fiction but I have read it again every few years. An outstanding book.

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