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Broken Hallelujah (1/1)

Mar 01, 2007 17:12

Title: Broken Hallelujah
Rating: R
Summary: Is it better to live a painless life, or a painful one with love in it? Patrick Stump/Bob Bryar, takes place in the 'verse of Lois Lowry's The Giver (helps if you've read the book, but I hope it will still be understandable for those who haven't).
Authors' Notes: This story has been bouncing around in my ( Read more... )

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xxdance March 2 2007, 01:04:10 UTC

Um. Yeah. Crying.

Expect something more coherant when the screen isn't a big blur.

xxdance March 2 2007, 01:26:07 UTC

Alright, so, I have had my little tearing-up session and am now feeling much better.

First off, I haven't read The Giver since, um, about sixth grade I think. I don't know why, that book was amazing, and probably one of the first books I read that wasn't, like, classic you-read-this-in-school books or The Babysitter's Club. So it's kind of stuck with me, the whole idea of society becoming this neat, orderly thing devoid of culture and all the things that make life, you know, livable. So as I'm reading this and realizing that I should go buy a copy of The Giver right now, I'm like, reliving all the emotions I had the first time I read it, which were nothing to sneeze at considering it was the first of its kind that I'd ever read, plus you've gone and thrown Patrick and Bob in so I've got this sort of fake emotional attachment going on (you know, like, I know them but I really don't, but I'm going to care anyway) and then Bob gets Released and Patrick starts singing 'Hallelujah' and I fucking just lose it right there ( ... )

xxdance March 2 2007, 01:47:49 UTC

I am evil. I totally wrote this story with maximum tearjerker potential in mind. I dunno, I think if I read it and hadn't written it, I'd be bawling. "Hallelujah" always gets me.

Yeah, I read The Giver in sixth grade too--it was assigned reading, and I'd already read it once before that, and then I proceeded to read it about 6098435 times. Parts of it are permanently etched onto my brain. Once, sometime in middle school, I started having ideas for a book I wanted to write, and after awhile I realized that I was unintentionally ripping off The Giver. Of course this was before I discovered the art of intentionally ripping off things for fun and internet accolades.

Anyway, thanks for the review, and I'm glad you liked it.

xxdance March 2 2007, 01:58:13 UTC

When most people write tearjerker stuff, I read it and am pretty bummed about it, but I don't cry. I mean it. It's kind of weird, because I'll cry if a cat dies anywhere in the story (I don't know, I don't know, I don't know), but other than that I'll sniffle a bit and move on. But no! I'm distraught, and I won't scroll up because I don't want to start again, but then again I also want to read it again.

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manic_street March 3 2007, 20:42:56 UTC

god damn.
i cried a little bit, i'll admit it.

manic_street March 4 2007, 04:32:30 UTC

& a little more coherence, now that i've spent some time away from it:

you really know how to craft an amazing story. almost everything i've read from you moves me in some way - i either cry, or laugh, or feel better or worse. and that's amazing.

sobota March 9 2007, 19:41:43 UTC

the giver is one of my favourite books, and reading this just made me want to reread it. i like how patrick breaks down, and isn't able to escape as jonas was. and i remember what a big deal music played in the book, and it made sense that it played just as big a role here.

this is the giver for grown ups. bravo!

smittten March 16 2007, 20:29:50 UTC

Can I just reiterate what I said in this comment here?

YOU ARE AWESOME.

I would have read this even if it had been badfic, I've wanted Patrick/Bob that much. But this was good, and really, I do adore your fics.

whatchamacall1t March 25 2007, 02:57:15 UTC

well, christ, woman.

i'd like you to know in advance that i kind of hated the Giver, when i read it. probably because i read it in school, and i felt they could have done more with the plot, etc, but, yeah, hated it.

this, though? was amazing. the ending made me want to cry. it was bitter, just like the book sort of, only purer, raw-er, and it made much more sense that the Giver was bring released because of a transgression than because he was old. and Patrick's character was fantastic as well.

i think it was the singing at the end that got me though. i just...gahhhh. i wanted to cry, that's all.