My 5 Favorite Sections in All of Literature (subject to change)

[mynameisnotevan]

1. The Mexican sequence at the end of On the Road. Amazing, amazing language. It makes you go into a trance. Some of Kerouac's stuff, and a lot of Beat stuff in general, is just typing (to paraphrase Truman Capote) but every once in a while, the writer's sheer power of psyche succeeds in hitting just the right combination of synapses with their

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[luvpirate]

Martin the Warrior, just the whole thing. One of my favorite books ever.

The near end of Oddkins where Amos gets hurt in the fight against the evil toys...I cried.

Young Miles, about the middle where he's doing all his dual identity stuff. He's so freeking sly.

[altoidfowler]

1. The Mexican sequence in On the Road, most definitely
2. "Death" in Winesburg, Ohio-- the best anything ever written about small town America
3. The ending of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers, and then you realize just how isolated you really feel
4. "The Enchanted Mesa" by Willa Cather, especially when read aloud on a sandbar on a summer evening
5. Anything and everything in Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

[klu824]

oh goodness I also loved that part in Johnny Got His Gun.
but otherwise, sorry, I don't read.

Except when when Bane broke Batman's back and he became all miserly and cynical and stuff. That had to be one of the greatest moments ever.

[_sagesse]

i tried to think about this more, but all i got is after you finish reading nabokov's pale fire and then you go back and read the poem at the beginning and all of a sudden it dawns on you that the story of the character (narrator) who dominates the book is not in fact the important story in the book, and that you have been ignoring all along the true hero of the novel because he is quiet and unassuming. and then you realize that nabokov KNEW you would do this all along, and that he designed the book to make you feel this way, and then you are like man, vladimir, you are a fuckin genius.

p.s. when males use the word "feminazi" it makes me want to castrate them. IRONY.

p.p.s. go to thailand.

[anonymous]

1. "Shopwindows" from The Tin Drum
2. Opening of Lolita
3. Final stanza, "i sing of olaf glad and big," e.e. cummings
4. Party in "The Jelly-bean," Fitzgerald
5. The end of Harper's hallucination, Angels in America (Perestroika)

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