Yeah, I laughed and cried so hard at the same time for the last fifty pages or so of The Fault in Our Stars. Well done, Mr. Green.
I have to admit I haven't ever read ICtC. I have seen the movie! Love the cast...except for the guy who plays Romola's main love interest (not Henry Cavill, the other one). For some reason he did not work for me. But everyone else I thought was great.
There was that part when Hazel and Isaac were playing the videogame, telling it to "hump the cave wall"? I had just started to giggle, then Isaac said that thing about not wanting to live in a world without Gus, and then, "I don't understa--" "Me neither". *bawls*
For some reason he did not work for me. Yeah! I am pretty sure it was a miscast, because in the book, he came off to me as soft-spoken and kind rather than passive and bo-ring.
I've skimmed I Capture the Castle (I have this horrendous habit of picking up a book for the first time, reading the end, going back and skimming through to see how the end came about, and then not picking up the book and reading it properly for ages...oops) - and I remember it being really beautiful and piercing my heart in a way I can't quite describe. I really do need to pick it up properly.
And the movie is available to stream instantly on Netflix. It's in my instant queue, but I'm not sure if it has a happy ending or not and for some reason these days I'm in a frame of mind where I only want happy endings, damnit!
Piercing, that's it! It's like that stirred-up feeling you get when you look at old, beautiful ruins. :)
reading the end, going back and skimming through to see how the end came about Oooh, I get that too sometimes--unless I've been forewarned that it's a MUST NOT BE SPOILED ending. The last sentence habit!
I would call it an open ending, with some bitter pills, but also a lot of sweet? Not open in the sense of "what the hell just happened?" but rather, "I have lived and loved through this, and anything can still happen."
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I have to admit I haven't ever read ICtC. I have seen the movie! Love the cast...except for the guy who plays Romola's main love interest (not Henry Cavill, the other one). For some reason he did not work for me. But everyone else I thought was great.
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For some reason he did not work for me.
Yeah! I am pretty sure it was a miscast, because in the book, he came off to me as soft-spoken and kind rather than passive and bo-ring.
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And the movie is available to stream instantly on Netflix. It's in my instant queue, but I'm not sure if it has a happy ending or not and for some reason these days I'm in a frame of mind where I only want happy endings, damnit!
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reading the end, going back and skimming through to see how the end came about
Oooh, I get that too sometimes--unless I've been forewarned that it's a MUST NOT BE SPOILED ending. The last sentence habit!
I would call it an open ending, with some bitter pills, but also a lot of sweet? Not open in the sense of "what the hell just happened?" but rather, "I have lived and loved through this, and anything can still happen."
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