One may come across a passage that gives off a shiver of insight, truth, significance, irony, wit, humor, fascination, uniqueness, awe, or some other 'holy shit' feeling where you have to put down the book and then pick it up and reread that part to try to re-experience reading it for the first time because that reaction was somehow physical and you want to be trapped in it a little longer.
What are some books or authors where you notice this?
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Anonymous2009-11-28 18:48
Strangely enough Starship troopers
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Anonymous2009-11-28 22:41
Books don't make me do that. They might make me think about shit, but they don't do retarded shit like that. WtF
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Anonymous2009-11-29 1:13
The ending of 100 Years of Solitude.
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Anonymous2009-11-29 23:50
>>3
Has never read a good book, or reads for plot or something.
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Anonymous2009-11-30 0:04
>>5
OR maybe you're just some kind of gaywad. Every think about it like that??
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Anonymous2009-11-30 17:45
I remember reading some passage in Slaughterhouse Five that just blew me away due to its insight. I forget it though.
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Anonymous2009-11-30 18:26
Bits and pieces of The Road did that for me.
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Quarter of the way through this. So many moments where I stop reading and just stare at my ceiling. It's like a super-subdued version of what the OP's talking about.
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Anonymous2009-12-03 7:18
Happened to me multiple times while reading the Riftwar saga.
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Anonymous2009-12-03 11:04
The long paragraph in Pnin where the narrator imagines his old girlfriend dying uncounted deaths in the Holocaust.
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Anonymous2009-12-03 19:36
Somewhere in the beginning of page 49 in Catch-22 gave me a great feeling, i've read that sentence tons of times.