[Goken]

I think I teared up more than with any other book. Thank goodness we finally get some happy endings mixed in with the horror and pain. Here are some of my favs:

1. Whiskeyjack's reunion with Korlat on the hill was the best. Been waiting a long time for that one.

2. Rutt being handed the newborn baby. Holy crap. As a father that one hit home.

3. Hedge offering to stick around "a few years" until it's Fiddler's time to go and Fiddler mutely nodding. Bromantastic.

4. Ganoes and Tavore reuniting and Tavore finally breaking down. I think a shed a tear of relief because she didn't inadvertently kill a sibling this time.

Any good ones that I'm forgetting? Sad ones certainly count as well.

[Feathersmith]

 Goken, on 26 August 2011 - 04:45 PM, said:

I think I teared up more than with any other book. Thank goodness we finally get some happy endings mixed in with the horror and pain. Here are some of my favs:

Yeah. I went -years- without being affected like this by novels, but so much of this series just kept breaking me, and the last big chunk of TCG was a real emotional rollercoaster.

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1. Whiskeyjack's reunion with Korlat on the hill was the best. Been waiting a long time for that one.

2. Rutt being handed the newborn baby. Holy crap. As a father that one hit home.

3. Hedge offering to stick around "a few years" until it's Fiddler's time to go and Fiddler mutely nodding. Bromantastic.

4. Ganoes and Tavore reuniting and Tavore finally breaking down. I think a shed a tear of relief because she didn't inadvertently kill a sibling this time.

Any good ones that I'm forgetting? Sad ones certainly count as well.

Yeah, those were good ones.

I'd have a hard time listing all of the moments in the last 100-200 pages of the book that I got teary over, but for good moments, Tool finding his children got me, big time. And I pretty much lost it when he found Hetan. Like, had to put the book down, and I was already emotional thanks to all the preceding battles 'n stuff.

Various moments of the old races all fighting together.

The K'chain Che'malle getting a clue about living in the new world (can't recall specifics).

Cotillion and Shadowthrone, in the epilogue, getting Crokus and Apsalar back together.

Outstanding sad moments:

When I did a reread, Gesler and Stormy's assault on the Spire (it was sad 1st time through, too). And one scene that stood out that I pretty much glossed over the first time I read it was when, early in the book, Gesler is reminiscing about his history with Bent, and thinks (or maybe says aloud) that he'd sacrifice himself to save Bent. That . . . hurt. Knowing what was coming.

Likewise, Bent guarding Gesler's body, and then the tomb later.

[QuickTidal]

 Feathersmith, on 26 August 2011 - 05:14 PM, said:

When I did a reread, Gesler and Stormy's assault on the Spire (it was sad 1st time through, too). And one scene that stood out that I pretty much glossed over the first time I read it was when, early in the book, Gesler is reminiscing about his history with Bent, and thinks (or maybe says aloud) that he'd sacrifice himself to save Bent. That . . . hurt. Knowing what was coming.

Likewise, Bent guarding Gesler's body, and then the tomb later.

I wept like a waterfall. That was an "I had to put the book down" moment. It's the one that sticks out the most.

There was SO much on TCG that had me with a lump in my throat and glossy-eyed, but yeah in the last 200 pages I must have shed tears half a dozen times.

Fuck. So good.

[Bauchelain the Evil]

The toys scene. OMG,the toys scene. I couldn't even stand the Snake in DoD, but that scene reduced me to a sobbing wreck. It was just so...poignant

[tiam]

Bent guarding Geslers body was definitely a good one but recently in the news theres a picture of a dog not leaving the coffin of a dead serviceman which makes it even more powerful.

[Goken]

Yeah I would definitely put all of those on my list too. Except maybe... when Hetan shows up alive. I was was totally crying with relief when Tool finally found his kids, but then Hetan shows up and I was like "Oh.. right... Toc brought her body, I guess that makes sense." But I wasn't ecstatic. I think it's because she was treated so cruelly, and it broke Tool so much that he went on a murderous rampage and became a slayer of children. And then it just gets undone and its like... "Ooooh, wow, okay you guys are alive huh? Um, hehe, wow, I guess I kinda feel like a jerk for all that child murder now, hehe". I just didn't feel quite right to me.

But anyway I'm a sucker for happy endings, and in the Malazan world there aren't many, so I guess I shouldn't look a gift Imass in the mouth.

[aginor]

 Arsewipe McBogroll the Third, on 26 August 2011 - 06:44 PM, said:

Bent guarding Geslers body was definitely a good one but recently in the news theres a picture of a dog not leaving the coffin of a dead serviceman which makes it even more powerful.

I thought the same thing when I saw that story on the news. Held off as long as I could on reading TCG. Didn't start it until June or so.

[aginor]

Can't explain why but Tavore's speech put a lump in my throat. Something about speeches before battles where it may be your last stand gets me. In "Return of The King", Aragon's speech before the gates of Mordor was like that for me.
There is a soundtrack that plays in my head at moment like these... "Kings And Queens by 30 Second To Mars"

[Kanubis]

No mention of Karsa cradling Munug while he died yet? That set me off...

[Dolmen 2.0]

im a few pages in and id have to say gruntle and the rest giving up on absi was a hard pill to swallow.

[Goken]

 Dolmen, on 27 August 2011 - 03:16 PM, said:

im a few pages in and id have to say gruntle and the rest giving up on absi was a hard pill to swallow.

Yeah, so what was the deal with the TTT folks selling out the kids in exchange for getting home? Something about some magical boon one of them was given by Olar Ethil? Seems like whatever help they were supposed to have been given never materialized. Did I miss that?

[champ]

 Arsewipe McBogroll the Third, on 26 August 2011 - 06:44 PM, said:

Bent guarding Geslers body was definitely a good one but recently in the news theres a picture of a dog not leaving the coffin of a dead serviceman which makes it even more powerful.

I saw that photo and I have to say it made me instantly think of that scene and I welled up on the metro... very macho hah!

The one that strangely got me was when Tavore was speeching to the Regulars that they will stand today in the place of the Marines, as they did for the Regulars against the Nah'Ruk, that got me in a proper Hurrah! moment!

Bents PoV where he has to get to Ges...

Cried with laughter at Roach biting Hoods heel... just the sheer thought of Hoods bewilderment! Hah!

And Tehols speech to Brys... a great piece of writing where Brys admits it was Tehols way of saying goodbye...

Man I could go on for ages!

I was drained after I read this delightful book!

[Blueiron]

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"I lost her! Oh, Ganoes, I lost her!"

Though at least that one was sort of cathartic, what with Tavore finally meeting Ganoes after all these books. The real tear jerker to me was this one

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"Soon," she said, "very soon, we are going to see this family awaken to anger."
"But Mother is sending those ones away. Will we ever see them again?"
"It's easy Saddic," she said. "Just close your eyes."
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I couldn't get past that scene for days.

[rhulad]

Nobody mentioned Mappo and Icarum... That and Gesler and Stormy taking the spire are the two that stand out the most for me.

[Broken Fiddle]

For me

1. When the snake found the bonehunters

2. They didn't know how to play with the toys

3. Gesler after stormy died and bent

4. mappo dying

and just about all the others mentioned too haha

[Knowing]

for some reason i dont cry very often. im 22 and i've cried about 8 times in my life. four times came from the Book of the Fallen.

For me the first time came from Duiker at the end of Deadhouse Gates. The second with Whiskeyjack and the Memories of Ice.

I was worse than a child with Rake and Toll the Hounds.

I didn't think the Crippled God would pull it off, but when the snake found Fiddler i was hearbroken, and when Erikson finally revealed that they were toys and the way the Bonehunters reacted towards that i was mindblown.

[worry]

Your parents must have been pretty worried that they got a mute baby.

[Knowing]

 worrywort, on 28 September 2011 - 05:55 AM, said:

Your parents must have been pretty worried that they got a mute baby.

I'm sure I cried several (ok i'll admit more than several) times when i was a kid, but these are the times that i had tears not from childish pains but from something that actually meant it. That and when I'm not 11 drinks in and watching a movie like Shawshank Redpemption

I do need to add one more to that list since yesterday, 127 Hours. That film was enough for me to cry with release by the end. It's odd, the worst physical pain i've ever had occurred last spring when i accidentally cut the top of my finger down to the bone when carving a sculpture. For some reason it didn't hurt all that much. Especially not when compared to The Malazan Book of the Fallen.

[MillionSpots]

Seconding all mentions of Gesler reminiscing about the two dogs. That made me bawl like a baby.
I hate it when characters talk about dogs dying. I hate it when I have to read about/see dogs die. They make me cry.


Since most tear-jerker scenes were already mentioned...
I cried when Blistig stabbed Pores. I really thought Pores was going to die, lol
Also, Deadsmell crying after he healed Tavore. That was sad.

This post has been edited by MillionSpots: 30 September 2011 - 02:10 PM

[worry]

Those all happened in a different book.