So, I read it and I was forewarned and all but you know - no one was breaking up, they were just dying, so I felt I was up for it.
Emotionally, I felt like I went through the wringer - it didn't trigger the *same* kind of response "End of the Road" did at all - the scene at the garage with the cheeseburgers remains burned in my brain as just a vivid moment when my own internal sensors kicked in and forced me to take a break - literally get up and get out of my house. I can only think of one other time fiction has hit me like that, at least in the past few years, and that was reading "The Lovely Bones."
This just really depressed me. I wanted to leave feedback when I first read it last night but I was just too *sad* to even tell you. I was too sad to comment! I was so worried about Ray - what is it going to be like for him? and about Fraser - God, Fraser is actually mortal? Are you really really sure? Fraser's *body* shouldn't fail him and the hints of the indignities of illness that you hinted at, just really... well it stuck with me all day today. So, yeah - a lot of things do feel unfinished but to me that just played into the entire injustice of it all - no one has a finished life, but then it is over.
And I was SO GLAD we got out of there before the very end.
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Date: 2007-11-17 11:35 pm (UTC)Emotionally, I felt like I went through the wringer - it didn't trigger the *same* kind of response "End of the Road" did at all - the scene at the garage with the cheeseburgers remains burned in my brain as just a vivid moment when my own internal sensors kicked in and forced me to take a break - literally get up and get out of my house. I can only think of one other time fiction has hit me like that, at least in the past few years, and that was reading "The Lovely Bones."
This just really depressed me. I wanted to leave feedback when I first read it last night but I was just too *sad* to even tell you. I was too sad to comment! I was so worried about Ray - what is it going to be like for him? and about Fraser - God, Fraser is actually mortal? Are you really really sure? Fraser's *body* shouldn't fail him and the hints of the indignities of illness that you hinted at, just really... well it stuck with me all day today. So, yeah - a lot of things do feel unfinished but to me that just played into the entire injustice of it all - no one has a finished life, but then it is over.
And I was SO GLAD we got out of there before the very end.