Childhood nostalgia poll

[rachelmanija]

Please reminisce, fondly or not, about any of these, or other books read in childhood, especially if they seem to have, deservedly or undeservedly, vanished from the shelves. I'd love to hear about non-US, non-British books, too.

[Poll #1720139]

Comments

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Just about. But you don't get to see them in Heaven. The last scene of the last book has a kid who's been a recurring villain since book 3 or 4 get back to his hometown, ready to meet his family and friends again, so very overjoyed that he got the Mark of the Beast, which in this case was a forehead-injected antidote to a paralyzing gas that's going to be released to kill all of the eeeevil Christians. ...but /everyone/ in town has already converted. So he gets to town and there's all these dead bodies frozen in positions of great joy and rejoicing, while he runs around, the only one left alive, trying to find anyone else. And there are the bodies of his family and friends, all frozen in expressions of great happiness, completely dead, while he's left utterly alone...

Now there is a scene that lasts a lifetime in memory, I'll tell you.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

WOW.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

Yeah.

The Last Battle was scarring in its own way, but that series loved it some nightmare fuel. The bit in an earlier book where a kid finally finds his long-lost parents, who have sold their souls to the local Satan-equivalent, working in a carnival ride where their job is to make faces at passing cars of children while said children throw mud-bombs and the like at them...

...yeah. That's all I've got. "Yeah."

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

WOW.

[fadethecat.livejournal.com]

...the first two books were pretty much just exciting adventure series! Really!

And in retrospect, the book that was all about how RPGs Are Evil (...except it was all LARPing, done on bikes, in a special private facility) is downright hilarious.