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crack_van2007-11-02 08:02 am
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Sweet Revenge by Suz(TM) (rated adult)
Fandom: STARSKY AND HUTCH
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author on LJ:Suz
Author Website: not found
Why this must be read:
Greetings, fellow travelers. This is my first time driving the Starsky and Hutch van. I must say it's getting hard to find great stories that aren't already crackvanned, but I think I have a few good ones to share. Took me a while to decide on what to rec first, but I think I knew all along that this one would have to be it.
(Note: I'm not the most LJ-savvy person in the world so if I get the formatting wrong, I'll find out how to fix it asap.)
When I read this story the first time, I was utterly riveted, not only by the content, but by the writing style. This story drags you in, knocks you off balance, and then makes sure you never get your feet back under you. When I finished it, I think I just sat there for minutes, unable to move. I know I thought, "that might be the best Starsky and Hutch story I've ever read," and right after that, I thought, "this might be the best short story I've ever read in my life" (and I've read a lot of short stories in my life). I almost didn't want to reread it for this review, because I wasn't sure I wanted to get on that roller coaster again, but I'm glad I did.
It's a post-Sweet Revenge story, and there are lot of them out there, but this one leads the pack by several length. There are some typos and some odd formatting on the LJ version, but the story is so overwhelmingly compelling that I don't think anyone will mind.
What it finally, finally took was a cool, late summer evening, when the smog created a spectacular sunset we watched expire from the roof of our building. Two lawn chairs, two bottles of beer, two changed men. And Starsky began to talk about family, his mother and his father and his brother. And how his father’s death, and his brother’s illness, and his forced move to relatives out here made him wonder where his place in his family was. And how he slowly discovered he could create his own family, pick a father-figure from over here, pick a mother-figure from over there, pick a brother-figure from any number of places.
Starsky talked of learning to look deep into other people, to understand what made them do what they did, what made them act in ways that seemed horrible or destructive or incredibly self-sacrificing. And how he learned that doing this made him feel good, how it made him feel he understood his place amongst these people better.
And finally, he talked of how all this learning had helped him understand himself. And he felt best about himself when he did what he knew to be right, and true, and the rest of the world be damned.
And then he reached over and took my hand and held it.
Sweet Revenge
Pairing: Starsky/Hutch
Author on LJ:Suz
Author Website: not found
Why this must be read:
Greetings, fellow travelers. This is my first time driving the Starsky and Hutch van. I must say it's getting hard to find great stories that aren't already crackvanned, but I think I have a few good ones to share. Took me a while to decide on what to rec first, but I think I knew all along that this one would have to be it.
(Note: I'm not the most LJ-savvy person in the world so if I get the formatting wrong, I'll find out how to fix it asap.)
When I read this story the first time, I was utterly riveted, not only by the content, but by the writing style. This story drags you in, knocks you off balance, and then makes sure you never get your feet back under you. When I finished it, I think I just sat there for minutes, unable to move. I know I thought, "that might be the best Starsky and Hutch story I've ever read," and right after that, I thought, "this might be the best short story I've ever read in my life" (and I've read a lot of short stories in my life). I almost didn't want to reread it for this review, because I wasn't sure I wanted to get on that roller coaster again, but I'm glad I did.
It's a post-Sweet Revenge story, and there are lot of them out there, but this one leads the pack by several length. There are some typos and some odd formatting on the LJ version, but the story is so overwhelmingly compelling that I don't think anyone will mind.
What it finally, finally took was a cool, late summer evening, when the smog created a spectacular sunset we watched expire from the roof of our building. Two lawn chairs, two bottles of beer, two changed men. And Starsky began to talk about family, his mother and his father and his brother. And how his father’s death, and his brother’s illness, and his forced move to relatives out here made him wonder where his place in his family was. And how he slowly discovered he could create his own family, pick a father-figure from over here, pick a mother-figure from over there, pick a brother-figure from any number of places.
Starsky talked of learning to look deep into other people, to understand what made them do what they did, what made them act in ways that seemed horrible or destructive or incredibly self-sacrificing. And how he learned that doing this made him feel good, how it made him feel he understood his place amongst these people better.
And finally, he talked of how all this learning had helped him understand himself. And he felt best about himself when he did what he knew to be right, and true, and the rest of the world be damned.
And then he reached over and took my hand and held it.
Sweet Revenge
ok well, I don't know how to do cuts
Rae
Re: ok well, I don't know how to do cuts
Re: ok well, I don't know how to do cuts
Waaaah.
Re: ok well, I don't know how to do cuts
oh duhhhh
I wasn't looking at the entry via the Crackvan page, I was looking at the entry via the comments page so I saw it as a full whatsit, that didn't show the cut.
So, regarding violins in schools, Oh. Never mind.
(red face smiley goes here)