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layne67 ([personal profile] layne67) wrote2009-02-23 05:27 pm
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The Doors of Time by [livejournal.com profile] felisblanco. J2 AU

I don't have enough words to express how incredible this story is. 65,000 words and I still don't have enough of it. It's so awesome that I suspect even 200K wouldn't be enough. I'm hooked, transfixed and riveted to my monitor screen - crying, laughing, smiling - and now I can't wait to read it all over again!

Summary : Jensen is a special child with special abilities. So special that no one's really comfortable with him, not even his family. He has no friends and he spends his days alone. Until Jared comes along that is. Jared, the only one who's able to get through to Jensen, but even Jared doesn't know the extent of Jensen's abilities, and to what terrible extent Jensen's family is capable of doing to keep Jensen safe.

It’s not like he doesn’t try to fit in and make friends, he really does. It just seems like nothing he does is good enough for them. If he smiles they blink. If he speaks they stare. And whenever they see him coming they get this panicked look in their eyes like they want to run away and they don’t even know why.
Jensen knows why. It’s the same thing that makes his dad worry and his mom cry. That makes Nana tell his parents he’s going to Hell, not even caring that he can hear her.
It’s what makes him ‘weird’.


Oh God, don't miss this.

[identity profile] vshendria.livejournal.com 2009-02-27 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
If you don't mind my jumping in, I just want to say I also love The Piano, for exactly the reasons you mention but also because the music and the look and feel of it are so very, very beautiful.

[identity profile] chloe-amethyst.livejournal.com 2009-02-27 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Yaay, another Piano fan. It was interesting how the beauty of the piano and the expression of a passionate soul would be juxtaposed with the harsh reality and violence of the life being lived out there in colonial N.Z. I remember that Holly Hunter had a piano coach and had to learn to play pieces in only a few weeks. Amazing!