Comments on: Jeffty is Five by Harlan Ellison http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/12/08/jeffty-is-five-by-harlan-ellison/ The Best Science Fiction Short Stories - and where to find them! Fri, 18 May 2012 17:04:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Rusty http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/12/08/jeffty-is-five-by-harlan-ellison/comment-page-1/#comment-1441 Rusty Thu, 12 Feb 2009 17:17:28 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/12/08/jeffty-is-five-by-harlan-ellison/#comment-1441 Atrack, You really nailed the feeling one gets when reading this story - sad, but also beautiful. I liked this story much more than most Ellison stuff I've read. Although it is depressing, its still cool. Atrack,

You really nailed the feeling one gets when reading this story – sad, but also beautiful. I liked this story much more than most Ellison stuff I’ve read. Although it is depressing, its still cool.

]]> By: atrackbrown http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/12/08/jeffty-is-five-by-harlan-ellison/comment-page-1/#comment-1440 atrackbrown Wed, 11 Feb 2009 21:39:19 +0000 http://bestsciencefictionstories.com/2008/12/08/jeffty-is-five-by-harlan-ellison/#comment-1440 Perhaps my favorite short story of all time. Say what you will about Harlan Ellison the man, but his writing can be amazingly affective. This story in particular starts the ol' waterfalls every... single... time. It's the sort of writing that a bit too perceptively conjures memories of loss and regret and forgotten youth in ways that aren't pretty but are quite beautiful. Fully recommended to anyone who doesn't mind being depressed over a story for a few hours. Perhaps my favorite short story of all time. Say what you will about Harlan Ellison the man, but his writing can be amazingly affective. This story in particular starts the ol’ waterfalls every… single… time. It’s the sort of writing that a bit too perceptively conjures memories of loss and regret and forgotten youth in ways that aren’t pretty but are quite beautiful.

Fully recommended to anyone who doesn’t mind being depressed over a story for a few hours.

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