Yes, I cried A LOT for two novels, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner' both by Khaled Hosseini
Yes, I cried A LOT for two novels, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner' both by Khaled Hosseini
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Yeah me too! I didnt though cry that my tears were flooding but it had an impact on me. Those two books and the chapter about Ilyusha (the schoolboy) in The Brothers Karamazov. Especially the story involving him and his family and his funeral.Originally Posted by Tournesol
Always do that, wild ducks do. They shoot to the bottom as deep as they can get, sir — and bite themselves fast in the tangle and seaweed — and all the devil's own mess that grows down there. And they never come up again. - The Wild Duck, Henrik Ibsen.
Have you read Confessions of a Mullah Warrior by any chance? Someone told me that it is more realistic than Hosseini's books.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1...pf_rd_i=468294
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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For someone who doesn't do the whole crying in front of other people thing my only exception is when I'm reading a book or watching a film. The last book I cried at was also the last book I read: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
If you'd like to talk about Blake I promise I'll keep checking this thread. http://www.online-literature.com/for...ad.php?t=45098
A dictionary to the face’ll bring a few tears to your eyes. Speaking from personal experience.
No, I never read 'Mullah' but I will give it a try! Thanks for the suggestion!
"My warm hands have made the paper limp,
So that its feel reminds me of slept-in sheets: comfortable and safe"
"All these things I say... I say them because I want you to know, I don't ever want to regret afterwards that I didn't say enough, I would rather say too much." ~ Samuel Selvon
Crime and Punishment
“Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature””
“If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.
The only books that have ever made me cry are non-fiction. Have read plenty of deeply disturbing/upsetting fiction, but nothing that has managed to induce tears.
I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library.
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For me it is exactly the same as Kilted. I have not cried reading a book. The only movie I cried during was A Wonderful Life.
"bruised reed" Isaiah 42:3
Bawling cry- "The Bridges of Madison County".
Sentimental cry- The Count of Monte Cristo
Sniffles-The Secret garden
Choked up-Fortunes rock
Pissed-Someone at a distance
"So this is hell. I'd never have believed it. You remember all we were told about the torture-chambers, the fire and brimstone, the "burning marl." Old wives' tales!There's no need for red-hot pokers. HELL IS--OTHER PEOPLE!"
— Jean-Paul Sartre (No Exit: A Play in One Act)
Oh, I am not "suggesting" it... Just thought you might have read it and wondered if you would "suggest" it.
Maybe we should read it together as a group read here!
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"It is not that I am mad; it is only that my head is different from yours.”
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The last time I cried when reading a novel was Jeannette Wall's The Glass Castle.
Sure. Most recently at the end of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
Or in Solzhenitzyn's Cancer Ward: a young girl, perhaps 14 or 15, lifts up her gown and asks an elderly man to kiss her breasts, because she doesn't want to die without having had a man kiss her breasts.
The boy in the striped pyjamas, how could you not shed a tear?
Hahahahahahaha
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