Has a book ever made you cry?

[bootyqueen]

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb is the only book ever to bring me to tears... I told this to a friend and she says "Are you kidding? I always cry at the end of books!"
Does my heart pump black oil or what?
Has a book ever made you sob like a little girl?

[el01ks]

I have cried at books, but can't remember which ones at the moment! It's been a while since a book has moved me that much - either that or I just read happy books atm!

[EAP]

A lot of books, including, interestingly enough, 'She's Come Undone'. (Though the frequency of the tears differed from book to book - 'She's Come Undone' was more of a sniff-sniff-wipe the eyes-sniff type while 'Where the Red Fern Grows' made my eyes red for quite a while)

[Capnplank]

Nope. At least not that I can remember.

[Shira]

A lot of books make me weepy, but The Five People You Meet In Heaven prompted a tear fest I'll never forget. I cried through the last few chapters, and when I'd closed the book, I cried even harder. The book haunted me for weeks...I'd remember it and start crying again. I can't explain it...but I certainly remember it!

[starrwriter]

Real men don't cry when they read tragic fiction. They have a stiff drink of Scotch, which doesn't do them any good.
(heh-heh)

[~Maude~]

There's been a few that made me cry but I can't think of which ones right now. Maybe it was just because I stayed up till 4am to finish reading them and my eyes were tired, that's my story anyways when caught crying.

[becca2389]

I'm embarassed to admit it.....but everytime I read Little Women I tear up when Beth dies!

[starrwriter]

I'm embarassed to admit it.....but everytime I read Little Women I tear up when Beth dies!
Since Becca and Maude are presumably female, it's all right if they cry over a sad novel. Women have more active tear ducts or something -- plus they're more emotional than men.

(Lord, am I gonna catch hell for that remark! I already hear the footsteps coming.)

[RusSpencer]

..made me cry when one of his characters in "Crime and Punishment" was forced by her stepmother into prostitution. All my own novels make me cry. I get too wrapped up in my characters.

[ArcherSnake]

One book I distinctly remember crying over was Dumas' "The Knight Of Maison Rouge". I believe I also shed a few tears over The Five People You Meet In Heaven.

[Eva Marina]

I know that I've cried over at least one book, although I can't remember which one. Normally, though, I just get really, really depressed and will mope around the house for days on end until something happy comes along.

[subterranean]

Perhaps other men would like to share their opinions? ;)


Real men don't cry when they read tragic fiction. They have a stiff drink of Scotch, which doesn't do them any good.
(heh-heh)


Frank Mccourt's Angela's Ashes was a touchy book, I think

[MiSaNtHrOpE]

Island almost brought me to tears at the very end when God and industrialization win out. The last speck of good in the world is eradicated in 8 pages when the trucks of Murugan, his mother, and Colonel Dipa roll through the streets, giving a sermon through the loudspeaker about how Western values are "truer" than Palanese values. The end made me want to vomit and cry at the same time. I mourn for the loss of humanity's final good at the hands of overwhelming evil and corruption.

But I was half expecting it, no matter how much I felt that the Palanese deserve to be left alone. The last of untainted humanity, finally consumed in the infinite hypocrisy of Western religion and greed-driven industrialization.

[kilted exile]

Perhaps other men would like to share their opinions? ;)


Ok, real men dont cry only wimps and nancy boys (Just kidding....before I get caught in the blast which is sure to soon envelope Starrwriter)

Whilst I do not recall crying at any book, I will admit to having cried after watching a film (It's a wonderful life)

[Pensive]

Wuthering Heights, Harry Potter and the Goblet of fire, Harry Potter and the half-blood Prince, Mill on the floss, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A tree grows in Brooklyn and Bridge to Terabithia were the books which really made me shed a tear or two...

[el01ks]

Real men don't cry when they read tragic fiction. They have a stiff drink of Scotch, which doesn't do them any good.

Particularly as alcohol is a depressant?

[B-Mental]

Ok, real men dont cry only wimps and nancy boys (Just kidding....before I get caught in the blast which is sure to soon envelope Starrwriter)

Whilst I do not recall crying at any book, I will admit to having cried after watching a film (It's a wonderful life)

I'm a real man and I've never cried cried at any book! I did however cry at the movie "Come Home Snoopy" It had a mournful song called "Come Home Snoopy" in it that almost howls the lyrics Cooo-me Hoooome Snooopy! Cooo-me Hooome Snoopy! Come Home Snoopy, Come Home." over and over again. It did have a happy ending when, you guessed it. SNOOPY COMES HOME! Even the music was happy in the end, which probably made me cry some more! The other song that made me cry was "No Dogs Allowed!" Wow! What a tear jerker.

[IrishCanadian]

This real (young) man cried to Byron's "She Walks Ine Beuaty Like The Night."

[A Hard Rain]

I've cried during certain works. It may not always be the book but other things happening during my life at the time too. The one that got me for i don't know WHAT reason was As I Lay Dying, Addie Bundren being the sort of Matriarchial figure about to pass. I don't quite get it as she dies so early in the novel, but I felt she was such a huge part of the family that succedes her.

A lot of time i just get sad and don't know what to do with the emotion. Which is a bad thing. I just finished 'a fairwell to arms' and I didn't cry but just moped around all night, until i realized it was 7 in the morning. I had tried to sleep but the thoughts stirred me too much. Finally i got 3 and a half hours of sleep and went off to work.

To the original poster: Yes you have a dark heart that pumps oil, you might be the child of satan. Or maybe people have different sensitivities and and imaginations and react differently.

[Logos]

Particularly as alcohol is a depressant?

Actually I can't think of a more uplifting thing to do than have some Oban scotch! :D

[starrwriter]

I just finished 'a fairwell to arms' and I didn't cry but just moped around all night, until i realized it was 7 in the morning. I had tried to sleep but the thoughts stirred me too much. Finally i got 3 and a half hours of sleep and went off to work.
You should have walked back to the hotel in the rain, like Lt. Henry.

[subterranean]

To be off-topic for a while, it's great to hear the honest confession from men, especially from a particular man who cried in watching "Come Home Snoopy"...

Now I almost cry from laughing so hard. Sorry, B-M..., I just can't fake up this thingy... I try to understand, but I just can't stop laughing..

[starrwriter]

To be off-topic for a while, it's great to hear the honest confession from men, especially from a particular man who cried in watching "Come Home Snoopy"...Now I almost cry from laughing so hard. Sorry, B-M..., I just can't fake up this thingy... I try to understand, but I just can't stop laughing..
They're all girly men.
(heh-heh)

[RusSpencer]

Any actor or actress who cannot achieve real tears is denied the greatness afforded by posterity. So is any writer, for they are devoid of passion.

Who could have not shed a tear along with Audie Murphy, America's most highly decorated war hero, as he wept over the loss of his best friend in that movie, To Hell and Back? Murpy later said his actor's tears were real as he remembered...The friend had become a father figure for Murphy, no doubt because he was so much like the father who had walked out on Murphy's sick and dying mom during the Depression and left the family to their fate; but his friend had repented and expressed his sorrow for abandoning his family. No doubt he may have also experienced a death wish as penance for his sin, ignoring Murphy's warning and exposing himself to German machine gun fire.


"Jesus wept." John 11:35

The above is reputedly the shortest verse in the Bible. Tears say more than all the words one can articulate.

Check out this URL and note the illustration of a scene from the War in Bosnia.

http://www.ict.usc.edu/publications/agents01-emotion.pdf

Note how this might explain Murphy's behavior immediately after the death of his friend when he singlehandedly wiped out the machine gun nest, using the same machine gun that had killed his friend--just before he sat down next to his friend and cried.

[~Maude~]

Since Becca and Maude are presumably female, it's all right if they cry over a sad novel. Women have more active tear ducts or something -- plus they're more emotional than men.

(Lord, am I gonna catch hell for that remark! I already hear the footsteps coming.)

Be careful you may make me cry some more :(

[Ariella Whelan]

I've cried at the end of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix when Sirius died...

[Koa]

I'm sure I've cried to plenty of books since many things make me cry...
the one I remember particularly was Gone With The Wind... I cried all along the last 20 pages, without ever stopping...:blush: :D

[Whimsican]

I haven't had one make me cry in a while... Jude the Obscure, as odd as that sounds, came closest in my recent litarary experiences.

Where the Red Fern Grows made me sob. :p

[rachel]

Starr,
Are you kidding? Since when have you polled all the men on the face of the earth,humm when did that happen? What is wrong with crying if your heart tells you too? I think it takes more courage and honesty to cry, even a few tears if that is what is honestly in your heart than open the bottle and let it numb you.Just my opinion. I have known many tough men and women and it is my opinion that they are afraid to cry, care too much what others might think.
Kilted exile- (you do talk like all my adopted Celtic guy relatives.)NANCY BOYS? I think you have been watching ancient reruns of coronation street or something. And what is a whimp exactly? I doubt if there is one wimp on this forum.
And becca, i too shed tears every single time I hear Beth say" I know how to be brave too" Can't help it and i have tried.

[starrwriter]

Starr, Are you kidding? Since when have you polled all the men on the face of the earth,humm when did that happen? What is wrong with crying if your heart tells you too? I think it takes more courage and honesty to cry, even a few tears if that is what is honestly in your heart than open the bottle and let it numb you. Just my opinion. I have known many tough men and women and it is my opinion that they are afraid to cry, care too much what others might think.
Whoa there, cowgirl. I was only making a joke, which I thought was obvious. You really have to learn to appreciate my warped sense of humor.

[rachel]

oh I do appreciate it. It's the best. But being the wit that you are i always think there is a teeny tiny seed of truth under all the teasing. am I right, huh am I?You didn't become the success you are without that acid wit, that ability to meld fact and fiction. See i am already a fan and haven't read a single bit of prose yet.

[starrwriter]

oh I do appreciate it. It's the best. But being the wit that you are i always think there is a teeny tiny seed of truth under all the teasing. am I right, huh am I?
Who knows? It's a mystery even to me and some things are better left unknown.

I strive to inject a little whimsy into this forum. We all need whimsy so we don't take ourselves too seriously.

[WordWarriorAbe]

I doubt if I've ever. Was a bit mad when I read The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay, (the part when he discovers Geil Piet's body in the ring), but I'd recall shedding a tear.
I've read poetry and cried, though. Can't really remeber who wrote it but it was all about a girl who lost her mum when she was six or something. Really sad.

[jakobin]

The Power of One definetely, and LOTR. Come on, there are just so many parts of LOTR which are calling for you to let your tear drops fall onto the pages.

The God of Small Things also jerked some (haha, no reference to the OrangeDrink-LemonDrink man for those who have read the book).

Pride and Prejudice, when Lizzie finally accepts Mr Darcy, both in the book, in the first version of the movie and the new version with Keira Knightley. All tear-jerky moments.

AND, I'm a Male. :p

[starrwriter]

AND, I'm a Male.
Really? I'll bet your mates wonder when they see you crying over a book.

You must learn to repress your emotions and never show them publicly. It's the Path of the Warrior, to borrow a phrase from an old Castaneda book.

Freud was wrong about repression. It's good for you because it builds rage you can use to punish your enemies. Repression places you on The Edge where your male instincts will thrive.

[Logos]

Who knows? It's a mystery even to me and some things are better left unknown.

I strive to inject a little whimsy into this forum. We all need whimsy so we don't take ourselves too seriously.

Christopher Morley (wrote Kitty Foyle) said the word `whimsical' to him was an "emetic epithet", meaning he didn't like it when used to describe his own works :p and I think he was a real guys-guy.

[starrwriter]

Christopher Morley (wrote Kitty Foyle) said the word `whimsical' to him was an "emetic epithet", meaning he didn't like it when used to describe his own works and I think he was a real guys-guy.
That only means he didn't intend his work to be viewed as whimsy, which sounds like a guy's guy thing.

I say give me whimsy or give me death! Everyday life is earth-bound, but whimsy gives wings to your imagination. Or at least crutches.

[dejosc]

hmm ive cried at a couple of books but when i was younger now i just say '**** happens' it makes everything ok, heh. also its because i prefer to read more light-hearted stuff than depressing material as i dont see the point in actually making yourself depressed. you only get one life make the most of it.

[Kluna]

Aha during pms :) It was Tariq Ali's Shadows of the Pomegranate Tree and on the end I couldn't held my tears.. I've never before red that part of history. Realy sad even now when I think on that scene with a boy..

[clarity]

People, rather than books, make me cry. But I DID cry when I read the anti-war book "Johnny Got His Gun" by Dalton Trumbo. It was touching to read about the personal relationships of the main character when he was reminiscing about his family & girlfriend.

[bugmasta]

no. I haven't cried because of a book. :bawling:

[starrwriter]

no. I haven't cried because of a book.
Finally, a real man -- or a sociopath with no empathy. (The distinction is shadowy.)

[Eva Marina]

People, rather than books, make me cry.

(I think I've posted here before...*looks on the first page*, yep! oh, well) With a few exceptions, I think people make my cry more often than books. I'm much more likely to cry during a movie than a book, although there have been a few times when I've had to put the book down and take a walk or something before going back to reading.

[LBishop]

The Five People You Meet In Heaven, the book was really well done and expanded my imagination. The movie touched me more though, probably because you could see the characters and what the old man went through. I think it's easier to shed a tear watching a movie than a book, simply because movies are visuals. Also, with the technology we have today, the effects/graphics are pretty realistic.
Also, The Secret Life Of Bees was a good book too. Definatley one of my favorites.

[Ashleyxx]

making the Run made me cry...it was so sad when ginny died because she was pregnant, and just because Lu had gone through so much already...

[mikehawk]

In Fourth Grade I Read The Book Where The Red Fern Groes. The Ending Was Pretty Sad.

[Vampire Kari]

I cry when I read books all the time. Phantom by Susan Kay and Phantom of the Opera by Gaston Leroux are the ones that touched me the most.

[rodanho]

i scarcely cry over books, but when reading "resurrection" written by leo tolstoy, i cannot stop sobbing. it is really touching........

[Matilda]

I've cried over lots of books, but I think the saddest ones I've ever read is The Color Purple by Alice Walker, and Henning Mankell's Secrets in the Fire

[Vedrana]

Hmmm...a book that has made me cry? I must admit that I got a bit teary reading 'Frankenstien' of all novels. I felt really sorry for the creature, because he was so alone and it seemed so tragic. Other than that, I really couldn't think of a book that has made me cry.

[-yam aseret-]

ahmmm...it was when i was in sixth grade..i forgot the author but the title is Double Standards..i cried hadr for that book..i dunno why..hehehe..it was in the last chapter where i cried really hard..then bronte's jane eyre also made me cry...the scene where jane eyre met the now blind edward rochester...<sigh>...i want o cry again..for a book..any suggestion???ahahaha

[Pensive]

yam aseret, Read Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte and you will not be able to control your tears.

[starrwriter]

Every time I read a Stephen King book I wanted to cry because I knew this mediocre writer was the richest fiction author in the world (before LOTR.)

[mhyrrmayde]

"Old Yeller," "Pollyanna,"......."Where the Red Fern Grows,".........

[Eva Marina]

I've just finished reading the short story, "The Cold Equations" by Tom Godwin, for the second time and it's one of the sadest stories I've ever read. :bawling: I agree with you, Pensive, that Wuthering Heights is very sad. You read the part where Heathcliff is talking to Cathy's ghost in the beginning, but you don't really understand what's going on yet and then it hits you later while you're reading (or, at least, it did for me). Very depressing.

[Taliesin]

No






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[Xamonas Chegwe]

All the time - I'm a sucker for the old heart-string tugging.

[shortysweetp]

i do cry all the time during books. I am just a poor sap thats a sucker for heart felt moments.

[Doctor Boogaloo]

The book that brought me to tears most recently was 'The Da Vinci Code'. But they were tears of laughter.

[silver]

The book that made me laugh and cry is DON QUIXOTE. It is a strange mixture of comedy and tragedy. It touches the innermost core of the heart.It goes on haunting me.

[nova9]

i'm so much into the plot of a novel that i get touched by each emotional incident. i vividly remember crying over the death of ramu(in 'THE GUIDE' by R.K.NARAYAN). it was the first time i ever cried over a book. most recently, i cried very badly when Dumbledore died in HP& HBP. another unnerving incident was the helpless situation of tess, her crime and ultimately her death that left a lasting impression on me. i cried my heart out. tess is the best portrayed women in fiction so far and very few can remain unperturbed by her struggles and ill-luck in life. http://www.online-literature.com/forums/images/icons/icon9.gif
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[Sami]

Books usually have a harder time getting me to laugh than they do getting me to cry, which could either mean I’m deep and sensitive or that I’m a total misery-guts depending on how you look at it.

A book that made me cry with BOTH laughter and sadness was “Everything is illuminated” by Jonathan Safran Foer.

Has anyone seen the movie that came out recently? Is it any good?

[Sami]

another unnerving incident was the helpless situation of tess, her crime and ultimately her death that left a lasting impression on me. i cried my heart out.

Completely agree with you on this point– “Tess” is a tearjerker on a grand scale!

[Pensive]

most recently, i cried very badly when Dumbledore died in HP& HBP.

It was something that made me cry badly. I felt very miserable. I do not think that Harry would have missed Dumbledore more than me. When I watched Harry Potter 4 movie, I did not get the courage to look at dear old Dumbledore's face. I felt really bad. He should not have died.

[smilingtearz]

I read Gone With the Wind, two years back... was reading it while travelling by train to my mum's home town... it took me two days to finish the book... and as soon as I closed the book I started crying... my mom was like... "Eva what's wrong with you"... and when i told her it was the novel, she and my dad and my sister and two other people sharing the compartment with us, laughed at me ... I still remember I actually CRIED!..

another incidence was in class this year, while we were doing Doctor Faustus... while reading the last 2 scenes, I could feel tears welling up in my eyes... and the portion where in the final hour Faustus reflects on his past deeds, his soliloquy... I just couldn't stop my tears,I wiped them thinking no-one would have seen... I usually sit in the first row in my class...when i looked up, my teacher was looking at me... and smiled at me..

[RobinHood3000]

It was something that made me cry badly. I felt very miserable. I do not think that Harry would have missed Dumbledore more than me. When I watch any Harry Potter movie, I can't bear dear old Dumbledore's face. I feel bad.
Hey!! Spoiler Warnings, I BEG OF YOU!!


:flare: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :flare:

'Tis ruined, I say...ruined.

[Pensive]

I read Gone With the Wind, two years back... was reading it while travelling by train to my mum's home town... it took me two days to finish the book... and as soon as I closed the book I started crying... my mom was like... "Eva what's wrong with you"... and when i told her it was the novel, she and my dad and my sister and two other people sharing the compartment with us, laughed at me ... I still remember I actually CRIED!..


I have watched "Gone With The Wind" Movie. I admit that it was very sad.

[emily655321]

Hey!! Spoiler Warnings, I BEG OF YOU!!


:flare: :bawling: :bawling: :bawling: :flare:

'Tis ruined, I say...ruined.Oh, Robin, there isn't a person alive who doesn't know that by now. :p I've never even read the books, and I know it.

[RobinHood3000]

Hey, there WAS, until a certain someone I knew a few months ago put only one line of space between his spoiler warning and the spoiler itself. Curse my training in speed-reading!!

[Molko]

I cried when I read animal farm... :( Ooooh, and in Jane Eyre too, which is odd as I dont really cry over 'romantic' novels.

[hemial]

You won't believe it ... but I cried when reading a Perry Rhodan book - the one his old friend and mentor Crest dies.

I had a lump in my throat when reading one of Henning Mankell's Wallander-novels - again someone died (Wallander's father).

However, mostly movies make me really cry (e.g. The Green Mile, Steel Magnolias).

[Pensive]

I cried while reading Middlesex and The Twins. Sometimes tears have their own pleasure - I think.

[Stella Mica]

Ok - SPOILER WARNING -

I cried when Dobby dies in HP & Deathly Hallows. I reread it again this summer and cried again. Also cried over HP & GOF.

I can't remember any other specific books, but I used to cry over them all the time. Drying up, I guess.

I did love SHES COME UNDONE. That was a great book! Haven't liked any of his other work nearly as much.

[Barbarous]

I shed a few tears at the end of The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky.

[Brad Coelho]

Not since I was in middle school- but the Trumpet of the Swan and Watership Down (which I still feel is a beautiful novel) both tugged at my ocular faucets.

[Thespian1975]

The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak? That book mnade me cry at quite a few points.

The time travellers wife (The film was good too)

Lots of other books too but those two come to mind at the moment

[Emil Miller]

Not since I was in middle school- but the Trumpet of the Swan and Watership Down (which I still feel is a beautiful novel) both tugged at my ocular faucets.

That sounds really painful, no wonder you cried.

[meh!]

Yeah. Changeling by Robin Jenkins is the only one I can remember, though.

[Three Sparrows]

When I was little I read Where the Red Ferns Grow, and I could seriously not stop crying. Gone with the Wind was bad too, but my most recent was Tess of the D'urbervilles, I just get struck with misery when I read it. I cry all the time when reading, even in Henry VI, I was saddest when John Talbot, a very minor character, died. Yeah, I know, I'm wuss, but I say, if you don't cry at the end of a tragic novel, chuck the book out the window; the writer probably isn't very good.
But maybe that's just me.:rolleyes:

[Brad Coelho]

That sounds really painful, no wonder you cried.

nice ;)

[Helga]

many books come to mind, when I was a kid it was black beauty, I read it about a million times and cried when his friend died and every time he had to change a home..

probably every time somebody died

[Lynne50]

If I mentioned this book before, I apologize. I remember sitting in the eye doctor's waiting for my husband and finishing, Fall On Your Knees by Anne-Marie MacDonald. Good thing everyone thought my eyes were tearing from drops. I still remember that very clearly and it's been years since I read it.
Also, Old Yeller, when he got rabies.... so sad

[DanielBenoit]

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb is the only book ever to bring me to tears... I told this to a friend and she says "Are you kidding? I always cry at the end of books!"
Does my heart pump black oil or what?
Has a book ever made you sob like a little girl?

Yeah I usually feel, if not like crying, then a feeling of loss once I finish a book.

Let's see, I cried throughout Kakfa's Metamorphosis. Dostoyevsky is so powerful, that he can easily stir up your emotions. I've cried at plays, Beckett, Shakespeare, Ibsen. Yeah, I'm a bit of a sentimental guy. :blush:

By the way, I always cry at the end of Henry IV, Part 2

[joebob]

When they killed piggy....

[Frankie Anne]

Count me as another who cried when Beth dies in "Little Women."

[dfloyd]

Chevalier de Maison Rouge, as one poster did. I was relatively happy since I had just finished the last of the twelve volumes Dumas wrote which are collectively called The Marie Antoinette Romances.

I did cry over a book titled 'Cooking with Onions."

[King Mob]

When i was reading Beckett's Lessness (reading it aloud) i suddenly found myself breathing heavily and almost crying. It was a beautiful experience.

[Remarkable]

Oh, I have cried over quite a few touching books but the first one I remember that made me shed tears all over my night gown is "The Orange Girl" by Jostein Gaarder.

[Brad Coelho]

So many spoilers in this thread :)

[Tournesol]

Yes, I cried A LOT for two novels, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner' both by Khaled Hosseini

[Saladin]

Yes, I cried A LOT for two novels, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner' both by Khaled Hosseini

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.

[Scheherazade]

Yes, I cried A LOT for two novels, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns' and 'The Kite Runner' both by Khaled Hosseini
Yeah me too! 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/1843549352/ref=s9_simz_gw_s5_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=01K1X7KG51QHZZ8Y7NGJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294

[Dark Lady]

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.

[Madame X]

A dictionary to the face’ll bring a few tears to your eyes. Speaking from personal experience. :nod:

[Tournesol]

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/1843549352/ref=s9_simz_gw_s5_p14_t1?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=center-1&pf_rd_r=01K1X7KG51QHZZ8Y7NGJ&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_p=467198433&pf_rd_i=468294

No, I never read 'Mullah' but I will give it a try! Thanks for the suggestion!

[blazeofglory]

Crime and Punishment

[dramasnot6]

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.

[bluosean]

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.

[Pollopicu]

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

[Scheherazade]

No, I never read 'Mullah' but I will give it a try! Thanks for the suggestion!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! :D

[Amethyst2010]

The last time I cried when reading a novel was Jeannette Wall's The Glass Castle.

[Kevets]

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.

[Aoife]

The boy in the striped pyjamas, how could you not shed a tear?

[Aoife]

Hahahahahahaha :)

[kiki1982]

Sentimenta cry: The Count of Monte Cristo

sobbing: the last 100 or so pages of The Vicomte de Bragelonne SPOILERS!! (where they die...) Particularly the reading of the will of Porthos :bawling: and afterwards.

SPOILERS OVER!

I seem to have something with Dumas, here...

Oh, yes, and Les Misérables: SLIGHT SPOILER

the death of Jean Valjean, but that was especially written for it. Hugo said about that part: 'Si ceci n'émeut pas, je renonce jamais à écrire.' (If this does not move people, I stop writing for ever.)

SLIGHT SPOILER OVER

That's it, really. Hardy not yet. He rather moves in the way that he leaves you with an empty feeling... Very unsettling.

I'm rather the romantic emotional type, I think...

[Pollopicu]

I wish people would use spoiler alerts.

[Page Turner]

I was all set to say no but while reading through these I saw The Book Thief. Yeah, that one got me.

[Moriarty]

Sentimenta cry: The Count of Monte Cristo
Oh, yes, and Les Misérables: the death of Jean Valjean, but that was especially written for it. Hugo said about that part: 'Si ceci n'émeut pas, je renonce jamais à écrire.' (If this does not move people, I stop writing for ever.)


That also brought tears to my eyes, and I almost NEVER cry for books.

[Annamariah]

I cry with every second book I read :p

I like books that make me cry and laugh - it means they've somehow touched me. If I can read a book without a tear or a giggle, it probably wasn't a very good one.

[Boo Radley]

Try "The Happy Prince" (Oscar Wilde). The ending always gets me when I'm reading aloud to students.

[Jazz_]

sobbing: the last 100 or so pages of The Vicomte de Bragelonne SPOILERS!! (where they die...) Particularly the reading of the will of Porthos :bawling: and afterwards.



I cried while reading this too - so sad :bawling:

[balehead]

I'm one of those people who cry in nearly everything ... I don't think a book is any good if it cannot produce some excess of emotion in me ... the sadder I am, the happier I am .. it's a different kind of happy ...

[kinkajou]

I'm constantly bawling over a book. The last one that seriously did me in was The Book Thief. The first one I remember crying over was back in the fourth grade. Something about a dog running along a railroad track. He may have gotten smooshed, the details are hazy, but I bawled and bawled and bawled. My grandmother couldn't understand why I kept reading. She kept asking, "Why don't you just stop reading if it upsets you so much?" Good question.

[Pollopicu]

She kept asking, "Why don't you just stop reading if it upsets you so much?" Good question.

lol, I can picture that.

That was part of the fun of reading it.


I love books which make me feel emotions like that, however, I don't like feeling cheap emotions. It has to be good substantial reasons. Which is why I rarely read best-sellers anymore. Afterward I always feel like I had a one night stand. I prefer books that have a lingering thought-provoking psychological effect, not just a quick instant cry.

[Desolation]

No. But The Sorrows of Young Werther left me very depressed for a couple of days.

[oslemxoslem]

John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men:'( when Lennie died, I ve felt as if the purity, innocence and friendship had died with him :( Steinbeck gives the idea of naturalism and victimization of nature so directly that it becomes so touchy :S
...and ı ve also shed several tears when ı finished reading William Golding's 'Lord of the flies' : again a sample of naturalism. It made me think how cruel people can get :S

[Niamh]

I sobbed for two hours reading the end of East of Eden by Stienbeck

Oh and also with Ruth by Gaskell.


The boy in the striped pyjamas, how could you not shed a tear?

that left me feeling Numb.

[Buh4Bee]

The last time I cried was when I read War and Peace and Prince Andrey died. I was devastated and in awe of the gentleness of his passing.

[kinkajou]

lol, I can picture that.

That was part of the fun of reading it.

It is, isn't it!:nod:



I love books which make me feel emotions like that, however, I don't like feeling cheap emotions. It has to be good substantial reasons. Which is why I rarely read best-sellers anymore. Afterward I always feel like I had a one night stand. I prefer books that have a lingering thought-provoking psychological effect, not just a quick instant cry.

I agree. And I'm going to generalize here a bit - typically books that try to get a quick cry out of a reader fail with me because I see it coming. It's the ones that sneak up on me that make the biggest, and best, impression.

[greenfroggsplat]

Leroux's Le Fantome de l'Opera was the first classic novel to make me cry. Modern or contemporary novels always make me cry though...

[ennison]

"The Inheritors" by William Golding but I was young then.

[Cailin]

The Book Thief brought a tear to my eye but The Time Traveller's Wife got me at the very end.... I think I'm a little bit embarrassed to say it!:blush:

[Dixon]

She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb is the only book ever to bring me to tears... I told this to a friend and she says "Are you kidding? I always cry at the end of books!"
Does my heart pump black oil or what?
Has a book ever made you sob like a little girl?

Hello, everyone!
I have to admit it. I am big at tear shedding when I am reading.
The books I remember which brought me to tears are:

Roots by Alex Hailey
The doomsday book by Connie Willis
To kill a mockingbird by Harper Lee
The age of innocence by Edith Wharton
Lucas by Kevin Brooks
North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Atonement by Ian McEwan

I can´t remember more right at the moment.

Kind regards to all of you
Dixon

[Aravona]

I cried at the end of 'The Amber Spyglass', just couldn't help that one. Also shead a tear at the end of 'The Secret History of Moscow'

[Dixon]

Real men don't cry when they read tragic fiction. They have a stiff drink of Scotch, which doesn't do them any good.
(heh-heh)

Oh yeah, I should try that next time! Which Scotch do you prefer?

Greetings
Dixon

I wonder, I thought Scotch drinking real men don´t read tragic fiction.

[blazeofglory]

I cried and cried nonstop when I read the prophet. It is not any sentimental story there that made me cry. The poem echoed my inner feelings, my voices, my truths, my beliefs, my philosophies and I cried and cried unstoppably until somebody came in. I cried when I read the Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky. I usually cry when something touches me, my inner-self. I cry when I read a poem and even if I listen to a classical song

[janesmith]

The only book that has reduced me to tears is "The Passion" by A.S.Byatt.

[jet.thursday]

Nicholas Sparks' novels surely do, they may be chick-flick in movies but when you read the
book, it gives a different feeling, more intense perhaps and you could feel it. ^o^

[dfloyd]

I managed to slam the book shut on my finger. That brought tears to my eyes.

[ForKnowledge]

lonesome dove by Larry Mcmurty came close and so did poor folk by Fyodor Dostoevsky but neither actually brought tears

[Babak Movahed]

Well I've never full on wept but after reading "Madame Bovary" I did tear up a bit. It was so beautifully written and so poetic that I can't see how someone wouldn't feel some sort of empathy for Emma at the end of the novel.

[WuWei]

I just mentioned this in the "perfect prose" thread...

The most moving passage I've ever read is in Céline's "Voyage à bout de la nuit", when, in Africa, Bardamu finds out that Alcide is secretly paying to put a niece he's never even met through school back in France. In the grim, desperate atmosphere the book manages to create, those 2-3 pages come as a sudden, stunning revelation of goodness, an unexpected drop of humanity. Just great.

[Christian]

I cried when I read The Desire of Ages, it is so moving.

[MrRegular]

It was on a clear, cloudless day. My aunt Sue and I had been walking through a field discussing how fond we were of one another. Faintly, I know that I'd heard a plane's hum calling through the sky, but I had paid it little heed. Aunt Sue laughed with her little smile, so motherly, so kind, as I lauded her with praise. In fact, I was about to ask her what I would do without her when that dreadful swish rent the air.
My poor auntie had hardly a second to turn her beautiful face to the sky when the cardboard-wrapped volume, to me then only a streak, flashed from the air onto her unsuspecting gaze.
Oh, wretched gravity. How you've rained upon men your laurels and lumps. Liberal you are with heavymost projectiles, especially on those most unwary.
The plane above had been of the Fed-Ex variety, and its load had consisted of, amongst many other things, one poorly secured copy of Principia Mathimatica by Sir Isaac Newton.
Thus goes the story of my woe and of my late aunt Sue's education in gravitation force through the school of hard knocks.

[teashi]

It was sad when Dobby died in Deathly Hallows, and disappointing when Dumbeldore died (why does the old wise mentor ALWAYS have to die?). Also when the Abbot died at the end of Redwall. :frown2:

[Modest Proposal]

I cried, as a young boy, in class in both "The Bridge to Terabithia" and "Where the Red Fern Grows". Fifth and sixth grade. Ouch.

[Lynne50]

The most recent book was Water for Elephants. This story was about a traveling circus during the depression. PETA would probably be after them today. And a book I read awhile ago, called Fall on Your Knees was also sad. It's been so long since I read it, I should reread, but it's the one book I distinctly remember where I was when I read the ending. I was waiting in an eye doctor's office for my husband. Lot's of people had tears in their eyes, so I didn't feel funny crying.

[Stendhal]

The Bell Jar broke my heart when Esther underwent shock therapy. Revolutionary Road was tragically beautiful. Tess of the D'urbervilles was quite sad as well.

[Rores28]

I didn't cry but I did get teary eyed at times during "The Road"

[Heteronym]

Recently José Saramago's Seeing did; it was in re-read actually, shortly after he passed away.

Other tearful reading experiences include Crime and Punishment, The Magic Mountain, and, much to my surprise because I hate it, Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

[Eiss]

I cried once reading, reading 'Un coeur simple' by Flaubert, the passage where Félicité tries to find on a map the house where Victor stays.

[Tallon]

Of Mice And Men bought a few tears to my eyes.

[_Shannon_]

Steinbeck's The Pearl made me weep like I have never wept at a book.

[kiki1982]

Does crying of laughter also count?

If yes, then I cried when I was reading Lucian's Assembly of the Gods and afterwards with the scene that was based on it, I think, in Kafka's Castle. It was so hilarious that I could not stop laughing.

[Themistocles18]

Six books have brought me to tears, only one since becoming an adult. Where the Red Fern Grows, Great Expectations (the end), David Copperfield (the end), The Assassin's Quest (the end), The Amber Spyglass (the end), and Middlemarch (Bulstrode's...well, you know if you've read it). Only Middlemarch and Where the Red Fern Grows inspired great, wracking sobs.

If we're including books where I cried with laughter the list gets much longer. Most recently: Lucky Jim and Scoop.

[mrv]

I remember I cried plentiful when Nelly died in The Old Curiosity Shop:blush5:, but that was a long time back. Recently, I cried a tear or two at one point in Crime and Punishment.

[Sebas. Melmoth]

Flaubert's novella A Simple Heart.

[Seasider]

I cried when Jane's friend Helen Burns died in Jane Eyre. And almost all of Hans Andersen's stories made me cry. The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid on dear. The story of the robin who gives up the blood of his heart to make the rose red. The Selfish Giant. A poem by Cecil Day Lewis called The Nabarra. I guess I'm a sentimentalist.

[Scheherazade]

Often find myself fighting tears while reading Peanuts comics.

[kiki1982]

That's funny, Seasider, my mother as a little girl once got a fairy tale book of Andersen as a present and she read The Little Match Girl as well... She cried so much every time she read it that her mother threatened to take the book away if she didn't stop reading it...

So much for Disney's always-happy-ending...

[dfloyd]

on your foot, sans shoes, I'll guarantee you a good cry.

[LuggageFan]

Oh, yeah - the ending of Mahfouz' Palace Walk. :(

And I just finished Neverwhere, and that made me cry, but they were tears of joy - you'll have to read it to find out why. :)

[mike thomas]

One book - War and Peace:

I reached up to take it from the Library shelf, lost my hold, it fell, corner - right in my eye.

wept all night.

[aliengirl]

The books/ stories that made me cry-

~Tears of sorrow- The Postman by Tagore, Vanka by Chekhov, The Man In The Iron Mask by Dumas. (I was greatly affected by the death of Porthos, the manner in which he died and oh, the place where he died.)

~Tears of joy & sorrow-The Prince & The Pauper by Twain, Little Women and its sequels by L.M.Alcott, Les Miserables.

@kiki1982- You're right about Disney's happy ending story. I wept when I read The Little Mermaid as a child. And now I really hate to see any kid read it.

[Beautifull]

I cried when Jane's friend Helen Burns died in Jane Eyre. And almost all of Hans Andersen's stories made me cry. The Little Match Girl, The Little Mermaid on dear. The story of the robin who gives up the blood of his heart to make the rose red. The Selfish Giant. A poem by Cecil Day Lewis called The Nabarra. I guess I'm a sentimentalist.

I thought that was a nightingale...is there similar stories?


That's funny, Seasider, my mother as a little girl once got a fairy tale book of Andersen as a present and she read The Little Match Girl as well... She cried so much every time she read it that her mother threatened to take the book away if she didn't stop reading it...

So much for Disney's always-happy-ending...

very sad, and very true!

I've only cried in one book when someone very very very close to the main character of a series died. I had almost reached the end of the third book when it happened

[life]

The Sorrows of Young Werther quite wrecked me for several days. The funny thing was, I couldn't explain exactly what was so sadly terrible about it all. I'd be interested to hear what others have thought of this book; I've never discussed it with anyone.

[kiki1982]

As far as I remember, because it is already 10 years ago that I read that book when I was 18, I kind of thought that the saddest thing was his naïvety, or thinking back, I do. He is such a cheerful chap and he abandons himself totally to those feelings, or feelings in general and that is his downfall. You kind of want to shake him about and tell him to 'please, take his feelings and deal with them a little more realistically'.

[wallflower5]

The last book in the "Flowers in the Attic" by V.C. Andrews series when I think Chris dies
The book is I think "Seeds of Yesterday"

[marcolfo]

les miserables, the pillars of the earth and 100 years of solitud.

[life]

As far as I remember, because it is already 10 years ago that I read that book when I was 18, I kind of thought that the saddest thing was his naïvety, or thinking back, I do. He is such a cheerful chap and he abandons himself totally to those feelings, or feelings in general and that is his downfall. You kind of want to shake him about and tell him to 'please, take his feelings and deal with them a little more realistically'.

kiki, I think Werther's naivety is a very large part of why it was so sad; more specifically, it was frightening that he seemed to convince himself of the truth of an idea which wasn't so truthful or beautiful after all. He seemed to be in love with his ability to feel passion against his better judgment. It's been a good six or seven years since I have read it myself; always on the bookshelf, though. It's a well-done critique of romanticism.

[Riverrun...]

I cry all of the time when I read books. Not always proper crying, but definitely eyes-filling-with-tears kind of crying. They don't even have to be sad or moving; most of the time it's caused by phrases which I find beautiful or impressive. Right now I'm reading Tess of the d'Urbevilles and I've been crying, not just at the sadness, but at the magnificent descriptions of life, emotions and the landscape. :blush5: Also, if I read something that I can relate to it tends to send me over the edge, especially if I read it at a 'relevant' time in my life (age 13, Catcher in the Rye = big mistake).