Last book that made you cry?

[April]

For me it was Jane Eyre, when Helen Burns dies. I couldn't stop myself from pouring tears and sobbing. The strength showed by that little girl when faced with death and how peacefully she accept it...it was too much to handle :nonod:.

[Buh4Bee]

I just finished posting about it. The Sorrows of Young Werther. I was overwhelmed by the scene when Werther kisses Lotte. It was virtuous. That was the scene that made me "fall in love" with Lotte myself. Another book like this is The Age of Innocence, but is not nearly as good as Goethe.

[Pierre Menard]

I just finished posting about it. The Sorrows of Young Werther. I was overwhelmed by the scene when Werther kisses Lotte. It was virtuous. That was the scene that made me "fall in love" with Lotte myself.

That is a beautiful scene. I know the book is meant to be somewhat satirical, but it contains some genuinely heart breaking moments.

[Buh4Bee]

Hm... I had not thought of it in terms of satire, but yes, I can see how the book can be classified this way. There was so much exaggeration from the ideal form of love (unconditional love for Lotte) to the intensity of Werther's emotions. There is nothing funny about the book, and it leaves you thinking about these huge themes such as suicide.

[Pierre Menard]

Hm... I had not thought of it in terms of satire, but yes, I can see how the book can be classified this way. There was so much exaggeration from the ideal form of love (unconditional love for Lotte) to the intensity of Werther's emotions. There is nothing funny about the book, and it leaves you thinking about these huge themes such as suicide.

I think I read a good post on here about it that I tend to agree with. It's a satire, but at the same time a wonderful celebration of the overly-romanticist Werther . Goethe seems to be satirizing the (as you said) exaggerated idealism of love but he also seems to have a great love for that type of character and shows a real tenderness when dealing with the themes he's dealing with - love, suicide, life/death, etc.

[threecharacters]

I don't typically cry... being an emotion suppressing man and all but I did tear up for just a moment at the end of "The Road" in the scene where the father is dying and telling his son that they can still talk, just in a different sense. That stuff was kinda heartbreaking.

[Buh4Bee]

I agree with you, Pierre, the book is a satire. I think that the satire helps to alleviate some of the drama, but as you said Goethe is very sympathetic to his characters allowing for some heart breaking moments. It is a book that weaves beautifully between the quiet corners of one's imagination and the folly humanity experiences when taking reality too far. I think this could be Goethe's commentary to the world about suicide. However, the romantic in me does not want to think about the satirical part, but dwell in the depths of well's innocent love.

[Seasider]

Didn't a similar thread to this appear about 5 weeks ago?

[Intuition]

I think the only time I have ever came close to shedding a solitary tear... was when I was coming close to finishing Ibsen's The Wild Duck.

[ladderandbucket]

Three quarters of my way through a graphic novel called Jimmy Corrigan I really felt like weeping. The book is so relentlessly depressing.

[irishpixieb]

I think the last book that made me cry was A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks. Its not classic literature exactly but one day I feel it will be!

[cl154576]

I found the ending of Cyrano de Bergerac quite tragic.

[togre]

The last book to make me cry was The Oxford Unabridged Dictionary--I dropped it on my toe!

But seriously...it has been so long since a book has moved me to tears that I can't recall any specific instance. Music tends to get to much easier. I'm pretty sure I wept while reading Little Women and perhaps a few other times(maybe during Evangeline, but reading move me to extremes of frustration or anger more often than to sorrow or tears of joy.

[llky]

i cry all way through,when i read Chinese Cinderella

[siamesecat]

David Copperfield and Jane Eyre.

[dfloyd]

Because I was in Massachusets at the time.

[oanna]

The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich. I've read it last year during Christmas break and it really made me cry like a baby.

[Arden Radio]

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[John Steinbeck]

I never cry when I read books because I'm a real man.

(The Road got me pretty close, though)

[Delta40]

The Book of Peeling Onions

[1n50mn14]

*mumbles* The Notebook... Nicholas Sparks.

[melpine]

*mumbles* The Notebook... (http://www.cute-rain-boots.com/) Nicholas Sparks.

Both the movie and the book made me cry :willy_nilly:


Last book that made me cry? The Disappeared by Kim Echlin

[ellieee...]

Beautiful Malice by Rebecca James...

But pretty much all books and movies make me cry....

what can I say, i'm a very emotional person

[BlackbirdWriter]

In all honesty, I don't read as much as I used to, but the last book that made me cry was Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier ... I loved it.

[Desolation]

The ends of Hemingway's Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls almost made me cry. However, I held back the tears in fear that, as a man, crying while reading Hemingway would cause Papa himself to spring forth into my bedroom and beat me before sicking the army of lions that he no doubt commands in the afterlife on me.

They were very sad endings, though.

[itstito]

The last thing I read that almost made me cry, but not quite, was A Long Day's Journey into Night by Eugene 'O Neill.

[Alexander III]

The ends of Hemingway's Farewell to Arms and For Whom the Bell Tolls almost made me cry. However, I held back the tears in fear that, as a man, crying while reading Hemingway would cause Papa himself to spring forth into my bedroom and beat me before sicking the army of lions that he no doubt commands in the afterlife on me.

They were very sad endings, though.

The ending of Farewell to Arms got me - I spent 20 minutes on the train trying to hold back the sobs...

[osho]

The ending of Farewell to Arms got me - I spent 20 minutes on the train trying to hold back the sobs...


I too Alex, I could not contain myself and sobbed for a long while and I had to wipe the tear hastily since somebody entered my study

[Buh4Bee]

I just sobbed through a part of Out of Africa when Denyse is killed in a plane crash and the baroness describes lions making a monument to him above his grave. The burial was so well done that I didn't get emotional until after the fact.

[The Comedian]

The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein. That kid is a heartless, selfish *******, son of *****. I hate this book with a hate that I cannot adequately describe. I read it once, reluctantly, to my daughter who asked, "Why is he cutting the branches off of his tree friend"? I turned into an angry blubbering idiot right there. I had to leave the room, then come back and answer "Because this book is a story of how you should never treat anyone ever. Not people, not trees, not rocks, not chipmunks, nobody or anything"

And I should add that the tree in that book is hardly any better than the kid -- a weak, stooge whose altruistic "sacrifice" is nothing more than guise for a cowardly, self-loathing tree whose identity is defined by his "friend" that ******* kid.

[aliengirl]

The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein. That kid is a heartless, selfish *******, son of *****. I hate this book with a hate that I cannot adequately describe. I read it once, reluctantly, to my daughter who asked, "Why is he cutting the branches off of his tree friend"? I turned into an angry blubbering idiot right there. I had to leave the room, then come back and answer "Because this book is a story of how you should never treat anyone ever. Not people, not trees, not rocks, not chipmunks, nobody or anything"

And I should add that the tree in that book is hardly any better than the kid -- a weak, stooge whose altruistic "sacrifice" is nothing more than guise for a cowardly, self-loathing tree whose identity is defined by his "friend" that ******* kid.

I've always disliked this one. I have seen this story in school text books in more than one language. What it is supposed to teach is the virtue of 'supreme sacrifice'. Probably it didn't occur to the editors that it might also teach just the opposite to some selfish kid.

I understand it must be very unpleasant to read it to your daughter. Children often see things from different angles and much more than adults suppose them to do.

[JuniperWoolf]

The Giving Tree by Shell Silverstein. That kid is a heartless, selfish *******, son of *****. I hate this book with a hate that I cannot adequately describe. I read it once, reluctantly, to my daughter who asked, "Why is he cutting the branches off of his tree friend"? I turned into an angry blubbering idiot right there. I had to leave the room, then come back and answer "Because this book is a story of how you should never treat anyone ever. Not people, not trees, not rocks, not chipmunks, nobody or anything"

And I should add that the tree in that book is hardly any better than the kid -- a weak, stooge whose altruistic "sacrifice" is nothing more than guise for a cowardly, self-loathing tree whose identity is defined by his "friend" that ******* kid.

Hahah, that is the most violent reaction to a kid's book that I have ever seen.

For me, I cried for a very long time over Life of Pi, but not for the obvious reason. I was unbelievably upset that Richard Parker was a metaphor. I stormed into the next room blubbering something about "best tiger ever! and they made him a lie, that writer drew me in for his stupid sneaky message about religion! I LOVED him, and that bastard tainted him! is NOTHING ever just a story, does EVERYTHING have to have some ulterior motive to trick us?!?" My boyfriend had to buy me a stuffed tiger, which I named "Richard Parker" and he sits on the chest that I pretend is his little life raft at the end of my bed.