Of Mice and Men. I bawled like a baby over that one. And as a kid, I remember being quite upset when "Beth" died in Little Women.
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Of Mice and Men. I bawled like a baby over that one. And as a kid, I remember being quite upset when "Beth" died in Little Women.
Oooh, totally forgot to add this one, but a while ago I read 'On the Beach' by Nevil Shute and cried through basically the entire last chapter. :bawling: :D
"The Time Traveller's Wife" by Audrey Niffenegger had me in tears by the end. :bawling: As did the Kite Runner. Both very powerful and moving stories.
The first book that got a good cry out of me was "The Collector" by John Fowles. That is a good good book.
King Lear, a play written by the Master William Shakespeare , was the only written work that made me cry. Any time i reread it i cry. It is really a tragedy in a tragedy
Hmmm.... I'd have to say any novel by Nicholas Sparks I've read: Nights in Rodante and Message in a Bottle. It seems that this writer has a predilection for tear-provoking narrative!
i dont really cry over books or movies... i have wanted to cry on a few though... probally Lord of the Flies, The Pearl and Grapes of Wrath those are the really sad ones. o i always feel like crying over dog movies :-P like were the red fern grows and white fang etc...
The Great Gatsby - when Nick leaves Gatsby for the last time to go to work in the city, and A Farewell to Arms - the ending, if you feel the need to chuckle at that ending, as someone previously posted on this board, then you really do not know literature, or life at all, and The Painted Bird - when he meets his parents at the end of his grosteque adventures.
Kite Runner.
The Grapes of Wrath and the final pages of A Tale of Two Cities had me dampening some paper.
War And Peace - Leo Tolstoy
Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
Zen And The Art Of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert Pirsig
THE TRIAL .......
BY
Franz Kafka.
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
The Amber Spyglass - Philip Pullman I just came to identify with the lead characters so much that their separation seemed world-shatteringly unfair, especially as one of my most common regrets is not seeing people ever again.. in their case it is for real.
I never cry while reading a book,till I read ( MY Best Friend's Girl)by Dorothy koomson It had me crying few time,
Paula by Isabel Allende. This book had me constantly crying, something about going thru your child's death touched a nerved on me. Tons of books make me cry, because I'm a sentimentalist, however this one had me running thru kleenex like they would be water.
ive been touched by books yeah! but cry...no...films maybe yeah...but no, no books...
Mary Barton ,by Gaskell. When I reache the point of people die for inhuman reasons, of ignorance , of poverty, of social discrimination>>>i can't help but crying.
"An American Tragedy" written by Theodor Dreiser...
Love story by Eric Seagal.. and there are many movies.. well i can cry at anything lately.. helllloooo anybody listening.. i dont want to cry anymore.. gimme some reasons to smile.. anyone... plzzzzzzz
The Salesman by Joseph O'Connor, very, very sad.
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close - Jonathan Safran Foer
Yeah actually I just read Everything is Illuminated (also by Foer) and that made me cry.Quote:
Originally Posted by malwethien
But I'm a big cryer generally.
A big laugher too :lol: :bawling:
Aunty-Lion...Everything is Illuminated made me laugh more...though it was very sad..I didn't cry. I found a lot of that book hilarious ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Aunty-lion
I laughed and I cried. it was a damn good book actually.
Yes it is....better than Extremely Loud I think.... :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Aunty-lion
I don't think I've ever actually cried over a book, but I do get a little choked up. I have to put the book down and pace around a bit, then. The end of The Return of the King gets me, as do parts of The Once and Future King (especially in the last part, "A Candle in the Wind.")
I'm really surprised to see people listing Siddhartha. The book had its emotional moments, but the narration always seemed so distant to me that I didn't invest any emotion into the character Siddhartha.
Little Women. I'm usually a fairly staid person, but not when I read that!
Gaston Leroux' "Phantom of the Opera".....every time I read it.....the more layers unfolded....and the romance of the story became more powerful than the tragedy of it! I just hate to see a good man go to waste! And the Phantom had the potential to be greater and more compassionate than he was allowed.......
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Where the Red Fern Grows! Excellent! I have been looking for the name of that book for so long. Thank you.Quote:
Originally Posted by imthefoolonthehill
psst. I had the same experience. Also with another lost book, I think called The Lion, where a young girl goes to Africa to a safari and her dad has to kill a lion. Very sad.:bawling:
I spent the last two hours of reading East of Eden In tears, and then another half hour after finishing it trying to calm myself down!
1- Angela's Ashes
2- The Kite Runner
2nd this ...
The Kite Runner
Tuesdays with Morrie
First they Killed my Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers
(by Loung Ung)
The Lovely Bones made me cry so much, as did Chinese Cinderella. I wept so much after reading the bit in Chinese Cinderella about the duck!
I've never made it through Jane Eyre without crying a lot...
I'm that kind of a person who cries quite easily while reading. Almost all of my favourite books make me cry at some point.
Rousseau's The New Heloise
Alice Walker's The Color Purple...and certain parts in Julius Caesar as well.
Wow I ve come in at the right moment.
The first time I cried over a book was, in fact, Julius Caesar. I was reading the speech by Marc Antony over Caesars dead body. I was surprised myself and the students (it was a literature class) showed a beautiful, respectful silence at the end.
I read a lovely book by Martin Gray For Those I Loved. It is a true story, and it made me cry in many parts. What a wonderful book this is.
For fiction, a book that made me cry was Flowers For Algernon, by Daniel Keyes. Read more about it HERE if you are interested.