Books that made you cry

[grace86]

I am getting a little nervous here with all the comments about LOTR, I am halfway through the first book and I am finding out it makes so many people cry. But then again, I cried during the third movie when Frodo tells Sam to go home. I guess we'll see.

Shadow of the Wind (Carlos Ruiz Zafon) makes me cry. I think it was because you can get so involved with the plot it seems like you are there. I just want to tell the whole story, but just go and read it alright!!

Umm..a book I read when I was in jr. high called Phoenix Rising (Karen Hesse). It was about a nuclear meltdown. This girl and her grandmother take in some radiation poisoned people, and she falls in love with the boy....and well...**tear**

I'm sure there are a lot more, just can't think of anymore at the moment.

[Medea86]

All Quiet on The Western Front.

[slipperyyoke]

Things Fall Apart , Chinua Achebe.

[Chinaski]

The Butcher boy - Patrick McCabe

[mir]

Gone With the Wind

[Idril]

But then again, I cried during the third movie when Frodo tells Sam to go home. I guess we'll see.

Well, that doesn't actually happen in the book so you should be okay.

I did have tears in my eyes once when I read LOTR, when we think Frodo dies, not because of any attachment to Frodo but because Sam's grief just breaks my heart. Swan Song by John Galsworthy made me sob, Soames' death just destroyed me, I knew it was coming and I actually stopped reading the book for a couple of days because I didn't want to confront it but eventually, I had to accept the fact that he was going to die and move on. The last one is actually a little embarassing because it's kind of 'chick lit' but it did make me cry so I suppose I have to add it to my list, A Hundred Secret Senses by Amy Tan.

[Bysshe]

The Catcher in the rye - J.D Salinger
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (more so the TV series, but the book's sad, too)
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

[Brit27]

I would definitely have to say Mists of Avalon by Marion Zimmer Bradley. It was a wonderful book...you really feel like you get to know the characters personally, and while it might be somewhat long it's worth it. I found that once I picked it up I couldn't put it down... In fact I've been thinking about reading it again, so I'll get to that. ^_^

[Shalot]

The Catcher in the rye - J.D Salinger
The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery
Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh (more so the TV series, but the book's sad, too)
The Sorrows of Young Werther - Goethe
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey

Yes, yes the The Little Prince brought tears to my eyes. I read my roommates copy. She said it was "a dear book." I think everyone should read this book. It's very short but there is a lot of good stuff in there. You can read it online even.


Here are some of my favorite quotes from it:

"Straight ahead of him, nobody can go very far..." Chapter 3

To forget a friend is sad. Not every one has had a friend. Chapter 4

But seeds are invisible. They sleep deep in the heart of the earth's darkness, until some one among them is seized with the desire to awaken. Chapter 5

You know, one loves the sunset, when one is so sad..." Chapter 6

"If some one loves a flower, of which just one single blossom grows in all the millions and millions of stars, it is enough to make him happy just to look at the stars. He can say to himself, 'Somewhere, my flower is there...' Chapter 7

It is such a secret place, the land of tears. Chapter 8

Well, I must endure the presence of two or three caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies. Chapter 9

One must require from each one the duty which each one can perform – Chapter 10

Then you shall judge yourself. that is the most difficult thing of all. It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom." Chapter 10

Conceited people never hear anything but praise – Chapter 11

When one wishes to play the wit, he sometimes wanders a little from the truth. Chapter 17

But if you tame me, it will be as if the sun came to shine on my life…..You become responsible, forever, for what you have tamed. – Chapter 21

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye." – Chapter 21

No one is ever satisfied where he is – Chapter 22

What makes the desert beautiful," said the little prince, "is that somewhere it hides a well..." – Chapter 24

But the eyes are blind. One must look with the heart..." – Chapter 25

One runs the risk of weeping a little, if one lets himself be tamed... Chapter 25

All men have the stars," he answered, "but they are not the same things for different people. For some, who are travelers, the stars are guides. For others they are no more than little lights in the sky. For others, who are scholars, they are problems. For my businessman they were wealth. But all these stars are silent. You, you alone, will have the stars as no one else has them" - Chapter 26

[kmwmn]

Flowers for Algernon - at the end of the book.
I agree with this.

Also World According to Garp - when the one son dies and the other one loses an eye. And when Garp gets shot in the end. Very sad.

[kmwmn]

The God of Small Things is a book that comes to mind immediately... I cried more than once while reading it.

I definitely felt with this book too, but It didn't make me cry.

[soulsistachick]

The Green Mile

[miss tenderness]

Bread Seller..........

[Viridis]

Les Miserables, in several places. I'm a sucker for scenes that demonstrate ultimate human kindness, so the scene in which the bishop gives Jean ValJean the silver candlesticks always gets to me. The ending of the novel of course really moved me - such profound sadness, such a great soul.

[Pensive]

Recently, I read The Kite Runner and it made me cry.