Books that made you cry

[Lolita]

This is quite weird of me, I know, but I like books that can spark so much emotion in me that I find myself crying. Not that I like crying, I mean... who does. Meh, I know what I mean.

So:

Maggie O'Farrell - After You'd Gone - My favourite book at the moment I think. It really makes you want to fall in love, but at the same time not get too close to anyone for fear of losing them. *sniff*.

Alice Sebold - The Lovely Bones - Selling like hotcakes over here in England. This book didn't just make me cry. I weeped for hours over this story. Very touching.

J.K Rowling - Harry Potter and the Go... - Oh, Becky that is just beyond pathetic.

*sits down*

[emily655321]

The Lord of the Rings.

Or, more specifically, The Return of the King. 1) When Sam saves Frodo from falling down the cliff 2) the end. Laid down on my bed and sobbed like a little baby for an hour straight, mostly because I knew it was over and I'd never read it again for the first time. But at the same time I knew it ended not a word too soon or too late.

[amuse]

The Prisoner's Wife - asha bandele (made the mistake of trying to read it on the bus to class- so not possible, from the very very first lines: "this is a love story")
Cinderella j/k (sort of)
Another Country - James Baldwin (when Rufus commits suicide)
ignore this (very embarrassed) almost every Harlequin Romance i ever read in my teens
Endless Love - Scott Spencer (the end: "i see you, i see you in every seat.")
North and South - John Jakes (obvious reasons)
Now Face to Face - Karleen Koen (just a great book, about the Jacobite stuff in England and settling the U.S.)
The Killer Angels - Michael Sharra (the description at dawn of the first young man to fire brings tears to my throat just thinking about it, also the stunning panoramic descriptions of the Battle at Little Round Top and Pickett's Charge. (oh, it's about Gettysburg [June 30 - July 3, 1863] of course.))
Silencing the Past - Michel Rolph Trouillot (very evocative chapter 3 or was it 4 prelude in italics)
and many others

[Kiwi Shelf]

Do you know, books never really make me cry? Nor movies either... I mean, I am saddened but I have never really cried about them. I am just not a crying sort of person....

[emily655321]

Most books don't make me cry. Some movies do. But I usually find myself chuckling at the moments when I'm clearly meant to be crying my little chick-flick eyes out.

[ajoe]

Amy Tan's The Kitchen God's Wife, the part where Hu Lan cried for her telling him not to die yet.

[emily655321]

Oh yeah, that reminds me. Little Women made me cry, when Beth died. Of course, I was in fourth grade, so maybe a line should be drawn at some point... also in fourth grade (and third grade and fifth grade and I don't know how often when I was really little and my mom read it to me) The Neverending Story by Michael Ende. I think I cried at that.

[Lolita]

I cry at anything. If I read the aforementioned books I'm sure I'd cry at all of them.

I even cried at The Simpsons and The Rugrats before.

[simon]

Never cried for a book or a movie.

[verybaddmom]

of course not, simon...we knew that. we read the malfunction post too you know!

hehe

i cried at a couple of points in Outlander. although i cried hardest at the end because it was finished and i didnt have the second book, only the third one.

[simon]

I'm suprised anybody paid attention to me, glad you know me so well mom, I'd use a smiley here but it's not really my style.

[ravana]

"The Citadel" by Archibald Jozeph Cronin
"The woman at 30" by Balzak.
They made me cry bitterly.

[avid_reader]

Of Human Bondage - Maugham

[ajoe]

Wow, I never looked at the malfunction thread before, but now I'm curious. *going to General Chat*

Someone shoot me if I use the star symbol one more time.

[Koa]

I think I cried at a lot of books... I'm the kind of person who can cry for anything *waves at Becky (I learnt your name already)*, including tv news, the Simpsons and on particularly bad days, even commercials...

But at the moment the only book I remember precisely having cried for was Gone With the Wind... I was 12 when I read it and I remember clearly I cried during the whole (litreally) of the last 20 pages...

Oh and the first time I read Mathilda (where's Faye? we had a thread about this and other Dahl's books---> children stuff for those who dont know) I cried at the end, partly because the book was over... then i just turned it and started it again.