The only one I can think of that ever made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows... I'm not one who normally cries at movies or books, unless I'm pregnant, then it is a different story
The only one I can think of that ever made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows... I'm not one who normally cries at movies or books, unless I'm pregnant, then it is a different story
You know, I deliberately searched out this forum to put down that exact title! I was very young when I read that book and oh my goodness it broke my heart!Originally Posted by mkhockenberry
The only one I can think of that ever made me cry was Where the Red Fern Grows... I'm not one who normally cries at movies or books, unless I'm pregnant, then it is a different story
"So heaven meets earth like a sloppy wet kiss, and my heart turns violently inside of my chest, I don't have time to maintain these regrets, when I think about, the way....He loves us..."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=5xXowT4eJjY
Where the Red Fern Grows
(oddly enough, anybody who's read this will think I'm insane but...) The Lost Years of Merlin
(another weird one) Alanna the First Adventure
Anne of Green Gables
can't think of any more off hand...
oh just thought of another one, well in Chicken Soup for the Horse Lover's soul, a lot of the stories ended with the horse's death and a couple of them made me cry
Charlottes Web and the Little Prince.......tear jerkers!
Count me in for Where the Red Fern Grows, too. When I was younger, Gone With the Wind was my favorite book, and I cried every time I read it.
Now, however, I guess the list would be:
The Time-Traveler's Wife
The Memory of Running
Angela's Ashes
Le Morte d'Arthur (in the obvious part)
and the poem "On My First Son" by Ben Johnson--
"Rest in soft peace, and asked, say here doth lie
Ben Jonson his best piece of poetry;"
That just kills me every time!
Wouldn't say I cried over this because that's hard for me to do but as I was about thirty pages from the end of Terms of Endearment I began to dread the end, had a premonition that something terrible was going to happen and really there was no foreshadowing of it because there couldn't have been any.
"You must be the change you want to see in the world." Gandhi
Me too - On my first sonne makes me cry though Ive taught it over and over. Also, pathetically, The Deptford Mice trilogy by Robin Jarvis. "I do love 'ee Aud".... why is it that a kids book about some mice and rats makes me cry? Totally daft I know.
He saw each separate height, each vaguer hue,
Where the massed islands rolled in mist away,
And though all ran together in his view
He knew that unseen straits between them lay.
Childhood-Edwin Muir
Where The Red Fern Grows hit me hard when I was a kid, too.
I don't think I've actually "cried" cried from reading a book, but maybe come close. Oliver Twist (several parts are incredibly moving), and some shorter stories, such as The Call of the Wild by Jack London move brought me close to tears.
"Life is full of the comic, and is only majestic in its inner sense"
-Dostoevsky
I'm glad you mentioned the film Finding Neverland. That movie got to me big time. Movies affect me emotionally more than books, but only in the short term. I don't believe they stay with a person as well as something one reads. However, a couple other movies that moved me to tears were The Passion of the Christ and, recently, Letters from Iwo Jima.
"Life is full of the comic, and is only majestic in its inner sense"
-Dostoevsky
The Girl Next Door because the book never deviates into a comic violence or over the top horror, but tells a shocking straight-faced story of abuse and exploited children. Bitter sweet to the end like swallowing a stone. If the protagonist's opening narrative doesn't choke you up, check your pulse.
Jack Ketchum is one of the best living horror writers today, usually quiet but violent thrillers set in small town America.
the Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe
the last letters of Jacopo Ortis by Foscolo
Story of a Blackcap by Verga
Bandiera by Lodi
White Fang by London
these are some of the books that made me cry...I am very sensitive and cry every time I read something sad or watch a movie...
The only book that I cried while reading was Father Goriot; however, it was years ago...
I have never promised you a rose garden - Hannah green
I cried!!!
Each man's death diminishes me, for I am involved in mankind. - John Donne
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