Books that made you cry

[trismegistus]

Books/plays: Crowley's Little, Big Every time. Every freakin' time.
Walker The Color Purple (But only at the final line in the novel!)
"Our Town" Honest. The ending is holy.

Films: Itami's "The Funeral"
"Little Big Man" in a couple of scenes

Pretty much everything that George Lucas has a hand in makes me cry. Hearing that another Star Wars is in production makes me weep uncontrollably.

[Koa]

There's that book that I recommended in the Unrequited Love thread, called sthg like 'story of a redcap', which is a great source of tears...it's very short, but it's about a girl who goes mad about a guy. Really, mad, at some point the matter is not really the guy, but how mad she is...

[amuse]

Hunchback. (said with a thud.)

actually, i didn't cry, i just wanted to. it was too deep for tears; quasimodo's devotion was heart-wrenching.

[Avalive]

Tears for

[Love to Read]

oh man you all are going to laugh, but I'm one of those girls that cries at everything. Ok maybe not everything, but if a book is emotional don't worry I'm probably in tears. I'm such a dork. Movies I'll bawl at. I even cry for kodak commercials I'm such an idiot. oh well. But if I can get so involved in the book that I'm feeling as the characters feel then it is a good book.

[CBW]

Love to Read, do not feel bad, I'm the same way.
Last night I started crying while reading the Musketeers book Twenty Years After when I came to the part where King Charles dies. My husband asked me what was wrong and I told him. He asked me "But isn't that what really happened to the King?" I said yes. He asked me "How can you cry at this? You have a degree in history, you focused on European History, You KNEW he was going to die!" Then I just felt stupid.
Geez, I do cry easy.

[mono]

I do not always, necessarily, cry from a book's sadness, but more often its stunning beauty, hence some of these books and poems do not entirely seem depressing:
Sons and Lovers, "Piano," "After the Opera," and "Sigh No More" by D.H. Lawrence,
The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri,
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf,
The Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger,
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë,
Markings by Dag Hammarskjöld,
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky,
Breakfast at the Victory: The Mysticism in Ordinary Experiences by James Carse,
"Endymion" by John Keats,
"The Triumph of Life" by Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Titus Andronicus and "Sonnet LXXV" by William Shakespeare,
Les Miserables by Victor Hugo,
Critique of Judgment by Immanuel Kant,
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers, Walden, and most poetry by Henry David Thoreau,
much other poetry by Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson, William Stafford, Sylvia Plath, and William Ellery Channing.
Yikes, what a list!

[baddad]

Okay, I gotta confess, all the lists above contained a book or two that affected me deeply, and Mono's comment about some things that are stunningly beautiful also hit home with my tear machine.But of all the books/movies listed here, the one that made me cry like a baby from sheer frustration and a sense of helplessness was "Little Big Man." The senseless slaughter of a people has that effect on me........

[mono]

Oh, and in my exceedingly long list of books and poems, I forgot to add a numerous number of poems by Rumi.

[Rachy]

Of Mice and Men made me cry. It wasn't such a great book but a really powerful ending.
Lord of the Rings.
A walk to Remember.
and loads of others that i can't think of.

[Bandini]

Yeah, 'Of Mice...' got me too. 'The Butcher Boy' by Patrick McCabe was the last one to get me. Luckily I read it whilst by a pool in France - if it was deepest winter in Yorkshire I don't know how I would have got through! Thoroughly recommended though - amazing book.

[slipperyyoke]

Books:
The Grapes of Wrath
A Farewell to Arms
Movies:
Braveheart
Finding Neverland

[blp]

I seem to cry more over films than books. The last film that made me cry was Otto Preminger's 'Exodus' about the formation of the State of Israel in the mid 20th Century. It was unlike any other crying in a movie I've ever had because what got to me was the painful contrast between the idealism of the characters (both Arab and Jew) in the film and the horror of the situation now. I knew I cared about this, but never knew I cared this much. It wasn't just a few tears either. I really blubbed.

[Rachy]

Oh yeah! "Catcher in the Rye" got me going where he describes his brothers glove and then just dismisses it. It shows how much emotion there is and how trapped he feels, but even then he can't bring himself to talk about it. The ending to got me! I can't really describe it. It makes sense to me!

[mono]

Oh yeah! "Catcher in the Rye" got me going where he describes his brothers glove and then just dismisses it. It shows how much emotion there is and how trapped he feels, but even then he can't bring himself to talk about it. The ending to got me! I can't really describe it. It makes sense to me!

J.D. Salinger's writing in The Catcher in the Rye also touched me throughout the story, particularly the part where Holden Caulfield sneaks into his old house and visits his younger, very clever sister, Phoebe.