What BOOKS made you cry?

Elessar

I thought it would be interesting to see what books made people cry. Personally, I only read a book once every million years, and the only book (that I can remember) that made me come close to tears (a couple of years ago) was Return Of The King.

Anyone else?

Ba_barbaraAnne

84 Charing Cross Road - very moving book. The film adaptation also had me shedding buckets!

vibe666

just read one last week called 'the 5 people you meet in heaven' by mitch albom (of tuesdays with morrie fame).

it won't change your life, but it might help you to understand it a bit better.

only a little book too, so you should be through it in a day or two, but it's excellent. i was finishing it on the bus home one day and i had to stop reading it cos i was going to burst into tears (soft git that i am).

gave it to my girlfriend and she was crying on and off for most of the book, so i don't feel so bad now anyway. but it's an excellent read. very emotional.

and the end of TTT got me going as well. but he can't be dead! had ot start ROTK straight away to find out what happened, and couldn't see the pages for all the tears. FRODO! (again, soppy git).

John

I cried during the last Dark Tower book by Stephen King. He wouldn't be the most emotive writers but the characters in that series have been a part of my life for about 7 years now

theCzar

Came close reading "East of Eden" by Steinbeck, like Vibe, i was on a bus at the time, and had to stop for a bit. Big boys don't cry.

elvenscout742

I'm not much of a crier, but I've always found that when I get really attached to the characters in a novel it is rather depressing when the story ends.

elivsvonchiaing

Heller's Closing Time - didn't so much cry - more ambition to get killed in airline crash when I'm 65 tbh.

Tiriel

Cecelia Ahern's "Ps I love you"
my sister had it so I said I'd read it to see what it was like.. oh my God it is such a tearjerker! I started reading it on the bus to Limerick one day.. was sitting behind the bus driver (he could see me in the mirror..) and had to put it down cos I couldn't stop myself welling up. It's the only book I've ever read that did this to me!!
so for that it's a great read.. other than that not sure if it is my kind of book.. don't usually go for the soppy girly stuff.. now I know why.. I'm a softie!!!

Illuvatar

The Return of the King is I think the only book I've cried over. I had to read the ending more than once to make sure it was, THE END.

Dr. Loon

John2 wrote:

I cried during the last Dark Tower book by Stephen King. He wouldn't be the most emotive writers but the characters in that series have been a part of my life for about 7 years now

Me too. I think I may have cried reading Stephen King's "IT" also.

Gilgamesh

with me it was the Original Lord of the Rings Hard back, I was 12 and it fell on my foot, and broke a toe, really cried then, darn those 1000 odd pages.

Roddy23

I had to get some programming book, when I was in first year in college. It cost 90 punts. But the tears only started to flow when I realised that everybody in the class had gotten the book from the library.

Stark

£90 for a programming book!! :eek: , oh my God we felt ripped off if we had to pay £40.

Quigs Snr

Wuthering Heights when (forget his name), Heathcliffs nephew ? who he has horribly mistreated all his life is the only one in tears at his funeral.

Some of Raymond Feists stuff as well. The way he has characters in for a few books and then kills them off (I hope you are paying attention Robert Jordan !).

Roddy23

Well I was a young and naive tulip back then.

PurpleFistMixer

I almost cried near the end of "Firesong" (last book of the Wind on Fire trilogy by William Nicholson), but I'm not entirely sure why, it wasn't the most brilliant book, and I'm usually an apathetic blob. Otherwise, nothing I can recall.

bcKay

Rilla of Ingleside...the 8th book in the Anne of Green Gables series...had me bawling as a kid and again when I reread it as an adult.
*sniff*

LouisWu

Crossroads of Twilight (Wheel of Time, Book 10) - when I realised he han'nt finished the *&$%£ thing!!!!

Louis

Hooky

I Know this is going to create a lot of arguing but here it goes.
The book that made me cry and also helped me to get my life back on track was the BIBLE,thats rite the BIBLE, how could one man suffer so much for somebody else.When Jesus was nailed to a cross and his family were there at the foot of it.It made me think and brought tears to my eyes.

CodeMonkey

The bible made me cry too....my younger brother threw it at me when we were really young and it hit me in the fore head

gogo

I planned on finishing the Dark tower over christmas but just haven't had a chance, now the chaacters are dropping like flies and I am afraid of what is going to happen that made you guys cry over it.
Please god let it not be roland. Seriously, i might not be able to finish it if iy gets any worse .

Little Women is always good for a few tears.
Cork Girl: Ps, I love you had me roaring too..
East of Eden, Cane river, Wild Swans I have an endless list really, thats why its scary to think that a stephen king book is presently making me blub as its kings books i go to between tear jerkers, i you get my drift.

John

gogo, finish the dark tower, that's all I'll say

funkyniff

i always cry to a good sad book...
ps i love you was sad.
also a book called never look back by lesely pierce.
but there are so many....

DapperGent

The Troublesome Offspring of Cardinal Guzman

Miles

Born Free : A Lioness of Two Worlds by Joy Adamson.

Niagra falls midway through.

:cool:

jonnybadd

The green mile was one that made me blub several times throughout

gogo

John2 wrote:

gogo, finish the dark tower, that's all I'll say

I finished it last night
I really have considered starting it again, i have been reading it so long that I fell like a traitor picking up a different book.
Woe is me.

oscarBravo

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman. Don't know if I actually shed a tear, but it moved me more than I thought a book could. Looking forward to reading the sequel, Knife Edge.

mentalimplosion

i never cried over a book til i finished eleanor rigby by douglas coupland yesterday.

John

gogo wrote:

I finished it last night
I really have considered starting it again, i have been reading it so long that I fell like a traitor picking up a different book.
Woe is me.

When I finished it I couldn't start again as I had lent the first four books to a friend. He's still reading book one after about 6 months. Curse him!

Keano_sli

Girlfriend in a coma by Douglas Coupland did it for me and I'm supposed to be a big strong man...

flyz

The last book of Philip Pullmans 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy had me in bits!

And I'm normally a cold hearted b***h

I read the 5 people you meet in heaven over Xmas as well and I was teary eyed for bits of it too,

the smiley one

I felt like such an eejit, cuz I don't cry that much because of books, but Mitch Albom's Tuesday's with Morrie was really touching.....sad just thinking about it! I've also read The Five People you meet in Heaven, but I have to say, it was nowhere near as emotion-inspiring as Tuesday's With Morrie........god that's a brilliant book

Also Animal Farm was pretty sad when the horse gets taken away.......

rorygbluz

five people is sweet

tSubh Dearg

The end of Anne of Green Gables made me cry. They shouldn't let people die in books children read! Also agree that the last book in His Dark Materials triology is a tear jerker.

I was more angry than sad that Book 10 of Wheel of time was not the end! Why? Why oh why did I start reading it????

Amz

When I was 13 "Summer Of My German Soldier" made me cry.

Nothing since.

PennyLane

flyz wrote:

The last book of Philip Pullmans 'His Dark Materials' Trilogy had me in bits!

And I'm normally a cold hearted b***h

I read the 5 people you meet in heaven over Xmas as well and I was teary eyed for bits of it too,

Yeah, I got a bit misty at that. The first book I ever cried over, tho, was Bridge to Terabithia (spelled something like that). It's for youth-types, but it's really heavy stuff.

keano442

Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna - about the Great Purges in Soviet Russia.
Pretty heavy subject matter but the book brings the full meaning of it all home brilliantly to someone who might know little about it, like I was.
I'm not much of a crier at books but find myself occasionally swept off my feet by films - not the tearjerker type, but the true to life ones - I bawled at Paul Greengrass's "Bloody Sunday" a year or two back and also found it hard to keep away the tears during Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" about the Warsaw Ghetto during WWII.

BolBill

Books made from freshly chopped onions........

40crush41

I think Ive cried with most books Ive read. heh, now whose the softie?
awe, but theres nothing better than curling up with a good book and getting really into it -yelling at the characters and all that, always fun

Letsee, off the top of me head...
back from when i was a kid: Bridge to Terabithia (that is a killer!), Where the Red Fern Grows, A Girl Named Disaster, Which Way Freedom...
more recently: Jane Eyre, Cry the Beloved Country, A Raisin in the Sun, Angela's Ashes, Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, The Narrative of the Life of Fredrick Douglass, The Stranger, Frankenstein...
darn -i even choked up reading those harry potter books *shakes head* but that last one, come on now, that was rough!

and yea, i really want to read Tuesdays with Morrie -my friend loves that book, shame i still havn't picked it up.

yuppers~Beth

tHE vAGGABOND

my boy by philomena lynott

when reading the end when she is talking about finding about the drugs and then talking about going to the hospital to see him etc etc

hard for anyone, esp a lizzy fan to read.

scotsmurf

His Dark Materials, each time I've read it has had me crying buckets in 2 or 3 different places, when Will meets Grumman, when Will and Lyra agree on their future, and when Lee and Hester.....................sorry, I don't want to give away the story.And one of those times was during lunch at work, tears pouring down my face and everyone else wondering what was going on.

Skip

Catcher in the Rye, when I was 19.

Last one: Jeannette Winterson's Written on the Body

Pet

Catcher in the Rye? Admittedly it wasn't a very happy book, but I didn't get the sense of it being very sad..then again I read it when I was 14, so I might have overlooked something..
Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood was a very depressing, yet emotional book for me.

Exar Khun

The end of the farseer trilogy 'Assassins Quest' by Robin Hobb was very depressing, I kept asking myself how Robin hobb could do that to poor Fitz ?!?!

thankfully the Tawny man series comes along..........
good thread. I'm reading Wuthering Heights atm so thanks for the SPOILER !!!! :mad:

ApeXaviour

Catcher in the rye was a pointless rant. Cat's Eye was similarly pointless with the added nausea of having to drudge through the self-centered neuroses of this tedious woman's semi-biography.

If you want a really good book, one that sweeps you away to the point that you are no longer reading but experiencing, try Tai-Pan by James Clavell.. It's not a sad book by any standards, but it's so engrossing that consistantly rock-solid moi may have shed a tear or so during a sad part.

Pherekydes

The Lord of the Rings, esp the last bit, made me cry.

The Hitchhikers' guide to the galaxy. I laughed til I cried.

Edith Stein's Philosophy and Psychology of the Humanities.

Anything by Aquinas...

the_count

100 Years of Solitude.

In fact, most Gabriel Garcia Marquez's books make me cry...


Well, a little.

TattyTeddy

vibe666 wrote:

just read one last week called 'the 5 people you meet in heaven' by mitch albom (of tuesdays with morrie fame).

it won't change your life, but it might help you to understand it a bit better.

only a little book too, so you should be through it in a day or two, but it's excellent. i was finishing it on the bus home one day and i had to stop reading it cos i was going to burst into tears (soft git that i am).

gave it to my girlfriend and she was crying on and off for most of the book, so i don't feel so bad now anyway. but it's an excellent read. very emotional.

and the end of TTT got me going as well. but he can't be dead! had ot start ROTK straight away to find out what happened, and couldn't see the pages for all the tears. FRODO! (again, soppy git).

SO so true! I read it when I was just home from hosp, brillliant birlliant book

Liquorice

Most books I read make me cry, in fact, unless a book has made me shed at least one tear, it hasn't had an impact on me(I'm jsut a very sensitive person, you see).

The book that has made me cry most was The Perks of Being a Wallflower, by Stephen Chbosky. Its a short book, and I've read it far too many times because it puts things back in perspective. All it is is the diary of a teenage boy, and everyone I know who has read it can relate themselves to the protaganist in some way. It wasn't any particular event in the book that made me cry, just the entire, happily-melancholy atmosphere.

But yes, everything I read makes me cry. Unless it is something humourous like Pratchett. Or unless it sucks.

Sysiphus

Only two books that I can recall but both are classics,

Strumpet City by James Plunckett
Grapes Of Wrath by John Stienbeck,

Both masterpieces of social observation and oppression by the higher orders of society. But both written to make you see both side of the equation and ralise that there can be no real social equity. Which is the sadest thought of all.