Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
Fiver deciding he didn't need his body anymore made me use up a few tissues.
Edit: Crying, that is. At a tender age.
Edit: Crying, that is. At a tender age.
Books that make you cry.
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Vintage Paw
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milly molly said:
Ah yes, recently finished EL&IC and remember shedding the odd tear. What really got me was when Oskar saw Mr Black's card about him
pennimania
still dre and drooling
Geri said:I had a little cry when Beth died in Little Women/Good Wives.
Also the Horse Whisperer - the first chapter is so graphic and so awful.
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me too -both those books,
and the opening chapters of DavidCopperfield, and Of Human Bondage, both dealing with the death of a mother leaving a young son
Vintage Paw
dead stare and computer glare
Cloo said:I picked up 'Goodby Mog' in a shop and that made me blub - a good one to get if you ever have a small kid dealing with the death of a pet.
I can't actually remember which other books have made me blub, but I'm sure loads have.
What is it with heart-rending kids books? That one made me sad too.
Hellsbells
World's best procrastinator
Absoultely loads of books make me cry. It doesn't take much 
After you'd Gone by Maggie O'farrell is one that sticks out in particular though. It doesn't matter how many times I re-read it, I still cry.
After you'd Gone by Maggie O'farrell is one that sticks out in particular though. It doesn't matter how many times I re-read it, I still cry.
Orang Utan
Maybe I like the misery
Only one: Jane Eyre
This is a fiction that made me cry list. I'm sure there are some Biographies and History books that caused me to well up. Off the top of head, Janet Frame's autobiography, part of which was made into the film Angel at my Table. ECT
I hadn't thought of that. On a reread they don't have the same emotional punch.
Dillinger4 said:
I hadn't thought of that. On a reread they don't have the same emotional punch.
I've recently read "Marley and Me" by John Grogan, all about his family dog, a mad Labrador that he grew to love and even respect as a close friend that taught him how to grab life, not waste a minute and do what your heart told you to do without regret.
Tears flowed for me as Marley grew old and slow, the physical and emotional struggles the whole family had to give him a quality of life and ultimately to pick the right time to end his life.
Tears flowed for me as Marley grew old and slow, the physical and emotional struggles the whole family had to give him a quality of life and ultimately to pick the right time to end his life.
Rosco said:I've recently read "Marley and Me" by John Grogan, all about his family dog, a mad Labrador that he grew to love and even respect as a close friend that taught him how to grab life, not waste a minute and do what your heart told you to do without regret.
Tears flowed for me as Marley grew old and slow, the physical and emotional struggles the whole family had to give him a quality of life and ultimately to pick the right time to end his life.
I loved that! For anyone who'd owned an old labrador, it was so accurate in describing that old sadness but resilience they have. Made me miss my poor old dog madly!
i'm a sentimental old twat, so quite a few.. the ones that spring to mind are Life After God by Douglas Coupland, The Road by Cormac McCarthy (for about two fucking hours), The Amazing Adventures Of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon, Jude (especially when Little Father Time tops himself / offs the kids) and Tess by Hardy, a couple of bits in Norwegian Wood by Murakami, the end of His Dark Materials by Pullman, erm.. there's more 
Badger Kitten
oof
When Lee Scoresby and Hester die, and then later escape out of the Underworld in Pullman always has me in floods
lontok2005
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Lots of books make me cry. Generally music and literature make me weepy, even when the song is upbeat or the tale merry.
But especially...
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The God of Small Things
Audrey Hepburn's Neck
The Time Traveller's Wife started off so well, and I got teary in the first few chapters, but what a waste of a great idea! I gave up halfway through, deeply, deeply disappointed. Amazingly original premise, brilliantly worked out, appallingly written.
But especially...
Love in the Time of Cholera
A Prayer for Owen Meany
The God of Small Things
Audrey Hepburn's Neck
The Time Traveller's Wife started off so well, and I got teary in the first few chapters, but what a waste of a great idea! I gave up halfway through, deeply, deeply disappointed. Amazingly original premise, brilliantly worked out, appallingly written.
Paulie Tandoori
shut it you egg!
I'd go with Norwegian Wood by Murakami as well as The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle for some reason. Once in a House on Fire by Andrea Ashworth was heartbreaking and emotional and tearjerking. And sometimes Charles Bukowski gets me choked cos he's on the button about the utter futility of it all and the need to drink to forget that fact.
equationgirl
Respect my existence or expect my resistance
'Deadman writing' by Jonathan Wilson.
It's about a guy who diagnosed with stomach and bowel cancer at the age of 27.
Breaks my heart to read it, and I always cry, but it's a very inspirational book.
It's about a guy who diagnosed with stomach and bowel cancer at the age of 27.
Breaks my heart to read it, and I always cry, but it's a very inspirational book.
lontok2005
New Member
I love 'The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle' and 'Norwegian Wood', as I love every Murakami book, most of which I could rad again and again and again, but none of them have ever made me cry, though (except Norwegian Wood, a little, because I read it in Japanese and it was quite a lengthy exercise...)
I read a book last week when I had to go to hospital. I read the entire book (it's not massive) in a day- and it's been a long, long time since I did that. It's called Love Life by Ray Kluus.
It didn't grab me at first. About an Amsterdam couple who have a little daughter, blokes a compulsive 'monophobic' (as he calls it) and constantly cheats on his wife despite loving her. Then she is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the rest of the book really focusses on how the bloke deals with his love and grief, his affairs and her rage, and ultimately his compassion and love.
It doesn't shirk from the details, and really 'spoke' me to me, in that I could identify with both characters and despite hating the bloke in the end his love for his wife, and his care for her during the horror and pain of her journey was incredibly moving.
I sat on the lounge floor and read and read whilst crying. It's been a while since I read like that.
It didn't grab me at first. About an Amsterdam couple who have a little daughter, blokes a compulsive 'monophobic' (as he calls it) and constantly cheats on his wife despite loving her. Then she is diagnosed with terminal cancer, and the rest of the book really focusses on how the bloke deals with his love and grief, his affairs and her rage, and ultimately his compassion and love.
It doesn't shirk from the details, and really 'spoke' me to me, in that I could identify with both characters and despite hating the bloke in the end his love for his wife, and his care for her during the horror and pain of her journey was incredibly moving.
I sat on the lounge floor and read and read whilst crying. It's been a while since I read like that.
breasticles
the smell of life
oh my god the diddakoi by rumer godden. the tiny caravan... with the tiny pony! it didnt make me cry when i was a kid, but if i read it now it totally destroys me.
heinous seamus
Perfect in an empty room
I was in tears at that bit in The Outsider where the old man loses his dog... 
Ok, I'm off to bed.
Ok, I'm off to bed.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
Maurice Picarda said:
It wasn't Fiver, it was Hazel.
And that can still make me cry today, as a 29 year old man.
Possibly the only book that has ever consistently pressed those buttons.
Maurice Picarda
Actually, might as well flounce.
bluestreak said:
Indeed. This premature senility is getting on my wick.
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