/lit/ - Literature

>>11044798

Steppenwolf made me break down into uncontrollable tears near the end when it discussed having to walk until everything superfluous is burned away.

Progress and Poverty (H. George)
The Republic (Plato)
Introduction to Arithmetic (Nicomachus)

>>11044798
Chain of Dogs made me really sad, and Midnight tides almost made me cry. Yeah yeah "le genreshit xDDD"

Specifically the last book so dense with emotion and power

>>11044798
Confessions

I couldn't stop laughing out loud while reading The Picture of Dorian Gray. It made reading the book during my train commute impossible.

Story about the cleaner giving his 3 year old son his hat to wear, and the kid getting brain tumors because of it hurt me pretty bad.

My diary desu

I'd have to say 12 Rules for Life by Dr Jordan B Peterson

>>11044798
atomised

>>11044798
Death of a Salesman made me cry.

>>11044980
That sounds like BS desu

>>11045164
Idk I haven't tracked down the dude, and it won a nobel prize so I assumed there was some background checks into the validity of the interviews. Maybe not. I've got no clue.

>>11044798
I read Phaedrus in college and I responded quite emotionally to the fact that the Greeks fucked little boys. East of Eden made me incredibly angry at the Catherine parts. Stoner was heartbreaking, I think I cried. Spinoza's Ethics made me cry to, but out of frustration more than anything really.

>>11044798
one hundred years of solitude

Lolita

The part where he sees her again, his description of her made me tear up.

>>11045175

You sound like a little bitch. You also deserve having been blindsided in college by the Greeks by walking in and not already having some notion of the historical pederasty. Show me on the doll where the Ethics of all things hurt your fee-fees.

>>11044798
Beelzebub’s Tales to his Grandson. Completely changed my life, made me break down and cry at the realization of the impending death of everyon and their lack of self-nature, especially the realization of my family members all going to die and none of them having self-nature. But it made me a deeper person, and I’m convinced that event changed my relationship with all my family members on a subtle level.

>>11045175
the phaedrus was beautiful. And Socrates' relationship with Phaedrus was too!

>>11044798
Mason&Dixon

Franny and Zooey

Read it as 15 years old atheist and it angered me. Then I went back to it a few months later because I liked the prose and it made me believe in God

The Gulag archipelago. It filled me with both rage, disgust and sadness

>>11045441
Oh yeah I forgot about that

>>11045540

>do it for the fat man

>>11044798
Phrases might make me marvel at the writer's skill but I've never read anything that made me have an emotional response like what I think you're asking for - it's never made me laugh or cry or anything like that. I just look back on the book and go, "that was well constructed" or "that's why people like this author".

>>11045412
When he asked her to leave with him did it for me

>>11046445
This. Communists are evil to the core.

>>11046472
>>11046445
pseudo book based on 'campfire tales' without historicity. stop memeing lads

The Myth of the 20th Century.

Unironically. It had a bizarre uplifting effect on me that's the closest I've ever had to a religious experience.

>>11045412
Lolita for me. Specifically the part where he talks about how he and Lolita were with another father and daughter and how the daughter was able to sit on her dads lap and there being nothing sexual about it and Humbert saying he feels guilty of robbing her innocence

The beginning of Rebecca.

ask alice. felt I been through that life in a past life.

>>11046629
How

Machiavelli's Il Principe

Specifically the quote, "Men should either be caressed or crushed. If you strike a man down, do so that you have no fear of him rising up and seeking vengeance."

>>11046720

IDK in entirety, but it gave me a feeling of deep connection with my race and it felt good.

Stoner as it's pretty much the only book I've read

>>11044798
Watership Down when Hazel has succeeded in finding a safe home for his group of rabbits, has grown old watching over them and the black rabbit of Inle comes to visit him, taking him away as his body sleeps

Don Quixote when Sancho says to the dying Don Quixote that when he gets better they should become shepherds and have more adventures, singing songs, growing old but of course they can't

Les Miserables when Marius learns how much of a hero Jean Valjean is, when Jean Valjean meets the young Cosette and offers her an expensive doll and tells her to go play which she doesn't understand after years of abuse, when Eponine dies on the barrier giving Marius her letter, every time Jean Valjean debates within himself as to whether he should turn himself in or not and then he inevitably does, etc

Anything by Arthur Miller always leaves a pit in my stomach.

Of Mice and Men is an obvious one but fucking that hits me every time even if I see it coming a mile away, but Lenny and George's struggle to achieve their dream fucking breaks me.

Stoner. Everything in Stoner.

I don't usually cry while reading but these books have gotten me to the closest and they fucking sat with me for days and days after finishing them that I just couldn't stop thinking about them.

>>11044798
The end of Temple of the Golden Pavilion when he decides to stop being a faggot

>>11046726
Every colonialist should have kept that in mind

De l'inconvénient d'être né (the inconvenience of existence or the trouble with being born) by Emil Cioran

>>11045164
That does not matter

>>11044798
The Road hit me pretty hard, Remains of the Day was equally as emotional but in a different way. Of Mice and Men was difficult because I have a disabled brother of who Lenny reminded me of because it makes me imagine the future when its just him and I

Fucking meme as it may be, Infinite Jest drew addiction more accurately than any other novel I've ever read. Burroughs and Delaney and others hyperbolize self-destruction, whereas DFW sketched far more relatable tales, at least to my situation.Won't ever forget it.

>>11044980
What a dumbass. Never borrow a Russian man's hat.

>>11047222
It does when there is possibly a political motive. I don't like being emotionally manipulated.

>>11045412
For me, it was that scene near the end where HH is driving then he stops and climbs on a hill overlooking a town and he has this small moment of introspection, this surge of the senses. I found it very touching though it's not really one of the defining moments, it's not even about Lolita explicitly, he isn't thinking about her; or maybe he is, kind of.
>>11044798
Stoner hit me hard, mostly because I got the news my father had died just as I was finishing it. All throughout the book I had been thinking of him, he was in many ways like Stoner, and so the end suckerpunched me.
The Walk by Robert Walser also immersed me into such sweet pain the likes of which are beyond me to describe. It has stayed with me every time I think about that piece, or about Walser in general. One of those Gondola gifs would suffice to express it in visual 4chan meme-speak. If I could find words for it, I'd be a writer.

Moonfleet, specifically the ending.

Flowers for Algernon made me cry. Master and Margarita made me laugh out loud. Many other books have given me the feels but those two stand out the most.

Almost every chapter of The Little Prince and The Last Unicorn make me cry

>>11047378
Flowers for Algernon tore out my soul

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest took so long for me to read because I had to set the book down to cry or steam in hatred for Nurse Ratched

>>11044798
The Death of Bunny Munroe
https://youtu.be/FYaRpBAvESg

Never cried over a book you darn pansies.

>>11045441
U gonna cry? Why would I need to know about Greek pedantry as a teen? Irrelevant to the trivium. Affecting nothing. To know the word may have improved my vocabulary, but insignificantly. Don’t demean others simply because you were molested by your tutors.

>>11044798
not long after finishing catcher in the rye I had my own nervous breakdown so probably that

>>11044798
Earth Abides. I can't really put my finger on why though.

>>11047171
>>11047295
>Stoner
Stoner hollowed me out every time I read it, I couldn't feel for a little while afterwards. It made me feel empty as I read about his life until the end, where it stuffed everything it ripped out back in. I wanted to cry, but I haven't in years.

>>11049084
It's amazing, right? I picked it up without knowing much and quickly liked its gentle pacing. Very quickly the sorrow sinks in like Dave Masters talking about how the without much purpose or direction get given a lifeline via a salary and job at university or the resentment Finch has for Stoner when he doesn't enrol for the army. Later it got to the point where each reading left me feeling uncomfortable and even anxious. Maybe i'm too sensitive of a reader but that book gets too real and I can't help but love Stoner just tries to push through even if his efforts aren't appreciated.

His old tutor growing old and dying at the university upset me, made me consider every teacher of mine I found to be a positive influence and hoped they were still OK

catcher in the rye. when he sneaks in phoebes room and mom comes in. hides in closet. the tears started flowing. It brought out a sadness in me I didn't know I even had

>>11044798
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

A Confederacy of Dunces has me in fits of laughter no matter how many times I re-read it. I'm left thinking about the events for days afterwards. Hilarious.

The two books to have made me cry are: Call Me By Your Name, because of my own issues with relationships, and; A Soldier's Tale. AST is a romance/drama book set in WWII. I suppose I cried for similar reasons as CMBYN, but it's been years since I read it so it's hard to say.

The Grapes of Wrath has several moments where my heart starts racing. The final scene has stayed with me since the first time I read it several years ago. I'm reading through again now and there are moments where the Joads' despair is so well expressed. For example, the scene where Granma dies and Ma has to stay with her and keep that a secret until the family crosses into California.

>>11044920
this, lord henry is the funniest cunt in literature im sure of it

>>11045208
this

>>11044798
any Nietzsche, frankly
at first I was offended, infuriated, then entered a profound crisis that lasted for years

>>11044798

Watership Down

Funnily enough