/lit/ - Literature

>>11296083
Thus Spoke Zarathustra made me tear up. Also, post feet.

You forgot /bg - boomer general/

>>11296083
Why would a book make me cry? It's not real. Like just close the book nigga damn.

The Scratch-n-Sniff Encyclopedia of Onions and Other Allium Species

I know you're being a gay bait poster but when I read Looking For Alaska when I was 14 I cried my eyes out.

The only book of his I ever read, and I didn't even know he wrote it until recently. Only found out after three of his movies already came out. I haven't re-read it, but that book definitely resonated with me as a young teenager

>inb4 ur gay

>>11296083
The Stranger made me tear up. Not immediately but at 3 am the day after I finished it I had a breakdown due to how it made me think. I was also like 16 so it could've been hormonal but I remember that book fucking with me for a while

>>11296083
Of Mice and Men made me cry. I'm not sure it would now, but I read it when I was 16 and more emotional. I can't think of any other books that have made me cry.

>>11296083
Real talk: The Stranger <3.

>>11296083
stoner's sad life is pretty eye watering

East of Eden

>>11296095
yikes. cringe

>>11296166
lol

>>11296083
Crime and Punishment

>>11296166
underrated

>>11296083
The death of Ivan illyich. My uncle passed away before I read that book, and I realised I was just as indifferent to his death as the characters in the book are to Ivan illyich's death.

>>11296083
None. Ever. Which I am kinda annoyed about. Closest I ever got to feeling anything was from articles about people who experienced horrible shit. Novels are just too artificial to work on me. Similar with visual media unless it's supported by sound.

>>11296166
hehe

>>11298078
this one only

When I was a kid and I read Outcast of Redwall, it made me cry when Veil died.
How a kids book gonna do me like that? He should have lived, dammit!

Also, can't remember the name, but theirs this one where a guy's pregnant wife gets the baby cut out of her, and when he finds her dying, she keeps asking where her baby is.
He finds it dead, but tells her he's just sleeping and he'll make sure to raise him right.
Her lasts words are, "That's good."

>>11296083
Werther

How is that book you're writing going?

>>11300509
Well I wanted to start a new thread but obiously fucked up. I'll leave /lit/ and try to make my thread in a month when everyone has forgotten about this blunder.

>>11300509
I can't stop writing Mass Effect fan fiction

>>11300516

A Boring Story by Cechov.

If you've ever wondered which books may fit to this picture, read a boring story.

Does anyone else only cry as the result of aesthetic bliss? Keats and Shakespeare make me cry, but usually not due to what's being said

>>11296083
The Scholar's story about Rachel in Hyperion and the ending of Dune Messiah.

Confessions of a mask

>>11300509
slowly
>>11300551
is it about the quarians?

Watership Down (Richard Adams) and Jennie (Paul Gallico) both made me tear up when I read them as a kid. I was infuriated by this emotional response, and had to put the book down each time until I had fought the watering in my eyes back and I could continue without expressing emotion.

No book, film, or game has made me cry since. Two films and one game have come close, and that has been it.

Some time during my suppression of sad emotions during the act of consumption of media, being it reading or otherwise, I also removed my ability to feel anything from books that are supposed to be frightening or chilling, and even the most terrifying of films fails to phase me, which I find unfortunate because I would like to enjoy the horror genre.

I should have let myself cry when I was reading for the first time as a kid.

>>11300509
Really fucking slow and I don't think I have the skill to do my idea justice.

>>11296083
Suttree at one point or another

>>11297939
I had tears in my eyes when it was becoming clear that George would shoot Lennie and was telling him about the farm again.
I really seldom felt so moved because of any a book or any kind of media but the end of this book really got me.
So far it was the only book from Steinbeck I read (I'm just starting to get into american literature), any recommendations what I should read from him next?
Thought about Tortilla Flat.

The first Teacher by Chingis Aitmatov and Rothschilds Fiddle by Cechov

The part in East of Eden where Cyrus is talking to Adam about the military in chapter 3 made my eyes wet. I didn't full on cry though