/lit/ - Literature

>>12952194

Yes, Morphine (Bulgakov), in all fairness though I was very drunk

I remember there was one anon who said she cried to moby dick

>>12952194
About 30 minutes after finishing Remains of the Day I broke down and wept. Nothing else had ever hit me quite as hard.

>>12952194
Anna Karenina made me cry a little, Of Mice & Men and The Brothers Kamarazov wrecked me

>>12952194
Augustine's confessions made me well up a little

>>12952194
Joyce's The Dead, and ISOLT

>>12952194
Every Canto of Dante made me cry. I’m talking the Purgatory book.

Death of Ivan Ilyich.

When I was in middle school it was Bob, Son of Battle.

More recently... The Aeneid. The sacking of Troy and Dido’s death.

Pretty much all of hesses works

>>12952240
>"Soon as the lofty virtue smote my sight, which already had transfixed me ere I was out of boyhood, I turned me to the left, with the confidence with which the little child runs to his mother when he is frightened, or when he is troubled, to say to Virgil: "Less than a drachm of blood remains in me that does not tremble; I recognize the signals of the ancient flame." But Virgil had left us deprived of himself; Virgil, sweetest father; Virgil, to whom for my salvation I gave myself. Nor did all which the ancient mother lost avail unto my cheeks, cleansed with dew, that they should not turn dark again with tears."

I'm in the same boat. Virgil leaving Dante is always the part that gets to me the most. Usually doesn't even matter which translation it is.

>>12952194
Stoner was the only book I've read that made me cry

>>12952194
a book fell on me - hit my nose.
I teared up pretty good.

steppenwolf and don quijote

>>12952194
Yes, I regularly get bullied by /lit/

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>>12952314
Good taste frens

>>12952194
yes when i yawn of boredom because have you ever tried reading? it's awful

the evil butterfly made me cry or wait am i the evil one

>>12952286
this and a particular hemingway book

I cried at the end of Allegiant (third part of Divergent) when Tris fucking dies
terrible book from a terrible series, but that scene was heartbreaking

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>>12952194
Anna Karenina and Beautiful and Damned. Pretty sure that’s it.

Two poems by the same guy have.

Children of Hurin by J R R Tolkien read by Christopher Lee

>>12952244
Which part?

>>12952445
Reading this in elementary school had a permanent impact on my psyche. It was the first time that I internalized the fact that death was inevitable.

I've never been the same.

Several books have made me shed a few tears, but Unknown Soldier made me cry like a baby

>>12952194
I vaguely remember crying when I read Camus when I was younger. The Road, too.

>crying
Bunch of babies

No, does that make me a brainlet? I wish I could get invested in a book

>>12952314
*Don Quixote

>>12952366
>he actually likes Tarkovsky

>>12952445
>>12952575
I read this is in Primary school (or elementary school as you say) as a kid and although I wasn't that interested in it at the time because I still was only really interested in story's about Aryans and hadn't learnt to appreciate or relate to non-white character I still quite liked it myself however I do remember wondering about death a bit it didn't make me cry you fucking pussies nor did it give me any sort of existential crisis on death you absolute autists you should of grown the fuck up.

Literally yesterday I was reading Of Mice & Men, had to stop and take a break because of the tears in my eyes.

>>12952194
Only non-fiction has brought tears from me. Specifically Abolition of Britain. Everything my fore fathers died for is gone

>>12952194
Ecclesiastes. Every time. I don't know why.

night at the fiestas

There is a scene with this really white trash dead beat dad. I was abused as a kid and this scene where a son finally has the upper hand over his horrible father. Yeah that did me in.

>>12952194
Lord of the Flies

Phaedo lmao. Socrates death wrecked me good.

>>12952194

When Dobby the House Elf died.

>>12952194
Stoner made me cry

>>12952194
The Sunset Limited

>>12952194
William Blake always makes me tear up.

Unironically, one fanfic made me sob for minutes. I'll only name its initials: BGP

>>12952194
I almost cried when I read Sorrows of Young Werther, but I don't think I'm capable of shedding tears

>>12952194
No, but an anime adaptation of a book did.

I cried at the end of Stoner.

>>12952194
The odyssey when the dog died

>>12952194
No, but anime has.

>>12952194
At the end of Grapes of wrath I felt angry and on the verge of tears.

>>12952225
>Of Mice & Men wrecked me
You're fucking gay

>>12953222
Don't make me remember it, faggot.

>>12952194
Yeah.
>It requires the greatest kind of wisdom, she thought, to know when to apply injustice. How can justice fall victim, ever, to what is right? How can this happen? She thought, Because there is a curse on this world, and all this proves it; this is the proof right here. Somewhere, at the deepest level possible, the mechanism, the construction of things, fell apart, and up from what remained swam the need to do all the various sort of unclear wrongs the wisest choice has made us act out. It must have started thousands of years ago. By now it’s infiltrated into the nature of everything. And, she thought, into every one of us. We can’t turn around or open our mouth and speak, decide at all, without doing it. I don’t even care how it got started, when or why. She thought, I just hope it’ll end some time. Like with Tony Amsterdam; I just hope one day the shower of brightly colored sparks will return, and this time we’ll all see it. The narrow doorway where there’s peace on the far side. A statue, the sea, and what looks like moonlight. And nothing stirring, nothing to break the calm.
>A long, long time ago, she thought. Before the curse, and everything and everyone became this way. The Golden Age, she thought, when wisdom and justice were the same. Before it all shattered into cutting fragments. Into broken bits that don’t fit, that can’t be put back together, hard as we try.
>Below her, in the darkness and distribution of urban lights a police siren sounded. A police car in hot pursuit. It sounded like a deranged animal, greedy to kill. And knowing that it soon would. She shivered; the night air had become cold. It was time to go.
>It isn’t the Golden Age now, she thought, with noises like that in the darkness. Do I emit that kind of greedy noise? she asked herself. Am I that thing? Closing in, or having closed in?
>Having caught?
>Beside her, the man stirred and moaned as she helped him up. Helped him to his feet and back to her car, step by step, helped him, helped him continue on. Below them, the noise of the police car had abruptly ceased; it had stopped its quarry. Its job was done. Holding Bob Arctor against her, she thought, Mine is done, too.

>>12952413
Was it Farewell? Cuz that one got me.

>>12952572
The ending really hit me hard.

>>12953222
I haven't seen LotGH but are the books worth reading?

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>>12953460
same senpai

>such joy!
somehow makes mu heart swell with... something idk

>>12953424
Fuck you, at least i accept it

>>12953564
The series still hasn't been fully translated, so i'm reluctant to take it up, but i heard they're great.

Why are malefriends so afraid to cry? You act ashamed of your own emotions.

>>12953640
INTRACUTANEOUS VULNERABILITY DETECTED
PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE PURGE

>>12953640
Emotions are for children and females. Men have no time for such trifles.

>>12953564
Depends. I read the first four, but it's a bit trashy, though I made the mistake of reading it alongside War and Peace.

>>12952194
Weirdly the scene with the children and the Bad Priest in V. Caught me by surprise

>>12952618
Brainlet

>>12953684
>>12953686
Just what every woman wants, an emotionally stunted treestump to hug and go to bed with.
Explain why women draw men like this, while men draw men like a stereotypical superhero/hardboiled detective/OPERATOR/grumy midde aged gruff MUH GUNS MUH CIGS type?
Men only act emotionless to please other men, and imo that's pretty gay family.

>>12953794
I want to talk about my FEELINGS but WOMEN WON'T LET ME so I just have to FUCK THEM instead

>>12953809
What feels do you have, senpai?

Burmese Days.

>>12953794
Fujoshi arent women

>>12952436
please leave

The poem "Weighing the Dog" by Billy Collins.
https://genius.com/Billy-collins-weighing-the-dog-annotated
Here is a link, it's quite short

>>12953684

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-diau1UxLc

>>12952207
damn wonder if the was the symphony that made her cry. never got me to cry but it really affected me

First time was Where the Red Fern Grows.

>>12952194
Yes, when i was 8 and were reading Heidi

Of mice and men

I cri everytime :(

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>>12952194
Laughed my way into watery eyes. not remorseful, pitiful cry, I was still laughing though

Honest Thief made me cry like a bitch

>>12952194
Pic related
For the horse
Zero fucks given about the roasty

>>12953794
>Explain why women draw men like this, while men draw men like a stereotypical superhero/hardboiled detective/OPERATOR/grumy midde aged gruff MUH GUNS MUH CIGS type?
Because females are fucking idiots who don't have conscious access to their own thinking processes and don't realize what actually makes their pussies wet.
Spoiler: it's not little boys who cry about their feelings lmao.

>>12954377
>anna karenina
>now a major motion picture
absolute lmao

>>12954404
>someone without a vagina telling people with vaginas what makes their vaginas wet
Interesting. Do go on.

>>12952194
Most books make me cry for one reason or another and I'm not memeing. I thought most people cried frequently but just never told anyone. I cry at most movies I watch and most books I read mostly because of how beautiful they are but sometimes because of how sad they are. Sometimes I cry at the sheer breadth of talent between me and whoever made this art. Sometimes writers make me want to pick up a pencil and write right away and sometimes they make me never want to pick up a pencil again. Sometimes I cry at the "injustice of it all" as if I knew what injustice was, sometimes I cry at the formal order of it all as if I knew what that was either. I just cry a lot but most people dont know this.
Last 3 books I cried over:
American Pastoral
My struggle book 3 by knausgaard
Shiloh

>>12954461
>someone who has sex with vaginas telling the estrogen-filled double digit IQ morons with vaginas what makes their vaginas wet
Fixed it for you retard

>>12954530
>LARPing this hard
kk fren

>>12952194
Lovely books, anon. I hope theyre yours.

>>12952194
Family Happiness- Tolstoy

I remember crying a bit when an important character died during the Darren Shan saga as a kid.

>>12954470
>American Pastoral

Why?

The Sorrows of Young Werther. Started self-inserting a bit too much and kinda closed the book and broke down when he shoots himself in the end.

The first time goku died

>>12955342
There's a song that's mentioned in the quotations page before the book starts and again in the part where Nathan goes to his school reunion. It's called Dreams by the Pied Pipers. I really like how a lot of pomo stuff references songs, books, and films outside the text so I decided to listen to this song when it was mentioned. It's really beautiful and in that scene that it's mentioned in, he's dancing with a girl that he liked in highschool but he never really got too far with. Now they're 60 and the american century is behind them. The reality that the song represents can no longer exist except in that single moment when they are dancing with each other. After the book is finished its impact is somehow heightened. Here's the song if you'd like to listen to it: https://youtu.be/8eFk8fMM8wU

White Nights
it reminded me of my past girlfriend who fell in love with me (she fucking did) and we broke up 3 weeks later

no but the closest I've ever come to crying while reading was with kokoro, surprised i haven't seen it posted already

2666

The autopsy report on the little girl.
She died of multiple heart attacks while being raped.

>>12952223
Same, man. That and Stoner had me crying for a good while.

>>12955519
Same here. The note from K still makes me weep.

>>12955566
Jesus Christ.

>>12955603
Yeah it was in The Part About the Crimes.
I thought I was jaded after all the women raped and strangled.
The little girl got me though.

>>12952194
Don Quixote (the end) and King Lear (several scenes, most emotional work I've ever read).

I cried twice while reading East of Eden.
The first time was when Lee says he's going to visit his "father's" grave.
The second was that very last, gut-wrenching, "Timshel"
I'm getting a little teary just letting those emotions run around in my brain right now. Steinbeck may be the greatest English language writer of all time.

>>12955684
What did you think of winter of our discontent?

>>12955805
I have yet to read it, but it's high up on my list. I skimmed OMaM way back in high school when I preferred spending time on video games and porn to reading, and only gave Steinbeck another shot this past year. Mice hit me like a truck, Eden reduced me to tears, and now partway through Grapes and I'm enjoying my time with the book immensely.

>>12953728
I thought V was just going to be a lark with the whole sick crew alternating with stencil’ espionage chapters.

Then that Southwest Africa chapter. Didn’t make me cry but shook me up. Especially considering i knew nothing about that bit of history.

>>12952194
Crime and Punished. Wept desperately when Raskolnikov finally broke down in the final pages.

>>12952194
no beause im not smart

>>12952286
>>12952887
This.

>>12955566
That was actually one of the things I read that was so spectacularly fucked up I just felt completely numb. Similar with the eclipse in Berserk.

REAL MEN DON'T HAVE EMOTIONS

WITH THE EFFICIENCY OF A ROBOT THEY ACQUIRE MONEY AND FUCK HOT WOMEN LIKE A JACK HAMMER

OP IS A FAGGOT

/THREAD

>>12952194
no, im not a faggot

>>12956532
>>12956543

>>12953222
What a pathetic faggot.

>>12953737
fuck off you brainlet Japa-ape

in that part in the bellmaker or which ever book it was when ma mellus died i teared up a bit
I was like twelve and on a camping trip so all I had were like five redwall books and I was prepared for some comfy jaqueskino but damn she didn't deserve to go out like that

>memories grave and gay

Where did you find my diary, desu?

War and Peace, a few times.

>>12953564
The translation is poor and the characters don't come across very well in it. I've only read the first four, though.

>>12954338
I felt this in my stomach

>>12955566
Spoiler that shit nigga

>>12956678
>he actually reads

>>12956678
>a few times
I can't remember anything other than Andrei near the end. What other times were there?

I once watched my professor break down in tears at the scene where Anna Karenina's husband realized that he loved her child, despite her not being his. Made me feel real bad for not reading the book. Still haven't.

>>12952194
I cried when mommy wouldn’t buy me a seventh copy of Infinite Jest :/

>>12952237
I'm not a cryer but The Dead hit me harder than anything ever has. Only comparable moment is "Absalom! Absalom! Would to God that I had died instead of thee!"

>>12954338
Book?

For me it was Old Yeller. 4th or 5th grade probably, I just remember WEEPING

>>12952194
I know I definitely have, but I cant for the life of me think of which book(s) made me off the top of my head.

>>12955566
I am reading 2666 now. I've come to the part about the crimes and really want to just skip over it. I skimmed it and it appeared to be just torture and trauma porn for no good reason. Is the point to numb the reader senseless to feel what the townspeople must feel like? I know it's a central part to the book, but would I be missing a lot if I just read the cliff notes?

Inb4 weak faggot. A sensitive heart is worth guarding.

>>12952194
Yes
>when odysseus meets argos

>>12957277
>>12957277
I know what you mean, and I can't tell you how many times I was like "are you kidding me, again? let me make a wild guess in the next chapter someone is anally raped and murdered right?"

>if I just read the cliff notes?
Ultimately only you can answer that question. It's not non-fiction; the whole point of fiction is to enjoy it, not get some diluted crash course on the book. IMO just reading the cliff notes in a novel is the epitome of defeating the purpose.

I think that reading through the crimes is arduous because it's repetitive but also because it's relentless. The monotony of it, the horror, the absurdity, it becomes crazy, you're enveloped in it, it wears on you and is just a particular way to try to articulate the unspeakable

Yes. But not what I was reading directly. It reminded me of something that saddened me immensely.

The Stranger by Maria Kuncewiczowa, really depressing psychological depiction

>>12952194
norwegian wood along with the chelsea wolfe discography. rip

>>12952194
Only poetry

>>12957319
>when he meets laertes

Didn't cry but I was extremely shocked after the Red Wedding in ASOIAF.

>>12954253
That book fucked me up for awhile.

>>12952194
Reading Superfudge by Judy Blume completely turned my 20s around.

>>12952622
>he doesn't

I have only cried when reading Dostoyevsky
The heavenly christmas tree and the story Lev tells about marie in the idiot

>>12957875
>I have only cried when reading Dostoyevsky
>The heavenly christmas tree and the story Lev tells about marie in the idiot
Key word is Tarkovsky not Doystoyevsky.

>>12955824
Big recommend to Winter of our Discontent. It's exactly the type of book that will connect with people on /lit/. I didn't realize it until I had gotten all the way through, and then everything hit me like a pile of bricks. Grapes also hits you but it's more in the last third.

>>12957895
No, I knew what you meant. Tarkovsky and Dostoevsky are both great. Actually, now I do recall the Stalker's monologue about the zone almost made me tear up.

>>12952600
A man who can't cry isn't one. Merely a statue of flesh practicing mimicry.

>>12958036
based

>>12952244
Feel you man, is the life of my dad and the life coming to me

>>12952194
Fucking Charlotte's Web and WHere the red fern grows

Flowers for Algernon pretty jarring for me

>>12952225
>Anna Karenina made me cry
this, and others, too, but this was the first that came to mind

>>12952194
I cried several times while reading TBK. most of it was during father zosima and Ilyusha chapters, also when Aloysha kissed Ivan and the devil chapter

The Painted Bird, when the little boy is thrown from the moving train.

The Crossing, when Billy has to put down and bury the wolf.

Cities of the Plain, the whole ending.

Far Tortuga, Captain Raib Avers.

>>12952194
My autobiography

>>12952645
Take your cap off, anon. The air feels fine

>>12957082
It probably hit a little too close to home for him.

>>12952194
End of Titus Alone used to bring out the bittersweet tears

>>12958181
>No one was with her when she died.
Fuck you too E.B. White.

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>>12952223
The Brothers Kamarazov devastated me but I don't remember exactly which part made me cry.

Currently reading Anna Karenina. So far it's kinda boring desu. Maybe because I've seen the movie and kinda spoiled?

>>12957919
I'll definitely keep that in mind. If I don't see any used copies around town within a month or so of finishing Grapes, I'll probably go ahead and order a copy.

>>12958541
>Currently reading Anna Karenina. So far it's kinda boring

>>12958241

Me too.

The knowing descent.

>>12952194
F

Confessions by Jaume Cabré

Yes, I forgot to return a book from my university library before the summer holidays

>>12952194
Wilhelm Meister, when Mignon dies

>>12952194
Steppenwolf by Hesse, tell me i am not the only one.