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ITT: books that made you cry like a pussy

Say what you want, I was in 7th grade when I read it.

>> No.1201393

All Quiet on the Western Front
only book I've cried to.

>> No.1201399

>>1201393
my lord that was boring shit. I cried from boredom.

>> No.1201403

You know what made me cry about All Quiet on the Western Front?
My teachers incompetent attempts to tell us what the author was trying to say.
He was convinced that the point of the book was to say Germany should try harder next time.

>> No.1201429

I've only cried to two books: Brave New World and A Confederacy of Dunces.

I really can't explain it, but ACOD just got to me.

>> No.1201433

>>1201403
wtf

>> No.1201443

>>1201393

>> No.1201451

The Sound and The Fury
Death of a Salesman
Of Mice and Men I saw the movie before I read the book, and I still cried when George shot Lennie.

>> No.1201455

Sorrows of Young Werther
For Whom the Bell Tolls

>> No.1201463

Damn near every war novel ever.

>> No.1201523

>>1201429
I related to Ignatius Reilly, and that made me sad about myself, and thus I also cried.

>> No.1201543

The book is less effective because it's longer, but the original short story version of Flowers for Algernon makes me cry every time I read it. And I've read it a lot of time.

>> No.1201552

the five people you meet in heaven by mitch albom got me

>> No.1201562

Catcher In The Rye and Of Mice and Men are the only books that have ever made me cry.

>> No.1201635

>>1201552
>angsty teenager that bitches about everything despite the fact that he has more than most people could ever want.

>made you cry

what kind of faggot are you?

>> No.1201636

>>1201635
directed to >>1201562

>> No.1201647

easily finding fish

>> No.1201656

The Road
Never Let Me Go

That's it I guess...

>> No.1201664

The Count of Monte Cristo made me cry during the garden scene with Dantes and Mercedes after Albert just left for Africa. So sad.

Made me think of the MGS4 ending for some reason when Otakon is telling Sunny that she can go outside and that Snake...had a hard life ;_;[/spoiler

>> No.1201682

>>1201635
>Didn't understand a Steinbeck book.

what kind of faggot are you?

>> No.1201688

>>1201682
JUST READ THE MOON IS DOWN TODAY

READ IT!

>> No.1201691

EPICAC by Kurt Vonnegut

>> No.1201695

>>1201389

Yes.

>>1201562

>Catcher in the Rye

what is this i don't even

>> No.1201712

whichever one Dumbledore dies in

>> No.1201850

inb4 the giving tree

>> No.1201879

one flew over the cuckoo's nest got me. think that's the only one.

>> No.1201976
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1201976

the scholar's tale

>> No.1202029

The Little Prince
:*)

>> No.1202060

Lonelyache by Harlan Ellison.

A single tear even though he didn't kill himself

>> No.1202066

im man enough to admit it, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince and Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. first is self explanatory second was because i knew the series was over (which for me really ment my childhood was over)

>> No.1202086

The Road

>> No.1202121

As I Lay Dying, during the last bit with Darl, when he's on the train speaking in gibberish.

When Anselmo dies in For Whom The Bell Tolls.

Fucking Gatsby.

>> No.1202165

>>1201879

Fucking ditto.

>> No.1202172

East of Eden the whole damn time.. Seriously I was an emotional wreck while reading that thing.

>> No.1202239

Last Exit to Brooklyn...because i felt horrible about the whole human race.

>> No.1202259
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1202259

Bawled like a bitch. Multiple times.