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Has a book ever made you cry, /lit/?

>> No.12459539
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wen hary pooter wus dumped by the hoor cho chang n the patels and hermone n raff fines was hissin' n that one las time wen snape was all "always" cried for sure fren

>> No.12459545

I've never cried due to a book, but I recall feeling oddly moved by Mezentius' death in the Aeneid.

>> No.12459549
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>>12459529
Not joking.

>> No.12459553

>>12459539
>>12459529
how do you guys find each other so quickly and on like every board

>> No.12459557
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>>12459553
>he doesn't have apu on quickdial
gotta b quik on the draw annon

>> No.12459561

les mis

>> No.12459563

>>12459549
What part made you cry Anon? Was it the gay pseudo-fascist vampires?

>> No.12459567
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>>12459563
Among many other things, yes.

>> No.12459605

>>12459529
My diary desu

>> No.12459617
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>>12459529
When Joachim died

>> No.12459703
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I didn't cry while reading Cancer Ward but I wanted to.
I did tear up pretty bad at the end of Rime of the Ancient Mariner, and in Huck Finn when he says "all right, I'll go to hell." Based Huck.

>> No.12459732

>>12459529
Crime and punishment

>> No.12459737
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When Kat dies

>> No.12459739

>>12459617
I dunno what this book is about but that's a fantastic cover.

>>12459732
what part?

>> No.12459749
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this shit right here only hurts more with time

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>> No.12459788

>>12459529
Atonement almost did.

>> No.12459797

>>12459739
At the end when Raskolnikov kisses Sonia's feet and she cant believe that someone can love her (she is a prostitute) and fall in love with him.
Two completly broken human beings falling in love and trying together to redeem themselves and win back their
humanity. Narrated by that genius dostoievski.
Heartbreaking.

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>>12459617
based.
>>12459529
I cried almost every canto of the Divine Comedy. They were tears of catharsis though.

>> No.12459829

Harlan Ellison's Paladin of the Lost Hour

>> No.12459842

>>12459529
when cardenio roams the mountains in don quixote

i'm a little bitch

>> No.12459844
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>inb4 genrefag
>>12459549
How did FN make you cry? I mean I guess I het it but the language in that book powered me up hard as fuck. Fealt like I could charge up my megabuster to 3rd tier charge while reading that stuff

>> No.12459859

>>12459844
Midnight tides and the end of Deadhouse Gates probably got me the most

>> No.12459866

>>12459739
>/lit/ doesn't know The Magic Mountain anymore
Sad!

>> No.12459872

>>12459529
The end of Joyce's The Dead makes me cry every time

>> No.12459873

>>12459859
yeah DHG is brutal my gosh. I have yet to read Tide, House of Chains ribbed me the wrong way a bit, not the whole thing, but it left kind of a bad bitter taste with me that I havent wantd to return to the series for yet

>> No.12459885

>>12459873
Midnight Tides is probably my favorite. Beautiful moments, and could be used as an alternate starting point.

>> No.12459890

I've teared up at some depressing shit I've read in Eastern Front Memoirs.

>> No.12459902

>>12459885
yeah that’s why ive not yet gotten back into it, its the start of the 3rd plot string yeah? still havent fully recovered from the first two yet. These books always end up taking over my life until I finish them, which is cool but also exhausting

>> No.12459908

I remember crying towards the end of Stoner

>> No.12459916

Yes.
End of Molly's soliloquy in Ulysses and Andrei Bolkonsky's death in War and Peace.

>> No.12459944

>>12459844
Itkovian was a good character

>> No.12459949

>>12459529
O-only for catharsis... and it was not overwhelming at all... I was in a totall c-control of myself... as a-always...

>> No.12459950

>>12459529
I cry all the time and don’t know what to do about it.

>> No.12459960

>>12459902
Yeah I feel that. It's a large time commitment.

>> No.12459971

Only times I can think of were for Please Look After Mom and short story The Scarlet Ibis.

>> No.12459975

>>12459529
For some reason, the end of 1984

>> No.12459979

>>12459872

>> No.12459998

The Kite Runner

>> No.12460006

>>12459872
This

Also the reunion in Flowers for Algernon made me cry very unexpectedly.

>> No.12460024

>>12459944
never read a better paladin archetype than him. man that climactic episode wowed me. hard to believe how high Erikson takes his fantasy and gets away with it. the guy can fuckin’ write

>> No.12460046

Animal farm. It was like reading my country story.

>> No.12460054

>>12459823
Same but paradise lost. I wish I were religious. It inspires the most moving writing.

>> No.12460149

>>12459529
It makes me sad when all those jerks bully Bloom in the pub.

>> No.12460164

>>12460149
Underrated reply

>> No.12460167
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Not even joking. In particular the part on the farm about love, after the celebration at the pub. Also all of the thunderwords moved me to tears.

>> No.12460181

Almost evrryone I've read. Not even jk

>> No.12460191

Steinbeck's mission in literature seems to be to turn me into a little bitch. Why the fuck does the world have to be so mean?

>> No.12460367

>>12460167
this is the most tryhard post ive seem in a while, cheers m’lad

>> No.12460425

A few
Stoner
Julius Caesar - Philip Freeman
Augustus
Infinite Jest

I feel like another that I'm missing

>> No.12460432

Plenty of them do since I'm a big baby. Last one was Augustine's Confessions.

>> No.12460665

>>12459529

Finnegans Wake

>> No.12460840
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when gonzales goes to the stadium which is now a hospital and said it was nice to see the lockers

>> No.12461314

>>12459529
David Copperfield

>> No.12461712

>>12459529
Bridge to Terabithia

>> No.12461783

The Brothers Karamazov when that lil nigga was on his deathbed

>> No.12461845
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This shit right here

>> No.12461849

>>12459529
the final pages of Of Mice and Men

>> No.12461876

For me, it depends on the book and genre. I have cry a little for emotional books by their endings or moments in them when i was rooting for the MC(Main character to win) but then to see them fall hardly by a dirty trick by the evil character via not paying attention or
by clever misleading on the EC's part. Long post i know but meh.

>> No.12461890

>>12459529
The part in Suttree where he accidentally eats a bunch of psychedelic mushrooms and wanders the mountains for days is really beautiful .


There's a shit ton of other parts in that book that are just regular feels too though.

>> No.12461898

Counterparts and A Painful Case of Joyce

>> No.12461905
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Kino did no wrong

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>>12459529
His "relationship" with Sonoko at the end was too realistic and sad on god

>> No.12461928

>>12461845
this book drive me half insane

>> No.12461974

>>12459529
Père Goriot and les mésirables

>> No.12462065

And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair

>> No.12462143

>>12461928
Any specific part?

>> No.12462165

Norwegian Wood. Yes I know I'm a girl.

>> No.12462292

>>12460840
just finished this one
the death itself of tarrou didnt fuck me up,
the death itself of rioux wife didnt fuck me up,
but the aftermath, the solemn, quiet sadness and shrugging of the shoulders "okay they are dead" made me want to die.

>> No.12463040

>>12462165
I've never been moved to tears at Murakami, but Sheep Chase came the closest. The climax (or anti-climax) hit me in the guts.

>> No.12463071

Got a nasty paper cut from Lord of the Flies once. May have cried at that.

>> No.12463087

>>12461928
Tbh you should have become insane and wrote stories like Buzzati

>> No.12463540

>>12459908
I definitely welled up a little bit when Williams described his grip loosening on the book.

>> No.12463633

>>12462165
>>12463040
Murakami has hit me hard emotionally but not enough to move me to tears. The stories in Men Without Women specifically.

>> No.12463660

>>12459549
The poem at the end of Shamanic Nietzsche got me tho, I don't really know how, but it's beautiful in a bad way.

>> No.12463663

>>12459617
Oh god yeah.

Also the end of Mason & Dixon.

>> No.12463727

I'm finishing Hyperion right now.
The scholar's tale made me cry like a little bitch. But then again I have two daughters and I have easy feels for young children in books.

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ngl i sobbed near the end

>> No.12463902

War & Peace

>> No.12463937

>>12459529
the new testament

>> No.12463947

>>12463071
Piggy's death made me feel sick, although I was quite young at the time.
Also feel free to 'hello plebbit' me but several parts in Flowers for Algernon made me cry.

>> No.12463952
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The ending of Les Mis fucked me up. Fucked me up hard, senpai. I refused to go out for a month after this.

>> No.12464236

>>12463747
Children's book is cheating tier.

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the parts about mad meg dying affected me more than anything I've read in a long time

>> No.12464309

>>12463747
this t b h

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Not sure why, but those damn last few pages. Maybe it's the sentimentality

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>>12459529
When K kills himself.
> tfw you will never be a firm resolute person

>> No.12464602

>>12459529
Homilies of the elder Zosima from the Brothers Karamazov. As a former fedora child who used to think muh power and sex are all that matter, I was completely broken apart and reconstructed in a single chapter of Dostoevsky.

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I'm not a bitch but Heidegger has teared me up a couple times, yeah I'll admit it.

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I just felt so bad for the kid by the end, man.

>> No.12464822

>>12459529
The end of On The Beach.

I read it shortly after becoming a father

>> No.12464983

The scene in lolita when Humbert Humbert is driving in the rain.

>> No.12464995

>>12459975
This.

For me it was because I just fell out of a relationship where we both loved each other but broke up because I was unwilling to have another child when I was still broke ish. (i have a child from a previous relationship that she cared for nearly as her own)

The ending reminded me of the last time I saw her, she looked at me, said she loved me and got out of my car. I watched her walk up the stairs to her apartment, looked past her at my rear view mirror into the waiting eyes of my infant daughter and said, "I love you"