ITT: Books that made you cry. I think everyone needs a good cry every once and a while...

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Anonymous Tue Jan 4 21:52:47 2011 No.1425024 [Reply] [Original]

ITT: Books that made you cry.
I think everyone needs a good cry every once and a while...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 21:57:47 2011 No.1425054 I find that books don't make me cry, even when they do pack an emotional punch. Movies sometimes do, though. Something about the visual connection and music and all of that, I suppose.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:01:47 2011 No.1425067 >>1425054 Can you name some (movies), then? I need a good cry now :/

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:03:47 2011 No.1425080 >>1425067 Not the same guy but, watch the first 15 minutes of Up. And then watch the rest of it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:03:47 2011 No.1425085 >>1425067 Life is Beautiful. The humour of the first act just foils the absolute tragedy of the ending. Fucking baww'd

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:03:47 2011 No.1425086 >>1425067 There's a good thread in /tv/ right now... >>>/tv/13884008

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:08:47 2011 No.1425110 >>1425067 I have a penis and I cry when I watch the following: I am Sam Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Where the Wild Things Are

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:09:47 2011 No.1425115 File: 268 KB, 817x459, oh lawd.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425110 >Where the Wild Things Are, Manly Tears >Kid's movie

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:12:47 2011 No.1425125 >>1425115 >hasn't seen the movie Its pretty clearly made for those who were read it when they were kids (who are now adults)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:13:47 2011 No.1425128 "Where the Red Fern Grows"

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:13:47 2011 No.1425131 The Green Mile. Fucking buckets. Holy shit. Also Holding the Man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:13:47 2011 No.1425134 >>1425067 I say this as an impartial denizen of /tv/, /v/, /lit/, /co/, and even sometimes /a/: /jp/ has the best material for making you cry like a bitch. Go play Narcissu and Planetarian.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:14:47 2011 No.1425138 children of men, no idea why i always wondered why it got me so hard

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:15:47 2011 No.1425142 >>1425128 beat me to it bro I don't think I cried as hard when my puppy of fifteen years died

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:15:47 2011 No.1425143 Any more books?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:15:47 2011 No.1425144 File: 16 KB, 300x411, elf man sniffs his fingers.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425138 >i always wondered why it got me so hard

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:16:47 2011 No.1425147 >>1425125 Have seen it, also read it when I was a kid. Watched it as an adult, and couldn't get over how Tony Soprano is his best friend.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:16:47 2011 No.1425148 >>1425134 that reminded me, Graveyard of the Fireflies is like being dumped by your one true love who is also sliced onions

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:20:47 2011 No.1425158 >>1425144 fuck that cam out very wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:23:47 2011 No.1425172 The ending of the Book of the New Sun did it for me. The Ending of Memories of Ice, Deadhouse Gates, Midnight Tides, Reapers Gale did it as well. Movie Wise. The Ending of Saving Private Ryan where as the guy looks up to wife and asks her that question

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:24:47 2011 No.1425174 File: 10 KB, 288x306, 1271385249325.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425158 >came out very wrong

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:24:47 2011 No.1425175 A Farewell to Arms

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:25:47 2011 No.1425183 >>1425158 >fuckthat cam out wrong did you get here pregnant?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:27:47 2011 No.1425188 >>1425183 GODAMNIT WTF IS WRONG WITH ME TODAY?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:28:28 2011 No.1425196 File: 339 KB, 694x1024, naked_lunch.olympia.front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This is probably the dumbest fucking thing I've ever read, /lit/. THE DUMBEST FUCKING THING.

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>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:30:47 2011 No.1425198 I watched Toy Story 3 earlier and I cried like a bitch at the end. I know I've cried during a book, but it's been so long that I can't remember what it was.

>>	STLFag !IeX.oK0HUk Tue Jan 4 22:30:47 2011 No.1425200 Not going to lie, I teared up a little during Gatsby's funeral in The Great Gatsby.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:31:47 2011 No.1425202 what the fack? i swear i just saw a post that was all caps and shit with the same book as hya>>1425195 wat just happened?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:31:47 2011 No.1425205 Believe it or not, the short story Celephais by H.P. Lovecraft had me bawling my eyes out by the end.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:32:47 2011 No.1425210 Great Expectations made me tear up a bit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:34:47 2011 No.1425215 >>1425205 was about to post some lovecraft

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 22:34:47 2011 No.1425217 WTF AT THESE IDIOTS THAT CRIED FROM THE STRANGER DID YOU WHAT WHY

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:35:47 2011 No.1425223

UP
Everybody cried during up

Anyway, I got a little teary eyed reading A Scanner Darkly.
What Dreams May Come has one part where the main character gives this gigantic speech about how much he loves his wife. I got sad just because I'll probably never get to say that to somebody...

Diving Bell And The Butterfly is another one.
You're basically reading this guy coming to terms with the complete destruction of his life.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:36:47 2011 No.1425225 Like every god damn biography in the world. As soon as I begin to admire the person it leads into their deaths.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:37:47 2011 No.1425229 >>1425202 someone was complaining about Naked Lunch, its not a book to cry over, so I assume he posted in in the thread on accident and then deleted it. A new thread hasnt shown up due to his embarrassment and shame most likely

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 22:38:47 2011 No.1425236 File: 50 KB, 300x495, catcher-in-the-rye-red-cover.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Obligatory. or maybe not since some of you here think it's a criticism of teen angst rolls eyes......

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:38:47 2011 No.1425240 >>1425217 what

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:38:47 2011 No.1425241 >>1425236 I didn't cry during that, even when I was 16.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:39:47 2011 No.1425242 >>1425229 oh i thought my mind was fucking with me

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:40:47 2011 No.1425247 Strange thing, I cried during Eraserhead. I guess it's because that movie is the purest representation of loneliness that I've ever seen in any movie, ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:41:47 2011 No.1425251 I vaguely remember East of Eden making me cry but I can't seem to remember what specifically caused it. A Farewell to Arms may have also made me cry.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:42:47 2011 No.1425254 >>1425223 A Scanner Darkly, I just remembered, that made me all teary eyed too. Such a sad ending, even more so with the list of all his friends at the back. Tragic. No wonder he went nuts.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 22:42:47 2011 No.1425255 File: 15 KB, 263x192, TyBrax13.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425247 am i the eraserhead?

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 22:43:47 2011 No.1425257 >>1425240 why would the stranger make you cry!? >>1425241 why would being young make you more likely to cry during Catcher?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:43:47 2011 No.1425260 >>1425247 Hmmmm. Thats interesting. Not being sarcastic or anything either. I'm kinda envious you can pull such a strong emotional reaction from it.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:43:47 2011 No.1425261 >>1425247 it was a great movie but that baby. lol strangest representation on sin ever

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:44:47 2011 No.1425263 >>1425257 OP here. The end made me cry. Just a couple of tears. No need to wig out there, buddy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:45:47 2011 No.1425265 >>1425236 it sucks why would you cry to this? that like crying to anthem

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:45:47 2011 No.1425268 >>1425257 Why the fuck did you bring up the topic of The Stranger, thats why I was confused. I don't see anyone else mentioning it at all, correct me if I'm wrong

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:48:47 2011 No.1425279
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>>1425268
OH-HO, filenames.
nevermind
>mfw I realized my folly

but yeah, it has a very strong emotional ending for something thats deliberately deadpan for its near entirety, I just can't see myself crying over it.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:48:47 2011 No.1425282

>>1425260
The whole movie is basically showing you how incredibly bleak this guy's life is, and how he can't escape from it even if he wants to.

The lady across the hall, all the fantasy sequences. It speaks for itself.

Then you have the "reality" which is this guy living by himself in a one room apartment, living in a shitty place, surrounded by maniacs, and having to take care of some mutant which is obviously some sort of malignant creature.

I can go on, the movie just makes me feel depressed though.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 22:48:47 2011 No.1425283 >>1425268 the OP >>1425263 WHY THOUGH. Mersault died happier than he had been in a long time. He was gonna die sooner or later, etc.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:49:47 2011 No.1425286 File: 169 KB, 356x550, gfsfew.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] cried to Catcher in the Rye. there's something really deep, really heartbreaking about it that gets to me every time.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:52:47 2011 No.1425297 >>1425286 see >>1425265

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:53:47 2011 No.1425304 >>1425236 >some of you here think it's a criticism of teen angst It is, but its also a tale of quiet tragedy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:56:47 2011 No.1425311 >>1425283 But the fact that he was dying just as happiness was reached.. I don't know exactly what it was. It was just sad for me. What sort of books make you cry then?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:57:47 2011 No.1425317 >>1425311 I know what you mean, the epiphany is always too late, we only realize the extent of our mortality when we're at the gallows. ;_;

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 22:59:47 2011 No.1425320 >>1425236 please, what was that book about, beyond blathering on about a character that didn't mean shit, didn't achieve shit, and didn't fucking do anything?

yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:00:47 2011 No.1425324

>>1425265
>that like crying to anthem
0/10.
Well for instance the scene with his lil sister that he loves so much. she asks him what he wants to do & he creates the imagery in the book's title because he doesn't want to grow-up & feels pained that innocent children that are so honest with each other & forgiving, etc are going to turn into phonies. & then there's the kind of scale of the week he's had by the end & you think maybe he just needed someone to vent to. also that the old teacher was possibly feeling really sorry for Holden & Holden felt extremely scared to accept that reaching out so he put it down to the reader as him being a paedo. i think all those things are sad. there's probably more.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:01:47 2011 No.1425326 >>1425320 I ask because my reaction paralleled the one in southpark, and I want to know why people like it at all

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:03:47 2011 No.1425330 >>1425324 >>1425324 It is cry-worthy. Though you, the knock-off, wanna-be Holden that you are defending it lessens the story's credibility. You should probably stop. Also, kill yourself.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:03:47 2011 No.1425334

>>1425320
Personally, I see "Catcher" to be about a guy who can't appreciate civilisation because most of what it has rendered is "fake." He'd rather live in a cabin in the woods and provide for himself because he sees that as being true living, for lack of a better phrase.

It's not a bad book, and Holden definitely has some valid critiques of society.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:03:47 2011 No.1425335

>>1425326
It's a fine book, I don't see why you have to hate it so much. It's just a regular character, commenting on his life. Sure, he's a little whiney, but it would be so superficial to only see that aspect of Holden; calling him 'whiney'. It just irks me when people remain closed-minded.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:04:47 2011 No.1425336 >>1425326 Its just a character portrait, an insight into one piece of the human condition, an aspect of the human condition that has become more and more important in the post-industrial and post-war world.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:04:47 2011 No.1425337 Stoner by John Williams has one of the saddest break-up[.spoiler] scenes I've ever read.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:05:47 2011 No.1425338 File: 42 KB, 397x600, loudlg.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] OP, this book has a good cry or two.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:05:47 2011 No.1425341 >>1425335 Agreed.

>>	STLFag !IeX.oK0HUk Tue Jan 4 23:05:47 2011 No.1425343 >>1425338 DRIVEL. ABSOLUTE FUCKING DRIVEL.

yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:05:47 2011 No.1425344

>>1425324
also the exhibit nostalgia bit. jesus how can you guys not be touched by that its like 'he didnt die, he didnt move house, he didnt kill someone, etc' as if that means something.

i'd hate to see you guys review oblomov - that russian book

also when Holden's sister gets upset and wants to follow him, he goes crazy, etc. the whole thing was brilliant i need to re-read it.

yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:07:47 2011 No.1425348
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>>1425335
>Sure, he's a little whiney, but it would be so superficial to only see that aspect of Holden; calling him 'whiney'. It just irks me when people remain closed-minded.
Enjoy your stay on /lit/....

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:08:47 2011 No.1425351

Since we are talking about Catcher And The Rye and all, I think I'll just that this.

The whole books, literally, the ENTIRE story, is just this kid going around trying to find somebody who he can talk to without having to pretend to be somebody else.
Anybody who says they don't feel like that every once and awhile is a fucking liar.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:08:47 2011 No.1425354 >>1425334 so he basicly wants to be thoreau?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:09:47 2011 No.1425355 >>1425351 >I'll just point this out Fix'd. Man, I've had some bad typos but that shit is just incomprehensible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:09:47 2011 No.1425356 >>1425348 oh please. tell me what's wrong with that statement.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:10:47 2011 No.1425358 >>1425351 >I think I'll just that this I know you fixed it... but lol

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:10:47 2011 No.1425359 >>1425338 8/10 would be trolled again

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:11:47 2011 No.1425360 >>1425356 you'll see. just about every Catcher thread is me battling people calling him an angstsy piece of shit & that this book belongs in the same category as fight club & other nonsense.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:13:47 2011 No.1425370 >>1425360 well doesnt it?

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:14:47 2011 No.1425374

>>1425334
but unlike a book 'like into the wild', holden couldn't/wouldn't do that. He couldn't even begin to do that because he was a coddled white boy with no *actual* aspirations for anything other than to not be like the white society that coddled him.

it's one thing to have legitimate complaints about a society that you are able to conceptualize and analyze as being negatively constructed. it's another to be a whiny little bitch with no alternatives to offer OR actual critical analysis of any kind.

He reminds me of an upper class version of the thug street kids in the new movie 'harry brown' - with absolutely nothing to give to society whatsoever beyond 'your phonies and you suck and I'm full of impotent teen angst'.

which, if that was the intent, it did very well at conveying. The book felt like an upper class well to do white kid dealing with hormonal impotent teen angst. With no progress. No plot. No conclusion.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:15:47 2011 No.1425376 yeah actually now that i'm kindle master race i might start reading it right now. what do you think /lit/, re-read Catcher or start Franny & Zoey?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:16:47 2011 No.1425384 >>1425376 who cares?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:16:47 2011 No.1425385 lord of the flies and enders game both had kick in the gut endings that left me cresting at tears. manly tears. manly tears bemoaning the death of innocence.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:16:47 2011 No.1425386

>>1425360
That's... not at all what I said. I said that it's easy for people to label him as a whiney, angsty little shit, but that it would be ignorant and completely wrong to remain so closed minded because that is not what Holden is. He's more than that..
reading comprehension durr.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:16:47 2011 No.1425387 anything with the following words in the author line: beck limbaugh palin hannity you get the idea

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:17:47 2011 No.1425388 >>1425376 go to the Catcher thread.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:20:47 2011 No.1425396 I cried at the end of Lolita

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:20:47 2011 No.1425397 >>1425359 >>1425343 >>1425343 Not trolling at all, actually enjoy Foer's work. Why all the hate on /lit/?

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:21:47 2011 No.1425404

>>1425374
You've pretty much hit the nail on the head, but you seem to think that makes the book bad.

Hes a teenager, experiencing the pangs of alienation, the desire not to grow up in a society that doesn't really give any reason to want to grow up.

The resolution is the madness of Holden, he is committed to an asylum. If the book had a plot or progression it wouldn't be able to express the nature of the alienation that exists. And the book isn't endorsing it, its just forcing us to look at it and recognize it, and we need to to.

The post-industrial world is one that alienation amongst the leisure class will exist, if these kids can't grow out of it then we see higher rates of suicide and depression and mental illness.

yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:22:47 2011 No.1425408
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>>1425374
>thereisnoreactionface.jpg
Jezeus Christ. well i'll ignore you're tone or trying a personal attack although it's so tempting.

>but unlike a book 'like into the wild', holden couldn't/wouldn't do that
you're implying you have to live away from society to maintain honesty. what about the other book ITT, isn't Mersault from the stranger the complete opposite of a phoney?

>it's one thing to have legitimate complaints about a society that you are able to conceptualize and analyze as being negatively constructed. it's another to be a whiny little bitch with no alternatives to offer OR actual critical analysis of any kind.
pfft. someone's mad as hell. people need a right to complain about things?

>He reminds me of an upper class version of the thug street kids in the new movie 'harry brown' - with absolutely nothing to give to society whatsoever beyond 'your phonies and you suck and I'm full of impotent teen angst'
you don't think it's allright to be unsure of what you want to do at 16? maybe he would go into working with children or something since he loves them so much :3

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:24:47 2011 No.1425416 >>1425386 >reading comprehension durr the fucking irony. you said it irks you when people read into holden too simply. i said, welcome to /lit/ enjoy your stay because that's all people ever do here. so reading comprehension, you got it motherfucker?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:27:47 2011 No.1425425 File: 19 KB, 200x200, 1278554861482.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425416 whoa hey I thought you meant it as I wouldn't fit into /lit/. Misunderstanding, my bad..

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:28:47 2011 No.1425432 File: 13 KB, 191x234, 1292780152957.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425425 is that because my reputation precedes me, anon-san?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:28:47 2011 No.1425433 >>1425397 /lit/ apparently considers Foer to be pedantic and sensationalist, appealing to emotion and yielding to kitsch and schmaltz. I like him and agree with the selection, though.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:30:47 2011 No.1425441 File: 106 KB, 554x439, 1277832754163.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425432 to be honest, I've never seen you before. But then again, I don't visit /lit/ as often anymore.. It seems to be better tonight though.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:30:47 2011 No.1425443

>>1425404
I'm not saying the book doesn't have it's place in history as a philological step forward in literature. That doesn't make it a good book. Being groundbreaking, describing a state of being that hasn't been describe before, that doesn't make it good. That just makes it novel.

As far as alienation in the leisure class - it would have been more interesting, more accessable, *a better book* in the hands of a different author. In this case, it's more like a bland case study of a mental patient nobody cared, or cares about because he's fucking impossible to care about with how he's presented.

If you have a kid who has everything and complains that everything sucks in front of you, you think "man. your a dick.", you don't emphatically feel for his intensely negative emotional state, unless he has exceptional qualities that make you want to see past it. In the hands of salinger, holden didn't have anything worth caring about.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:32:47 2011 No.1425450 >>1425360 >>1425374 >>1425376 Interesting that the majority of the posts defending Catcher in the Rye exhibit terrible grammar... ALSO, IF I SEE A FUCKING AMPERSAND (&) ONE MORE TIME...

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:33:47 2011 No.1425455 >>1425450 oh let it go. We don't want it to start up again.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:33:47 2011 No.1425460 >>1425450 funny how the posts defending it are made be phonies & hot-headed buffoons. i wouldnt be surprised if one of these guys was the same anon that got heated when defending Ayn Rand, it gives me the impression of that same venom.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:35:47 2011 No.1425467

>>1425443
meant empathize, but 'emphatically feel for' works.

Not that I think the book ever deserved to be burned or get on a ban list, it's just not a good book. There are far better 'teen angst' books out there. I guess as a realistic bland case study of a teen who has nothing to actually complain about going crazy, but in a very mild and uninteresting manner, it's fucking great.

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STLFag !IeX.oK0HUk Tue Jan 4 23:36:47 2011 No.1425475

>>1425397
I despised that book. I haven't read "Everything is Illuminated" yet, so I'm not indicted Foer totally, but I hated that book. The protagonist is just a 9-year-old author insert, the prose is laughable, the bulk of the action ends up being totally extraneous, and both the "twist" (about Oscar's mom's phone calls) and the inevitable resolution both felt hackneyed.

It wasn't awful, and there were a few aspects I actually really liked (Oscar's Grandpa, in particular), but all-in-all, as a reading experience, it was not enjoyable.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:36:47 2011 No.1425476 >>1425443 I disagree I thought it was a nuanced look at the subject and Holden was a well crafted character, who's role as narrator served to give us insight into himself as a profoundly vulnerable human being.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:40:47 2011 No.1425486 >>1425476 qualities, that when applied to a shell, are pointless and bland at best, Infuriating at worst.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:40:47 2011 No.1425488 >>1425467 >TL;DR - Im jealous of his monniez cos i h8 my job in society!!!!!1111

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:44:47 2011 No.1425507

/a/ passing by,
Is it just me, or does Catcher in the Rye the Neon Genesis Evangelion of literature? Having read/watched both and based on this discussion, they seem to garner the same respect but also the sharp divide of opinions.
For those who don't know, NGE touches on the same subject matter following a character not unlike Holden, attracting the same differing views as well.

If you liked Catcher in the Rye, I recommend Neon Genesis Evangelion.
However, Gunbuster is a shorter series (6-episodes) with a very strong ending.

Books, IMO, have a more profound effect, rather than the emotional immersion that film and animation provides.

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:46:47 2011 No.1425516

>>1425486
Okay I'm having trouble trying to figure out what point you're making in that last post.

Nuance and vulnerability are pointless and bland, and what's this about shells.

I liked the book, I thought it was insightful and that Holden was a tragic but identifiable character. Not everybody in the world is capable of empathizing with everyone else, but there are plenty of people who find something Holden to empathize with, even though he's not particularly likable. The triumph of the writing is that he's human, terribly terribly human.

>>	gallowsCalibrator Tue Jan 4 23:47:47 2011 No.1425523 >>1425488 Y0U 4R3 SURPR1S1NGLY 4NGRY T0D4Y D1D Y0UR G4Y L0V3R DUMP Y0U?

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:47:47 2011 No.1425524 >>1425516 he means he can't appreciate Holden because of personal prejudices, see: >>1425488

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:47:47 2011 No.1425526

>>1425408
Mersault felt an intense moment of existentialism, he fucking shot a guy and wondered at the lack of standard emotions attached to it, wondered at the feeling of *existing*.

Holden whined. For an entire book.

>people need a right to complain about things?

No, just back it up with something worth reading. Give some reasons why people suck, give some options, give SOMETHING. not just "you guise are phonies".

>you don't think it's allright to be unsure of what you want to do at 16? maybe he would go into working with children or something since he loves them so much :3

what?

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:48:47 2011 No.1425528 File: 40 KB, 480x640, sadholden.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425523 >implying I've ever had a lover

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:48:47 2011 No.1425530 >>1425523 IT'S LIKE ANOTHER CAPSGUY, BUT, ALMOST BETTER....

yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:50:47 2011 No.1425534

>>1425526
>Mersault felt an intense moment of existentialism, he fucking shot a guy and wondered at the lack of standard emotions attached to it, wondered at the feeling of *existing*
>Holden whined. For an entire book
WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS. DID YOU JUST SHIT THIS OUT YOUR ASS?

my point was that you can live amongst society without being a fucking phony, don't delude yourself otherwise. jeez.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:52:47 2011 No.1425541 >>1425534 not to mention that bullshit is complete crap as well as irrelevant. he felt no wonder at shooting the guy than he didn for anything else. the only time he changes in the book is when he realizes death is inescapable.

>>	gallowsCalibrator Tue Jan 4 23:53:47 2011 No.1425547 >>1425528 S0 Y0U W3R3 D3V4ST4T3D BY Y0UR M4N-CRUSH B31NG D1SGUST3D 4T H0W MUCH 0F 4 B1TCH Y0U 4R3?

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:54:47 2011 No.1425551

>>1425488

not really. I'm happy with my place in life, and I can understand and respect those who have everything and still break down emotionally, psychologically, or spiritually. Human emotion is universal regardless of your place in life, but it helps, as a reader (or someone trying to feel something for him) if there's some merit to the surrounding circumstances of the emotion. In the case of holden he gives you his examples and you go "okay, what you've just said is only partly true. Your not taking into consideration how and why these people are how they are, your just calling them phonies and turning your back and walking away". It's one thing to describe someones emotion, another to get your reader to empathize and feel for the person experiencing them. Salinger gives very little to Holden worth wanting to empathize with, or care about.

Shell was inappropriate, very simple would have been better. It's not that he's empty, just that theres so little complexity presented that it feels like a shell, something thats just presented to you as is without depth, a single sided emotion with little cause and little direction.

>>	yabtxr Tue Jan 4 23:56:47 2011 No.1425561 File: 39 KB, 780x620, 1273077182165.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425547 what's it to you....?

Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:57:47 2011 No.1425563

>>1425541
personally I thought the stranger was boring as fuck, but i felt like I got at least a pittance of intellectual stimulation out of it where with catcher in the rye i felt like I had wasted the entire time for nothing.

feeling empty and experimenting, experiencing the boundaries of that feeling is more interesting than a kid feeling all hormony and not knowing what to do with it, so he calls everyone phonies and rages against the machine by not doing *anything*.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jan 4 23:58:47 2011 No.1425569 >>1425024 Freedom almost made me cry, almost.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:01:47 2011 No.1425579 >>1425563 >personally I thought the stranger was boring as fuck your opinion is worthless to me now.

gallowsCalibrator Wed Jan 5 00:02:47 2011 No.1425581
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>>1425561
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yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:02:47 2011 No.1425583

>>1425563
Holden did more than Mersault, who bases decisions on how awful the weather makes him feel.

i feel you could only relate to the stranger if you can somehow accept death/abandon hope which seems pretty much impossible to do & i smell BS anytime someone posts on here about being an existentialist. whereas holden is so easy to relate to because everyone's so phony so you can empathisize with the pain that brings him.

i really cant see how someone can relate to the stranger but yeah it's more interesting philosophically, but these are mean to be works of fiction really not philosophical texts.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:04:47 2011 No.1425589

>>1425579
"Finding it so much like myself—so like a brother, really—I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."

lines of great power, but with looooong spans of boring in between. Catcher in the rye didn't have anything remotely as powerful as the line above, it just kind of sat at idle and then ended.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:05:47 2011 No.1425593 >>1425589 sorry, I don't see it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:06:47 2011 No.1425596 File: 26 KB, 476x356, 1279589342958.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425351 >Catcher And The Rye

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:06:51 2011 No.1425595 >>1425583 *having an existential-crisis

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:07:47 2011 No.1425602 >>1425583 the entire basis of the sedona method is equivalent to the emotions described above. It is absolutely accessible to anyone willing to let go of an emotion and accept the reality around them, you don't need to accept death.

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:08:47 2011 No.1425604 File: 73 KB, 780x620, 126542463986.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425581

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:11:47 2011 No.1425620 File: 123 KB, 620x558, Screenshot.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425602 >sedona method seems like self-help crap to me.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:14:47 2011 No.1425627 File: 67 KB, 407x405, 1280344580903.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425620 don't be mean.

>>	gallowsCalibrator Wed Jan 5 00:15:47 2011 No.1425629 >>1425604 H3H3H3H3H3H3 D1D 1 H1T 4 N3RV3?

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:15:47 2011 No.1425630 >>1425627 >no wikipedia article disregard.

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:16:47 2011 No.1425631 File: 44 KB, 650x600, 126729143530.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425629

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:20:47 2011 No.1425647 >>1425175 A Farewell to Arms indeed.

>>	gallowsCalibrator Wed Jan 5 00:20:47 2011 No.1425648 >>1425631 WH4T 1S TH4T 3V3N SUPP0S3D T0 C0NV3Y 1 C4NT UND3RST4ND TH1S 4N1M3 CR4P

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:24:47 2011 No.1425667 Christopher Moore - A Dirty Job I laughed so hard, I cried.

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:26:47 2011 No.1425677 >>1425648 >4N1M3 not anime, GTFO you loser.

>>	gallowsCalibrator Wed Jan 5 00:30:47 2011 No.1425688 File: 64 KB, 712x712, e1363bc270b8724b12fe382547a2f7bc[1].jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1425677 STUP1DLY L4RG3 3Y3S V4R10US G3N3R1C 4N1M3 3XPR3SSI0NS C4T 34RS H0W 1S 1T N0T 4N1M3 CRAP? 4N1M3 CR4P P1C R3L4T3D

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:32:47 2011 No.1425695 >>1425688 I THINK BECAUSE IT'S JUST A PICTURE, THAT IS BECOMES MANGA? I DON'T KNOW.

>>	yabtxr Wed Jan 5 00:33:47 2011 No.1425698 >>1425688 add me on msn :) everyone else deleted me & now i have no one ):

Valnir !!+1VQQUThF/7 Wed Jan 5 00:36:47 2011 No.1425712

I cried pretty hard at the end of Flowers for Algernon. Also, call me a fag if you want, but I cried at parts of the last Harry Potter book.

If you want movies, however, I suggest the following:
Requiem for a Dream
The Wrestler
UP
Toy Story 2
Brokeback Mountain (the end gets me so bad everytime)

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:40:47 2011 No.1425723
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>>1425712
>Requiem for a Dream
>The Wrestler
>UP
>Toy Story 2
>Brokeback Mountain (the end gets me so bad everytime)
Really? None of those is remotely 'sad', or truly emotional. Even von Trier's manipulative, melodramatic shitfest Dancer in the Dark would be a better choice.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 00:40:47 2011 No.1425725 File: 21 KB, 240x320, frodo-samwise_yodz_insigne.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] LOTR...when sam thinks he has lost frodo forever after they get out of shelob's lair. that shit got me bad when i was a kid

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:02:47 2011 No.1425795 File: 21 KB, 400x311, 1292890285721.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] GTFO of /lit/ with movies. This is a baw book thread... As much as I dislike Dean Koontz, "Odd Thomas" was really sad.

Valnir !!+1VQQUThF/7 Wed Jan 5 01:06:47 2011 No.1425812

>>1425723

Let me clarify why or what parts make me cry. SPOILERS AHOY

>Requiem for a Dream Mainly it's the story of Sara Goldfarb that gets to me, especially her electric shock treatment at the end, and when her friends come to visit her and they hardly recognize her, causing them to break down in tears outside the hospital. Also the part where Marion and Harry are on the phone at the end. They both know their lives are over, but just her asking "Can you come home now?" and his pitiful response just gets me. That and seeing Tyrone in the fetal in jail.

>The Wrestler I honestly can't for sure why, but just seeing him try so hard to keep a family and his career is just tearjearking to me. And to see him give it all up for one more night with the only constant in his life, the fans.

>UP The whole beginning sequence of him and his wife. 'nuff said.

>Toy Story 2 Jessie's story of how she came to be abandon, and the music that accompany it, are just heartbreaking

>Brokeback Mountain 2 parts in particular for me. Del Mar hearing that Jack died, with flashes to how he knows he really got killed, tears me up. Then, when his daughter leaves, and he goes to the closet, and hanging up is the shirt and postcard of the Mountain, and he reaches up and buttons up the shirt makes me cry so damn hard everytime.

Anyway, just thought I'd clarify my choices. I understand if you don't agree, though.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:07:47 2011 No.1425817 Animorphs 54: The Beginning

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:23:47 2011 No.1425856 The end of The Road, probably because I was half drunk when I finished it. But still, cried like a bitch.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:26:47 2011 No.1425860 >>1425856 "The Road" didn't have an ending. It ended, surely. But like most of McCormac's stinkers, no ending.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:31:47 2011 No.1425876

Dick and Jane. When she falls into the well and he spends 3 days by her side, listening to her grow weak as he too feels the cold grip of death surrounding his world, both as his own mortality approaches and that of his beloved jane, the one thing in his life that means anything to him anymore...

bawled my eyes out.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:33:47 2011 No.1425882 >>1425860 COME DOWN FROM YOUR TOWER, SIR!

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:34:47 2011 No.1425889

>>1425842
>>1425842
>>1425842
A hundred times this. It was a book we read for school, and they made us watch the movie in class, and half the class was crying. So sad.

There have been other books that have made me cry, but I can't remember them now. I think I cried while reading Call of the Wild, but it was so long ago.

UP makes me bawl like a baby. The part where he looks in the book and Ellie left him the message. Oh god.

>>	Valnir !!+1VQQUThF/7 Wed Jan 5 01:37:47 2011 No.1425895 Oh! Dunno how I forgot this one, but Of Mice and Men. Cried like a baby when we watched the movie in class in high school, but I had already cried harder when I read the book at home.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 01:39:41 2011 No.1425903 Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle - Vladimir Nabokov

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Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:05:47 2011 No.1425976

>>1425396
God, yes. Manipulated as emotions for Humbert might be (considering he's literature's great manipulative bastard as written by literature's great manipulative bastard tends to muddle things), there's never been a more beautiful rendering of desolation, rejection, loss, loneliness... anything along those lines, really, in literature. It's not hard to feel sympathy, maybe even a little empathy, for Humbert. Nabokov's greatest triumph.

Anyhow, now that I've gushed about that...

Sydney Carton at the guillotine at the end of A Tale of Two Cities.
Darl's last scene in As I Lay Dying.
Hugo's fate in Dirty Hands (I'm counting it).
All of the 'The Candle in the Wind' segment of The Once and Future King.

>>	CatBox !!nPRV89cpESt Wed Jan 5 02:08:47 2011 No.1425983 The Jungle. The book made me so depressed about how much shit Jargis and his family went through.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:19:44 2011 No.1426000 >>1425976 No, honey. No.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:32:47 2011 No.1426047

No one's said Phantom of the Opera yet?
Les Mis almost got me in the end there but I held firm.
Some of the saddest books I've ever read have been children's books. The Giving Tree, The Velveteen Rabbit, Motherfucking Charlotte's Web, and as anon said above, Where the Red Fern Grows.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:34:47 2011 No.1426055 >>1425812 Brokeback Mountain didn't make me cry, but the ending left me stunned. I still think back on it with some numb shock.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:43:47 2011 No.1426077

The Color Purple, book or movie, makes me cry so hard I can't control my face.
Other books: Song of Soloman, White Oleander, The Road (not the end, one of the conversations between The Man and The Boy)
Other movies: Pan's Labyrinth, Schindler's List, Life Is Beautiful, Rent, almost all Disney movies (they all have death!!!)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 02:45:47 2011 No.1426081 Never Let Me Go. Nearly got to the last page and suddenly I was sucker punched.

>>	OilwhatOil? Wed Jan 5 02:55:47 2011 No.1426105 I solemnly admit that "The Bridge to Tarabithia" made me cry like a little bitch at the end.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:10:47 2011 No.1426139
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This is probably an odd choice, but I don't care.
"He thought, or said, or sang, /I did not know that I was so empty, to be so full./"

"So they fled across the night together, step by step, the tall man in black and the horned white beast. The magician crept as close to the unicorn's light as he dared, for beyond it moved hungry shadows, the shadows of the sounds that the harpy made as she destroyed the little there was to destroy of the Midnight Carnival. But another sound followed them long after these had faded, followed them into morning on a strange road-- the tiny, dry sound of a spider weeping."

Also, I think Molly Grue is an incredibly tragic figure.

>>	LadyLux Wed Jan 5 03:24:47 2011 No.1426172 >>1426105 Agreed. I cried in the movie too. As everybody has said already: Up. I started crying in the first 10 minutes. Also if you haven't seen Dear Frankie yet, watch it. The ending really gets you.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:31:47 2011 No.1426179 >>1426139 Yeah, that book almost got me a few times. It's such a beautifully sad little story, and gets almost no recognition.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:32:47 2011 No.1426182

I cried in 5th grade when I read Tuck Everlasting and Bridge to Terabithia, and I cried when I read Half Blood Prince for the first time. deal with it

Usually books make me sad in a much quieter way. I felt a wistful sadness when I was reading the Satanic Verses, and 100 Years of Solitude. I also feel something similar whenever I finish a book that I've enjoyed. It's as if I were saying goodbye to an old friend.

/pussy

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 03:55:47 2011 No.1426210 I Am Legend, the part about the dog. ;_; Fevre Dream, The Songs of Distant Earth, and the end of Hyperion saga also had emotional endings.

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:19:47 2011 No.1426243

I also cried like a bitch at Bridge to Terabithia as a kid, then again when I reread it a few years ago. Movie too. Damn that book.

Ishiguro seems to be good at making me cry - the end of The Remains of the Day hit me really hard, and Never Let Me Go made my eyes water a bit too.

Also - Atonement. Damn.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:31:47 2011 No.1426259 For Whom The Bell Tolls. And most books where I know this shit has actually happened in the world. WHY

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:51:47 2011 No.1426287 first thing that comes to my mind is ´Cast away´ when Tom Hanks is crying for Wilson, drifting in the middle of the pacific. Oh and the opening of Donnie Darko. dunno why As for books; well "Hearts in Atlantis" got me several times

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:56:47 2011 No.1426289 >>1426243 i only know the Atonement movie loved the dreamy beach scene in Dunekirchen. is there more like this in the book?

Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:56:47 2011 No.1426290

The pictorial section in The Book Thief that he draws for her on the white-washed pages of Mein Kampf.

Only other one was when I had to read out-loud the end of Michael Morpurgo's 'Private Peaceful.' Couldn't even manage to speak. Shit, I don't even like Michael Morpurgo's writing - I think it's pretty formulaic and his characterisation is poor, even for YA. I think it was just the sense of injustice that did it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:57:47 2011 No.1426291 >>1425195 jesus christ. His epiphany about his rose. Every time man. for everyone who hasn't read it yet: http://littleprince.unorganizedthoughts.com/ all online, in english, with pictures, by chapter. you have no excuse. Read it now.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 04:59:47 2011 No.1426293 >>1426139 the part with all the virgins in a town they walk through at night having dreamed about a white unicorn, that shit made my jaw drop. fuck I gotta read this again.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 07:07:47 2011 No.1426343 The Greatest Show on Earth - Richard Dawkins

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 08:22:47 2011 No.1426367 >>1426047 Beat me to it. When Eric's confessing at the end how much he loved Christine and how she kissed him . . . oh god, manly tears.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 10:02:47 2011 No.1426468 The ending of His Dark Materials ;_;

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 10:05:47 2011 No.1426477 File: 24 KB, 280x438, a-fine-balance.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] saddest book ever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 10:08:47 2011 No.1426483 >>1426477 fucking sad.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 10:10:47 2011 No.1426490 book that fucked me up: beneath the wheel. if you don't cry you have no soul.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 12:33:47 2011 No.1426673 During "A Confederacy of Dunces". It was the story of my life and author killed himself...

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 12:41:47 2011 No.1426683 >>1426673 John Kennedy Toole was gay. He'd have a bunch of rent boys hanging around his mother's house while she bitched about him needing a job.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 12:44:47 2011 No.1426689 File: 47 KB, 333x500, 51MP99XNG8L._bL160_.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>1426683 True story. In many ways, Ignatius was Toole.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 12:50:47 2011 No.1426704 >>1426689 That's why I found the book sad. Also, is that book any good? I would like to know more about the life of Kennedy O'Toole.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 12:55:47 2011 No.1426715 >>1426704 It's interesting. Most of the content comes directly from the mouths of Toole's friends and family, so I'd say it's more accurate than most biographies. There are some interesting events in his life--like his stint in the military.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 20:34:47 2011 No.1427943 >>1426287 Donnie Darko made me cry so badly. I can't even think about it without crying. /emo fag

>>	Anonymous Wed Jan 5 21:12:47 2011 No.1428121 The only book that's ever made me cry is the Giving Tree. Shel Silverstein knew what he was doing.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 02:49:47 2011 No.1428906 the movie cinema paradiso makes me cry everytime

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 02:56:47 2011 No.1428917 >>1426179 >>1426293 B'aw, thanks guys.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 02:57:47 2011 No.1428922 >>1425024 The Magus and Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 02:59:47 2011 No.1428923 Infinite Jest, when the whole thing washed over me. I also kind of teared up at the end of Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 03:00:47 2011 No.1428925 The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera. When Karenin died...agh, I'm choking up just thinking about it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 03:21:47 2011 No.1428946 >>1428925 OP of that thread, I lold. also never cried but the last one that got me somewhat choking up was the old man and the sea, fucking sharks, you have no fucking idea what santiago had to endure for that fish, no fucking idea

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 03:24:47 2011 No.1428951 berenstein bears made me cry a lot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jan 6 03:26:47 2011 No.1428956 File: 30 KB, 360x578, stranger-in-a-strange-land2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Got teary eyed when the dude dies at the end.

Anonymous Thu Jan 6 03:35:47 2011 No.1428966

One Day by David Nicholls and Jasper Fforde's Shades of Gray both made me seriously teary eyed at the end.

Goddamnit Em, just when you had it all you had to go. And I'm not even going to bother talking about the ending of Shades of Gray. SO CLOSE YET SO VERY FAR APART FOR FUCKS SAKE.

That is all.

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