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Be honest: has a piece of literature ever made you cry?
Note: Here, crying covers anywhere from one manly tear to sobbing your heart out.

Pic related. The New Colossus. Only literature that has ever made me cry.
One the cry scale, 1 being nothing, 10 being sobbing heart out, it's a solid 5. Couple of tears with enough power to go down my cheeks.

>> No.1746459

I know there hav been a few but all I can remember are Les Miserables, Hearts in Atlantis (when I was 12), and The Painted Bird (also 12).

I might have cried during the Brothers Karamazov, but I can't remember what part.

>> No.1746475

itaots

>> No.1746485

I cried when the cat in the hat came back.

>> No.1746509

The execution scene of (spoiler) Sydney Cartnor as well as Pip's mothers final words. Who knows, Dickens just gets me..

>> No.1748043

bump

>> No.1748050

The bit where the count repays that old guys favour back (can't remember his name). I shed a good few tears then.

Count of monte cristo

>> No.1748203

Yeats, many times.

>> No.1748219

Of Mice and Men when the dog died

>> No.1748416

Death of a Salesman; when Biff tells Willy that he loves him and Willy says "Look Linda, he likes me! He really likes me!"

oh god it's just so sad

>> No.1748422

Around the end of fahrenheit 451

>> No.1748424

Flowers for Algernon. When Charlie gets stupid to forget that he was ever smart

>> No.1748433

>>1748424

:'(

When he picks up Paradise Lost and tries to read it but cannot...so fucking sad.

>> No.1748439

>>1748433
oh god I forgot about that part

>> No.1748485
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1748485

Surely. First time was probably at 13, when Artemis Fowl when he comes back from the Moscow/Siberia mission and his mom is all better. He went from mastermind evil kid to regular kid so fast, I really felt for him.

Can't really remember the last time I cried at a book though. Latest I remember were a couple of bitch tears at Dresden's short monologue when he's creating Elaine's image in his mind to track her down in book 8-11ish, about how pain is a part of life and we learn to live with it as we grow older, and when he had to kill Susan/was shot in Changes, but ever since I went from fantasy to Victorian Literature (right now trying to go through Jane Austen) I haven't really cried at anything.

And in b4 >Implying Fantasy is a genre worthy of any reasoning or investment. If I like it, I don't care where it comes from.

>> No.1748499

>>1748424

This gets my vote. He's such a nice guy. I managed to hold back tears till near the very end when he's completely reverted and inevitably going to die.

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>>1748424

>> No.1748506

I cry reading all the time. Too many books to count or even mention. I cried at the end of Ender's Game for fuck sake.

But I am a pretty feminine guy.

>> No.1748513

joyce. fucking everything by joyce

>> No.1748529

>>1748424
Oh man, why did you remind me of this book?
I have never had such a terrible case of "feels bad man" after finishing a book. Then we had to watch the movie for our class, which was just as depressing.

>> No.1748536

Where the Red Fern Grows when I was young

>> No.1748537

>>1748529

I just browsed over the movie on youtube, the ending at least (and the scenes I saw) are much too modified for my liking. It doesn't have the same smooth climax and decline as the book does.

>> No.1748543

The Heart of the Matter.

>> No.1748572

>>1748513
Joyce has gotten me a few times, too. The Dead, especially. I read that one about eight times, and it hits me with that sad, wistful feeling every time.

>> No.1748575

Of Mice and Men
A Garden of Earthly Delights
The Beginning and the End and other poems by Robinson Jeffers
Song of Myself by Whitman
The Dispossessed When the protesting crowd gets fired on by the helicopters and then Shevek holds the wounded man until he dies brought some tears to my eyes.
Narcissus and Goldmund and The Glass Bead Game.
Journey to the End of the Night

I'm a big pussy when it comes to truly sad stories as well as things which strike me as beautiful in their hope, but I accept it.

>> No.1748630

No.

>> No.1748864

The Amateur Marriage by Anne Tyler
DAT ENDING HAD ME SOBBING ON AND OFF FOR DAYS

>> No.1748877

Atonement.

That soul crushing ending, Christ.

>> No.1748885

>>1748877
Me again, just saying that the part that hit me hardest was when her relatives performed her first play. I bawled like a little girl.

>> No.1748970

THeir eyes were watching god--as a forever alone this hit me hard

"Ah know it.And now you got tuh die tuh find out dat you got tuh pacify somebody besides yo'self if you wants and love and sympathy in dis world. You aint tried tuh pacify nobody but yo'self. To busy listen to your own big voice."
deep man

>> No.1748979

>>1748877
What was so soul-crushing? The dementia? Her 'sin' will fade from her...

>> No.1749029

"The Stand" (e/lit/ists cringe at this) when the slow guy was trying to get the medicine to save his friend and his dead buddy came back as a ghost to help him. Idk it was just really touching. lol

>> No.1749055

1984 at the end when winston has a decent memory of his mother and sister and then brushes it off as a thought crime is the saddest thing I have ever read ever!

Also the end of LOTR, Robert Frost's Birches (i grew up in the country on a farm), Of Mice and Men ending, and i cant think of more right now.

>> No.1749143

Angela's Ashes.

You never get a break from that soul crushing depression pervading throughout the entire thing.

>> No.1749157

This Side of Paradise and then maybe also some book about that whole big Cambodian fuss.
BUT DON'T TELL ANYONE OK?

>> No.1749181

>>1748979
Just look at my other post, and also when she's being driven through the grounds and doesn't even get to stay in her old room.

>> No.1749185

“No, Lennie. Look down there acrost the river, like you can almost see the place.”

[at least one manly tear]

>> No.1749199

>>1746438
Why does that make you cry, OP? Something about the death of ideals, or their failure to match up to reality?

>> No.1749344

I cried when Westley died in Princess Bride. I am an 18 year old male. I read it a few months ago in mostly one sitting.

>> No.1749350

A Day No Pigs Would Die

when he finds the piece of paper his dad was practicing his name on

>> No.1749368

>>1749055
yes, still

>>1748424
I also tear up at the end of LOTR, although now it may just be memories of the first time(s) I read it

The last line of Space Viking gets me every time. My kids, too

>> No.1749370

Black Elk Speaks was the last and maybe only book I've read that made me cry.

>> No.1749377

The end of Titus Alone (Gormenghast trilogy). Hard to say exactly why, but I find it crazy powerful.

>> No.1749414

One more - 'When the Legends Die'

>> No.1749465

>mfw I've read many a book and never even felt the desire to cry.....

or is this an all women's thread??