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>mfw my teacher can read poetry/prose to the class and start crying.

I'm sort of jealous.

What writer makes you cry, /lit/?

>> No.2255087

Richard Adams. He's done it like three times.

>> No.2255088

The only book to make me cry was Don Quixote.

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>What writer makes you cry, /lit/?

Stephenie Meyer

>> No.2255092

My teach in 10th grade burst into tears at the end of Of Mice and Men. I nearly cried to. I guess I'm a pussy since Steinbeck makes me cry.

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Man, Phillip K. Dick came pretty close at the end of this book.

>Dat dream sequence/ gas station scene.

Fuck.

>> No.2255103

Dorothy Allison's Bastard out of Carolina made me cry and cry and cry

>> No.2255109

Tao Lin. He's so brilliant that you can't help but cry.

>> No.2255110

>>2255102
Really? I don't remember that book being even remotely sad.

>> No.2255115

I cry while reading books all the time.

Most recently, I can remember crying during one of the stories in Oriental Tales by Marguerite Duras, Primeval and Other Times by Olga Tokarczuk, and A Winter Book: Stories by Tove Jansson.

Haven't yet cried while reading a poem, but I'm sure it'll happen.

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Peter Kropotkin's funeral in both Living My Life and My Two Years in Russia.

>> No.2255120

>>2255110
I think it has a lot to do with where you're coming from. For example:

>>2255092

i was happy about what happened to lennie.

>> No.2255121

>>2255109
implying people who aren't underage read this guy or know who he is. he isn't good just because your internet friends like depressed faggots.

>> No.2255139

>>2255120
I know you're joking, but the guy had the reasoning skills of a five year old. He hurt anything he touched. He killed everything he loved. And his best friend had to kill him. If that doesn't make you feel bad, you have no emotion.

>> No.2255165

>>2255139
Or i just have differing opinions on shit.

>> No.2255167

>>2255165
In which you have no emotion.

>> No.2255168

Flowers for Algernon.

>> No.2255172

>>2255167
Me being happy that Lennie was put down is an emotional response, actually.

>> No.2255177

>>2255172
I explained how it was sad.
Now explain to me how it was happy for you.
It's an entry-level book for high-school students. It won't be that hard.

>> No.2255180

Never cried with a book or with a film or so, although music is a completely different thing. I've cried with some of my writings (because that shit is personal). I'd like to read a book that makes me cry, pretty sure Rayuela by Julio Cortazar might just start one tear or two, but don't know (again, more personal shit involved here). One that was close was Crime and Punishment, that part where Dunia shoots Svidrigaïlov for some reason had an effect on me, my guess is even more personal shit involved than the actual book. It sucks to be an insensible piece of shit.

>> No.2255185

I am a very petty person. I think about vengeance for like, years and years after the most minor slight.

Can lit recommend books with petty characters? Those can make me cry.

>> No.2255200

>>2255177
The story wasn't intrinsically happy, George's decision made me happy. It was the most logical decision to make regarding a friend who happened to kill so much shit by accident.

I am not sure what you want. Shall i rewire my brain and read it again? Like i said, we impart our personalities in the text. I felt sad at the end of Flow My Tears, you felt sad at the end of Mice and Men. That's all.

>> No.2255204

>>2255200
>implying George's decision was rational

>> No.2255205

>>2255200
>>2255200
Thank you for the answer. I understand your view of it. I didn't debate George killing him, by most standards, it was necessary. But it was stall sad

>> No.2255211

>>2255204

a george divided against itself cannot stand

>> No.2255228

>>2255118
Mantears.jpg

>> No.2255232

Night by Elie Wiesel. The saddest part is it actually happened to the poor guy

>> No.2255235

>>2255228
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdU_0my-fA0
A patriot against patriotism. ;_:

>> No.2255253

I cried when I finished Lolita. Weird, I know.

>> No.2255287

>>2255253
I was moved by the end of Lolita as well.

>> No.2255302

I remember reading some fitness book about a year ago, the writer talks about weightlifting with his uncle at the end and how he said he was proud of him, I was crying like a fucking baby by the time I finished it.

God damn.

>> No.2255306

In the Middle of the Road by Carlos Andrade

Dunno why exactly.

Also my own poetry.

>> No.2255307

>>2255232
I DIDN'T BELIEVE THE BULLSHIT MUSIC SCENE.

>> No.2255311

ALTHOUGH, THERE WAS TIMES IN WAR AND PEACE THAT I WAS MOVED.