/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2544392]

Just finished reading Anna Karenina, brought tears to my eyes. Also cried reading The Time Traveler's Wife.

So /lit/erati, what books make you cry or bring tears to your eyes?

[Anonymous No.2544406]

I don't think a book's ever made me cry. Then again, I haven't cried at all for three years, exactly. I know, because it's the anniversary of my cat's death.

[Anonymous No.2544413]

La Tregua by Mario Benedetti, but I was 16.

[Anonymous No.2544418]

Don Quixote
The ending was unbearably sad.

[Anonymous No.2544433]

Amber Spyglass
and if you'll permit a graphic novel
Y: The Last Man

[Anonymous No.2544443]

Martin the Warrior, Mossflower, the list could go on.

[Anonymous No.2544446]

[Anonymous No.2544478]

Also, Tuesdays with Morrie

[Anonymous No.2544480]

>>2544478
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.2544491]

>>2544443
The Long Patrol :'(

[Anonymous No.2544501]

Don Quixote is the only one.

[Standard Toaster !RQTOASTvfI No.2544508]

The Lord of the Rings

[Anonymous No.2544514]

>>2544501

that phrase was enough to convince me to read it

[Anonymous No.2544517]

To Kill A Mocking Bird.

[Anonymous No.2544526]

The Sorrows of Young Werther

[Anonymous No.2544524]

I never cry from reading, but I'll be damned if The Road didn't make me come close at the end.

>>2544443
>>2544491
mah niggers.

[Anonymous No.2544535]

Flowers for Algernon made me depressed

[Anonymous No.2544539]

I think it's pretty normal that I don't cry at books, b/c I also never cry at films. However, I've also never found a book funny.

Hm....

[Anonymous No.2544540]

>>2544539
I don't cry at books or films either. But music can make me cry and books can make me laugh.

[Anonymous No.2544542]

I cried at the end of The Bell Jar when I realized that it wasn't actually all ok and she ended up killing herself.

[Anonymous No.2544545]

>>2544539
You've never found a book funny? Have you read any Douglas Adams? Some people don't like him but I always thought he was funny as hell.

[Anonymous No.2544546]

>>2544526
I don't understand how people hate catcher in the rye for holden being a bitch.

But the sorrows of young werther is a classic.

The fool is also a bitch, in fact an even bigger bitch than Holden because he shoots himself.

[Anonymous No.2544560]

I cried at slothrop realizing trees were real creatures

[Anonymous No.2544570]

I cried at the end of The Sorrows of Young Werther too.

[Anonymous No.2544576]

Johnny got his gun, This book made me cry the three times i read it.

[Anonymous No.2544581]

Flowers for Algernon. Cried like a baby.

[Anonymous No.2544589]

The Lorax, because there were no more trees or lorax and also it was sad.

[Anonymous No.2544621]

>>2544433
>Amber Spyglass

Aw shit, I remember tearing up a bit at the end. That ending stuck with me for days. For something more recently that made me cry, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

[Anonymous No.2544646]

never let me go

[Anonymous No.2544656]

[Anonymous No.2544662]

The 25th Hour by Virgil Gheorghiu. So much shit happened to the main character and his family, and it hit me in the gut when they asked him to smile in the end. Cried like a bitch.

[Anonymous No.2544668]

The Cone Gatherers.
I teared up a bit near the end of Journey to the End of Night. If you've read it, you'll know the scene. Involves a taxi and a jilted finance.

[Anonymous No.2544760]

My Sister's Keeper also put some tears in my eyes

[Anonymous No.2544777]

>>2544760
Regardless of whether you are a troll or just have extremely poor taste, I will find you and kill you.

[Anonymous No.2544784]

Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? - Lorrie Moore

[Anonymous No.2544789]

>>2544784
(cont.)
When she visited Sils again in her late 20s, I genuinely cried,

[Anonymous No.2544804]

I've cried reading The Color Purple. And watching it twice too. And I've also cried reading The Little Prince when I was a kid and... I think there's more but I can't remember

[Anonymous No.2544820]

There have been several books that's made me cry, but I think the ones that I remember most are:

* The ending to the Lord of the Rings. After everything was said and done, Sam finally going off to the west had been the biggest one.

* So Long, and thanks for all the fish, merely because it was so SATISFYING how it ended.

* Small Gods by Terry Pratchett. the end with Brutha was just perfect.

[Anonymous No.2544988]

narcissus and goldmund. only book that ever affected me like that.

[Anonymous No.2545015]

Flush by Virginia Woolf

[Anonymous No.2545034]

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

There, I said it.

[Anonymous No.2545154]

There's been a lot of books that have made me cried but some I remember are

The Little Prince
The Jungle
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Of Mice and Men
Going Bovine

[Anonymous No.2545293]

>>2545154

>The Little Prince

lol

[Winchester !!mhSCVskju1+ No.2545308]

Flowers for Algernon

[Anonymous No.2545388]

siddhartha by hermann hesse

[Anonymous No.2545392]

>>2545034

[Anonymous No.2545393]

Atlas Shrugged
Makes me cry everytim
:(

[Anonymous No.2545394]

>>2544820

MY MOTHERFUCKING NEGRO COMPANION

"We apologize for the inconvenience."

I've cried over books before and since, but never quite as much.

[Anonymous No.2545554]

This is the only book I can think of that made me cry.

[Anonymous No.2545572]

The History of Love
Dark Tower 4 and 7

[Anonymous No.2545586]

The ending for Peter Pan, I was balling like a baby(this was a couple months ago)

[Anonymous No.2545602]

The Golden Fool by Robin Hobb.
Also Camus' The Plague, for some reason.

[Anonymous No.2545610]

One of the Twilight books I picked up once when I was at a friend's of mine actually made me sob a little. So much beauty and quality in the world, yet people read Twilight. I am not kidding.

[Anonymous No.2545613]

Of Mice and Men. So sue me, I get really sad when likable mentally handicapped folk get abused/taken advantage of.

[Anonymous No.2545618]

Of Mice and Men. I've got a soft spot for the mentally lacking.

[Anonymous No.2545621]

On the Beach.

[Anonymous No.2545645]

Another Country

[Anonymous No.2545700]

>>2545602
the guy who never got to finish the first sentence of his novel makes me really sad.

[Anonymous No.2545739]

Dumbledore's death.

[Anonymous No.2545747]

>>2545700
>>2545602

Yeah, it really struck me how that poor man spent all of his time in perfecting the sentence about the horsewoman. So sad.

I'm pretty sure that was a nod to the absurdity of life and our pursuits.

[Anonymous No.2545758]

>>2545739
Hedwig's death xD. Also when one of the Weasley twins died at the end. Gandalf's 'death' in LOTR.

These are all I can think of.

[Anonymous No.2545765]

Only book that ever got me close was 'Of Mice And Men'.

[Anonymous No.2546531]

>>2545765

that one got me on the verge of tears as well

[Anonymous No.2546915]

>>2545618
>>2545765
Of mice and men
Could have got me but I was reading it in school, reading in a group like that didn't really do it for me

[Anonymous No.2546920]

>>2546915
Yeah, I read it just some months ago, by myself. It really hit me like a fucking sledgehammer.

[Anonymous No.2547237]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wK7GSARUs_Q

Any books have something like this?

[Anonymous No.2547262]

The Little Prince made me cry like a fucking bitch. Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.2547265]

The end of Molloy is pretty heartbreaking.

[Anonymous No.2547267]

Pride of Baghdad.

Oh God. I was at work when I finished reading this book, and I was crying in front of my coworkers and everything. They looked over my shoulder to see what I was reading and started snickering like fuck when they saw it was a graphic novel about lions.

This book was so fucking sad, though. Oh God ;_;

[Anonymous No.2547756]

forgot to mention The Little Prince, probably because I scarcely read novelles

[Anonymous No.2547770]

The Road
The Little Prince
Of Mice and Men
Dark Tower 7
[Spoiler]Katawa Shoujo[/spoiler]

[Anonymous No.2547784]

>>2547770
Hanako is mai waifu.

[Anonymous No.2547790]

This is fucking sad, but The Hunger Games is the only book that's made me cry in years. Possibly ever.

[Anonymous No.2547798]

>>2544392
Childhood's End

[Anonymous No.2547800]

I don't really remember, I think it was some Heinlein novel or possibly Arthur C. Clarke..

Not really baww authors...

[Anonymous No.2547806]

>Of Mice and Men
Gimme a hug you big lugs.

[▒ R E I ▒ !Ry9ZOO5Ag. No.2548009]

>>2547798

I WANTED TO READ "CHILDHOOD'S END" BUT I COULD NOT ENDURE THE AWFUL PROSE AND "GENRE THEMES".

I LIKE THE "TRANSCENDENTAL THEMES" A LA "NEON GENESIS EVANGERION". THAT IS WHY I WANTED TO READ "CHILDHOOD'S END".

WHAT "MBTI TYPE" ARE YOU?

WHAT ARE YOUR "TOP" TWO FAVORITE AUTHORS?

I ASK YOU THAT TO SEE IF I WILL TRY TO READ "CHILDHOOD'S END" AGAIN, OR NOT.

[Anonymous No.2548013]

>>2547798
>dat End of the Earth

[Anonymous No.2548034]

>>2544491 right there with you
Martin the Warrior

[Anonymous No.2548045]

The Stranger, the ending was so dark i had to shed a tear.

[Anonymous No.2548070]

This stupid fucking shit right here. I don't know how old I was, probably late elementary when I read this book. At the end the namesake plot device that was loaded but never shot SINCE THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION goes off because an ember from the fireplace goes into the apparently open flint lock and shoots some kid in the head through the window of the next door house who was putting presents under the Christmas tree that he made himself for his little siblings. Contrivances aside, the author goes on for like a page and a half about the great shit this kid would have done had he not died, including CURE CANCER. Furthermore, he then goes on about how the gun collector can't live with himself for allowing a kid to get shot, and he is the typical Mary Sue hardass football coach that every American male since birth is conditioned to like and respect.

My tender, uncynical, little heart couldn't take it, probably cried for like 15 to 20 minutes. And not just little tears, fucking bawling. Now whenever I think about it I get mad about the amount of bullshit that book was and how easily I was duped by its tricks. I should add this was before I really got into reading and was keen on this sort of thing.

[Anonymous No.2548089]

>The Chaos Walking series. When the dog died. >Cried manly tears for that lovable lab.

[Anonymous No.2548140]

Joe Abercrombie's First Law Trilogy had a few baww moments.

[Anonymous No.2548151]

One night I had a dream that I awoke on a great bare hill, and on top of this hill was a great dead grey tree. I dreamed I went up to the tree and saw leaning against it a shovel. I took up the shovel and began to dig at the soil at the base of the tree. And there I found, buried in the black soil and entangled by the hard knotted roots of the tree, was a tombstone. And carved on this tombstone were the words "OP / DIED A FAGGOT."

[Anonymous No.2548259]

>>2545308
>>2544581

T_T His letters. His fall from Intelligence. The damn mouse.... Flowers For Algernon definitely got me. It hit me deep.

Pride and Prejudice because I'm a twat for happy endings.

[Anonymous No.2548290]

When jon snow died

[Anonymous No.2548419]

Oh shit, I just remembered another one that almost made me cry.

[debiru ✪ cutta !iMAOrZO0y2 No.2548426]

I cried during The Metamorphosis. He only wanted to help his family ;_;
Also I think I cried reading Songs of Innocence and Experience the same day. Maybe I was just feeling extra bitchy that day.