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Has a book ever made you cry? Eyes watering doesn't count.

>> No.3608461
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A film, book, or song has never made me cry as far as I can remember, though god knows I've had my fair share of tears.

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>>3608461
Same here. Never cried from media.

But then again like most people on 4chan, I'm 3hardcore4emotions.

>> No.3608502

Ayn Rand's Anthem was so bad, I cried for years

>> No.3608503

Atonement by McEwan, The Dead by Joyce, Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon.

>> No.3608538

>>3608457
I have cried from song, film, and even one comic book/graphic novel/whatever the kids call them these days. But oddly enough, I can't recall a book making me cry. I feel that one has, but I can't quite remember.

>> No.3608545

>>3608457
Romain Gary - La Promesse de l'aube
Proust
Camus

>> No.3608551

Stoner by John Williams

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Made me cry like a bitch, the end was just 2sad4me.

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flowers for algernon

manly tears were shed

>> No.3608609

Where the Red Fern Grows and The Paul Street Boys
when I was a kid

>> No.3608619

>>3608457
Not sure if this counts but when I realized that the bible wasn't true I cried.

>> No.3608623

Sometimes awful books have made me cry, sometimes great ones. It depends on my level of empathy, largely influenced by events of the day in my everyday life.

Anything offering me the inevitability of the human demise in literary form are bound to get me going though. Nothing hurts more than the ultimate truths.

>> No.3608625

>>3608619
There's plenty of truth in The Bible. If you're only looking for literal/historical truths then you're not reading it right.

>> No.3608652

>>3608551
Same.
That and The Catcher in The Rye.

>> No.3608662

>>3608457
lennyyyyyy

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Solaris made me cry like a little bitch. It had a lot to do with how I felt then, my girlfriend of three years broke up with me, and I was coping with the fact that I will never touch her and hold her again. The descriptions of Kris being haunted by the manifestation of his dead wife's memories just broke me.

>> No.3608683

Another McEwan - if you don't cry on the final page of 'On Chesil Beach' then there's something wrong with you.

>> No.3608684

>>3608457
It happens to me often, but it must be a very good book. "''salmem's Lot"; "Under The Dome": these two are just few books that gave me feels, great feels.

>> No.3608695

Stoner.

>> No.3608697

>>3608551
>>3608695
whoops someone beat me to it.

But yeah Stoner

>> No.3608713

Don Quixote.