/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.9837379]

itt: books that made you cry

[Anonymous No.9837392]

where the red fern grows

[Anonymous No.9837400]

[Anonymous No.9837405]

>>9837379
Gibbs is such a sad character

[Anonymous No.9837409]

None. I'm a grown man.

[Anonymous No.9837416]

>>9837409
>being dead inside is healthy
good goy

[Anonymous No.9837422]

>>9837409
>not grown enough to realize that letting it out is fucking amazing
Damn kid, grow up.

[Anonymous No.9837440]

I can't empathize with any character of any story

[Anonymous No.9837476]

hit too close to home 2bh

[Anonymous No.9837491]

read a short story "Better than Home" by Joe Hill earlier and almost cried. It's mostly about an autistic kid bonding with his Dad.

[Anonymous No.9837493]

Bend Sinister had me emotional

[Anonymous No.9837501]

>>9837379
i can't cry. like i can feel extremely sad and i can feel tears but i can't ever get them out. help?

[Anonymous No.9837503]

>>9837379
I'm ashamed to say that I teared up in Crito and Phaedo a tiny bit.

[Anonymous No.9837508]

>>9837379
2666. The dead little gril. All the dead women left me unmoved.

[Anonymous No.9837511]

>>9837501
Are you new to reading? (Not being judgemental, anon, simply curious) If you haven't read Dostoevsky yet, I recommend Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. You might just tear up a little bit. I thought I was made of stone but he changed that for me.

[Anonymous No.9837518]

>>9837511
i'm not but stoner and no longer human was the closest i came to crying. the last time i cried was when i heard the end of mahler's symphony no. 2, and that was like a single tear. i'm genuinely curious how i can cry again. i think it's because i'm ashamed of how much i cried as a kid (would cry at anything going wrong, including making b's instead of an a on a test).

[Anonymous No.9837535]

>>9837518
It's very seldom that I tear up too. I just remember that when I read those books it happened. The last time I teared up was when I watched the movie "The Twilight Samurai", that's a fucking tear jerker. I wasn't sobbing or anything, but I felt my eyes water...Looking up mahler's symphony no. 2.

[Anonymous No.9837542]

>>9837535
mahler is fantastic i like him a lot more than wagner, don't let /pol/ tell you he's not good because he's jewish

[Anonymous No.9837545]

>>9837379
Don Quixote, more than any work of media.

[Anonymous No.9837556]

>>9837379
>It's a kid's book
Pic related fucked me up back when I read it in 4th grade.

[Anonymous No.9837567]

>>9837503
Patrician as fuck

[Anonymous No.9837568]

les mis

[Anonymous No.9837575]

>>9837567
Why thank you, anon. I don't feel quite so bad now.

[Anonymous No.9837583]

>>9837379
My diary

[Anonymous No.9837633]

rent

[Anonymous No.9837676]

>>9837583
>tfw didn't keep a diary during my formative years to look back on as a young adult

i had about 1,000 times more feels back then. i feel like a fucking zombie and i want to leech on my past experiences. i feel so hollow it's insane.

[Anonymous No.9837697]

Accounts of the girl in physical therapy and the parents / wife of the guy who died were absolutely devastating. Never really cried at fiction, but I guess because this was an actual person it got to me more. Also Murakami's descriptions were really sad.

[Anonymous No.9837698]

This desu

[Anonymous No.9837706]

>>9837379
Mason & Dixon

[Anonymous No.9837733]

Plenty. Too many to list.

The worst offenders though I think were Lolita, The Magic Mountain, The Waves, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an Anne Frank biography, Stoner,...

[Anonymous No.9837735]

rings of saturn - w g sebald

[Anonymous No.9837743]

>>9837409
This. I can cry to film, because film can be emotionally investing. Literature, on the other hand, is purely intellectually investing, and such higher plane of thought and emotion (if any) doesn't allow for "crying" from a biological perspective.

[Anonymous No.9837750]

>>9837743
>Literature, on the other hand, is purely intellectually investing
Ah, so you're new to reading.

[Anonymous No.9837767]

The end of Lolita. Recently Kokoro had me misty.

[Anonymous No.9837774]

>>9837750
Define "new". If you mean I don't read regularly over all else, than you're right.

[Anonymous No.9837780]

>>9837774
I was just mocking you because your statement is a bit silly. Literature can obviously be "emotionally investing," as can literally anything.

[Anonymous No.9837800]

>>9837697
So you cry at nonfiction?

[Anonymous No.9837803]

>>9837780
No, reading is an intellectual feat, as opposed to, say, watching moving images on a screen and inherently responding to them - this is proven by science in many studies in terms of brain involvement and energy expenditure while reading. Obviously you can respond inherently, i.e. emotionally, to interpreted text, but the activity of reading itself is not purely emotional, but closer to something like doing math; reading is learnt, while seeing and feeling is inherent and doesn't have to be taught. It seems you take reading for granted - something few, if any, species can do.

[Anonymous No.9837812]

>>9837493
One of the only Nabokov's I haven't read, I'll bump it up the list

[Anonymous No.9837838]

>>9837676
I wish i had been able to keep some sort of diary since age 5 so i could describe past events of my life to my therapist in a more accurate way. In that way i could be more sure of whether it was my upbringing what caused to me having a shitty adult life.

[Anonymous No.9837848]

I choked up when I finished the book the first time.

[Anonymous No.9837881]

I don't remember if it was crying exactly, but it was some strong feeling when they were talking how Richard has changed to better. Twice.

[Anonymous No.9837920]

I cried when Phoebe was raped

[Anonymous No.9838048]

>>9837476
u uggo

[Anonymous No.9838052]

>>9837881
I definitely shed a tear during Rezia and Septimus' last scene

[Anonymous No.9838228]

I didn't cry while reading it, but about 15 minutes after finishing it I just broke down and wept. I saw so much of Stevens in myself.

[Anonymous No.9838260]

>>9837920

will someone explain this fucking bugs bunny meme to me

[Anonymous No.9838299]

>>9837542

neither were very good from a technical perspective, but Wagner was probably the more original of the two. In fact, not probably, he absolutely was. Mahler is good if you want a nice teatime sniffle I guess

[Anonymous No.9838308]

>>9837920
Bugs...easy on the tears.

[Anonymous No.9838315]

The Crossing (McCarthy)

[Anonymous No.9838354]

>>9837503
Phaedo had me crying like a baby. Didn't help that I basically read it last out of the dialogues.

[Anonymous No.9838525]

>>9837803
Where non fiction is read to be understood, fiction is, first and foremost, read to be experienced.

[Anonymous No.9838569]

>>9837409
> t. edgy teenager

[Anonymous No.9838582]

>>9837803
>Obviously you can respond inherently, i.e. emotionally, to interpreted text, but the activity of reading itself is not purely emotional
What the fuck do you think this thread is about?
No one asked you if the pure act of reading without interpreting the text has ever made you cry.

[Anonymous No.9838611]

This and the rest of the tetralogy hit real hard.

[Anonymous No.9838631]

Of Mice and Men was the only book that made me really cry.

[Anonymous No.9838634]

>>9838582
amen.

[Anonymous No.9838655]

>>9837743
youre a fucking pseud

[Anonymous No.9838679]

>>9838228
I don't think Stevens did anything wrong, as a servant he is the best a man can ever get in his life. He doesn't seem to mind the fact that he never lived himself either.

[Anonymous No.9838695]

>>9837803
really wanted to reply seriously, go read a book tho, you sound silly. pseud

[Anonymous No.9838698]

>>9838631
not my only, but yes me too brother.. THE ENDING, JUST LIKE THE DOG, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, i was tearing up in anticipation when i realized the recurring themes. that shit got me too on stoner, the recurring themes fucking depressed me, read stoner if you haven't.

[Anonymous No.9838738]

>>9838260
It's a forced meme. Someone posted pic related a while ago and it's been so, since.

[Anonymous No.9838780]

Shed a tear after reading the scene with the kids at the end of Brothers K.

[Anonymous No.9838790]

ive yet to read a book where i can honestly feel for a character. every book i read, i always have it in my mind that this is just a story made up by someone.

although im sure if i read the grave of the fireflies book, i would cry just from the dedication at the beginning of the book. but i havent read that

[Anonymous No.9838792]

meme but the letters from Avril to Orin in Infinite Jest made me cry

[Anonymous No.9838812]

Dying and sometimes abused and/or overworked horses in 19th century and early 20th century lit. Many such cases.

[Anonymous No.9838823]

Brothers Karamazov ending.

Last part of Anna Karenina.

The scene in Crime and punishment where a horse is being beat to death.

Letter from Victor's mother in Life and Fate.

A couple of chapter scenes/fragments of Infinite Jest, particularly the "And re Ennet House etc." bit about depression and that guy who builds model trains.

[Anonymous No.9838943]

I'm not a faggot so I don't cry at books.

[Anonymous No.9839182]

>>9838738
Please give an example of meme which is not forced.

[Anonymous No.9839212]

>>9839182

[Anonymous No.9839230]

>>9839212
Dubs was one of the most forced memes, it got so bad that literally who had to hide the post numbers on /v/ and /b/ before permanently settling to make dubs and trips all but impossible on those boards.

[Anonymous No.9839253]

>>9838679
>He doesn't seem to mind the fact that he never lived himself either.

Did you not read the last 15 pages or so of the book?

[Anonymous No.9839265]

>>9839230
you cant Force digits tho....

[Anonymous No.9839272]

>>9839265
There's scripts and they used to be pretty fucking common, it was cancer.

[Anonymous No.9839278]

>>9837409
>I've been masturbating to porn for so long that I don't feel anything any more xD

[Anonymous No.9839328]

Don Quixote when Sancho says his final words to a dying Don Quixote in the hopes that they can have more adventures together.

Left me genuinely upset for hours afterwards.

[Anonymous No.9839348]

>>9838611
I've only read Spring Snow, but been meaning to pick this one up.

Spring Snow is one of my favorite novels. The ending was beautiful.

[Anonymous No.9839360]

>>9837743
read zinky boys, m8

[Anonymous No.9839428]

>>9837503
Apology had the same effect for me.

[Anonymous No.9839443]

Mainly the first book and the last one. Also, wake up sir, which was a really enjoyable read

[Anonymous No.9839540]

>>9837556
>this story deserves four stars
Lmao

[Anonymous No.9839554]

The unbearable lightness of being when I was a crybaby who had got rejected by a girl whom I thought I loved.

[Anonymous No.9840257]

>>9837501
Take up a testicular cancer ward. Have an open chat with patients there. Let it all out. They don't even need to know your real name or the fact that you still have both your nuts on.

[Anonymous No.9840947]

>>9840257
Tyler Durden pls

[Anonymous No.9841013]

>>9837556

Broke my heart as well. I think I read it in third grade. Maybe second.
Joke not intended, but funny enough not to cut out.

[Anonymous No.9841378]

>>9837409
>All those replies
Just goes to show you how much BPA is being pumped into people

[Anonymous No.9842092]

>>9837838
You don't need a diary in order to do that, just be willing to open up and talk, talk, it'll come by itself.

[Anonymous No.9842231]

>>9837838
Psychoanalysis is a meme stop trying to find excuses for yourself.

[Anonymous No.9842243]

Any books that made you cry while smiling ?

[Anonymous No.9842418]

>>9837698
Same bro

[Anonymous No.9842461]

[Anonymous No.9842470]

>>9837379

[Anonymous No.9842472]

Suttree made my eyes water a few times. Mostly just the parts when he walks around the city or country by himself and sees something so startlingly lifelike.

[Anonymous No.9842492]

>>9837379
>To W.S.

[Anonymous No.9842509]

>>9837920
foreverially tied up bugs bunny with a ham and cheese tongue

[Anonymous No.9842651]

>>9837503
Same for Phaedo

>"Call on me as your Iolaus, as long as the daylight lasts."

[Anonymous No.9842677]

>>9837379
>feeling sadness AKA the emotional jew
no thanks I'm redpilled. and so long as there is hope for the white race I shall not shed a tear

[Anonymous No.9843026]

Infinite Jest.
Scene where Marathe meets his wife for the first time, him saving her and her backstory.

[Anonymous No.9843122]

>>9838738
Really makes you think what is it that gives life to a meme? Why that particular trite, almost (but not fully) nonsensical remark? I've seen hundreds probably such stupid posts left without reply, forever forgotten.

[Anonymous No.9843150]

>>9837379
Some of the classical tragedies have made me weep, and I still have a few to read. The scene at the end of Oedipus Rex where he says his farewell to his girls always comes to mind, but several others too. For so long of my pleb life I equated classics with boring that I wasn't prepared to feel the well trodden dirt of my convictions be swept from under my feet. They truly are intense, aren't they?

[Anonymous No.9843250]

>>9837379

I lost it during Roithamer's final monologue

"We can't always exist at the highest pitch of intensity, so we slow down..."
"We always go too far, so as not to fall short," etc.

[Anonymous No.9843261]

>>9843026
that book looks cool

[Anonymous No.9843273]

>>9837379
The Holy Bible

[Anonymous No.9843306]

>>9837379

[Anonymous No.9843316]

[Anonymous No.9843358]

[Anonymous No.9844091]

>>9837379
>Crying at the melancholy
OP you're a massive retard.

[Anonymous No.9845000]

the road
a scanner darkly

[Anonymous No.9845069]

>>9837405
Is Gibbs the one that's a stand-in for Gaddis himself?

[Anonymous No.9845825]

>>9837379
My diary desu

[Anonymous No.9845901]

Most recently this, but only the line
"Hey, Boo"

[Anonymous No.9846015]

>>9843026
What can you say about this translation, amigo?

[Anonymous No.9846150]

>>9846015
Wallace wouldn't have approved of it

[Anonymous No.9846259]

>>9837379
This.

[Anonymous No.9847286]

>>9837881
Semptimus and his wife tho

[Anonymous No.9847288]

>>9838315
I just didn't "get" All the Pretty Horses, so I'll probably never read the other two.

Why did you like it?

[Anonymous No.9847291]

>>9840947
Kek

[Anonymous No.9847293]

>>9842461
Hemmmingway is too bland for me to feel. Am I reading it wrong?

[Anonymous No.9847301]

>>9842243
>Any books that made you cry while smiling ?

The Giving Tree

[Anonymous No.9847340]

>>9847301
that book is bullshit

[Anonymous No.9847360]

>>9847293
yep, you're being too contrarian

[Anonymous No.9847372]

>>9847360
Fair enough.

[Anonymous No.9847392]

>>9837379
The outsiders
Freak the mighty

[Anonymous No.9847770]

>>9847340
>that book is bullshit

Wait, trees don't talk?

[Anonymous No.9848096]

Is it normal to cry over a book or really any piece of media? I don't think I'm capable of such a thing. I would understand if you're profoundly religious and deeply moved by the Bible, but otherwise it seems to me feminine and indulgent

[Anonymous No.9849053]

>>9848096

[Anonymous No.9849193]

i don't cry

[Anonymous No.9849283]

>>9837379
I'm firmly planted in reality so fiction doesn't make me cry but the end of this was as emotionally moving as it gets.

[Anonymous No.9849312]

>>9849283
psued

[Anonymous No.9849352]

>>9837379
I've only cried to The Elementary Particles and The Brothers Karamazov. I read a Houellebecq interview where he said he cried to The Brothers Karamazov also and that feeling was one of his motivations for writing.

[Anonymous No.9849357]

Some similarity to Skylark

[Anonymous No.9849368]

[Anonymous No.9849445]

Was Stoner even that sad?

Sure his life in general was pretty bad but there was obviously moments he enjoyed and he accepts he wasn't a failure in the end.

[Anonymous No.9850189]

>>9837379
pfffffft why would you cry about some dude weed lmao book?

[Anonymous No.9850671]

>>9849445
Well, he sacrificed so much for his daughter and she turns out to not have benefited much, in the long run. His wife was pretty needlessly vicious. His career was compromised by the Dept. head's pettiness (though him avenging himself was gratifying). And the one time he had real love, it was taken away, and he pretty much accepted that there would be no happiness for him--or for her. And then he declines into helpless illness and dies. The side story of the parents is pitiful. The loss of the most vivid of the three friends in WW1 was poignant. It was, all in all, a somber depiction of a life and the surrounding lives.

It didn't make me cry, but it put me in a heavy mood that really stuck around.

[Anonymous No.9850707]

>>9837422
>>9837416
t. fucking pussies.
>>9841378
This.

[Anonymous No.9850869]

"No Longer Human" almost made me cry because it hit very close to home for me.
"American Psycho" almost me me fucking vomit and I've been on this shithole Cantonese Photoplay message board for years.

[Anonymous No.9850879]

>>9837379
that description of the dad's alzheimer's JUST feels my shit up

[Anonymous No.9850883]

>>9841378
refusing receipts has become another great way for me to spill my spaghetti

[Anonymous No.9850884]

>>9837881
To The Lighthouse did it for me desu

[Anonymous No.9851018]

>>9850707
Jesus wept, faggot.

[Anonymous No.9851037]

I related to the character, so the tragic ending got me going.

[Anonymous No.9851044]

>>9851037
>forgot pic
This is an example of how I'm similar to the main character

[Anonymous No.9851095]

>>9842470
>Flowers for Algernon
You are not alone, and neither, it seems, am I.

[Anonymous No.9851168]

Chapter 9 of David Copperfield by Charles Dickens. Jesus Christ. Maybe I'm just a wuss.

>>9838611
>>9839348
OOO MISHIMA. Everything by him. His plays especially.

[Anonymous No.9851219]

>>9842470
This book really helped me come to terms with my retardation and I cried to it a lot as well.

[Anonymous No.9851230]

>>9850869
just started no longer human, sounds somewhat like a familiar situation with my own

[Anonymous No.9851235]

of pain:
Absalom, Absalom!
Beloved
Augustus

of sympathy:
Mason & Dixon
Mrs. Dalloway

of joy:
Stoner, when he sees WS
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, when he sees bird-girl in the river

[Anonymous No.9851255]

>>9851037
>>9851044
you on the left

[Anonymous No.9851306]

>>9838823
>brothers karamazov ending
i just finished it, not more than three hours ago. bawling my eyes out to alyosha's speech to the boys as i desperately searched for one such pure, childhood memory for salvation's sake.

>>9837545
and now i started this, to laugh and feel more upright. it had me laughing from the first page; why is this also sad?

[Anonymous No.9851316]

>>9837379
My lords please use "moved to tears" in the future. Books do not make we lords cry

[Anonymous No.9851349]

>>9850879
I just got this in the mail today, how is it?

[Anonymous No.9851380]

>>9851168
Is that when his mom dies?

[Anonymous No.9852218]

>>9837400
lolol

[Anonymous No.9852236]

multiple times

[Anonymous No.9852348]

>>9851349
breddy gud nothin 2 speciul. a little like America Pastoral

[Anonymous No.9852719]

>>9837848

The memory of crying while finishing the last couple pages will live with me forever.

[Anonymous No.9853166]

>>9851255
Me on the right

[Anonymous No.9853190]

[Anonymous No.9854509]

>>9851255
me on the middle

[Anonymous No.9854536]

I finished The Brothers Karamazov 10 minutes ago. I almost cried, indeed I teared up, but I recovered pretty well. A great book.

[Anonymous No.9854539]

>>9837379
Good book

[Anonymous No.9854698]

>>9837476
That is the only book that ever made me cry

[Anonymous No.9854768]

when i made this thread, noone responded

[Anonymous No.9854784]

>>9851219
lol'd

[Anonymous No.9854792]

>>9854768
that's cuz no one likes you
you dumbnuts

[Anonymous No.9854844]

Return of the King

[Anonymous No.9855191]

>>9839328
Dox Quixote is a shit book along with El Alquimista

[Anonymous No.9855195]

This...

When Prabaker dies, and he is talking about when his son was born afterwards

[Anonymous No.9855202]

[Anonymous No.9855618]

>>9849352
can i ask where Karamazov made you cry?

I only finished reading it in the past month, and I saw it more as a comedy but I'm still forming opinions of it

[Anonymous No.9855642]

One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest desu

[ec No.9855662]

>>9837379

A House for Mr Biswas by V S Naipaul

[ec No.9855670]

>>9837379

Oh and les miserables. The whole journey was quite emotional. But I didnt cry literally and I hope noone else on this thread ever did as well. (unless you're female in which case it makes sense i guess)
but yea Mr Biswas and Les Miserables were quite touching works of literature and thinking about them makes me want to reread them right now. maybe i will.

[Anonymous No.9855825]

>>9854784
Wasn't kidding and I'm not ashamed of it. A lot of the world's best innovators were on the autism spectrum.
>Einstein

[Anonymous No.9855852]

>>9839230
Pretty sure he meant the making fun of that assassination.

[Anonymous No.9855860]

>>9851235
>Stoner, when he sees WS

Huh?

[Anonymous No.9855956]

>That Ending

Find
A
Flaw

[Anonymous No.9855989]

You people are very emotional, i couldn't fucking get this invested into a book if my life depended on it.

[Anonymous No.9856773]

>>9837501
Get off of anti-depressants

[Anonymous No.9857106]

[Anonymous No.9857802]

>>9855989
you are missing something beautiful anon

[Anonymous No.9858005]

>>9837803
the interpreting of the assemblée is just as "intellectual" as reading prose

[Anonymous No.9858952]

>>9855956
is it much better than the ghibli adaptation? cause the movie was trash

[Anonymous No.9858968]

you're all gay haha

[Anonymous No.9859886]

>>9858952
Yes, but the movie was good too anon

[Anonymous No.9860406]

>>9855191
Go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.9860428]

>>9855618
Alyosha's speech at the end was one of the most heartfelt, profound monologues in literature. It was a nice ending to a fairly dark and depressing book.

[Anonymous No.9860646]

When I'm tired and haven't slept well for a while, themes of separation (from friends, family, partners or whatever) can make me cry my eyes out even if the book is bad. And it's not like I've even really experienced it myself.

[Anonymous No.9860849]

>>9860428
Ha oh shit yeah

I was honestly kind of annoyed at the chapters within "The Boys" and everything pertaining to them until the very last chapter, I felt it was unnecessarily pandering until I realised their purpose

[Anonymous No.9861081]

>>9837379
Ending of All Quiet on the Western Front.

[Anonymous No.9861110]

>>9843026
Que ódio profundo eu sinto por essa edição.

[Anonymous No.9861118]

>>9850879
I cried to The Corrections too. Same part.

[Anonymous No.9861698]

>>9837848
This book sucked

[Anonymous No.9861715]

[Anonymous No.9863689]

don't die thread!!