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what books made you cry?

I tend to be hyper-emotional, so cry easily, so have cried through too many books to list, but I'll name a few.

The first book I remember crying over was Flowers for Algernon. I think I was probably around 8 or 9. I know there were probably others, then, but that one really sticks out in my mind for some reason.

I totally know what you mean about HBP. I have read it several times and I always still cry despite the fact that
I totally do not believe Dumbledore is really dead and have many theories, all as unlikely as the next, as to why this may be true, although I am probably delusional or just too hopeful and am in way too much denial
. I also cry during OoP when
Sirius dies
. And I do it every time I read the books. I'm a geek who reads them all the time.

My olderst daughter (age 8) is about to read The Man in the Iron Mask. I can't wait for her to start it and experience it with her. She will read it on her own, but I always quiz and such during and after and we have lots of discussions, so it will be very interesting to see how she reacts. Oh, which reminds me, I cried and cried and cried when I read Charlotte's Web, which as I think of it I read before the other one I mentioned at around age 6 or 7. So, that is the first one where I remember crying. I thought of that because my daughter just finished that one.

Thinking of those, especially CW, I don't see why people may find it strange if HP dies in the end on the basis of having it too emotional for children to read, as in losing a pivotal/special character and saying that people would then hate the book. I still love CW. I initially thought along those lines, but now I am not so sure how I would feel. I think I would still love the book, because I am certain regardless of the ending of #7 that JKR will have done an outstanding job of wrapping up the series and I think it will be a great ending regardless of what happens.

akamholz said:
One and only one for me. I read Where the red fern grows and I have never had a book affect me the way that one did. It was required reading in my school and I wrote an incredibly sad book report for that one. All I could do, from the worst part, to the end was blubber like a baby. I still have the copy I bought from a 5th grade book sale. Held together with duct tape, but still gets read!

oh yes! i cried and cried with that one, too. i can't remember when i read it, probably around when you did, but it was another weepy one!

Idril Silmaure said:
At the end of the Amber Spyglass...in fact on various occasions throughout my first and second readings of His Dark Materials...I also cried loads while reading Anne Frank's diary and I cried bucketloads over Little Women.

oh, goodness. as i go through the posts, so many come to mind. i should just stick with my original statement that there are too many to list that i have cried through, but i definitely have to secon and third on Anne Frank and Little Women. My daughter has already read Anne Frank and cried at that one, too.

and another two in recent years I just have to mention would be Suzanne's Diary to Nicholas and A Walk to Remember

I also cry in LoTR (except I don't cry much for Bombadil - I'm with Stewart on that one), but don't get blubbery over it. Just a little weepy.
 
I cried while reading Child of the Wolves by Elizabeth Hall. My brother also cried but we were pretty young when we read it. It was a good book though. Now, I get pretty emotional for simple things--I just start crying randomly for what seems like no reason.
 
More books than I thought have made me cry, once I sat down and thought about it. I've cried with...

Low Red Moon (Kiernan),
A Guided Tour of Hell (Hatek),
My Sister's Keeper (Picoult),
Plain Truth (Picoult),
Marley & Me (Grogan)
Freak the Mighty (Philbrick),
Night (Wiesel),
Hiroshima (Hershey), and
Bag of Bones (King).

And then there are books I almost cried with (honorable mentions, so to speak), which include...

The Diary of Anne Frank, and other assorted holocaust books,
Crow Lake (Lawson),
The Girls (Lassen),
The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck),
Miracle in the Andes (Parrado), and
Folding Paper Cranes (Bird).
 
speaking of holocaust books, have you ever read The Hiding Place?

i think anything from that period would make me cry.

that was an amazing list. some of them i have never heard of.
 
I've read part of The Hiding Place, some time ago. I just couldn't get into that one, for some reason. After so many holocaust books, you have to set them aside for a good long while. The last one I read was geared toward kids, called Hanna's Suitcase. The author started with a child's suitcase, and researched the history of the girl who owned it, and her journey to the camp where she died. Poignantly told, with a lot of pictures, that one deserves honorable mention, too.
 
I cried in the very first chapter of Saul Bellow's Herzog's Gift.
I cried because I spent good money on it - and 2 other Bellow books - and I could see that I was not going even finish chapter one, much less finish the book, much less read the others.
 
Cry Baby

I've just finished A Little Blue Jacket by Lucy Ann White and I cried...several times! Had to sneakily ease my tissue out of my pocket and pretend I had something in my eye. It was on the tube! Fortunately in London everyone travelling on the tube is in their own little bubble and I don't think they noticed. If you read it (and although its sad its also hopeful) remember to have that tissue handy. The story is set in Cape Town, early 1900 sometime, and its in the romantic/historical genre but not sugary and its all about relationships. Recognized some of them and had a friend just like the character Jessie. Cow. It took a bit of time to get into but I'm glad I hung in there because I relly enjoyed it. Touch of the Jane Austens (but more up to date) so for serious readers(by that I mean people who like things well written which obviously evryone on this site does).
 
This beautiful little book that is no loner in print called "Don't Think Twice" by a Saskatchewan author (and I'll admit it, a friend of mine) Alison Lohans. It's a gorgeous story of a young girl in Fresno during the Vietnam war. It's beautiful and enertime I see Alison I ask if it will be coming back into print.
 
Hey, have every sympathy with you Libre. Guess you like value for money.....and quite right. Of course, free is best.
Libre?...hmmmm...Nomen ist Omen?
(Latin was never my good point but you can see thru the spelling)
It stinks when you buy a book and its crap. There you are, looking forward to a good read and what? Rubbish; conned; duped; hyped, whatever.
Better luck with your next purchase ...suggest buying one book at a time.
Charity
 
This may be strange, but my eyes were filled with tears when I read the end of Moby Dick. And I never cry at books. I just felt so empty, I was so close to the characters...
 
I've just finished 'Marley & me: life and love with the world's worst dog' by John Grogan.

This is a real tear-jerker for any dog lover.
 
new moon by stefenie meyer. not only did it make me sob until i ran out of tears, it had me depressed for a while. i've never felt that way over a book or movie or anything like that before. in fact, i've rarely felt like that about anything in my real life. i couldn't eat or sleep or anything, it was crazy. i dont know why it did that.
 
You're right,I read the Notebook after that like a good little masochist, I refuse to read another book by that man.
 
Unfortunately no book has yet made me shed tears, but Crime and Punishment came pretty close: Raskolnikov's confession to Sonya was so beautifully written that I felt the character's pain in every word.
 
The first book that made me cry was Black Gold by Marguerite Henry, I was just a little girl at the time but it made me cry a lot.

Other books that have made me cry recently are, Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier, I was seriously upset after finishing that one, don't know if I can handle the other two books in the trilogy.
Certain parts of Wuthering Heights made me cry, those poor messed up people.
And also some parts of the books Idlewild and Everfree by Nick Sagan got me a little teary.
 
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