I've never seen this book discussed here but it's the best novel by the most important living Chinese writer -- Beijing Coma by Ma Jian. I probably wouldn't have cried so hard but I was going through some stuff and when I reached the climax of the story the images didn't really register, I had to read one paragraph a few times and then I got up off the couch where my wife and cat were seated, went over to sit on the cold kitchen floor and I cried and cried. I don't know when I've cried so hard. Like I say, it wasn't the story so much as how it hit me personally. It felt so good to have a safe space, i.e. fiction, within which to pour out all that emotion. That's when art is really exceptional, when it sticks with you like a pebble in your shoe.
Other books that have made me cry (as an adult):
The Betrothed by Manzoni, at the climax obviously
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, maybe the 10th time I'd read it through the whole meaning 'clicked' for me, and I don't think there's any sadder passage in literature than the image of an old man leaning over a ship's railing in the wind, crying his eyes out because he's found forgiveness
Jane Eyre almost got me at the end -- almost.
Listen here little baby. You're gonna get a lot of hurtful and degrading comments, but that ain't what I'm about. Let me just say, you are perfect the way you are. KB PNG You hear me sugar? PERFECT. Don't ever change. You deserve anything and everything you want. Stay safe for me, baby girl. >mfw thinking of you hurting
I just finished TBK, Anne Frankly, I don't even see how that whole section related to the rest of the story. Dosto introduces these kids that have a tangential relationship to the main character and then wastes ~100 pages of my life talking about them.
It felt kinda like when GRRM kills off some character I had an emotional attachment too, and then just introduces some new character out of the blue.
I read Murakami's Killing Commendatore shortly after being in a serious car accident. I wasn't very hurt physically, but it messed me up emotionally for a long time.
The scene where the protagonist and Mariye watch the owl in the attic and cry really had an impact on me. It demonstrates that feeling of going through something really difficult and not being able to communicate it with anyone.
I was in the gym reading between sets and it was talking about kids being lied to by ss officer when they were being forced onto the trains
They asked if they were going to see there families, the officers knew full well they were going to birkenau to be killed and they told them they would and that they would be fed too.
Most recently, The Passenger. No particular section, but I wept after closing the book, cried most of the next day, and couldn't much sleep for a week afterward.
The Passenger fricked me up so hard. The discussion on suicide had me weepin and the last letter that the rich guy sent before he died got me. I've said it before here, but its probably the most real and honest book I've ever read.
I thought Stella Maris was maybe sadder while reading it, but I slept like a baby afterward. The Passenger hits like a bullet. Stella Maris is kinda like digging the bullet out I guess.
she’s so pretty.
she’s so pretty.
Post breasts or GTFO
blue beard, rainmaker
I've never seen this book discussed here but it's the best novel by the most important living Chinese writer -- Beijing Coma by Ma Jian. I probably wouldn't have cried so hard but I was going through some stuff and when I reached the climax of the story the images didn't really register, I had to read one paragraph a few times and then I got up off the couch where my wife and cat were seated, went over to sit on the cold kitchen floor and I cried and cried. I don't know when I've cried so hard. Like I say, it wasn't the story so much as how it hit me personally. It felt so good to have a safe space, i.e. fiction, within which to pour out all that emotion. That's when art is really exceptional, when it sticks with you like a pebble in your shoe.
Other books that have made me cry (as an adult):
The Betrothed by Manzoni, at the climax obviously
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, maybe the 10th time I'd read it through the whole meaning 'clicked' for me, and I don't think there's any sadder passage in literature than the image of an old man leaning over a ship's railing in the wind, crying his eyes out because he's found forgiveness
Jane Eyre almost got me at the end -- almost.
Listen here little baby. You're gonna get a lot of hurtful and degrading comments, but that ain't what I'm about. Let me just say, you are perfect the way you are. KB PNG You hear me sugar? PERFECT. Don't ever change. You deserve anything and everything you want. Stay safe for me, baby girl.
>mfw thinking of you hurting
Never Let Me Go - Ishiguro
Also where the red fern grows
I was going to say Where the Red Fern Grows too. If you have a dog, this book will make you cry, unless you’re Michael Vick or something.
All the parts in TBK about Ilyusha and his family.
This too.
I just finished TBK, Anne Frankly, I don't even see how that whole section related to the rest of the story. Dosto introduces these kids that have a tangential relationship to the main character and then wastes ~100 pages of my life talking about them.
It felt kinda like when GRRM kills off some character I had an emotional attachment too, and then just introduces some new character out of the blue.
>Never Let Me Go
saddest part of that book to me is just how defeatist they were after learning of the true nature of their predicament
NLMG will get anyone, also Remains of the Day. Don't think tears were actually flowing for either but I def had to go for a walk.
Second last chapter in Demons
I read Murakami's Killing Commendatore shortly after being in a serious car accident. I wasn't very hurt physically, but it messed me up emotionally for a long time.
The scene where the protagonist and Mariye watch the owl in the attic and cry really had an impact on me. It demonstrates that feeling of going through something really difficult and not being able to communicate it with anyone.
The ending of Schindler’s List when the bad guys won the war and hundreds of israelites survived the camps.
Source? Whose the prostitute?
I was in the gym reading between sets and it was talking about kids being lied to by ss officer when they were being forced onto the trains
They asked if they were going to see there families, the officers knew full well they were going to birkenau to be killed and they told them they would and that they would be fed too.
There was a passage in Gravity's Rainbow that was so well written it moved me to tears. Pynchon is a weird guy but holy smokes can he write.
Sorrows of Young Werther
Most recently, The Passenger. No particular section, but I wept after closing the book, cried most of the next day, and couldn't much sleep for a week afterward.
The Passenger fricked me up so hard. The discussion on suicide had me weepin and the last letter that the rich guy sent before he died got me. I've said it before here, but its probably the most real and honest book I've ever read.
I thought Stella Maris was maybe sadder while reading it, but I slept like a baby afterward. The Passenger hits like a bullet. Stella Maris is kinda like digging the bullet out I guess.
cried through out Litha very saddening
Someone tell me who this b***h is already, please. Looks like a cross of Billie Eilish and my mom.
Nevermnind you useless homosexuals, found her myself. Some russian bawd with private profiles.
@kochurss
We need to invade Russia so I can rape this prostitute
Reading the ending of Little Heaven after the birth of my daughter that year.
>Her breasts were stacked, the ass was fat
>I feel terrible and I pray the Lord forgive me