Never cried yet but almost shed a tear:
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
That Which Has No Name (Piedad Bonnett)
Gravity's Rainbow (the boat part)
I’ve only cried to two books: >Les Miserables
At the end when Jean Valjean dies >Brothers Karamazov
Every time (3 reads total) during the Elder Zosima part and when Ilyusha is reunited with his dog.
>>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It was a bit cruel how he made you live through their last little happy holiday and dance together after already telling you how it ends.
Conversations in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa is what did it for me, the scene where the black dude loses his wife at the hospital from a still birth. What did it to me was that the entire scene is written from the point of view of the wife’s soul and subconscious, so she just doesn’t know exactly what’s going on, but the reader does based on the imagery that Vargas Llosa is picturing. It’s fricking cold, it’s dark and it’s very intense yet subtle. Even thinking about it gives me the chills, hands down one of the most difficult reads but also best books ever written.
All the Light We Cannot See. Had never heard of it at the time and grabbed it in a second hand shop only because it had a Pulitzer Prize sticker on it and was $1. So went into it completely blind (haha) and teared up multiple times.
wuthering heights, when she gives him the wrapped book at the end. it doesn't "right" or reverse anything but that minor gesture of kindness and compassion is enough for the breaking-point tension that has lasted through the entire novel to let up in one awesome exhale of relief
Cormac McCarthy always gets me all teary eyed.
In Cities of the Plain when the old guy is talking about cattle runs back in the old times.
In The Passenger when the mc talks about wanting to die and the old guys last letter to him.
Normie answer, but I was devastated at the end of "The Remains of the Day", largely because I've always been so frightened at the prospect of one day having that same realization of having (almost intentionally) missed an opportunity that would've changed my life and the thought of certain regrets you could never right or correct
Plague Dogs, Douglas Adam’s
It's a short story but The Dream of a Ridiculous Man
Never cried yet but almost shed a tear:
A Farewell to Arms
For Whom the Bell Tolls
The Real Life of Sebastian Knight
That Which Has No Name (Piedad Bonnett)
Gravity's Rainbow (the boat part)
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Not made me cry, but much of The Crossing is a massive gut punch.
I read through the whole bible. I cried when they killed jesus. see you in heaven king
I remember getting a child's Bible when I was young and crying when I read about Jesus' crucifixion.
For me it was Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco
I wept and mourned for myself
Which Part did you cry at i dont remember it being a sad book?
the passenger
Lord of the Rings
Yeah
I’ve only cried to two books:
>Les Miserables
At the end when Jean Valjean dies
>Brothers Karamazov
Every time (3 reads total) during the Elder Zosima part and when Ilyusha is reunited with his dog.
TBK is mine as well. Toughest bits for me were Alyosha's talk with Snegiryov and the ending.
shit the elder zosima part was amazing. frick i gotta re read
the ending of the second lotr book when Sam returns to help Frodo
Aeneid and Against Nature.
>Against Nature
What part, the ending appeal to God or when the tortoise died?
The ending.
>The Aeneid
how?
Aeneas leaving Dido.
dido was an vile eastern witch and deserved it
CARTHAGO DELENDA EST
the sound and the fury
e-girlta
I cry after most books. the most deserving one was probably The Sorrows of Young Werther.
ToT
Uoooh
The Remains of the Day
I love that book so much.
My own book. When I killed off a minor character.
Doctor Zhivago (twice) when Lara leaves and at the end
zorba the greek, it was weird crying happy tears at the end as i don't think i'd cried in years and haven't since.
The Cather in the Rye
the epilogue of The Secret History made me sob
Balzac has some real tearjerkers.
Charlotte's Web, at age 6
>Sorrows of Young Werther
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
>>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
It was a bit cruel how he made you live through their last little happy holiday and dance together after already telling you how it ends.
Franz Kafka’s letters to his father hit pretty close to home for me.
Probably my yearbook
An Artemis Fowl novel is the only book that's ever made me cry. Cringe, I know.
Conversations in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa is what did it for me, the scene where the black dude loses his wife at the hospital from a still birth. What did it to me was that the entire scene is written from the point of view of the wife’s soul and subconscious, so she just doesn’t know exactly what’s going on, but the reader does based on the imagery that Vargas Llosa is picturing. It’s fricking cold, it’s dark and it’s very intense yet subtle. Even thinking about it gives me the chills, hands down one of the most difficult reads but also best books ever written.
good thread
All the Light We Cannot See. Had never heard of it at the time and grabbed it in a second hand shop only because it had a Pulitzer Prize sticker on it and was $1. So went into it completely blind (haha) and teared up multiple times.
wuthering heights, when she gives him the wrapped book at the end. it doesn't "right" or reverse anything but that minor gesture of kindness and compassion is enough for the breaking-point tension that has lasted through the entire novel to let up in one awesome exhale of relief
Deidrich Knickerbockers History of New York
Cormac McCarthy always gets me all teary eyed.
In Cities of the Plain when the old guy is talking about cattle runs back in the old times.
In The Passenger when the mc talks about wanting to die and the old guys last letter to him.
What's your pic about OP?
Feel like I'm expected to know it
A Separate Peace - Knowles
Very melancholic book
When I was about 6 years old, my brother clocked me over the head with a massive atlas.
Normie answer, but I was devastated at the end of "The Remains of the Day", largely because I've always been so frightened at the prospect of one day having that same realization of having (almost intentionally) missed an opportunity that would've changed my life and the thought of certain regrets you could never right or correct
this is sad
Will you cry about it?
Frick you Black person
A Tale of Two Cities
2666
Malazan book of the Fallen Deadhouse gates
Les Miserables
A Farewell To Arms
>A Farewell to Arms
The ending is such a gut punch. Everyone can see it coming but it still hits hard
The last section of the book Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, when you get it you get it.
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep made me cry.
Stoner and the end of Stella Maris almost made me tear up. Closest I’ve gotten to crying while reading
>the end of Stella Maris almost made me tear up
Why? Which situation?
frick angela that stupid bawd was probably asking for it
for me, its this. why did he do it bros....
Vasari’s Lives of the Artists. They just don’t homies like that any more
I felt pretty miserable after reading The Brother Who Failed.
abbe faria death in The count of Monte Cristo
Where the Red Fern Grows
The horus heresy- galaxy at war.
The road
just shed a tear
Animal Farm
But most of all, I wept uncontrollably after Flowers for Algernon
The Human Predicament
The Count of Monte Christo has some great moments. Faria, the return of the Pharaon.
The English patient, when he finds her in a cave and all that unfolds
Metamorphosis by Kafka
harry potter 2
Some autobiography where the dude's stepdad killed a baby cat after it did its business on the kitchen floor. The description was horrendous
Confessions of a Mask
Madame Bovary. You know the part when.
Based attitude, but cringe to have put the effort into a mass reply.
This however was unequivocally based.