paige turner Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 The ending to The Grapes Of Wrath. Didn't really cry, but was close to it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted October 8, 2008 Share Posted October 8, 2008 The Green Mile really upset me too. Even now, I haven't been able to re-read it or watch the film. I'm reading this now. I'm not even half way through and I have cried. This is the only book I have ever cried at. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paige turner Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 On the flip side. I have cried with laughter. A few by Spike Milligan and The Crow Road by Iain Banks, have had me lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crow Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 (edited) Jayne Eyre.. when Helen Burns dies at Lowood school ...very moving.. Edited October 10, 2008 by Nici Spoiler added Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bev Posted October 10, 2008 Share Posted October 10, 2008 (edited) Marley & Me so sad, I hate it when a dog dies. Edited October 10, 2008 by Janet I didn't know the ending until I read this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knitnat Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 (edited) I haven't had time to read all the posts so it may already be here....April Fool's Day by Bryce Courtney. It tells his son's story from a childhood lived with haemophilia until his untimely death through contracting HIV from an (ironically) life-saving blood transfusion. I couldn't read it in the train, I would have run out of tissues. A brilliantly written account though. And Dead Man Walking...the barbarity of capital punishment. Edited October 11, 2008 by knitnat To add second book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stephanie2008 Posted October 11, 2008 Share Posted October 11, 2008 Marley & Me so sad, I hate it when a dog dies. I haven't read that yet. My mum read it and cried because we have a labrador and had another which we went through similar circumstances. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grammyva Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 The Notebook, by Nicholas Sparks remains the saddest book I've ever read. I read it in bed and tried not to wake up my husband as I had tears running down my cheeks! Grammyva Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wonders disciple Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Can't quite remember if i have actually cried whilst reading a book, although i do remember that certain parts of The Grapes Of Wrath and Birdsong left me with a lump in my throat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaraPepparkaka Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 (edited) Someone reminded me of this book today, I hadn't thought about this one in a long time. I cried when I read Love story, Eric Segal. All I really remember is that it was all so tragic. Maybe I should re-read. Edited October 23, 2008 by SaraPepparkaka Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chimera Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 Can't quite remember if i have actually cried whilst reading a book, although i do remember that certain parts of The Grapes Of Wrath and Birdsong left me with a lump in my throat. Same here. I cant remember actually crying while reading a book but I can get very upset... The Kite runner, which I just finished had me with a lump in my throat all week! Actually the books (and films) which bring me closest to tears are usually the lower quality, overdone dramas. One of them was Ou es tu? by Marc Levy: one of those books I cant put down eventhough I reason that its not so good and which carries far more emotion than I can bear Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bonnie banks Posted October 23, 2008 Share Posted October 23, 2008 I`ve cried at loads of books but the ones I`ve sobbed at are black beauty /anna sewell plague dogs/ richard adams lord of the rings/ tolkien of mice and men and grapes of wrath/ steinbeck There`s probably more but I can`t remember,I can cry for Scotland Oh and Hi to eveyone I`ve just discovered your great forum Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kate Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 The last book that made me cry was A Season of Eden Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I started Marley and Me by John Grogan yesterday and I was well into page 3 when I started crying already.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bev Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I cried throughout Marley & Me !! Stock up on the kleenex, it's going to be a film too !!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I cried throughout Marley & Me !! Stock up on the kleenex, it's going to be a film too !!!! I don't know if I could ever survive the film! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bev Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I don't know if I could ever survive the film! That's what I think ! I'm going to wait until it comes out on dvd so I can weep in the privacy of my own home !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 That's what I think ! I'm going to wait until it comes out on dvd so I can weep in the privacy of my own home !! Har har I was planning on that too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Princess Posted October 24, 2008 Share Posted October 24, 2008 I cried loads when I read The Time Traveller's Wife - it isn't even a particularly sad book - must have just been feeling emotional when I read that one Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Child.of.God.1989 Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 I couldn't think of any until reading some of your posts... I realized there were quite a few where I was glassy-eyed, but I must have shoved the "embarrassing" memories deep down. No piece of media has made me weep except for something about a third-world country on the news when I was little; and The Passion of the Christ a couple of Decembers ago. As for making me glassy-eyed in spite of myself: - The Atonement Child by Francine Rivers ~ do look it up, ladies especially! It wasn't so much the traumatic things that the main character goes through as when she said to another, "As far as the east is from the west, so far has God removed your transgressions from you." (Psalm 103:12) Ahh, what a balm to my guilty heart! - Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling ~ I accidentally spoiled a huge part for myself by losing my place, but when I knew it was coming up, it felt just as shocking and sad. It was when Sirius died; I'm a sucker for when someone you're not sure loves you so much makes some huge sacrifice, and then you KNOW. - Redeeming Love by Francine Rivers - uhh, I would have to read it again to see what specific spot broke my heart's walls, but I know the whole story was touching. - The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks ~ I hope my future husband and I will have the same enduring love as a couple of the characters in the book. - The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by C.S. Lewis ~ Ohh, dear Edmund! Oh, wonderful Aslan, with the power and gentleness to transform whoever lets him! I was sixteen or seventeen when I read this. Almost all of these are romantic books:roll:. I wish I could say some gripping non-fiction book made me cry from some deep, shocking fact... but it usually comes down to a boy and a girl. Mush, mush, mush. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Badenoch Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 A book which took me on an emotional journey like practically no other ever did was "A Soldier of the Great War" by Mark Helprin. At various points in the story I laughed out loud [rare enough] and at others I blubbered like a wee baby! When it was finished I wanted to cry again - simply because it was finished.. READ IT - YOU WON'T REGRET IT Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein. It made me sob, but it was worth it - it's a wonderful book. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankie Posted December 3, 2008 Share Posted December 3, 2008 The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein. It made me sob, but it was worth it - it's a wonderful book. This one's on my TBR, I've been trying to find a cheapish copy of it somewhere for some time now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ahsilet Posted December 8, 2008 Share Posted December 8, 2008 I almost cried at the end of Chronicle of a Death Foretold when the death of Santiago was described in detail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Child.of.God.1989 Posted December 9, 2008 Share Posted December 9, 2008 Has anyone ever cried reading about something that really happened in history? Humans can be pretty remarkable. Wouldn't it be good for people today, particularly younger people, to hear about those who knew about something bigger than themselves... or some great act of kindness committed by a normal person? I have this book Jesus Freaks Volume II by the band dcTalk, a compendium of stories of people who have been hurt or killed because they are Christians who refuse anything else. When I go home for holiday, I will add the quotation they had in there from Ignatius, right before he was buried alive for his singular faith. I may have cried in The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, about the Holocaust. I need to finish that one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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