Books that made you cry? Or come close to tears?

I'm surprised you would even think such an easily refutable statement. Have you seen Tumblr?

 

Well see the thing is nobody knows why she was created in the first place.
Though at the beginning of the first book, she has a fairly prominent
career in torturing others for information, among all the factions. But
all that stuff catches up with her mentally. While trying to turn over a new
leaf, she still has an inclination to use her skill sets. Though it has turned
more of a guilty pleasure for her, that she wishes was not apart of her anymore.
Granted it is hard to quit something that she has found pleasure in doing in
excess of a few centuries.

 

Why? Is he missing? I haven't seen any signs around here saying "Lost Dog: Answers to Tumblr."

Ah, rktho, you're still new. You haven't gotten used to the smelly appendage I use for a sense of humor. Take most of what I say with a grain of salt and a spritz of Lysol.

 

Haha nope. I hate snakes. I'd probably be smiling over that one.

 

He's a pretty funny snake, though. You might like him for his personality.

 

Then maybe I will get a bit emotional, but I don't know about crying. I more or less cry over dogs, cats, horses and other "pets" that are close to the story.

 

You might feel happy anyway because he's an antagonist.

 

The death of the Que Shu in Dragons of Autumn Twilight, didn't cry but its a lump in the throat moment for sure. One of the best pieces of writing ever for me.
Sturms death in Dragons of Winter Night
Flints death in Dragons of Spring Dawning

 

Last Orders got me. Shouldn't have finished it on the train.

 

When Boxer died in Animal Farm.

I am taken aback with some of my own stuff.

I get choked up and a little teary eyed when I try to read it to someone.

I may be off my meds. I'll check

 

Norwegian woods I think.. Could be false memory tho.

 

I'm a total suck. I cry over half the books I read, it seems like. Same with movies. I like to think I'm keeping my eyes fresh and clean with frequent washings...

 

I don't cry very often with books. Moreso with film and TV - I think because of the soundtrack. Music really touches me.

THE AMBER SPYGLASS always makes me cry, when two of the characters realise they will never see each other again. I think it's their bravery as much as the situation. They're both so young, but they face up to the sacrifices they have to make and determine not to wallow (coughBellaSwanAreYouListeningcough).

I can't actually think of others off the top of my head, though I know there have been some.

 

In Purgatorio when Virgil is sent back to Hell, after guiding Dante to the Gates of Heaven, I was really upset (Being 16 at the time). I remember my teacher telling me that Millions of readers had had the same reaction as I did, and that is was just one of the many reasons why the Divine Comedy is considered the greatest book ever written; it was in that very moment I knew I wanted to write stories.

 

Just read something that made me cry - my pay slip.

 

Not a book, but Dragonheart got me when I was a kid! It might be a bad film by many strokes but I loved it. It's the music at the end, probably, and Sean Connery's voice...

 

The end of The Graveyard Book. It wasn't full blown tears, but my eyes were certainly wet and I was a bit of a mess by the time I reached the last sentence.

 

Ginger's death in Black Beauty, it is off screen but the title character sees the aftermath.

For other media:
-the scene with the train in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
-When Ash turns to stone in the first Pokémon movie (I was 11, don't judge me)
- Lirum's funeral in the video game Lost Odyssey. Kaim just got her back dammit T_T

 

Where The Red Fern Grows

 

I cried over Charlotte's web
The Great Gatsby also made me cry.
Tess of the d'urbervilles Made me cry,delete the book, download it again,read it and cry all over again.

 

The end of The Hydrogen Sonata, when

Spoiler: Hydrogen Sonata ending spoilers

Banks goes through all the surviving characters at the moment of their Sublimation. Not only did that get me, but then I thought of all the people who weren't backed up and got killed at the Last Party when everything went pear-shaped.

I also tend to cry when writing. I don't know how well it gets through, but sometimes I feel really guilty for doing what I do to my characters just so that somebody out there can have a good shiver at a clever (I hope) twist. When I realized why Unka Roy was in the picture...

 

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince. I read it with my girlfriend (later my wife) when we were both emotionally fragile. (She had just lot a beloved pet, and I'd received news that a dear friend had been murdered). I won't kid you. We cried like babies.

 

I listened to a couple of audio-book clips today, and they
were so pedestrian in the wording that I think I would
have cried from the laughter I would have been having
in fits if I had actually heard either book in their entirety.
Does that count?

 

I am 63 years old. I am writing a very short story about a 15 year old girl, her first kiss.

To get into the head of a girl that age I got the idea that I read some books that girls that age read. Librarians are your best friend, so I go there, I come back from the library with about 10 books. Almost all are dystopian. As Hunger games is one of them I probably read 3000 pages.

They all were new to me, YA is not what I usually read.

But one of the books made me cry. The fault in our stars, John green.
(Children with cancer)

The book made me cry, the fact that that 15 year olds like to read such books makes me a little sad.

 

I consider myself a bit of a manly man (most days at least), but the epilogue of When Breath Becomes Air really hit hard. Didn't quite make me cry, but it was close!