And if so, which?
I can think of at least four and all as an adult.
I can think of at least four and all as an adult.
Has a book(s) ever brought a tear to your eye?
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One of the deepest and realest books i've ever read, I was going through some tough times in my life as well, do the sections about the drug abuse and about his coach were especially moving... a small tear, but a tear nonetheless.
Maybe i should set the bar at lump in the back of the throat, misty eyed, having to blink them away and so on and so forth.
I haven't heard of it but i shall look it up in more detail later i think.
I haven't heard of it but i shall look it up in more detail later i think.
Whilst some have left me with a deep feeling of sadness I find that without the power of music that films have it's very hard to cry.
A few have, mainly children's books for some reason;
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Antoine de Saint Exupéry - The Little Prince
A.A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner
Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin & all of his Latin American Trilogy
Michael de Larrabeiti - The Borrible Trilogy (as all 3 managed to bring a tear to my eye)
Jonathan Safran Foer - Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Antoine de Saint Exupéry - The Little Prince
A.A. Milne - The House at Pooh Corner
Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin & all of his Latin American Trilogy
Michael de Larrabeiti - The Borrible Trilogy (as all 3 managed to bring a tear to my eye)
I once dropped a hard cover copy of The Stand by Stephen King on my big toe. Does that count?
no more than accidentally slamming an encycplopaedia Britannica shut on your genickals
First read Of Mice and Men when I was little. Don't think I cried, but did get worked up.
Loads. I'm a complete pussy when it comes to reading.
Most recently 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.
Most recently 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy.
I can't remember crying as an adult about anything, let alone a book.
But that's not a macho thing, just some odd quirk that means I don't cry when I'm upset. I remember reading a Tony Parsons novel which would have had me balling my eyes out, were I so inclined. How fecking pathetic is that? Tony feckin' Parsons.
But that's not a macho thing, just some odd quirk that means I don't cry when I'm upset. I remember reading a Tony Parsons novel which would have had me balling my eyes out, were I so inclined. How fecking pathetic is that? Tony feckin' Parsons.
I teared up at some parts of The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night Time, having two brothers who are on the autism spectrum.
Which is a great read. Best book that I have read in years.
No doubt they will cock the film up.
agree - that is a bit pussyish
although i am guilty as well
the time travellers wife got me....
i mean, why did he have to die like that???
EDIT:Use the spoiler function please people:EDIT
dropped it on me toe.
Cracking book.
Tears of laughter...
I refused to watch the film because of that. Thought the book was alright but the ending got me. I didn't cry though, just made me a bit too angry than something fictional should.
I enjoyed this book a lot
I read this book only because I live right beside the newberry library where he worked and all of my neighborhood was described in it, other than that was way too mushy and gay
The last (seventh) Dark Tower book from Stephen King. His chief asset for me is the drawing of his characters, and their deaths in this book really affected me. I think the main reason is because I read the book in 2005 a good fourteen years after beginning the first instalment.
WWII from the perspective of a young German girl displaced to a town near Dresden. She is obsessed with books and its told from the perspective of Death himself. Great stuff.
And on a related war theme 'The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas' by John Boyne - oh total, total blubfest.
His Dark Materials, when I was 14.
That's a fab trilogy. Must re-read them.
Yeah I need to as well! The Amber Spyglass had me crying
When it's clear Lyra and Will were never going to stay together
Its a surprisingly intense relationship for a children's book.