What books have made you cry?

Catcher in the Rye

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The only book that has ever made me cry is, I'm ashamed to admit, The Fault in Our Stars. I was like 14 okay.

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chad had the money and the looks

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Flaubert, A simple heart

Flowers for Algernon

I've never cried reading something but I teared up listening to Steve pacey narrate shiver's dogman eulogy

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Made me cry:
>Don Quixote
>Brothers Karamazov
>Les Miserables
>The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Almost:
>Iliad
>Stoner
>Journey to the End of the Night

Don Quixote
Crossing to safety
Flowers for Algernon

The Purgatorio is the last book to make me cry.

>crying
FUCK you, I don’t cry.

This book made me cry in highschool though…

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The smell of your mom's puss made me cry

Maria by Jorge Isaacs
Don Quixote by Cervantes
Martin Fierro by Hernandez
The Iliad by Homer
The Odyssey by Homer
Black Beauty by Anna Sewel

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only book thats made me cry was The Little Prince. read it once when i was 13 and again when i was 18, cried both times.
almost cried while reading flowers for algernon. read it a few days ago.
both are pretty short reads, 30 mins and 4 hours respectively for me. highly recommend both.

The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
He dies at the end :(

The Sirens of Titan oddly enough

The endings of The Urth of the New Sun and The Wizard Knight have moved me to tears. Realizing the fate of Horn in The Book of the Short Sun was brutal as well. Other than that the endings of Stoner and The Idiot made me tear up. I also have to add The Children of Hurin and the appendix of The Lord of the Rings. There might have been some others here and there but that’s all I remember right now.

came here to say this. The slow loss of cognition after all he'd been through just plucked at my heartstrings

Stoner made me shed some tears. The Brothers Karamazov was close.

I wish I could cry. I don't know if I'm mentally unwell or what. Even the deaths of pets, friends, family members, not one tear.

The epilogue of War and Peace, just a tiny bit when they were describing the married life and enduring love of Nicholas and Mary. Also the reconciliation between Dorothea and Rosamond towards the end of Middlemarch hit me pretty hard, I'm not sure if I actually cried though. Other than those, it's hard to think of any. I can't get the same direct emotional impact from a book as from a film, seeing and hearing a human being, their facial expressions, voice, plus music, etc. just does so much more to activate the empathy circuits, for me at least.

These lines from Hardy got me as well, but that had more to do with my own situation in life at the time:
>Trust me, I mind not, though Life lours,
>The bringing me here; nay, bring me here again!
>I am just the same as when
>Our days were a joy, and our paths through flowers.

Ok this one too actually now that I think of it. It was the cancer part at the very end though, not any of the war stuff.

>Don Quixote

I guess I can understand this if you're looking at it from a more modern perspective, I think Cervantes would laugh at you for crying at his book though.

the road at the end when the father dies and the son is talking about still speaking to him daily

Hurensohn by gabriel loidolt which is a fantastic book any germanon should read

You got filtered my fren. Not that user by I am also heavily touched by Quixote. Even thinking about him makes my heart ache. Maybe you have an npc life, but for people who can associate with or understand him, it is indeed a tragic tale.

Well that was kinda how I envisioned the book at first, based on what people said about it, but it became clear very quickly upon starting to read it that the author really wasn’t interested in the “tragic romantic idealist” angle on the character. I don’t want to criticize people for appreciating something, I guess more than anything else it’s just an illustration of the way literature (and people in general) have changed from then to now.

Some parts of Lotr almost brought me to tears, but the ending of Geometry for Ocelots made me actually sob. Despite it being a funny youtube man book and the prose being slightly shit, I highly recommend it.

It has several layers. On surface it seems like le funny senile old man go brr at the sight windmills. Then you see it is a satire of the romance works of the time and their affect. And then again you see it is full of self irony and reference in a very post modern way. But ultimately you reach the core where you see Quixote redeeming himself as the ultimate romantic tragic hero in a world that is increasingly becoming mechanical and devoid of sovl, as if he is the only reasonable man in a world full of lunatics. I am sure many people share this or similar readings. Also Cervantes’s own life was too interesting and he probably saw a bit of himself in the character as well. So it would not be very suitable to dismiss the work as ultimately comical.

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The last chapters of RotK almost made me cry, particularly when Celeborn says to Aragorn:
>'Kinsman, farewell! May your doom be other than mine, and your treasure remain with you to the end!'
I had no idea what that meant until a couple chapters later I realized Galadriel was heading for the Heavens while he stayed behind.
Also Treebeard's line in the same chapter gave me goosebumps when I recognized it. It's so much better placed in the book though, very poignant:
>It is sad that we should meet only thus at the ending. For the world is changing: I feel it in the water, I feel it in the earth, and I smell it in the air. I do not think we shall meet again.
The departure of the Ring Bearers was very sad altogether. If Galadriel hadn't given Sam the seed of the Mallorn Tree to plant in the Shire I'd be depressed.

The parrot.

>I think Cervantes would laugh at you for crying at his book though
No. You know, even Cervantes with his temperament became attached with his characters. So I believe when the time to end the novel arrived a fiber of his being was touched when he wrote it. He even said that Quixote became like a son to him.

>The Iliad by Homer
What part? For me the part where Achilles was mourning his friend and the part where Hector was saying goodbye to his wife were very poignant

Steinbeck's never failed me.

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Thank you anons, I understand better now. I didn’t know that he said that, I suppose I made too cynical a judgment of Cervantes’ personality. Also now that I think of it, even though most of the more “serious” interludes inserted into the story seemed extraneous and without much value, the parting between the Moorish woman and her father was definitely somewhat affecting.

i cried at the part in crime and punishment when the drunken guy didn't recognize his daughter at first and then died

For me the encounter between Priam and Achilles was the most beautiful part, but that's probably just because it was the only part that I wasn't really aware of already before reading it.

cried after the final page of angel by e. taylor

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& on a rereading, that whooshing feeling in my chest is in no way diminished

I shed a few tears for The Iliad too, at the part where Hektor is revealed to be dead to his wife. She had his bath ready for him and he never came back to get in it ;-;

The end of brother Karamazov

what the fuck are you talking about, the part where DQ is ill, realizes that his cavalry days are over, and sancho, the priest and friends cry because they know he's about to die is heartbreaking

this, man that was hard to read

Also would recommend watching gilliam’s movie the man who killed don quixote. I think he stroke a similar chord there.

The contrast of the tension between bitter enemies with the incredibly deep sympathy between fellow-sufferers was just so intense and so perfect. The Iliad set my expectations too high for the Odyssey honestly, although I'm gradually coming to appreciate it more since I only finished it quite recently.

I find it hard to cry to things rhyme.

The rhyme sort of provides a semi-ironic counterpoint to the sentiment in a lot of cases, like a nostalgic children's song recontextualized into tragedy.