Has a book ever made you cry?

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  1. HelloGoodbye's Avatar
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    Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix - the part where Sirius died
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    The Boy in Striped Pyjamas despite having watched the film before reading
    Book Thief also brought me close to tears.
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    junk - melvin burgess

    that gets me EVERY time, but its still one of my favorite books

    and of mice and men. he only wanted to tend the rabbits <3
    was rather funny that half my english class were sobbing in that!

    i dont read a right lot, but they get me!
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    at some points it had me crying hysterically
    Last edited by Fofo; 01-11-2011 at 22:49.
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    The Peppermint Pig

    'Innocent Traitor' by Alison Weir.
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    Harry Potter.

    I got teary-eyed when characters like Dobby and Dumbledore were killed, but the part I remember properly blubbing after was after Dumbledore died and everyone was in the hospital wing, talking about his funeral, and there was this bit:

    "'Hogwarts should be Dumbledore's final resting place,' said Professor Flitwick.
    'Absolutely,' said Professor Sprout.
    'And in that case,' said Harry, 'you shouldn't send the students home until the funeral's over. They'll want to say -'
    The last word caught in his throat, but Professor Sprout completed the sentence for him.
    'Goodbye.'"

    :cry:
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    I dropped a dictionary on my toe once I cried for hours
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    I dropped a dictionary on my toe once I cried for hours
    bad crack - smh
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    Well, closest thing to crying.
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    Of mice and men. :<
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    Wuthering Heights really got to me. It's not a cheery book anyway, I felt a bit emotionally drained while reading it. When I finished, I didn't bawl but sobbed a bit!

    But I still love that book
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    Oh man, far too many to count.

    Most notably, I bawled at the ending of "The White Dragon" by Anne McCaffrey and felt quite depressed by it for about a week.
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    Too many I think.. the last one to make me cry was "The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet" by David Mitchell. I also remember being outraged and crying at One Day.

    I cry at books all the time.. anytime I find something really unfair, I bawl my eyes out. ITS UNFAIR WHEN PEOPLE I THINK SHOULD BE TOGETHER, CAN'T :'(

    Also, Harry Potter - cried about 10 times during the last book.
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    The Tales of the Otori books by Lian Hearn were quite emotional in places as it gets more and more desperate and unjust for the main characters.

    More recently, To Kill a Mockingbird. So well written, the style takes you back to endless summer holidays when you were the age of the 2 kids and thought the same way. The nostalgia and wistfulness coupled with the injustice of the novel's events was enough to make me shed a tear.
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    Yes. I was at Dovestones reservoir in Saddleworth, Greater Manchester. I was sat on a banking that had a miniature forest of sorts behind it, opening up to what can only be described as an epic landscape. It was early in the afternoon, quite sunny out, and I was lying down reading Alexander Pope's 'Essay on Man'. The following lines stood out to me, so much that I noted them down:

    '...seas roll to waft me,
    suns to light me rise;
    My footstool the Earth,
    my canopy the skies...'

    Not gonna' lie; I blubbered right then and there. Beautiful.
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    When Lee Scoresby and his Daemon perish defending their comrades in His Dark Materials. :puppyeyes:
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    lots
    amber spyglass
    the boy in the striped pyjamas
    harry potter
    and more....
    i cry at anything :bawling:
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    Catch 22 made me cry with laughter.
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    Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
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    my sisters keeper. such. awful. writing.
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