Has a book ever made you cry?

[Anarchemitis]

I was fucking retarded when I was 13.

 

[nerd51075]

Yeah, 1984 got me at the end. I hate love Big Brother.

 

[Korolev]

"Humanity" by Jonathan Glover. Also, "A problem from hell" by Samantha Power. Both books deal with real life accounts of genocide all over the world. If you can read the survivor accounts and not weep, you must be made of stone.

Seriously, no matter how sad it is when a character in a book dies, these books dealt with the lives of REAL people, and the deaths of their loved ones. That's much sadder than any fictional character's death.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

Two books have gotten close. One in Elementary,and one when I was in Middle School. However, none succeeded.

 

[monstersquad]

Every other Gaunt's Ghost book past the first omnibus.

Thank You But no, there's one book in particular that makes it particularly poignant, when a certain somebody dies, and gets buried in a nalwood coffin. Every time, I get teary. Also, in Dan Abnett's compilation work: Sabbat Worlds. That also made me cry, because of the same character making an appearance from the grave.

On a different note, I just watched the first season Star Trek TNG episode: Skin of Evil, where a certain "the hottest chick that was ever on Star Trek" dies. I cried then too, several times during the episode.

 

[Lord Beautiful]

Many times. Hell, I cried just a couple of days ago reading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Kvothe's story can really tug at my heartstrings at times.

It's out already?!!! Sweet!!

Fuck yes it is. Funny how I had that exact same reaction several days ago when someone on this very forum said it was out.

The rainy as fuck day that followed wasn't enough to keep me from hitting the interstate to the nearest bookstore. So worth it.

 

[thylasos]

Oh, innnumerable examples exist, though less recenlty due to reading less fiction in the last three years or so.

 

[DasDestroyer]

The end of His Dark Materials trilogy.

It actually crushed me.

This, also when

Spoiler

Scoresby dies and when the sail off into the world of the Dead

Also Of Mice and Men.

 

[Valkraye]

In the Wheel of Time series, a certain character says: "My husband rides from World's End towards Tarwin's Gap, towards Tarmon Gai'don. Will he ride alone?"

I get misty eyed every time.

Yeah, The Wheel of Time has come close to getting me to cry a few times.

That it does. Though, whilst it hasn't made me cry, after getting to know some of the characters so well and so deeply through the course of all 13 books, it has made me experience proper happiness/joy and anger at certain sections of the story.

Kudos to you, Robert Jordan.

Also:

Spoiler

When Elizabeth Gant is killed in Matthew Reilly's Scarecrow got me all teary eyed the first time I read it.

 

[nunqual]

If so what was it, and why? My own is The Book Thief, for the entirety of the last 50 pages.

I remember that book. We had to read it in 8th grade. It was a very powerful and interesting book, although it didn't make me cry.

I think only one book has made me cry. Thinking back on it, it was just a crappy, tragic romance novel, but I thought it deserved every award in the world at the time.

 

[The Bucket]

I was fucking retarded when I was 13.

You almost made me choke on my Jaffa cake. Good job mate : )

 

[Shuswah_Noir]

Letters from the Inside

Was a brilliant book, by memory at least.

 

[ghostdog20]

"The Last Book in the Universe"

I don't remember why, but when I read it a few years ago I got very sad. It was a very good book though.

 

[gamerguyal]

Where the Red Fern Grows. Damn dog stories, DAMN THEM!

This, and I was reading it in public, so I had to hurriedly dry my eyes.

 

[TheEvilCheese]

If so what was it, and why? My own is The Book Thief, for the entirety of the last 50 pages.

God, that book was depressing.
But I suppose that's what you get when it's narrated by Death itself.

Must read that again...

OT: can't think of any other that that to be honest, well, unless Manga counts. If it does pretty much the entirety of Battle Royale.

 

[Arkvoodle]

The Last Lecture.

 

[latenightapplepie]

The Hobbit got me real good.

 

[MonkeyJoe92]

Flowers for Algernon. That entire book is brutal. There's a line near the end that always makes me tear up when I think about it(If you've read it you'll know).

 

[hotacidbath]

Many times. Hell, I cried just a couple of days ago reading The Wise Man's Fear by Patrick Rothfuss. Kvothe's story can really tug at my heartstrings at times.

Really only quoting to say that this is an amazing book and that everyone ever should read it and The Name Of The Wind.
As for books that have made me cry... none, probably because I try to avoid overly sad books.

I just quoted to brag that Pat Rothfuss lives in the same town as me and is a pretty nice dude.

Hunger Games snip

Same here. I actually got pretty sad during all three of those books.