Books that surprisingly made you cry

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I'll bite. What about it made you cry?

It just sucks so bad

I'm OP, the Father Forgets short story caught me off-guard. Also, it made me realize how much of an asshole I was to a former friend of mine.

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Nice

Fuck I just read that, you weren't kidding OP, that hit hard. Cat Stevens is a fucking hack

This is unironically influenced my life.

Also helped me realise drumpf would suck as a president during the campaign

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I found the story where the dad taught his retarded son multiplication so that he can pass algebra to be inspiring.

THERE ARE TWO KINDS OF PEOPLE IN THIS WORLD: THOSE WHO LEAD, AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW, THOSE WHO ARE LOSERS AND THOSE WHO ARE WINNERS" ~adolf hitler / dale carnegie / some random pretentious fuck

I've never read that book because that title is one of the most disgusting titles ever invented

But what about winning friends and influencing your uncle?

Both The Iliad and Odyssey surprisingly almost made me shed a few tears.

I think the end of Crime and Punishment made me cry

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That sounds more like a comedy, would read

Also odd enough I've never cried at a book. Reading is too cerebral an activity for me I guess. I've cried at a few Ghibli films though.

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Just so you know its not a good self help book.

Pleb desu

Listen, son: I am saying this as you lie asleep, one little paw crumpled under your cheek and the blond curls stickily wet on your damp forehead. I have stolen into your room alone. Just a few minutes ago, as I sat reading my paper in the library, a stifling wave of remorse swept over me. Guiltily I came to your bedside.

There are the things I was thinking, son: I had been cross to you. I scolded you as you were dressing for school because you gave your face merely a dab with a towel. I took you to task for not cleaning your shoes. I called out angrily when you threw some of your things on the floor.

At breakfast I found fault, too. You spilled things. You gulped down your food. You put your elbows on the table. You spread butter too thick on your bread. And as you started off to play and I made for my train, you turned and waved a hand and called, “Goodbye, Daddy!” and I frowned, and said in reply,

“Hold your shoulders back!”

Then it began all over again in the late afternoon. As I came up the road I spied you, down on your knees, playing marbles. There were holes in your stockings. I humiliated you before your boyfriends by marching you ahead of me to the house. Stockings were expensive‐and if you had to buy them you would be more careful! Imagine that, son, from a father!

Do you remember, later, when I was reading in the library, how you came in timidly, with a sort of hurt look in your eyes? When I glanced up over my paper, impatient at the interruption, you hesitated at the door. “What is it you want?” I snapped. You said nothing, but ran across in one tempestuous plunge, and threw your arms around my neck and kissed me, and your small arms tightened with an affection that God had set blooming in your heart and which even neglect could not wither.


And then you were gone, pattering up the stairs. Well, son, it was shortly afterwards that my paper slipped from my hands and a terrible sickening fear came over me. What has habit been doing to me?

The habit of finding fault, of reprimanding‐this was my reward to you for being a boy. It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

And there was so much that was good and fine and true in your character. The little heart of you was as big as the dawn itself over the wide hills. This was shown by your spontaneous impulse to rush in and kiss me good night. Nothing else matters tonight, son. I have come to your bedside in the darkness, and I have knelt there, ashamed!

It is feeble atonement; I know you would not understand these things if I told them to you during your waking hours. But tomorrow I will be a real daddy! I will chum with you, and suffer when you suffer, and laugh when you laugh. I will bite my tongue when impatient words come. I will keep saying as if it were a ritual: “He is nothing but a boy‐a little boy!”

I am afraid I have visualized you as a man. Yet as I see you now, son, crumpled and weary in your cot, I see that you are still a baby. Yesterday you were in your mother’s arms, your head on her shoulder. I have asked too much, too much.