Has a book ever made you cry?

If it's a good novel of the dramatic sort, I usually tear up at some point.

Wept a little last night after finishing white nights.

When the horse gets beaten in Nietzsche's biography.

>garlic

Yeah man, when Septimus jumps out of the window in Mrs Dalloway, or the death of David Copperfields mother and little brother and that cunt Mr Murdstone says: "It should have been you", or when Hegel says in the Philosophy of Right that the State is the worldly embodiment of the Ethical Idea, which is an idea so cold and worldless it moved me to tears.

>being moved to tears by philosophy

patrician

my nigga

fuck

I've come close to crying from Stoner, Kafka on the Shore ( I was going through some shit), and a memoir of a girl who survived Pol Pot's government and lost basically her whole family.

This fucking book. The ending is heart wrenching.

Same bro

>I was going through some shit

Mom or sister?

I still get choked up when I think of all of those Jews escaping death in the Holocaust

Where the Red Fern Grows when I was 11 had me bawling. Closest I've come in adulthood to crying from a book was American Pastoral. I didn't cry, but I came quite close.

Veeky Forums must have a thing for horses.

End of Jane Eyre made me sob like a bitch.

I cried when Socrates died

I got pretty damn close

oddly enough I almost cried while reading Slaughterhouse 5 when the Americans rode that horsedrawn carriage and without realizing it they strained the horses beyond exhaustion and the horses bled from the mouth and hooves cracked and every step meant agony and it drove then insane.
Only part of the book that really struck me

ma nigga

We are not worthy of such brilliance and self sacrifice.

Which part(s)?

ending to Flowers for Algernon had me QQing for a bit

Of Mice and Men (was auite drunk at the time tho)
The Curious case of Benjamin Button difnt really make me cry but a had a tear in my eye at the end

We're all horse-loving little girls here

Pour some out for Poseidon tonight

When Marxism became a religion.

Ecce Homo

>Dionysos against the crucified. . .

I wept

George Saunders, actually… Hm… Very stoned @ Gravity's Rainbow, don't remember what part, but that was funny b/c it's a silly book... Hunger/Pan… The second half of Molloy… Yes, bits of Dostoevsky… (Those last three are united in my mind… Does that make sense)

White Nights is the perfect romantic tragedy. The ultimate friendzoning in lit history.

Oh, yes, um, many poems… Certain pieces of Shakespeare, esp. death speeches. Queen Mab speech. The end of Lord of the Rings. The "Speak, thou vast and venerable head" speech in Moby Dick. These things are not strictly sad. I think it's something to do with ambivalence. Queen Mab, for example… Especially in the 1968 film, it's a very excited speech with some kind of horror in it. It's a nightmare itself, I guess. "Dreamers often lie..."

The old man with his dead donkey in A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy. Not that I'm more partial to animals than humans (a weakness of our age)—I was reminded because another poster mentioned a horse—anyway here it is—

When he and Katherine break up. Gets me every single time.

>She must have been planning her departure for some time, Stoner realized; and he was grateful that he had not known and that she left him no final note to say what could not be said.

Remember the horse in Don Quixote? Or was it a donkey that he only called a horse? Or was it Sancho's horse?

First book I cried to was Volkswagen Blues. Man meets a girl in the first chapter. Sexual tension all book, man is in love but too anxious or something. Woman tells him he should go after his brother, who he hasn't heard from in decades. Does so. After hundreds of pages and a shitty trail through dusty america, girl leaves him to pursue her own stuff, nothing ever happens between them. "Well at least I'm close to finding my brother", Brother had a stroke recently and is paralyzed, can't even hug him or speak, sits blank eyed. "Well, guess I should head home".

I was 10 and didn't know what to make of such harsh reality. I'd look at the book and keep going through its pages thinking I must've missed something.

Vaguely, I haven't read it in years. I should read it again this year

That one passage in Moby Dick. It was the most beautiful piece of literature I have ever read.

I can't help crying every time Don Quixote dies.

WOW
SPOILERS

Heh, clearly my memories of it are vague, too. Don't really know why I thought of it. I think there was some connection to Sancho – unflinching faith... Devotion. (That's an oversimplification.)

Which one? That is an exceptionally beautiful book. I've been thinking about it recently because these encyclopedic novels make me curious. That's one I need to return to, though, because I read it before my breakthrough

Is it true that Cervantes wanted to make sure he died so no one could write another sequel? Thought I heard that.

>not having read Don Quixote
What the fuck are you doing here?

>Is it true that Cervantes wanted to make sure he died so no one could write another sequel? Thought I heard that.
He writes it himself in Part 2.

Oh, yes, I didn't cry when reading this first, of course, but after Aaron Schwartz's admittedly "just-so" analysis, the first chapter of Infinite Jest always makes me tear up. I know Infinite Jest isn't cool here, but

Hahah, oh! Guess that's where I read it.

Those passages where he traverses over a mountain under a full moon with a plug of tobacco and salted pork stay with me still

>crying about a dream sequence

Don't get put off, friend, it's not a spoiler. Cervantes spoils it himself, and it doesn't reduce its impact one bit IMO.

>crying about fiction
>crying about a book
>crying about someone else
>crying about an emotion
>crying

I understand crying about scenes from a book, but crying about a dream sequence is too far.

That's an interesting perspective. Have you read Cloud Atlas by any chance? It's got levels of fiction, all of which are equally 'true' (i.e., not at all.) I think dreams could be even sadder than reality if done right. I know you're not supposed to read Kafka as dream narratives, but when you think of him in that way it opens up all kinds of possibilities. Is he representing secret fears? Secret desires? I'm maybe too grounded in the Freudian tradition by thinking this way, but still.

The epilogue to Brothers Karamazov with Ilyusha's funeral.

> When the father in his grief starts to blame his wife
> When they get back and see his boots by the door and all break down crying

>Don't really know why I thought of it
Was it because Sterne explicitly made reference to that episode in the passage which I posted?

IT WAS A FUCKING HORSE

why is Moe sizlak reading an hardcover copy of
Little Women?

> ending of Underworld
> ending of Death of Ivan Ilyich

Germinal. When Catherine died at the end.

Not when the merchant gets his dick ripped off

>ever
Pretty much every book I read makes me cry at some point.

Are you even human?

When the horse name Boxer in Animal Farm got taken away to be turned into glue

No book has ever made me cry but Finding Dory did last week.

How do you cry to a book, please explain this. Even when i do feel for sad shit, i can't cry, i just feel sad.

>Pretty much every book I read makes me cry at some point.

Pretty much very single book? You have an inordinate amount of estrogen if this is the case. Assuming you're a male user of course.

Might be, I don't know. I cry very easily. I cry at most episodes of Friends.

Boys don't cry

I didn't cry but I was pretty sad about Thecla, especially before I realized that Severian liked to lie all the time.
And yes, I figured he was lying the second he saidthat his memory was infallible.

I rarely cried over anything fictional until I turned 22. I thought I was hard shit. Then, for some reason, something snapped and now I cry at the drop of a hat. I even cry in /gif/ gore threads.

Horsey-fans should read Tolstoy's Kohlstomer.

Ever seen Schindler's List my man?

they are the most noble animal

if Achilles' horses wept for him, why shouldn't we weep for horses?

I wish I could cry. What happened that allowed you to cry?

when my life sucks i have more empathy and i cry at everything

when my life is good i dont cry at jack shit

now im in a psychopathic phase where everything im not predisposed to be sympathetic towards just makes me laugh.

Jews """"""""""escaping death"""""""""" in the """"""""""Holocaust"""""""""".

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

Some parts of Miss Lonelyhearts get me

>I wish I could cry.
Why?

When Dr spectro died in gravity's rainbow. I cry evry time

A physical manifestation of how you feel. It is the peak of expression.

i cry every time i read it

I like you.

>when he gets a copy of Katherine's book and finds It's dedicated to W.S.
This had me gushing, I had to put the book down for a bit.

>reading Don Quixote
What are you doing here user

Sarajevo Blues

Go back to your anime board.

"Miles to Go"

Nike didn't deserve to be destroyed.

The only book to ever make me cry

>when the last Buendia finishes translating the Melquiades scripts

I had to sit for about an hour and just cry

Lolita. I identify myself with HH. A few teardrops fell when I realised she will never be again my Lo, but just Dolly Schiller.

It's a book, you dumb cunt.

Kafka used all this grotesque imagery but at the core of his stories are simple existential dread and the typical male fear of not being needed, not being of use. He had a family history of mental illness. The imagery, the dream-like interventions are just tools to express his very simple, but powerful convictions. Trying to interpret it in the Freudian tradition leads to overanalyze and complicate things without getting at the core of his work to be quite honest.

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Hamsun's Victoria made me weep in certain parts.
Also the ending of Flowers for Algernon is pretty fucking brutal