Itt: books that made you cry

Bend Sinister had me emotional

i can't cry. like i can feel extremely sad and i can feel tears but i can't ever get them out. help?

I'm ashamed to say that I teared up in Crito and Phaedo a tiny bit.

2666. The dead little gril. All the dead women left me unmoved.

Are you new to reading? (Not being judgemental, user, simply curious) If you haven't read Dostoevsky yet, I recommend Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov. You might just tear up a little bit. I thought I was made of stone but he changed that for me.

i'm not but stoner and no longer human was the closest i came to crying. the last time i cried was when i heard the end of mahler's symphony no. 2, and that was like a single tear. i'm genuinely curious how i can cry again. i think it's because i'm ashamed of how much i cried as a kid (would cry at anything going wrong, including making b's instead of an a on a test).

It's very seldom that I tear up too. I just remember that when I read those books it happened. The last time I teared up was when I watched the movie "The Twilight Samurai", that's a fucking tear jerker. I wasn't sobbing or anything, but I felt my eyes water...Looking up mahler's symphony no. 2.

mahler is fantastic i like him a lot more than wagner, don't let /pol/ tell you he's not good because he's jewish

Don Quixote, more than any work of media.

>It's a kid's book
Pic related fucked me up back when I read it in 4th grade.

Patrician as fuck

les mis

Why thank you, user. I don't feel quite so bad now.

My diary

rent

>tfw didn't keep a diary during my formative years to look back on as a young adult

i had about 1,000 times more feels back then. i feel like a fucking zombie and i want to leech on my past experiences. i feel so hollow it's insane.

Accounts of the girl in physical therapy and the parents / wife of the guy who died were absolutely devastating. Never really cried at fiction, but I guess because this was an actual person it got to me more. Also Murakami's descriptions were really sad.

This desu

Mason & Dixon

Plenty. Too many to list.

The worst offenders though I think were Lolita, The Magic Mountain, The Waves, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, an Anne Frank biography, Stoner,...

rings of saturn - w g sebald

This. I can cry to film, because film can be emotionally investing. Literature, on the other hand, is purely intellectually investing, and such higher plane of thought and emotion (if any) doesn't allow for "crying" from a biological perspective.

>Literature, on the other hand, is purely intellectually investing
Ah, so you're new to reading.

The end of Lolita. Recently Kokoro had me misty.

Define "new". If you mean I don't read regularly over all else, than you're right.

I was just mocking you because your statement is a bit silly. Literature can obviously be "emotionally investing," as can literally anything.

So you cry at nonfiction?

No, reading is an intellectual feat, as opposed to, say, watching moving images on a screen and inherently responding to them - this is proven by science in many studies in terms of brain involvement and energy expenditure while reading. Obviously you can respond inherently, i.e. emotionally, to interpreted text, but the activity of reading itself is not purely emotional, but closer to something like doing math; reading is learnt, while seeing and feeling is inherent and doesn't have to be taught. It seems you take reading for granted - something few, if any, species can do.

One of the only Nabokov's I haven't read, I'll bump it up the list

I wish i had been able to keep some sort of diary since age 5 so i could describe past events of my life to my therapist in a more accurate way. In that way i could be more sure of whether it was my upbringing what caused to me having a shitty adult life.

I choked up when I finished the book the first time.

I don't remember if it was crying exactly, but it was some strong feeling when they were talking how Richard has changed to better. Twice.

I cried when Phoebe was raped

u uggo

I definitely shed a tear during Rezia and Septimus' last scene

I didn't cry while reading it, but about 15 minutes after finishing it I just broke down and wept. I saw so much of Stevens in myself.

will someone explain this fucking bugs bunny meme to me

neither were very good from a technical perspective, but Wagner was probably the more original of the two. In fact, not probably, he absolutely was. Mahler is good if you want a nice teatime sniffle I guess

Bugs...easy on the tears.

The Crossing (McCarthy)

Phaedo had me crying like a baby. Didn't help that I basically read it last out of the dialogues.

Where non fiction is read to be understood, fiction is, first and foremost, read to be experienced.

> t. edgy teenager

>Obviously you can respond inherently, i.e. emotionally, to interpreted text, but the activity of reading itself is not purely emotional
What the fuck do you think this thread is about?
No one asked you if the pure act of reading without interpreting the text has ever made you cry.

This and the rest of the tetralogy hit real hard.

Of Mice and Men was the only book that made me really cry.

amen.

youre a fucking pseud

I don't think Stevens did anything wrong, as a servant he is the best a man can ever get in his life. He doesn't seem to mind the fact that he never lived himself either.

really wanted to reply seriously, go read a book tho, you sound silly. pseud

not my only, but yes me too brother.. THE ENDING, JUST LIKE THE DOG, NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, i was tearing up in anticipation when i realized the recurring themes. that shit got me too on stoner, the recurring themes fucking depressed me, read stoner if you haven't.

It's a forced meme. Someone posted pic related a while ago and it's been so, since.

Shed a tear after reading the scene with the kids at the end of Brothers K.

ive yet to read a book where i can honestly feel for a character. every book i read, i always have it in my mind that this is just a story made up by someone.

although im sure if i read the grave of the fireflies book, i would cry just from the dedication at the beginning of the book. but i havent read that

meme but the letters from Avril to Orin in Infinite Jest made me cry

Dying and sometimes abused and/or overworked horses in 19th century and early 20th century lit. Many such cases.

Brothers Karamazov ending.

Last part of Anna Karenina.

The scene in Crime and punishment where a horse is being beat to death.

Letter from Victor's mother in Life and Fate.

A couple of chapter scenes/fragments of Infinite Jest, particularly the "And re Ennet House etc." bit about depression and that guy who builds model trains.

I'm not a faggot so I don't cry at books.

Please give an example of meme which is not forced.

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Dubs was one of the most forced memes, it got so bad that literally who had to hide the post numbers on /v/ and /b/ before permanently settling to make dubs and trips all but impossible on those boards.

>He doesn't seem to mind the fact that he never lived himself either.

Did you not read the last 15 pages or so of the book?

you cant Force digits tho....

There's scripts and they used to be pretty fucking common, it was cancer.

>I've been masturbating to porn for so long that I don't feel anything any more xD

Don Quixote when Sancho says his final words to a dying Don Quixote in the hopes that they can have more adventures together.

Left me genuinely upset for hours afterwards.

I've only read Spring Snow, but been meaning to pick this one up.

Spring Snow is one of my favorite novels. The ending was beautiful.

read zinky boys, m8

Apology had the same effect for me.

Mainly the first book and the last one. Also, wake up sir, which was a really enjoyable read

>this story deserves four stars
Lmao

The unbearable lightness of being when I was a crybaby who had got rejected by a girl whom I thought I loved.

Take up a testicular cancer ward. Have an open chat with patients there. Let it all out. They don't even need to know your real name or the fact that you still have both your nuts on.

Tyler Durden pls

Broke my heart as well. I think I read it in third grade. Maybe second.
Joke not intended, but funny enough not to cut out.

>All those replies
Just goes to show you how much BPA is being pumped into people

You don't need a diary in order to do that, just be willing to open up and talk, talk, it'll come by itself.

Psychoanalysis is a meme stop trying to find excuses for yourself.

Any books that made you cry while smiling ?

Same bro

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Suttree made my eyes water a few times. Mostly just the parts when he walks around the city or country by himself and sees something so startlingly lifelike.

>To W.S.

foreverially tied up bugs bunny with a ham and cheese tongue

Same for Phaedo

>"Call on me as your Iolaus, as long as the daylight lasts."

>feeling sadness AKA the emotional jew
no thanks I'm redpilled. and so long as there is hope for the white race I shall not shed a tear

Infinite Jest.
Scene where Marathe meets his wife for the first time, him saving her and her backstory.

Really makes you think what is it that gives life to a meme? Why that particular trite, almost (but not fully) nonsensical remark? I've seen hundreds probably such stupid posts left without reply, forever forgotten.

Some of the classical tragedies have made me weep, and I still have a few to read. The scene at the end of Oedipus Rex where he says his farewell to his girls always comes to mind, but several others too. For so long of my pleb life I equated classics with boring that I wasn't prepared to feel the well trodden dirt of my convictions be swept from under my feet. They truly are intense, aren't they?