/lit/ - Literature

>>6211242
Only book to ever make me cry as an author biography and he decided to write about the time his dog died... fucking dogs, man.

Armor made me tear up a bit.
I didn't cry, but my eyes got a bit misty.

>>6211242
1984 and Great Gatsby made me cry.

>>6211248
Man, I could believe that'd be powerful stuff. When a dog dies it has the same impact of losing your best friend forever, depending on your relationship with your dog.

Loads

>Charlotte's Web
I was a child but I think it would do the same to me now
>Animal Farm
boxer just wanted to be helpful and you USED HIM UP UNTIL HE WAS JUST GLUE ;_;
>The Pearl
In public. I am never having children
>Wilde's children stories
Why is the universe cruel?

Thanks OP, I remember why I wanted to kill myself now

>>6211291
What part of Gatsby?

>>6211242
The end of The Road had me shed a tear, at least almost. I even had watched the movie, so it's not like I hadn't expected as much, but, fuck.

>>6211329
The part where he rapes his sister.

Absalom, Absalom! did

Alma flor ada - strange visitors. Make me heavy Cry

I'm a bitch, so I tear up a bit when reading just about anything remotely sad. I was reading a book on mythology today in the break room, while listening to Let My People Go from The Prince of Egypt, and there was a quote from Plato about Eros/Cupid "Love--Eros--makes his home in men's hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs." and this synced up right with the part of the song where Ramesses tells Moses his heart hardened and I stifled some tears.

I don't know what's wrong with me, I'm just so empathetic towards shit like that.

>>6211242
Crime and Punishment made me bawl.

A decent amount, hard to think of a bunch of specific examples though. I'll remember the parts of Ulysses that made me cry on the first and later reads though.
>Bloom's thoughts about his dead son Rudy
>the paragraph in Ithaca where Joyce describes water, boiling, etc.
>the final bits of Penelope
Though the ending didn't make me cry the first time, it made me spontaneously very happy and I couldn't stop smiling, I later reread the last chapter and totally sobbed at the ending bits.

History has a tendency to choke me up too. Human suffering, the idea that we've all just kind of been dicking around without a clue for so long. I don't know.

At the end of the Risen Empire and Killing of Worlds.

>>6211242

I haven't cried in four years. How do I cry?

tale of two cities, the part where Sydney Carton dies.

Stoner made me well up a bit.

>>6211430
I just finished this... at the end when he broke down?

>>6211593

(you have to get off of the computer)

>>6211242
If a book doesn't make me cry I probably didn't like it.

>>6211593
it's way easier for me to cry when i'm stoned. unlocks my emotions

>>6211430

Brothers Karamazov, bawling like a fucking belieber at a no show, fuck.

>>6211611

What a dumbass assumption. I didn't cry when my gf broke up with me.

>>6211672

lol this is actually the closest thing to tragedy commonly experienced by middle class 20 somethings.

>>6211242
Yes.
Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking, and Herzen's My Past and Thoughts, come to mind.

>>6211701

>middle class
>20 something

Wrong.

Although, I suppose a more powerful tragedy would be you never having a gf.

O, ever-wise butterfly, tell me your thought on DFW's Infinite Jest, memes aside.

>>6211715

OHHHHHHHHHHHHHH YOU WORKING CLASS HERO

YOU VERY GOOD SHITPOSTER :)

:)

>>6211722

haha, struck a nerve did I? Good to know.

At the end of The Count of Monte Cristo.

Odysseus talking to his mother didn't make me cry but it was emotional. Fitzgerald does a great job at conveying a variety of emotions.

The end of The Crossing would have made me cry but I was so emotionally deflated I felt nothing.

>>6211242
I never cry, literally never, but this video had my lower lids moist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59A4kbJ_JlA

>>6211719
I only know that I'm not interested in it.

>>6211745

>struck a nerve did I?

I could say "nah bro, I've had 2 gfs, one was for several years and very sexual" but what'd the point of that be? I am whoever you want me to be.

>>6211791

you still did it

>>6211242
the Iliad

>>6211242
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
totally caught me by surprise
His a Prayer for Owen Meaning got me too - the ending is one of the best ever in fiction

Also, way back in the day both To Kill a Mockingbird and Catcher in the Rye made me tear up.

Recently, I can only recall a bit of Time Regained, where Marcel describes his epiphany before the Guermantes' party where he fall on the uneven steps.

when dumbledore died

hit me pretty hard, that one

>>6211593
watch:
Terms of Endearment
Sophie's Choice

If neither of those get you, welcome to Aspergers

>>6211242

No books but I watched this at work as I was watching the last episode and cried. For fans of mitchell and webb

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqtgVtygQMY

>>6211242
Oh, man.
Just two days ago, when I was reading Siddhartha.

Right at the end when, upon his departure, Govinda looks at Siddhartha and in his face sees thousands of other faces - of screaming newborn children, of murderers, of lovers inflamed with passion, of corpses lying on the ground; the widened mouths of fish swimming in the river, of crocodiles, bulls, birds and elehpants - all of them at once.

And at that moment, I remembered my sister's aborted child, my niece or nephew that I never met. It had hydrocephalus. The thought of a small, fragile human being, whom I could have loved like my other niece, birthed from eternal darkness only to forever sink into it again... It crushed me.

It didn't help that I was reading Oe's 'A Personal Matter' as a side-book.

Then I remembered my girlfriend, with whom I will spend my entire life with, my parents and friends, all of them at once.

I felt like Siddhartha when he gazed at his reflection in the river and recognized his father's face in his own.

This feeling of universal unity of all being, the endless stream of life of which we all are but a small and fleeting part, suddenly overwhelmed me and I broke down and started crying, bawling like a baby, with the ugliest grimace of my adult life squirming on my face. I cried myself to sleep that night.

Until then, I've never experienced such a thing while reading a book.

>>6211919
I knew what this would be before I clicked it.

The worst one for me though is in The Fast Show with Rowley Birkin QC. It wouldn't make sense on its own so I won't post it but if you've seen it you know what I mean. The audience were stunned to silence and the sketch finished with a polite applause and a brief moment before the next sketch.

Masterful television. Same with Blacker Goes Forth.

Anyway, back to books...

In the end of The Great Gatsby when you find out that Gatsby went from rags to riches by his willpower alone and love for his missis

>>6211913
>thread about books that make you cry
>posts about two films rather the novels from which they were adapted

Good grief.

end of Fathers and Sons when nihilist dies

>>6212042
I know
I considered otherwise
but novels can cushion you from the blow
movies often don't
just wanted to help

Flowers for Algernon

>>6212065
yes
had forgotten about this one
sobbed


and
"Born of Man and Woman" by American writer Richard Matheson,

http://www.summit.k12.nj.us/~rwallock/fov2-00113798/fov2-00113529/fov2-0011849a/bornmanwoman_matheson.pdf

>>6211242
Flowers for Algernon made me cry when i was 13
The Outsiders made me cry around the same time
Johnny Got His Gun also aroundthe same time


i haven't actually cried since i was 15 and i'm 21, it sucks

>>6211242
"The Nightingale and the Rose" And "The Little Prince"

>>6211985

never been able to get into blackadder but I'll keep trying. Never heard of the other one but it sounds good Imma try it. I'm not english.

>>6212175
Goes Forth is far and away the best Blackadder.

The Fast Show is the best British sketch show since Monty Python. It was hugely influential and spawned loads of spin-offs. It relies quite heavily on parodies of regular people so it makes it much more relatable than things like Monty Python.

This book got me very close.

Wasn't expecting how emotionally brutal it would be. Sarah Kane was talented as fuck.

>>6211715
haha rekt

Libra, Infinite Jest

captain underpants series

>>6211242

Anytime in the Bible where someone comes to Jesus begging for forgiveness and he absolves them, and they change their lives around.

>>6212280
I saw Blasted in the theater without any idea of her work

it went... unexpected

had to stifle a laugh when they started to eat the baby

I cried at the end of a Tale of Two Cities. Not 100% sure why, though...

I was like 15.

When Suttree finds out his little boy died and remembers taking him to the fair and watching him marvel at the carnival lights and the dancers and fireworks it made me cry.

I read it again the other day and found where McCarthy slipped in a passage about Suttree thinking of his son - when he's with Joyce and wonders if she was ever a little child, marveling at the ferris wheels and hurdy-gurdy music of the carnival. Can't believe I missed it the first time.

>>6211890
Oh, yeah, I forgot about this.
Some of those fights, losing characters you admired so much.
It was all so senseless...

I almost teared up at the end of Starship Troopers. I was just so damn proud of Rico.

Martin Birck's Youth. Not that /lit/ will ever read it. ;_;

>>6211242

tolstoy's war & peace

dropped it on my foot

>>6211334
Phoebe?

>>6211604
me too
also a farewell to arms
also the old man and the sea
also all the pretty horses
also the road

>>6211603
oh yeah I remember that, nigga got friendzoned real bad

>>6211248
>>6211302
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwGnCIdHQH0

Try watching this.

The ending of Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." It's so embarrassing, I was in a coffee shop and just silently let the tears come out.

The christmas church scene from Gravity's Rainbow...

>>6211242

Moby Dick.

>>6212859
Is that the one with the analogy of the bugs in the hay of the manger? Great criticism of Christianity right there.

>>6211329
The last page.

the lord of the rings
the campaigns of alexander

>>6211242
I remember bursting in to tears from reading Unholy Night. Manly tears man. Manly tears.

The end of Gatsby where he says how Gatsby believed in the green light, i'm actually welling up a little bit and feel tingly in my head just thinking about it.

>>6212878
And so we beat on, boats against the current, borne ceaselessly into the past.

Memorized that line.

>>6212901
you didn't. it's "borne back ceaselessly".

All of the later books by Charles Dickens, especially Hard Times. I cried reading about Cecelia Jupe's father.

>>6212862
Those last chapters

The fault in our stars.

;.;

the part in the metamorphoses where actaeon gets ripped apart by his hunting dogs

I teared up when Goblin sacrificed himself and drove the lance into Kina to save Sleepy and Murgen's kid in Water Sleeps

sidenote: Ken Burns' Civil War documentary gets me every time too

>>6213101
>sidenote: Ken Burns' Civil War documentary gets me every time too
Same: Gettysburg Address reading, the letter by the soldier to his wife, and Appomattox

>>6212932
Eh, you got the idea.

Pericles' funeral oration

>>6211242

>>6211312
>>The Pearl
mein nigre

>>6213118

>>6213184
im a nationalist

>>6213210
Have you read Pericles' last speech?

>>6211242
manga not book

Uncle Tom's Cabin and The Day of the Bomb

Rich man, poor man. Last part. Wasn't expecting that

>>6213216
i've read the whole book, pretty great stuff

how is herodotus?

The last bit of purgatorio

>>6213226
I cried when Mimura died, why did he have to miss the clutch shot?

>>6211242
Irving's World According to Garp had me bawling when the main character meets his speech-impared writer mistress.

Upon reading her prose he tells her she has a beautiful voice, and I just couldn't do it.

John Irving has a beautiful way of looking at the human condition.

>>6211973
damn anon... you've convinced me to read it again. I never got that much emotion when i read it

The short story "Lockheed" by James Franco, an unlikely source, I know.

I've never cried reading a book. I've cried at the ending to Grave of the Fireflies, the album Hospice by The Antlers. That said I don't hold them to higher esteem than the literature I've read, but they punched me in the gut pretty hard (I was 16 when I saw Grave and that level of injustice struck me hard, and all of the pain Sylvia had to bear in the album beat the shit out of my emotions.)

The only document in the history of media that has ever made me cry, is Moot's retirement Q&A video.

>>6212936
Oh come on. Hard Times was fucking schlock. I don't think I've ever hated a novel so much.

>>6213343
LoL

>>6211242
The Little Friend by Donna Tartt

>>6211242

Loads of them

I bawled at The Road.
A simple Life made me cry on the bus
I've come away from Terry Pratchett books with something in my eye.

I actually cry ridiculously easily at art, I was a bit teary in a Rothko exhibition the other day.

On the whole though, I'm a cold-hearted bastard and quite ruthless - my guru says that the fact I cry at art is my Ida nadi tryong to balance my pingala nadi or some shit, I usually tune him out when he goes off on one tbh.

>>6211242
Book of the New Sun when Severian becomes the autarch and sees a bush full of thorns that are the same as The Claw and praises the Increate

>>6211242
>that part at the end of Crime and Punishment where Raskolnikov asks his mother if she will still love him no matter what he does
>she doesn't know

>>6211604
Iktf bro.

Uncle Tom's Cabin
death of little Evangeline

>>6211672
Same here bro.

Never let me go made me well up a bit though

>>6214234
you sound like a fun person to know, no sarcasm

>>6211242
No, only when it was translated to the big screen and acted out have books made me cry.

>>6214521

Why is it that if someone says "no sarcasm" I assume they're being even more sarcastic than usual?

>>6214234
>I actually cry ridiculously easily at art
>On the whole though, I'm a cold-hearted bastard
I can relate to this. Masterful works of art and science get me on a level that nothing else has. Many of the displays at Kennedy Space center got me teary eyed and the IMAX movie 'Hubble 3D' was astonishingly beautiful.

>>6211407
That's pretty cute anon. We could be empathy buddies.

>>6211242
Werther.

Poor guy...

>>6212850
It's okay man, there's nothing embarrassing about that. Besides no probably cares about you enough to have to noticed.

my struggle by karl ove knausgaard made me, well, if not cry, then at least whimp quite a few times. the father-son relation is generally something that makes me melancholic.

also, remember crying when i read the green mile at the age of eleven.

The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.

Probably considered plebeian in here.

Came closer than ever in the epilogue of Howard Pyle's "The Adventures of Robin Hood", a kid's book:

Thus died Robin Hood, at Kirklees Nunnery, in fair Yorkshire, with mercy in his heart toward those that had been his undoing; for thus he showed mercy for the erring and pity for the weak through all the time of his living.

His yeomen were scattered henceforth, but no great ill befell them thereafter, for a more merciful sheriff and one who knew them not so well succeeding the one that had gone, and they being separated here and there throughout the countryside, they abided in peace and quietness, so that many lived to hand down these tales to their children and their children's children.

A certain one sayeth that upon a stone at Kirklees is an old inscription. This I give in the ancient English in which it was written, and thus it runs:

HEAR UNDERNEAD DIS LAITL STEAN LAIS ROBERT EARL OF HUNTINGTUN NEA ARCIR VER AS HIE SAE GEUD AN PIPL KAULD IM ROBIN HEUD SICK UTLAWS AS HI AN IS MEN VIL ENGLAND NIDIR SI AGEN OBIIT 24 KAL. DEKEMBRIS 1247.

And now, dear friend, we also must part, for our merry journeyings have ended, and here, at the grave of Robin Hood, we turn, each going his own way.

>>6213173
[Spoiler]Kat[/spoiler]

>>6211715
>tfw no gf

Leaf in the Storm

Japanese invasion of China, kind buddhist monks, orphaned children and ordinary people getting assraped by the insanity of war.

>>6212785
Oh, god .. I couldn't hold it in.

In grade 7, I read a book called "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie", and I cried pretty hard. I cried laughing at "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthurs Court".

Malazan book 2.

Dammit nigga when they started crucifying all those soldiers i got mopey as fuck.

>>6212785
;_;

Where the Red Fern Grows.

>you will never explore the Ozark wilderness
>you will never pit your wits, work, and suffering against that of the coons
>you will never experience a love as pure and beautiful as being a boy with his dogs, ever again
>you will never nurse a stray back to life and sob as it returns to the boy it loves

>>6216144
"Drums" was a fantastic thing to read way back when.

>>6211242
I'm reading Lives of the Saints by Albin Butler and there are a lot of sad stories in it, but the one that made me suddenly burst into tears was the story of Saint Agnes.

a farewell to arms
in public man

I was surprised to find myself breaking down during Don Fabrizio's death in The Leopard. It was the scene towards the end when he's trying to quantify the amount of happiness he actually experienced during his seventy three years of life, and only manages to account for three.

Also, the scene in Huck Finn when he quite literally decides he would rather go to hell than give up his friend Nigger Jim is quite profound, and in my opinion has more to say about human progress than a thousand showings of "12 Years a Slave".

The Long Walk by Stephen King got me the first time
So did Catcher In The Rye, i related to Holden a little too much

>>6211242
When I was a kid Charlotte's Web and The Giving Tree made me sad.

>>6211242
This fucking book man.

The first book that ever made me tear up was Of Mice and Men.

The only other time I can remember tearing up at literature/poetry was while reading The Hollow Men by T.S. Eliot, and I'm still not entirely sure why I did.

>>6216632
Oh god, I read Where the Red Fern Grows back in 3rd grade, and I remember we had an independent reading hour every day. I finished it during class and completely lost it bawling right in the middle of the quiet reading time.

>>6217363
>>6217635
>>6217652
All these books man... turn me in to a crying infant.

>this whole thread

to the lighthouse made me cry like a little bitch ~5 times. children are my soft spot.

The end of Half Blood Prince when Dumbledore dies. HATERS GONNA HATE

plot twist: it was last week LOLOLOLOOLL

>>6215707
I know what you mean. As a kid, I read a pretty good abridged retelling of stories from Le Morte d'Arthur, which preserved a lot of the flavor. The memorial speech by Sir Ector at the very end almost got me:

Ah Launcelot, he said, thou were head of all Christian knights, and now I dare say, said Sir Ector, thou Sir Launcelot, there thou liest, that thou were never matched of earthly knight's hand. And thou were the courteoust knight that ever bare shield. And thou were the truest friend to thy lover that ever bestrad horse. And thou were the truest lover of a sinful man that ever loved woman. And thou were the kindest man that ever struck with sword. And thou were the goodliest person that ever came among press of knights. And thou was the meekest man and the gentlest that ever ate in hall among ladies. And thou were the sternest knight to thy mortal foe that ever put spear in the rest.

Then there was weeping and dolour out of measure.

>>6218084
How fucking much of a useless retard would you even have to be to think of this, bother to type it and put in the captcha, and submit it. Jesus fucking christ. I mean this diarrhea feltching faggot is obviously going to say "LELYUMAD" and pretend they were le epic trolling, but they, I, and you, dear lurker, all know that unless I had pointed out how magnificently fucking stupid this comment is, no one would have paid attention to it.

feelings beyond lacrimatics

>>6216830
you're talking about the novel not the film right? or maybe you aren't, I've only seen the Italian version of the lepoard

>>6217652
Of Mice and Men. Fuck. Too powerful

>P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

>>6215490
The perfect balance between comforting someone and kicking him right in his face when he's let his guard down.

>>6211604
>Ctrl+F Stoner
>1 post
>good enough

>>6211242

Pretty damn close

May be an odd choice by the ending of The Master and Margarita really got to me for some reason.

>>6216675
Farewell to arms is start to finish feeling