/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18217822]

ITT books that made you cry

[Anonymous No.18217827]

my dairy desu

[Anonymous No.18218008]

Am I the only one who found this super corny?
I didn't hate reading it.
But man was it super corny.

[Anonymous No.18218033]

>>18218008
Yes, it was super corny, and also shit.
It felt like a the introduction to a self-help book, I heard so much good shit about this book about how it was "a life changer" and then I got slapped in the face with literal garbage.

[Anonymous No.18218043]

>>18218008
>>18218033
What is it actually, some kind of allegory? People either shit on this book or praise it excessively, but I still have no idea what the actual plot is.

[Anonymous No.18218048]

>>18218008
I dont get neither the hate or the love for this book, its just a fairy tale

[Anonymous No.18218050]

>>18218043
Follow your dreams. That's the whole book.

[Anonymous No.18218067]

[Anonymous No.18218070]

Les Miserables and The Rings of Saturn had me tearing a lot

[Anonymous No.18218146]

>>18218043
>>18218050
Yea, it’s pretty much all about following your inner calling. You could be superficially satisfied with where you are rn but if you’re not following the path that calls you out, you’ll never be spiritually satisfied

[Anonymous No.18218164]

>>18217822
specifically the titular story

[Anonymous No.18218166]

>>18218033
It's an entertaining, readable and comfy book that told a story from beginning to end with a nice twist. It was never supposed to be a masterpiece whatsoever.

I don't understand the hate on this board, if you want a life-changing book read the Torah, the Bible or the Quran, not self-help books written by pricks thinking they are living the healthiest lifestyle out there.

[Anonymous No.18218229]

>>18218043
its just like a "the real treasure is the journey" kind of story

[Anonymous No.18218371]

>>18218043
u hab to beeleeb in urself lmao
else the universe won't align itself for you

[Anonymous No.18218380]

>>18218048
The hate comes from literally every non /lit/ claming this is one of the best books they've ever read in their life, I know one, you probably know one, everyone knows one. Then you read it and it's just a mediocre story for children.

[Anonymous No.18219002]

>>18217822
I really liked it, I can see myself reading it to my children. I think what added to my enjoyment was that I heard it through an audio book, and the woman that read it had a wonderful delivery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oxyBAbL_0k

[Anonymous No.18219009]

Why are women so retarded bros

[Anonymous No.18219064]

Just finished this. Didn't make me cry, but it definitely hit me somewhere in the feels.

[Anonymous No.18219122]

>>18219009
But I love them so much :(

[Anonymous No.18219129]

>>18219122
you are not from kazakhstan?

[Anonymous No.18219305]

Where the Red Fern Grows and All Quiet on the Western Front.

[Anonymous No.18219380]

>>18217822
A Farewell to Arms

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[Anonymous No.18219728]

>>18219527
based

[Anonymous No.18219731]

>>18217822
The last part of Phaedo

[Anonymous No.18219736]

>>18219527
This

[Anonymous No.18219830]

>>18217827
Don't cry over spilled milk anon

[Anonymous No.18219836]

>>18217822
Lolita

[Anonymous No.18219846]

>>18219380
:'(

[Anonymous No.18219849]

>>18217822
cried at this

[Anonymous No.18219867]

l'academie

[Anonymous No.18220031]

It made me cry from how bad it was and how many tards claim it transformed their entire worldview when it's entire message is something a 10 year old could conjure by himself being "Follow your dreams"

[Anonymous No.18220056]

>>18217822
Siddhartha is way better

[Anonymous No.18220229]

Kritik der reinen Vernunft

[Anonymous No.18220235]

>>18218008
I know a guy who got a tattoo from the book, instantly filtered me and I'm now convinced the book is pure horseshit and I will never read it.

[Anonymous No.18220288]

>>18217822
Recently read Notre-Dame de Paris (the hunchback) for the first time. Ngl, I cried at quite a few parts throughout the story. I won't spoil for those who haven't read it, but those who have I'm sure will understand me when I say I wept toward the end as Quasimodo and Frollo watched from the balcony the scene unfolding below in the Place de Grève.
Also gotta say that I now prefer to call it by the French title, since I think it better captures the true essence of the book. After all, Esmeralda is the character which the whole story revolves around.

[Anonymous No.18220766]

If a cute little book makes you seethe because it moves normies to tears you might be a midwit. if a book makes you seethe because "it's message is too simple" are a midwit. and the alchemist might be just your speed.

[Anonymous No.18220975]

It relies heavily on taking the existence of god as a fact, and as a result comes off extremely preachy. If you believe in god this might be helpful to you to reinforce your belief, but if you are in anyway existentialist or atheist it is pretty much entirely useless as self help fiction. Its written competently enough and has some basic life advice like "a decision is just the beginning point that send you on a new journey in life", which isnt bad advice in itself but most people have already heard stuff like this by the time you're like 16 or less.

[Anonymous No.18220997]

Every book that features deathbed scenarios makes me cry on them, I cant help it, especially if its a son meeting his father for the last time.

War and Peace, Zeno's Conscience, Don Quixote are some of them.

[Anonymous No.18221012]

>>18217822
Les Miserables
Don Quixote
Brothers Karamazov
(And almost Stoner)

[Anonymous No.18221076]

>>18217822
are y gay or smthg

[Anonymous No.18221091]

>>18221076
Yes

[Anonymous No.18221156]

>>18221091
happy for you bro, hope u find love then

[Anonymous No.18221193]

>>18219731
You weren't convinced by his argument, then?

[Anonymous No.18221212]

>>18219836
The second half of it is just grindingly sad. It's easy to tell when people haven't actually read it because its reputation doesn't really capture that part of it. Christ it is so bleak.

[Anonymous No.18221296]

>>18221156
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.18221336]

Ngl, the Revival by Stephen king was close. "When the protagonist meets with his brothers and former band members was heartwarming."

[Anonymous No.18221346]

>>18219527
>Thermodynamics sections
I never knew I could cry so much

[Anonymous No.18221388]

Not actual tears but felt like my heart had been ripped from my chest and fed to rabid hyenas in front of my eyes. Three or four times.

[Anonymous No.18221393]

>>18219527
Kek

[Anonymous No.18222260]

>>18220288
Agreed. It's much more about the Notre Dame. I'd even say it's far more about Paris itself than the Hunchback (who is not nearly as central a character as the English title might imply).
I also found Frollo really sympathetic.

[Anonymous No.18222322]

>>18219849
I think this is the most soulful book I've ever read

[Anonymous No.18222328]

>>18217822
The Brothers Karamazov
Slaughterhouse-Five

>>18218164
Based

[Anonymous No.18222422]

>>18217822
Most recent was Sirens of Titan

[Anonymous No.18222435]

>>18219380
Amazing ending

[Anonymous No.18222437]

What does Chile have to do with anything?

[Anonymous No.18222706]

>>18220997
The death scene in Zeno is hilarious though

[Anonymous No.18222884]

>>18222437
I think it's ebonics for child

[Anonymous No.18223268]

>>18222706
Yeah, its not even meant to be that sad and still made me tear up, thats how bad it is. I was at my mom's deathbed in my early teens so it tugs at something buried deep.

[Anonymous No.18223312]

>>18217822
Every book about the Holocaust made me cry.
It's truly hard to understand how people could have done such things.

[Anonymous No.18223357]

>>18221388
is it actually good? i love the mini series, but i tried some other book by mcmurtry and puked.

[Anonymous No.18223378]

>>18218166
Usually it is not the book that /lit/ hates, it's the audience.
>>18219129
kek
>>18222328
>Slaughterhouse-Five
Why?
>>18223312
Germans aren't people.

[Anonymous No.18223477]

Siddartha
Joan of Arc
The man in the high castle

[Anonymous No.18223871]

Lots of books make me cry actually, these are some of the ones ive read recently
>Culture of Narcissism by Christopher Lasch
very very sad book :(
>Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung
his dad died, very sad :(
>American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
he is very bitter, its very sad :((

[Anonymous No.18223886]

>>18220997
This happens in Carl Jung's autobiography, its even worse considering that its actually real :(

[Anonymous No.18223910]

>>18217822
If books are making you cry then you should wear proper corrective glasses, dumb motherfuckers.

[Anonymous No.18224952]

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[Anonymous No.18225359]

>>18217822
I cried while reading Confessions of a Mask. I felt as if it was a reflection of my own struggles. I had been through some similar experiences, feelings and thoughts as Kochan, and seeing them portrayed there, in such a beautiful way, made me cry. Plus, it is the book that made me obssess over Mishima.
I also teared a bit with Crime & Punishment and Werther, but it wasn't comparable as to what I felt while reading Confessions, where I would have to put the book down for many minutes just to reflect upon my own life while weeping.
>>18218008
It was a very boring book, I had to read it in highschool. The best thing was laughing with my friends at how bad it was. It is not as bad as some people say it is though.

[Anonymous No.18225371]

>>18220766
>if you don't like the alchemist you might like the alchemist
Proof it's definitely for midwits.

[Anonymous No.18225387]

>>18223871
>filename
Giganewfag

[Anonymous No.18225394]

>>18217822

[Anonymous No.18225732]

>>18222260
It's hard not to have sympathy for Frollo. It's obvious that, initially, he was just a man who wanted to do good; his altruism/benevolence is what sort of set him on the wrong path. Ultimately, he couldn't suppress his lust, and it drove him to evil.
Honestly, the real cause of all the trouble was Phoebus. I really think that if he hadn't entered the picture, things wouldn't have gotten so out of hand. The whole reason Esmeralda was imprisoned was because Djali spelled Phoebus's name on a ouija board or something. Esmeralda should have known Phoebus wasn't a good guy, but her 15 year old level of experience couldn't give her any hints.

[Anonymous No.18225768]

>>18225732
I was only familiar with the Disney movie before I read this. It’s almost shocking they adapted a fairly dark book. The characterizations are much different too. Phoebus couldn’t be more different, and as you said, Frollo is a sympathetic character. He had a real struggle going on inside of him. Imagine if the Disney movie ended as the book did

[Anonymous No.18225780]

>>18223357
Not him, but it’s great. You rarely hear a bad word against it for a reason. I’ve only read one other book of his and it was disappointing

[Anonymous No.18225878]

>>18217822
This book unironically made me cry my eyes out when I first read it in middle school. The Road may have made me cry when I read it for the first time in high school idr. There was this other book called First Do No Harm which was about some soul crushing medical cases. Easily the saddest true story I've ever read. I was a lot younger when I read these though so I think that is a part of it.

[Anonymous No.18225928]

Of mice and men

[Anonymous No.18226122]

>>18220288
I also cried repeatedly. Les Miserables also got me a couple times. Hugo really knew how to write.

[Anonymous No.18226130]

>>18218371
That's true though, faggot.

[Anonymous No.18226141]

>>18217822
The Garden Of Rama made me cry.. But that's probably because I decided to read it all in one sitting late one summer night and it was mostly boring and the tears were probably a mixture of boredom and constant yawning from sleep deprivation idk.

[Anonymous No.18226154]

>>18218008
It was comfy to imagine myself in a similar wandering adventure until the protagonist was forced to wage slave for shekels. I could be thinking of a different book desu.

[Anonymous No.18226254]

>>18225768
>It’s almost shocking they adapted a fairly dark book.
See: literally all of their fairy tales.

[Anonymous No.18226723]

>>18217822
>chile
Can someone translate tiktok speak?

[Anonymous No.18226739]

>>18222437
I met a man from Chile yesterday

[Anonymous No.18226769]

>>18226723
It's ebonics.

[Anonymous No.18226778]

>tfw you will never be a dog that is reincarnated into a human so you can follow your dreams with your owner

[Anonymous No.18226808]

>>18217822

[Anonymous No.18226858]

>>18217822
lol her name is ass

[Anonymous No.18226865]

>>18219527
Kek

[Anonymous No.18226875]

>>18219064
My nigga. I read it a couple weeks ago. I now those feels and they aint good.

[Anonymous No.18227166]

>>18221212
The ending is hilarious tho

[Anonymous No.18227175]

>>18226154
No, no, I think I remember that too. I had to read it for a Spanish class but I quit partway through and just read the Sparknotes

[Anonymous No.18227410]

>>18223312
>>18226876

[Anonymous No.18227419]

>>18217822
your image made me cry, OP

[Anonymous No.18227424]

>>18225780
So he’s a bit of a one hit wonder... interesting.

[Anonymous No.18227459]

Horns by Joe Hill and Flowers for Algernon made me cry my eyes out.

[Anonymous No.18227461]

>>18217822
I am Brazilian and i fucking hate this fucking book Paulo Coelho go fuck yourself.

[Anonymous No.18227471]

>>18219527
so true, unironically

[Anonymous No.18227473]

>>18217822
>Chile

[Anonymous No.18227477]

>>18219009
It makes them cute

[Anonymous No.18227499]

Unironically pic related and I don't even care what /lit/ thinks of John Green and his books

[Anonymous No.18227516]

>>18219064
Oh yeah good one

[Anonymous No.18227858]

the ending

[Anonymous No.18227874]

>>18227499
Agree, I'm not as well read as I'd like to be but this is one of the few things that has brought me back to that feeling of living with dread for the future. Its been years, I have to go back to it at some point

[Anonymous No.18228429]

War and Peace made me cry a few times. There are some heartrending deaths that emphasize the tragedy of war, and they're made all the worse by the early thirteen or so chapters you spend getting to know the myriad characters and their families

[Anonymous No.18228503]

>>18217822
King Lear, I knew Cordelia was going to die, it was pretty obvious but man it made me cry, it was too much for some reason.

[Anonymous No.18228901]

>>18225359
You sound like a fag

[Anonymous No.18229111]

>>18221012
>Les Miserables
i never got through those napoleon chapters
idk what he was thinking just randomly inserting this crap in the middle

[Anonymous No.18229125]

>>18222322
Same here lad

[Anonymous No.18229391]

>>18225359
Day of the roof soon inshallah

[Anonymous No.18229399]

>>18217822
Why do women and boomers love this book?

[Anonymous No.18229852]

>>18217822
>>18220031
>>18220997
>>18221346
>>18223312
>>18223871
>>18225359
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>>18225878
>>18226141
>>18227459
>>18227499
>>18227858
>>18228429
>>18228503
what does it feel like to cry because of a book, anons?

[Anonymous No.18229986]

>>18229852
I'm this anon>>18228503, for me it feels different from when I cry watching movies or something like that (I tend to cry a lot), not because some mysticism behind books or some bullshit, it just feels different. I've cried listening music a few times and it feels very similar, like more personal. When I cry with a book I drop less tears than with a movie but it feels much harder.

[Anonymous No.18230472]

>>18227461
no u

[Anonymous No.18231791]

I've cried reading The Count of Monte Cristo, The Silmarillion, War and Peace, My Struggle, Doctor Faustus and Johannes Angelos

[Anonymous No.18232612]

>>18219064
i read it 5 times already and I tell you anons, there is more to it than you think

[Anonymous No.18232625]

>>18217822
juoppohullun päiväkirja

[Anonymous No.18232737]

>>18229852
I agree with this anon >>18229986 , during a tv show or movie, tearful moments are usually accompanied by an OST that compliments it, which isn't really the case with books, as you're left with your own imagination. Plus, you usually get way more invested in a book than a movie/tv show

[Anonymous No.18233981]

>>18217822
When I finished Crime & Punishment. Only time a book has made me cry.

[Anonymous No.18234036]

>>18217822
Brothers Karamazov.
Despite how insane Dostoevsky's writings are in general, there's an underlying vein of hope throughout some of his works that manage to make me cry whenever it's brought to the forefront. Most poignant example would be the very last scene with Alyosha talking to the boys.

[Anonymous No.18234062]

>>18234036
Its the relative insanity of the rest that makes those parts shine as much as they do. Russian writers are great at creating an oppressive atmosphere and shining a few rays of hope through it, and it shines all the brighter for it.

[Anonymous No.18234070]

>>18219731
This desu. Had to stop when Socrates literally tells you to stop being a woman.

[Anonymous No.18234090]

>>18234036
I cried to TBK because of the awe I fell as I was finishing the book. Tears of joy

[Anonymous No.18234121]

>>18218008
It's book for women, with horoscope tier spirituality

[Anonymous No.18234321]

>>18234121
Fuck, this is my girlfriend. how do I cure her?

[Anonymous No.18234776]

>>18231791
>Johannes Angelos
This one? Was it good?

[Anonymous No.18235270]

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[Anonymous No.18235935]

the ending of this book was very sad.

[Anonymous No.18236388]

>>18219849
I didn’t get it. Explain for brainlet pls.

[Anonymous No.18236462]

>>18236388
I think you definitely need to have read the actual book to get it, on its own the passage may not seem like such a thing to be so upset by, with the context and knowledge of everything that came beforehand however, it really is almost too much to take.

[Anonymous No.18236480]

>>18217822
The World as Will and Representation.

[Anonymous No.18236862]

>>18225878
Had to read The Outsiders in high school and it made me cry so bad. Then I found out we were going to watch the movie in class and I almost shit my pants cause I thought I was going to break down and cry in front of everyone during the movie. Thankfully the movie sucked and I didn't cry lol

[Anonymous No.18238363]

Paulo Coelho is a cunt that killed Raul Seixas by introducing him to drugs

[Anonymous No.18238613]

>>18234776
Yes, that one! Like other Waltari's books, it is very well written, one of my favourites.

[Anonymous No.18238908]

>>18238613
To my shame I've yet to read any Waltari despite being Finnish, but The Dark Angel is on my 2021 reading list. Thanks to you it'll be my next book. Cheers anon, have a great weekend!

[Anonymous No.18238920]

>>18238908
Nice, you too! My Waltari journey went Sinuhe - Johannes Angelos - Nuori Johannes - Mikael Karvajalka - Mikael Hakim - Turms - Valtakunnan salaisuus - Ihmiskunnan viholliset - Isästä poikaan. I enjoyed Johannes, Sinuhe, Turms and Mikael Hakim the most..

[Anonymous No.18239199]

>>18238920
If you read them in Finnish, would you say the language he uses is easy or is it antiquated/old and difficult to understand for someone not entirely fluent in Finnish? I'd like to try and read them in my native language unless they're really difficult, in which case I'll go for Swedish/English translations.

[Anonymous No.18239252]

>>18239199
Yeah, I read them in Finnish. I'd say the language is quite modern and not antiquated/old at all, compared to many other books written in the early 20th century or translated in that period (such as many Russian classics). Give it a try in Finnish would be my suggestion!

[Anonymous No.18239340]

>>18239252
Thanks, that decides it, will ask my parents to buy me a copy of both Johannes Angelos and Sinuhe when they visit Finland in a few weeks!

[Anonymous No.18240422]

>dad asks for book recommendation
>suggest Fathers and Sons
>tell him it's Turgenev's masterpiece
>dad likes Russian lit so seems like good suggestion
>next day ask how he's liking it
>laughs and tells me what an idiot this Bazarov guy is
>doesn't understand what's so good about a novel with some nihilist edgelord and how this is a masterpiece
>finds the English obsessed uncle pretty funny
>pass by living room couple days later
>dad just sitting on sofa staring into space with book closed next to him
>ask if he finished it
>says yeah but still spaced out
>ask what he thought of it
>"That was rough"
>iknowyoufeeldatfeel.gif
>leave him in peace because I know how sad I felt when I finished it
>feel closer knowing dad's not just a hard ass and reacts to kino literature same as me

Also cried at Mayor of Casterbridge, Oblomov and that Zola book about the laundress I can't remember the name of right now. I once made the mistake of reading Death of Ivan Ilyich on a coach coming back from a trip after having just finished Brave New World the day before. Qt next to me kept trying real hard to flirt with me, resting her legs on my knees and trying to be all seductive but I was too depressed about the events of the book to care. She was mental anyway so no ragrets.

[Anonymous No.18241737]

>>18217822
Gravity's Rainbow got me to cry 3 times.

[Anonymous No.18241760]

>>18218070

[Anonymous No.18241765]

>>18218164
Wonderful. That last story really was tremendously good.

[Anonymous No.18241771]