Have you ever CRIED while reading a book? [Archive]

jannieC

11-12-2005, 08:21 AM

I just CRIED while reading a book. This has only happened to me once before, so I thought I'd share the book with you guys. It's called <i>The Last Noel</i> by Michael Malone. It's a love story, and it is *so* well written. I stayed really absorbed with it and literally had tears running down my face by the end. Highly recommended.

Gypsy-Rhiannon

11-12-2005, 09:19 AM

Yep. 'A Child called It' made me cry and also 'Songs My Mother Taught Me' by Lorna Luft.

UnwindedDreams

11-12-2005, 09:22 AM

Yep. 'A Child called It' made me cry and also 'Songs My Mother Taught Me' by Lorna Luft.
oh my gosh, that was so terrible(a child called it) i wanted to shoot that mother and she made him eat the baby crap and then he was stabbed.:(

GateandGarden

11-12-2005, 10:31 AM

I actually cried while reading Animal Farm. That one sticks out in my mind because I've never known anyone who reacted to it quite so emotionally. But countless other books have made me cry; I am one who tears up very easily.

jannieC

11-12-2005, 10:42 AM

No, I don't read, but I have cried while stabbing myself in the arm.
What's your point?

hayley

11-12-2005, 10:50 AM

I cried like a little bitch at the (spoilery sad part) of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I've also been known to cry with Diana Gabaldon novels, and when reading stuff like Neruda.

mylittledemon

11-12-2005, 10:52 AM

Yeah I never thought that possible until I read "The Chronicles of Narnia" I did shed a little tear during that story. I love to read, and 99% of the time I am not moved THAT deeply by the printed word...but that story got me. There is a chapter in the Neverending Story which got me weepy eyed too.

jannieC

11-12-2005, 10:56 AM

That we no longer live in the age of the steam engine and the straw hat. I have an ace up my hole.
Oh, okay. :nod: Thanks for clarifying.

DownOnRodeo

11-12-2005, 11:15 AM

I remember that I cried while reading the sad ending to one of the Redwall books, Salamandastron - but I was young, and hadn't had a good day at school.

Richard B

11-12-2005, 11:18 AM

I think I recall shedding a tear or two years ago, as a child reading 'White Fang' by Jack London.

Miss Vicky

11-12-2005, 12:07 PM

I almost never read, but I've cried while writing my own book (which still isn't finished after 5 years but I'm about 2/3 of the way there), does that count?

David

11-12-2005, 12:12 PM

I cried like a little bitch at the (spoilery sad part) of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. I've also been known to cry with Diana Gabaldon novels, and when reading stuff like Neruda.Oh you & your Neruda.

I cried while reading Maynard Solomon's critical biography of Beethoven.

hayley

11-12-2005, 12:43 PM

Oh you & your Neruda.

I cried while reading Maynard Solomon's critical biography of Beethoven.
Oh, cram it. It's impossible to not love Neruda.

David

11-12-2005, 12:44 PM

Oh, cram it. It's impossible to not love Neruda.My problem is I confuse Pablo Neruda with Pablo Casals. Do you sometimes do that?

hayley

11-12-2005, 12:47 PM

My problem is I confuse Pablo Neruda with Pablo Casals. Do you sometimes do that?
Isn't he a conductor? Pablo Neruda's the one I always blame when I wake up in the morning, like today, sporting the world's largest hickey.

Brwn_eyes0511

11-12-2005, 01:30 PM

'Songs My Mother Taught Me' by Lorna Luft.

One of the best books I have ever read! :nod:

dissention

11-12-2005, 01:31 PM

The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles. Oh, and Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow.

Gypsy-Rhiannon

11-12-2005, 01:41 PM

One of the best books I have ever read! :nod:
ITA! Loved it! Lorna's great!

dissention

11-12-2005, 01:43 PM

ITA! Loved it! Lorna's great!

Do you have Blondie's Eat To the Beat album? She sings back-up on some songs.

Gypsy-Rhiannon

11-12-2005, 01:45 PM

Do you have Blondie's Eat To the Beat album? She sings back-up on some songs.
I do indeed! :nod:

estranged4life

11-12-2005, 02:00 PM

fallen asleep maybe but never cried!

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Holy schnoogans...ya cried over a book?

amber

11-12-2005, 02:44 PM

Deerskin by Robin McKinley. That's the most recent I can remember.
About 65% of books I read are mysteries - those aren't really sad. :)

Serrart

11-12-2005, 03:09 PM

I got moved by many books, even if not as often as when I was a child (especially for The Diary of Anne Frank). More recently it happened for A grief observed by C.S Lewis, Don't move by Margaret Mazzantini and The Human Stain by Philip Roth.

Romy

snowman

11-12-2005, 06:08 PM

That we no longer live in the age of the steam engine and the straw hat. I have an ace up my hole.

Good point, and I have the same problem...

snowman

11-12-2005, 06:10 PM

Sugar

11-12-2005, 06:23 PM

I cried like a little bitch at the (spoilery sad part) of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince.

I did too! I cried all through the final three chapters I think. My husband came in the room and looked at me like, "Oh come ON!" :lol:

SteveMacD

11-12-2005, 06:51 PM

I once cried while reading a statistics book, because I realized the only way I was going to pass the class was if the professor graded on the curve.

jannieC

11-12-2005, 06:53 PM

I once cried while reading a statistics book, because I realized the only way I was going to pass the class was if the professor graded on the curve.

Oh I can relate to that. I'm so looking forward to Statistics <i>again</i> when I go to graduate school. :shocked:

Moony

11-12-2005, 06:58 PM

The only time I can recall crying while reading was when I read The Perks of Being A Wallflower, last year.

Now, movies? I cry at almost all of them. :laugh:

Johnny Stew

11-12-2005, 06:59 PM

Oh, cram it. It's impossible to not love Neruda.I love Neruda, too.

Reciting his work is one of the ways to get into my pants! :shocked: :o

Stephanie

11-12-2005, 07:05 PM

Lovely Bones and also the Secret Life of Bees. Both really great books.

jannieC

11-12-2005, 07:12 PM

Now, movies? I cry at almost all of them. :laugh:
Oh, me too. I am a sobbing idiot during movies- don't even get me started there.

Lovely Bones and also the Secret Life of Bees. Both really great books.

Stephanie, The Lovely Bones is one of my alltime favorite books. A couple of years after I'd read it, I listened to it on CD on a roadtrip to Atlanta. SUCH a good book. I've not gotten to the Secret Life of Bees, but I've heard that's a great book as well.

hayley

11-12-2005, 07:13 PM

I love Neruda, too.

Reciting his work is one of the ways to get into my pants! :shocked: :o
Me too. See earlier post regarding the world's largest hickey.

And darling, I didn't mean to forget you earlier when talking about the history of the Ledge!!

Johnny Stew

11-12-2005, 07:16 PM

Me too. See earlier post regarding the world's largest hickey.

And darling, I didn't mean to forget you earlier when talking about the history of the Ledge!!We have much in common, Wifey. :xoxo:

And no worries... I just couldn't pass up an opportunity to tease you about forgetting your own husband. :D

CreepingDeath

11-13-2005, 01:48 AM

The end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Dorky, but true.

I usually get a little teary during Lord of the Rings too, even though I've read it more times than I care to admit. :o

ragandbone

11-13-2005, 02:08 AM

My problem is I confuse Pablo Neruda with Pablo Casals. Do you sometimes do that?

No, but I confuse Pablo Casals with Rosie Casals. I have a mental picture of Pablo Casals from album covers, but I have to yank the tennis racquet out of his hand and replace it with a bow every time I hear his name. :o

Oh yes, I have cried many times reading, but the most recent book that made me cry was "The House of Mirth".

Wild_Heart03

11-13-2005, 02:14 AM

The end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Dorky, but true.

Ditto to the above. I couldn't help it, lol. I just get into those books so damn easy.

Mad4stevie

11-13-2005, 10:17 AM

"The Notebook"

The first book that I cried while reading it. The Altzheimer's issue really got to me because my grandmother was suffering from it at the time.

golddustwoman77

11-13-2005, 11:19 AM

I cry every year at the end of Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. I have my students do a novel study on it. Even though, I know how it ends; it still makes me cry. It is my favorite children's novel.

Also, The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy made me cry. I think it hit a little too close to home for me. The movie doesn't do this book justice. It is one of my favorites.

DavidMn

11-14-2005, 01:31 PM

Charlotte's Web

ThePenguin

11-14-2005, 02:30 PM

"The Notebook"

The first book that I cried while reading it. The Altzheimer's issue really got to me because my grandmother was suffering from it at the time.

I cry all the time reading books. i cried at 'The Notebook', and also 'The Four People You Meet in Heaven' (isn't that the title? maybe it was five people? ;) ) and most recently I sobbed at the end of 'The Last Summer.'

-Lis

Karlie

11-14-2005, 02:34 PM

Oh, me too. I am a sobbing idiot during movies- don't even get me started there.

Stephanie, The Lovely Bones is one of my alltime favorite books. A couple of years after I'd read it, I listened to it on CD on a roadtrip to Atlanta. SUCH a good book. I've not gotten to the Secret Life of Bees, but I've heard that's a great book as well.

I'm reading The Lovely Bones right now. It's so good. I haven't cried yet, though. I don't usually cry while reading books.

Karlie

11-14-2005, 02:38 PM

I cry every year at the end of Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. I have my students do a novel study on it. Even though, I know how it ends; it still makes me cry. It is my favorite children's novel.

I had to read Bridge to Terabithia in fifth grade. All the books that were assigned that year were about death. :distress:

amber

11-14-2005, 03:47 PM

I had to read Bridge to Terabithia in fifth grade. All the books that were assigned that year were about death. :distress:
Was that the "Where the Red Fern Grows" year, too? Man, that book is sad. Cause it's a dog.

GypsySorcerer

11-14-2005, 03:54 PM

Yep, I cried while reading Where the Red Fern Grows. I also cried reading The Scarlet Letter in high school because of the way Pearl and Hester were treated. Wit (a play) made me bawl my eyes out.

golddustwoman77

11-14-2005, 04:23 PM

I had to read Bridge to Terabithia in fifth grade. All the books that were assigned that year were about death. :distress:

I don't make my students read books only about death. :eek: I mix it up with comedy like Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, mystical like Tuck Everlasting, etc. Reading about death all year would really begin to wear on a person!

Karlie

11-14-2005, 04:33 PM

I don't make my students read books only about death. :eek: I mix it up with comedy like Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing, mystical like Tuck Everlasting, etc. Reading about death all year would really begin to wear on a person!

Well, we read Tuck Everlasting too, but isn't that one about death too?

golddustwoman77

11-14-2005, 05:29 PM

Well, we read Tuck Everlasting too, but isn't that one about death too?

In a way, yes it is, but I think it is quite different from Bridge of Terabethia . The theme of Tuck Everlasting is about not being able to die after drinking magical water, the problems that it creates on the unknowing souls that drink it, and how they feel about living forever. IMO, that is the focus, not death itself.

Unlike Bridge to Terabithia, where the theme is death, and how difficult death is for the people that are left behind. It especially deals with how younger people deal with and see death. It also deals with how their life's can continue afterward.

I see them as totally different, but that is just my opinion.

stargazer99

11-14-2005, 09:01 PM

I'm reading The Lovely Bones right now. It's so good. I haven't cried yet, though. I don't usually cry while reading books.

I have this on my list of books I want to read. But I know it's very sad, so I've been avoiding it.

I very rarely cry reading a book. I've had magazine articles, movies, and tv shows make me cry. But I guess I haven't read too many sad books. The only book I can specifically remember making me cry was Brooke Shields' book about her post-partum depression, which I read very recently. I suffered from post-partum depression (much milder than hers, thankfully). But the book brought back a lot of those feelings as I was reading it.

jannieC

11-14-2005, 09:14 PM

I'm reading The Lovely Bones right now. It's so good. I haven't cried yet, though. I don't usually cry while reading books.
I didn't cry while reading this, but I thought it was so well written and such a fascinating read. :)

RavenOfRhiannon

11-14-2005, 11:21 PM

Funny thing about this thread...I work as a book buyer for a medium sied chain of stores.
Last week, we were sent a galley of a book to be released in February. The publisher really wanted us to get behind this book. One girl took the copy and read it in about 10 minutes and bawled like a little girl, then she handed it to me. I read it and was a basket case, crying so hard I had to stop working. By the end of the day, everyone in the office had read it and we were all puffy eyed and unable to talk about anything except this incredibly moving story.

The book is called 'Mostly Bob.' Look for it in February...