Have you ever CRIED while reading a book?

jannieC · #1 11-12-2005, 09:21 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 The Last Noel 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 · #2 11-12-2005, 10:19 AM

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

UnwindedDreams · #3 11-12-2005, 10:22 AM

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Originally Posted by Gypsy-Rhiannon

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 · #4 11-12-2005, 11:31 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 · #5 11-12-2005, 11:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Lux

No, I don't read, but I have cried while stabbing myself in the arm.

What's your point?

hayley · #6 11-12-2005, 11:50 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** · #7 11-12-2005, 11:52 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 · #8 11-12-2005, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Lux

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.

Thanks for clarifying.

DownOnRodeo · #9 11-12-2005, 12:15 PM

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 · #10 11-12-2005, 12:18 PM

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

Miss Vicky · #11 11-12-2005, 01:07 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 · #12 11-12-2005, 01:12 PM

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Originally Posted by hayley

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 · #13 11-12-2005, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by David

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 · #14 11-12-2005, 01:44 PM

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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 · #15 11-12-2005, 01:47 PM

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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.