Has a book ever made you cry?
If manga count I can list you half a dozen.
In books only one made me cry, but it wasn't only the book itself, but rather the whole experience around it, my life situation and the relateability to the character. Inb4 edgleord, but it was Catcher in the Rye.
I cried when I read Infinite Jest because it was so shit.
>>7907531
How old were you?
>>7907548
I was 19
The Age of Innocence and The Remains of the Day made me cry. A few others have but those two stick out in my memory.
>enjolras
>combeferre
Is this a fantashit book?
>>7907483
Man's Search for Meaning, because I'm one of those sappy fag fucks who think the Holocaust was bad. Eagerly awaiting the kind and thoughtful responses from/pol/ regulars.
>>7907483
The Spy Who Came Out From The Cold made me cry.
>>7907531
>I can list you half a dozen
Please do.
>>7907561
Les misérables
>>7907483
Crime and Punishment
>>7907561
I'ts Les Miserables you illiterate fuck.
>>7907577
Inio Asano is one of the greatest mangaka of all time and his three short story collections are all great (What a Wonderful World, City of Light and the other one). Other manga I cried to were About Death, Aku no Hana, Chrno Crusade (I barely made it throught the last chapter. It was just too much.),Gunslinger Girl, Hito Hitori Futari, Koe no Katachi and The Ghost Tower.
Remains of the Day
Oblomov
Things Fall Apart
Marley and Me
I came pretty close at the end of All Quiet on The Western Front.
>>7907614
> I'ts ... you illiterate fuck.
>>7907615
How true is that Aku no Hana is related to Les Fleurs du Mal (other than the name and the fag reading it ofc) reflecting it in its plot, like themes, messages, dialogues, etc
Sorry, I haven't read Baudelaire
>>7907649
>>7907650
The real book is mentioned several times in the manga, because the main character reads in it a lot. Additionally, the real book is a collection of poems dealing with things like sexuality (which plays a huge part in the first half of the manga), the pointlessness of life and desire of death (which plays a huge part in the second half). So there is no overlapping story, but the motifs are similar.
i don't give a fuck
>>7907719
Haven't read it, but it looks like a "I have cancer, but can deal with it" cash-grab.
The Idiot.
It's what comes to my mind first
Do people literally cry at made up stories?
Fucking faggots, seriously. You need to start lifting.
The Brothers Karamazov
Lord of the Rings
The sorrows of young Werther
Les Miserables
I cried over les mis for a good 10 minutes and my tears soaked the last pages of the book.
also misc. poems by blake, shakespeare, milton ect.
After years of destroying myself over questions of ethics I finally found the light...
I wept for days
>>7907767
Autism or some kind of look-mum-I'm-a-real-man complex?
>>7907767
>emotions are for homosexuals, I am real man
Ridiculous.
>>7907780
/fit/ combines both of those
>>7907691
You don't really see something that could be characterized as irony or even hypocrisy when you look at the entire exchange?
I cried at the line in Stoner>what did you expect?
Furthermore I was choked up at a few different portions in Winesburg Ohio. That's a definite recommend if you like small town feels vibes.
>>7907751
i dunno, i really liked it. it came out years before the more popular "fault in our stars".
wardine be cry
Phaedrus.
>>7907780
I don't think he thinks some authors write characters that can be related to.
>>7907755
Same here man.
>>7907776
this.
>>7907483
>It's worse to kill attractive people
It's amazing how ignorant people were back then. Even more amazing that people presently can't write for shit, despite being smarter than we've ever been.
Most recently the very last page of Watership Down.
No memeing but the ending to Gravity's Rainbow got me teary-eyed and angry
Yes, loads of times:
The Idiot
Crime and Punishment
White Nights
The Brothers Karamazov
The Iliad
Fathers and Sons
Don Quixote
Mumu
Pere Goriot
The Torrents of Spring
Frankenstein
Siddhartha
The Little Prince
A poem by Sappho
>>7907649
dear god
>>7907968
Same. It's a very emotional work. I feel like a lot of people who meme about it either haven't actually read it or don't have the reading ability to really understand it.
the ending of the fault in our stars made me cry
ITT: a bunch of pansies
>>7907568
I'm about to read that book, I can't wait, I heard it's written by a real spy as well.
>>7907558
Remains of the Day had me staring at a blank wall for an hour when I put it down. >tfw you'll never have dignity
I don't know anyone who hasn't cried reading this. It's 60 pages long, I'd recommend it to anyone. I don't know how easily available it is in English, though.
Here's a 4 page preview in Portuguese if anyone's interested:
https://bemaior.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/morreste-me_jose_luis_peixoto.pdf
>>7907483
it never made ME cry, but Wardine BE cry
Wind up bird chronicle to be totally honest
>>7908522
how old are you? not meant as an insult or anything, just genuinely curious
>>7907804
It's been years since I've read Winesburg. Can't say I had the same reaction but I remember it being p comfy.
Unironically cried at the end of fault in our stars, desu senpai.
>>7907691
>>>/funnyjunk/
>>7907922
0/10
The Metamorphosis, The Dead, and TBK all got me teared up
>>7907483
balled like a baby upon finishing stoner
>>7907632
Things Fall Apart made you cry? Are you a nigger?
>>7907531
>If manga count
>Catcher in the Rye
>About Death
>Aku no Hana
>Koe no Katachi
Are you trying to make me vomit? Jesus Christ.
>>7907558
Jesus I cried when kath was saying goodbye to ruth in the hospital reading "Never Let Me Go". I know remains is better but the whole book already fueled the feeling like nothing in life mattered any more
No. A book has never made me cry. It's just words on a page.
>>7909394
If you can't sympathize with or understand anothers viewpoint you know that's a sign of autism right?
>>7909287
I'm not a nigger, but when Ikemefuna dies I cried.
When Dumbledore died at the end of Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince
>>7907558
The Remain of the Day is definitely the book that got me closest to crying. Just that feeling of regret from a life unlived which is what I fear most.
>>7907946
This!
Also, Stoner.
>>7907632
Ah, the would-be subtle troll.
Sure. I've had a difficult time crying from hardship ever since a good friend of mine died two years ago, but I've always teared up fast from books and movies.
>>7907483
Never cried but parts of 'Death of a salesman' hit pretty close to home tbqh
Yes, many books made me cry.
>>7909716
That was an honest post. I cried multiple times during Marley and Me, also Where the Red Fern Grows, Old Yeller, Love That Dog, and various other books in which the dog dies.
I don't even have a dog.
>>7909723
I feel that. I really liked the play because of how identifiable it is for a lower-lower middle class American, and especially from the viewpoint of a male. It's not "deep" in comparison to what I read now, but it was touching when I was 16-17 years old.
Bridge to Terabithia. I think I was 19 at the time. Not actual crying, but my eyes were tearing up.
>>7909770
Oh... I'm sorry then, anon.
>>7907776
same
>>7909825
fuck, that one made me cry for hours
>>7907772
I was going through a breakup, read Sonnet 116, cried a lot.
>>7909598
Same
>>7907483
The brothers karamazov made me tear up
>>7907483
Catcher in the Rye. I read it once a year, first time was when I was 17.
Looking for Alaska, John Green. - When the chick gets killed or dies for whatever reason (forgot), it was a pretty emotional moment. Bowled for a couple minutes.
this is embarrassingly pleb of me but i teared up a bit at the end of the road
>tfw corncobs made you cry
>>7910082
Using the word pleb is pleb, you r/4chan little faggot
>>7907988
How do you cry from reading don Quixote or torrents of spring?
Noughts and crosses by Stephenie meyer when I was 10
>>7907531
> manga
>/lit/
leave pls
>>7910119
literature
[lit-er-uh-cher, -choo r, li-truh-]
noun
1.
writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays.
2.
the entire body of writings of a specific language, period, people, etc.:
the literature of England.
3.
the writings dealing with a particular subject:
the literature of ornithology.
4.
the profession of a writer or author.
5.
literary work or production.
6.
any kind of printed material, as circulars, leaflets, or handbills:
literature describing company products.
7.
Archaic. polite learning; literary culture; appreciation of letters and books.
>>7907649
god
>>7910120
Are you saying that you think chinese cartoons are literature?
>>7910103
Not him but Don Quixote could be viewed quite tragically.
>Reading Do androids dream of electric sheep?
>Androids pulling the extra legs off a spider that survived nuclear fallout, because it doesn't need them,
>It's radiation brain damaged dudes only companion.
>suddenly tearful on the bus
>About a year later I remember when I was little, I had to share my action figures with the other children in the street at a BBQ
>little kid pulls the arms off my 8 limbed mutated Spiderman figure.
>>7907691
Them fashy memes are hilarious.
>>7910150
Never understood the "Don Quixote is tragic" meme, which seems to have only started in the 1800s with Byron and then supercharged by Dostoevsky.
I read Quixote and it was an extremely funny novel. Cervantes even untragically announces that he is killing off Quixote so that no one can steal him for their own books again like they did after Part 1.
lolita t b h
The ending of "A canticle for Leibowitz"
made me cry a little.
>>7910161
Do Anons dream of electric girlfriends?
>>7907649
Savage
Les Miserables
Actually once but it wasn't a book, it was an excerpt somebody posted on here about their boyfriend who'd committed suicide while recapping some of the his various memories of their times together and then when he talked about about the time they first met when they were little made me cry.
I'm a sap for some fair - well written YA
Why has no one mentioned Lee Scoresby dying
>"We're a'helping Lyra"
>And Hester was pressing her proud little broken self against his face, and then they died
I read that about ten years ago, and that's from memory but I think it's pretty close. Really stuck with me.
>>7907483
Oscar Wilde's short stories
Especially The Happy Prince tales.
>>7907611
Made me cry when Raskolnikov gave his money away to Sonia's family
>>7908533
You didn't read it then
It's not a "comfy" book at all
>>7907483
Source?
>>7912261
The part that hit me hardest was when he asked his mother to pray for him.
To Kill A Mockingbird,when Scout meets Boo
>>7913269
It's from les misérables
>>7907483
The chapter of Mann's Faust in which little Nemo dies.
>>7913648
Shit, forgot abut A farewell to arms.
Not a book but this stanza from the shield of Achilles got me.
A ragged urchin, aimless and alone,
Loitered about that vacancy; a bird
Flew up to safety from his well-aimed stone:
That girls are raped, that two boys knife a third,
Were axioms to him, who'd never heard
Of any world where promises were kept,
Or one could weep because another wept.
>>7907650
lol i cried while reading AnH too
>>7907483
I cried at the end of Stoner.
>>7913623
>manly tears
You and your gender roles can fuck off
Noand the fact that I can't despite reading some very saddening and emotional books makes me want to cry more than the books themselves when I think about it
The Things They Carried, So Long See You Tomorrow, Gilead, IJ (mostly because of Mario), got close in Mrs. Dalloway. To be fair, I prefer to read slightly drunk, for some reason I'm a much more critical reader when drinking.
>>7907483
>>7910120
This entire post is plagiarised, you cretin
>>7907988
>White Nights
God damn.
>A moment of true happiness, why, isn't that worth a lifetime of suffering?
I cried at the end of Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory. Felt slightly ashamed at the time for falling for his shameless emotional manipulation.
I also cried at the end of the Brothers Karamazov, poor Ilyusha's funeral and Alyosha's speech at the stone.
This made me cry so fucking hard at the end when Charlie had a breakdown
Good book at the time when I was in 11th grade
>>7916854
forgot the pic
>Moby Dick
Made me bawl for days
>>7914176
This. Also when Cedric, Sirius, Dumbledore, Fred, and Hedwig died. Harry Potter played my emotions like a fiddle. I'm afraid the magic won't be the same if I ever go back to them.
>>7907483
Yeah, that one children's book with the picture of the fish with the rainbow sparkly scale on it gave me a paper cut when I was like 6 or 7. Hurt like hell. Fuck that book.
>>7907483
The Dhammapada
Concrete and Death in Venice.
Also couple of other books that I don't remember the names of.
Like literally every 3rd book I read or so? The one that made me cry the most was Lolita, though.
No, but Melville's writing in the short chapters that lead up to end made me mad that someone could be so genius.
>>7907767
Sadness is a powerful narcotic.
Also: I can dead lift a million kilos.
this book hurts
i feel like i probably teared up while reading Raymond Carver at some point...but nothing like 'Where the Red Fern Grows.' Almost 20 years on and it still kicks me right in the tear ducts when he visits the graves
>>7913204
not him but i can see how it could be construed as such
>>7907563
Same pal, same
Many books made me cry, but the most recent one would be Of Mice and Men. I weeped like a baby.
>>7907483
Yes.
>>7907561
hahahahahahahah wow
>>7908555
As opposed to crying ironically?
lel
>>7907483
Twice during In Search of Lost time. The only book that has ever made me cry.
>>7913348
Same.
Of Mice and Men and almost Invisible Man.
>>7907558
>my heart was breaking
>200 pages of lying and the character lets that shit slip.
Blaze by Stephen King. I'm awful partial to the suffering of tards.
Dont you hate when an author tries to make you cry and ends up making you roll your eyes.
>>7918275
Or a troll. Is this your first day on the internet?
>>7913775
Is this pope?
>>7907483
Always tear up a bit at the end of Penelope. I'm not sure why.
Fathers and Sons
>>7907804
I cried at the last story in Winesburg, not even sure why.
Dubliners, during a Painful Case and the
Dead
>>7910150
Last 20 pages of All the Pretty Horses got me good.
Actually, I just realized that I cried for each book.
>>7907483
Picrelated most recently. It was all the more surprising that I've found out about this book through /lit/, thanks to the Anon that recommended it.
The scene in Stoner where John and Katherine break up tears me to pieces. Every time.
The Ballad of the Sad Cafe had some thoughts on love that got me very close to tears.
There's something about the emotions I get from reading that doesn't seem to translate as well in film or video games. Those feel like they forcefully coerce you to feel a certain way through the music and framing of shots. With books it's just words on a page. Maybe the interaction just feels more authentic. Maybe I'm just insufferable.
>>7907483
Identity by Kundera
Slaughterhouse-5
Les miserables
>>7910161
That's actually my huge issue with Philip K Dick... reading his anthology right now. He's got fantastic ideas and he knows how to weave them into his narrative, but his characters are really empty. I can't relate at all.
Thinking about it this is my issue with many sci-fi authors. Great ideas but poor characters.
Catcher In The Rye, not ashamed.
>>7918678
I agree, but Isidore is great and very interesting in light of biopower, disability, etc.
>>7918678
I agree, but Isidore is great and well executed in light of biopower, disability, etc.
>>7918589
>They said no more. They embraced so that neither might see the other's face, and made love so that they would not speak. They coupled with the old tender sensuality of knowing each other and with the new intense passion of loss. Afterward, in the black night of the little room, they lay still unspeaking, their bodies touching lightly.
not trying to hate but crying at books is pretty feminine. the last time I cried was 2011 when my girlfriend left me.
The border trilogy, specifically The Crossing.
>>7910181
me too, famalam
>>7920108
This. Especially at the end when Billy forces the old dog away from his fire.
Yes, Infinite Jest
>>7907558
>>7908042
>>7909664
>>7913623
>>7918261
Yep. Remains of the Day did it for me too. The end was especially cruel:
>It occurs to me, furthermore, that bantering is hardly an unreasonable duty for an employer to expect a professional to perform. I have of course already devoted much time to developing my bantering skills, but it is possible I have never previously approached the task with the commitment I might have done. Perhaps, then, when I return to Darlington Hall tomorrow – Mr Farraday will not himself be back for a further week – I will begin practising with renewed effort. I should hope, then, that by the time of my employer’s return, I shall be in a position to pleasantly surprise him.
Two paragraphs ago Stevens finally realized that he wasted his life by living for someone else and not himself. And then, two paragraphs later, he's rededicating himself to living for someone else. Just so incredibly devastating.
>>7907483
Yeah
It's called my diary
The SilmarillionMighty are the Ainur, and mightiest among them is Melkor, but that he may know that I am Illúvatar, and these things that ye have sung I will show them forth, that ye may see what ye have done. And thou, Melkor shall see that no theme may be played that hath not it's uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite, for he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful which he himself hath not imagined.
Not a book but a poem:
"How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman or on Russian
Or on Spanish politics,
Yet here's a travelled man that knows
What he talks about,
And there's a politician
That has both read and thought,
And maybe what they say is true
Of war and war's alarms,
But O that I were young again
And held her in my arms."
Yeats, Politics.
"Jugoslavija, moja dežela" by Goran Vojnović came pretty close.
I found the part in Brothers Karamazov during the court scenes where Dr. Herzenstube tells a story about giving a young Dmitri a pound of nuts and teaching him to say "Father, Son, and Holy Ghost" in German to be really touching. The funeral at the end had me in tears.
"The End of the Affair."
>>7910143
Japanese
Cried pretty hard at the first chapter of Godbody by Theodore Sturgeon. I'm just starting to read more, so I don't know if that book is up to /lit/ standards, but Sturgeon's depiction of sex was so beautiful to me.
