tear jerkers! (2 Viewers)

[meggy_moo]

ok....i spent an hour last night crying over beth dying in little women and got all splotchy and stuff! anyone else have a book they just sob over?

 

[super katie]

haha i cried over that too! I cried in the Chinese Cinderella by Adeline Yen Mah. I think I cried over Falling Leaves too... but I cant really remember.

 

[lizabef5]

looking for a tear jerker?
try reading jessica or jillaroo they'll get you water works going

 

[astro]

I cried when i read Jessica by Bryce Courtenay (i think that's how you spell it)....so sad.....i think there's going to be a movie or mini-series about it on channel ten soon

 

[lizabef5]

Yeah i can't wait for it to come out
what other books have you read like that that you liked?

 

[steph@nie]

I cried in both Falling Leaves and Chinese Cinderella. I cried because I thought about how awful I would feel if my family treated me like that. I think I cried in the Joy Luck Club as well... as well as Desert Flower by Waris Dirie. I cry in a lot of female orientated books.. I'm not sure why.

 

[veanz]

I dont know why, i just cant warm to chinese translations. I thought chinese cinerella and falling leaves was too bland.

Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, the little prince, and The selfish gaint did it for me. The last two i cried in content.

Which book made you cry in content?? spill!

 

[kleptomaniac]

God, just about any book relatively sad makes me cry. I have a habit of taking it all a bit too literally and really empathising a bit too much with the characters. The one that always, always, always makes me cry is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Sad, I know, but just for that moment before Sirius gets hit I think that everything's gonna be alright, and then when it isn't, Im gone.
On a more sophisticated level, I also get teary in I Capture the Castle by Dodie (I think it is) Smith. I just feel so sorry for Stephen. Unrequited love has to be the worst thing ever. And he's so understanding about the whole thing.

 

[+:: $i[Q]u3 ::+]

oooh....... JANE EYRE...... *sobsob*... so bittersweet...

 

[Persephone87]

Tomorrow will be another day scene in Gone With the Wind

and

when that guy committed suicide in Looking For Alibrandi...I stayed up til 4 in the morning finishing that

 

[christ_ine]

A Walk to Remember .. what a teary book

 

[astro]

Originally posted by Persephone87

when that guy committed suicide in Looking For Alibrandi...I stayed up til 4 in the morning finishing that

Yeah i cried in that scene too.....

 

[PrincessSJ]

Were Falling Leaves and Chinese Cinderella like sequels or something?? or just same author.. i picked up Falling Leaves at a second hand books store cause the blurb sounded good, is there another one to go with it???

I cried over Where The Heart Is - Billie Letts

and Bridge To Terabithia - Katherine Paterson

 

[meggy_moo]

Originally posted by Persephone87
when that guy committed suicide in Looking For Alibrandi...I stayed up til 4 in the morning finishing that

oh yeah thats a shocker! i just cry and cry!

also when im reading"The Dark Tower". not sure who its by but its soooo sad

 

[clerisy]

I cry in everything

I think the real picks, though are:

- every tormented Rhett/tormented Scarlett scene in Gone with the Wind
- Heathcliff's reaction to Cathy's death in Wuthering Heights
- the end of The Mill on the Floss.
- Charlotte's death in Charlotte's Web (now THAT is heartbreaking)
- Ralph's death in Portrait of a Lady

 

[porge]

Originally posted by kleptomaniac

On a more sophisticated level, I also get teary in I Capture the Castle by Dodie (I think it is) Smith. I just feel so sorry for Stephen. Unrequited love has to be the worst thing ever. And he's so understanding about the whole thing.

really?
i read it... i couldnt wait to ifnish it, it didnt go anywhere. theres not many books i dont like, but man, i wouldnt suggest that book to anyone

 

[virgin^sexy]

my story by dave pelzer

absolutely horrible

 

[kleptomaniac]

Yeah, I know it's slow at first, but don't you just cry at the unfairness of it all? No one seems able to get the person they love, and i can't stand the couple that do end up together.

I dunno, maybe it's just because I'm a sucker for angst filled romance

 

[Carlz135]

A really great book is "Cross My Heart" Maureen McCarthy. A teary romance!

and for something different try "Skating the Edge" Julia Lawrinson. One of those books that clicks at the end and makes you go and read it again.

 

[Saul]

hmmm... of mice and men