2006-09-21 03:39:12 · 15 answers · asked by The Gadfly 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Thanks everyone for your wonderful responses. I can't pick the best, but it has given me something to think about, and a must-read list.
I'll let you choose.
2006-09-21 11:14:52 · update #1
harry potty 6th book harry was an idiot he did not have a good spell and hence left the murderer (snape) run away
2006-09-21 03:41:23 · answer #1 · answered by rocky 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The last book I read made my cry: The Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow. He gets inside the heads of the characters about which there have been so many lies and half-truths throughout the book, so we finally get to know what really happened. He ends this segment by going inside the head of the victim of the murder. Problem is, she sounded so much like me I got goose-bumps! When I realized the real reason why she died, I cried.
Also, the descriptions of young people trapped in the gang and drug underworld without seeing any way out made me cry, especially one pretty young lady of maybe 15 who has already had way too much experience. She wanted to stay apart from the dirt, but she could not.
2006-09-21 03:46:15 · answer #2 · answered by auntb93again 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have never read a book that made me cry. I have no real connection to fiction in that way. Poetry however, does do that to me. I often find myself getting emotional over Plath, Rilke and sexton anything with intensity and depth, rigid or raw wounds in words... I can relate better as a poet I guess? I prefer the heavy handed metaphor and hard as steel prose to the connection reading a novel implies a need for.
Feelings have got to be extreme to effect me to an actual outward show of emotion and fiction just doesn't do it for me. If I see it happening, that's also different. Memoirs of a Geisha had me bawling like a baby in the theater, but in reading the novel. Nothing... dry as a bone.
By the way, You really do ask the best questions, I really enjoy them!
2006-09-21 04:07:42 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Charlotte's Web" by E. B. White
That last paragraph in the second to last chapter always brings me to tears.
"Good bye!" she whispered. Then she summoned all her strength and waved one of her front legs at him.
She never moved again. Next day, as the Ferris wheel was being taken apart and the race horses were being loaded into vans and the entertainers were packing up their belongings and driving away in their trailers, Charlotte died. The Fair Grounds were soon deserted. The sheds and buildings were empty and forlorn. The infield was littered with bottles and trash. Nobody, of the hundreds of people that had visited the Fair, knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all.
No one was with her when she died.
2006-09-21 04:31:57 · answer #4 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
House of Leaves by Mark Danielweski. It was the Blair Witch Projects of books, and reading it would make anyone crazy/cry/scream, etc.
2006-09-21 03:51:56 · answer #5 · answered by Matt S 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The sixth Harry Potter cause of Dumbledore. Then the fifth one before that. The first book to make me cry was Lotr the first one when Gandalf dies cause the movies weren't out yet and I had no idea he was comming back.
2006-09-21 03:50:22 · answer #6 · answered by Demon of hand-writing analysis 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Prayer for Owen Meaney by John Irving.
The ending snuck up on me and hit me like a TON of bricks. I don't ever cry over books, but it was a great book.
2006-09-21 04:54:00 · answer #7 · answered by Cara M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jodi Piccoult's My Sister's Keeper. This book tore my heart out, and ripped it to shreds. It was amazingly written and the characters were so true to life that they could have been members of my family. It's definitely one of my top 10.
2006-09-21 03:53:56 · answer #8 · answered by Kay M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"And I don't Want to Live this Life" By Deb Spungen
True story about the mother of the girl murdered by the guy from the Sex Pistols
2006-09-21 03:47:14 · answer #9 · answered by GD-Fan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer
It is a true story of unimaginable child abuse the author lived through .... child abuse is always sad, but reading this book... a survivors account, him telling the story of what his own alcoholic mother put him through, and then knowing what he had become despite having the odds stacked against him....was truly heart wrenching. Tears of sadness because of what he went through, but tears of happiness that that little boy made something of himself and of his life after living through hell.
2006-09-21 03:43:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mastery of love by Ruiz.
It's a book about loving yourself. Sounds cheezy I know, but it's really the root of our happiness. It's a great book.
2006-09-21 03:41:24 · answer #11 · answered by lee 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋