Books that make you cry... - Page 5

[pixiekisses]

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas really made me weap. And I hardly ever do that.

I've read The Kite Runner, A 1000 Splendid Sund, The Time Travellers Wife and The Book Thief w/o crying a tear to mention some that are mentioned already in this thread.
I was touched by all of the above, but I didn't cry.
But with The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, I cried my eyes out, when I saw the movie as well.

(And then there's one more, but unless you know norwegian. )

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by pixiekisses

I've read The Kite Runner ... w/o crying a tear

(x 1000)

[SAHDS]

A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving

[SAHDS]

House of Sand and Fog ... :

I'll never get those hours back. Blech.

Oh well, off to the library...

[mamatoablessing]

Originally Posted by SAHDS

House of Sand and Fog ... :

I'll never get those hours back. Blech.

Oh well, off to the library...

I have to agree. I did not like that book at all. Booooring!

I'm going to reiterate my book suggestions from further up in the thread and the Khaled Hosseini books:

Talk Before Sleep - Elizabeth Berg
The Shack - William Young
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by mamatoablessing

I have to agree. I did not like that book at all. Booooring!

I'm going to reiterate my book suggestions from further up in the thread and the Khaled Hosseini books:

Talk Before Sleep - Elizabeth Berg
The Shack - William Young
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

Oh YES, I'm a huge Hosseini fan! I wish he would write something else!

I actually started reading The Shack on a recent GS campout (I had finished Life of Pi and had nothing to read so another mom lent it to me for the night). I only got in about 40 pages, but it was enough to put in on "my list".

Sadly, we had baseball and swimming today so I haven't been to the library yet. Definitely tomorrow. I'll have to see about Talk Before Sleep (never heard of it).

[CuddleLove]

I love the book "The Color Purple" it always makes me cry and so does the movie.

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by CuddleLove

I love the book "The Color Purple" it always makes me cry and so does the movie.

I just read that last month. It didn't make me cry, but I did think it was a beautiful and moving book.

[Freedom~Mama]

Almost anything by Nicholas Sparks
The Lovely Bones
Lucky
The Gift
Of Mice and Men
A lot of Elizabeth Berg books
The Shack
She's come undone
I know this much is true
The Host
The Diary of Anne Frank
Where the heart is
Cold Mountain
Redeeming Love
The Green Mile

[Tuesday]

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Sula by Toni Morrison

Anything about the Holocaust tears me up immediately but not in a good way.

[staceychev]

I love The Bean Trees! I always cry at the end of that, too. And boy, oh boy, every time I get to the end of A Raisin in the Sun with my students and have to make it through the last couple of pages without crying it's quite a feat!

I cryed at the end of Nineteen Minutes, too, but I disagree with the OP who said that tears=great book. I think Picoult is just OK, but happens to be really savvy at manipulating emotions.

I read The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao recently, and it was my first book cry in the past several years.

[mamatoablessing]

Originally Posted by staceychev

I cryed at the end of Nineteen Minutes, too, but I disagree with the OP who said that tears=great book. I think Picoult is just OK, but happens to be really savvy at manipulating emotions.

This is so, so true. I feel this way about Nicholas Sparks. I feel like his novels are specifically written to bring on tears - very shallow.

[maylea_moon]

great expectations. *sob*

also, she's come undone (which i've read like seven times because i dunno, i'm crazy)

the lovely bones

white oleander

gone with the wind

where the heart is

the velveteen rabbit!

pride and prejudice makes me cry the happy tears

(i'm sure i'm forgetting a lot)

[ticklemegreen]

Originally Posted by cjanelles

Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine and Mia Fontaine

This book is a memoir and it just ripped my heart out...from both sides of the story, the mother and the daughter. My best friend read it and it made her cry, too.

The story is about the daughter's drug addiction and the family's journey to overcoming it.

Lots of really deep love and pain in this story...

Uh! This is such a good book. I couldn't put it down.

Others:
A long way gone (although this one was sooo sad I struggled to read throught it!)
The Lovely bones
Angela's Ashes

[SAHDS]

Originally Posted by staceychev

I disagree with the OP who said that tears=great book.

Actually I said "If I cry, I know a book is good." I'm not into books that try to make you cry. They feel cheap and contrived.

Anyhoo, going to the library tomorrow to return 5 books and find some more on my list (which currently has about 35 books on it). I think I may have to throw White Orleander on the list! Seems like a popular choice.

I love this thread, I'm amazed at the differing opinions - how one book can touch someone while another can toss it aside with a "meh." So interesting!

[greeny]

Oh man, I just read a book that made me actually SOB out loud while finishing it.

It's called Blood Ties by Jennifer Lash.

I don't think it was ever a very popular/mainstream book, and supposedly it was published posthumously and pushed by her sons, the Fiennes brothers (actors about whom I know very little).

Anyway, I picked it up at a thrift store, and really loved it. And cried (and cried and cried).

[Panserbjorne]

SO many! But the ones that stand out are A Prayer for Owen Meany (get teary just thinking about it!) Love Story, Hope for the Flowers, the Velveteen Rabbit and God Shaped Hole. That book just about killed me. But then, I *was* pregnant when I read it!

[Amaranth]

If you loved "The Kiterunner" and/or "A Thousand Splendid Suns", then you would probably enjoy Chris Cleave's "Little Bee". It's the story of a 16 y.o. Nigerian refugee in England.

[Rhiannon Feimorgan]

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger.

Bawled like a baby at the end.

[Lisalee2]

Originally Posted by jeliphish

She's Come Undone.

Me too. I enjoyed this book much more than Lamb's other I Know This Much is True.

I bawled at the end of She's Come Undone, with the whale.....