Has a book ever made you cry? Which one(s)?

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Nina Nina Profile
Nina Nina answered

Mine is "Bird" by Crystal Chan! Great YA book, it's actually my favorite! This author is actually good friends with my favorite author.

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I remember our teacher reading Charlotte's Web aloud to the class.  A bunch of us were crying! 

Another children's book that made me think kindly of spiders.  😜

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Oh oh...Sister Tiger, you bit by brown recluse? Oh no...
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Truthfully I am not as solicitous of spider welfare as I once was...just because more people see to encounter brown recluse lately...if I don't recognize 'em now, I tend to off 'em.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
THAT is understandable
Didge Doo Profile
Didge Doo answered

Only one. My cheque book.

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Jann Nikka
Jann Nikka commented
LOL
Didge Doo
Didge Doo commented
Joking aside, Virginia, the most moving thing I've ever read is Yevgeny Yevtushenko's poem, The Light Controller. Every time I read it it rips my emotions.
It's not available on the Internet but I typed up a copy for Yosey a couple of years ago. I think Jan downloaded a copy the other day. I'll try to add the link for you here. (Not sure if it'll work as a comment, but I'll try.)
If it doesn't come up as a link I can email you a copy if you want it.

The Light Controller.
Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
I got it, Dozy...it went into the computer downloads folder, and I could open it from there.
Thank you very much, it is horrific and wonderful
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Skip Gentry answered

The first book that made me cry was Flowers In The Attic by V.C Andrews in 1979.

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PJ Stein answered

I used to get books on CD for my commute back and forth to work. I sometimes would listen to them on the weekends when running errands. I was listening to Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, by James Patterson, on the way to the grocery store. I sat in the parking lot crying.

Virginia Lou Profile
Virginia Lou answered

Dear Nina Varganov,

I can even remember the very first book that ever made me cry...I was pre-teen reading RAMONA, by Helen Hunt Jackson. I don't know if the book is truly that good if it would stand the distance of sixty-some years if I read it now, but I just bawled and bawled over that one...

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Actually in checking Wikipedia apparently I was not the only one, the 1884 novel is said to have had "considerable influence on the image of Southern California," its portrayal of Mexican colonial life contributing to "a unique cultural identity for the region."

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Tom Jackson answered

One "dog book" when I was a child a book about a dog named  "Trev"

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
I managed to have a difficult childhood even with wonderful parents, Tom, and it was a long series of animal books that really helped keep me going...
Levi F. Profile
Levi F. answered

Yes. "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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Virginia Lou
Virginia Lou commented
Levi, I read that one more than a year ago now, and it is just tremendously wonderful.

I assumed the book could not surpass the remarkable acting of Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins in the movie...but it did, that book was much better than the movie...it's one of my all-time favorites.
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Janis Haskell answered

I was about ten when I read this one.


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Nina Nina
Nina Nina commented
I really liked that book! I was 8 or 9 when I read it. I really liked the setup that the kids had, it made me really happy for some reason :)
Janis Haskell
Janis Haskell commented
I read the 1924 version, and it made me happy too after I got through the first part. In the later versions (1942), the children had already been orphaned for some time, so it skipped some of the trauma.

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