Which books bring you to tears?

[Waylander the Slayer]

"Where the Red Fern Grows"- this book definitely got me a bit teary. Most recently, "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Husseini- i started tearing on the train and had to put the book down and fight hard not to ball...there were a few such moments in the book. It is probably one of the best books i have read.

 

[Xath]

Every time I read Fellowship of the Ring, I tear up when Gandalf "dies." Even though I know he's coming back. Frodo's goodbye in RotK gets me too.

Now I feel the need to read "Where the Red Fern Grows" to see what all the hype is about.

 

[Hijinks]

Be ready to cry, Xath

Hijinks, AIM, and I could start a club. I tear up just a little thinking about it. What a good book.

I haven't seen the film version that came out in the 70's, but recently there was a Disney movie made from the book that starred Dave Matthews (yes, that Dave Matthews, don't ask me why). It wasn't bad. I only wish they had included the beauty contest that Little Ann wins at the state coon hunt.

I bawled like a kid at the end, of course. I have a big tough male cat and small pretty female cat; sometimes I call them Old Dan and Little Ann. It's the kind of story that stays with you for your entire life.

(To those who haven't read it who might freak out, thinking it's about cats - it's not. It's about dogs)

 

[atom crash]

I don't think I've ever met a person who wasn't moved by reading "Where the Red Fern Grows."

"Bridge to Terabithia" is pretty sad as well.

 

[Sequoia2]

Uncle Tom's Cabin because I discovered how long and tidious the reading was going to be

 

[lrsach01]

Elfstones of Shannara

The ending gets me everytime

 

[Aulayan]

Lord of Emperors and Song for Arbonne by Guy Gavriel Kay both can do it rather easily.

 

[Wormwood]

I see your "Where the Red Fern Grows" and "The Giving Tree", and raise you one "Watership Down".

 

[Jeremy]

The Dragon Prince by Melanie Rawn got me. And The Giving Tree gets me a little misty too. My daughter is always asking me to read it to her.

Dragon Prince? Where?

There's only one book that's ever gotten me to cry, though plenty have caused great emotional attachment. But I don't think I've ever had a greater emotional attachment to a character in a fictional novel as I had to Rohan and Sioned. So Stronghold by Melanie Rawn gets my praising acknowledgement.

 

[Zym]

Well, I won't say made me cry. I don't think a book (movie or poem) has ever done that (perhaps one or two songs), but the Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever certainly made me run the gambit of emotions.

I still have a great love of (most) of those stories, they were one of my earliest fantasy introductions.