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Ever cried at a book?

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I just finished War Brides by Helen Bryan and at first I didn't think I would even finish reading it, but then I got wrapped up in it and was actually surprised a couple of times to discover that I was still sitting in my own house - I could really see what was going on; it was like I was there with them. I did cry near the end but I won't spoil it.
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Post by BooksNJoy »

Well I cried on only one book since I read.
It was Tipperary by Frank Delaney. The love story is not the reason, the Troubles are. I do love Ireland.
"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but
The truth in masquerade."

Lord Byron, Don Juan
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Oranges & Sunshine by Margaret Humphreys
In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a British social worker, investigated a woman's claim that at the age of four she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first thinking it incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a "new life" in distant parts of the British empire, right up until 1970. Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents often believed that their children had been adopted in Britain. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew. Here, Margaret reveals how she unraveled this shocking secret and how it became her mission to reunite these innocent and unwilling exiles with their families in Britain. Originally published as Empty Cradles.
Devasting story about how the so-called "Christian" charities in cahoots with the UK government dumped their children of the poor and orphanges like garbage,by sending them many only toddlers.... 12,000 miles away to be slave labor in Austrailia, New Zealand, Canada,ect!
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Post by kelleys4girls »

Not what would be labeled a tearjerker, but Lisey's Story by Stephen King made me bawl like a baby.
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Message In A Bottle by Nicolas Sparks ...especially the ending :cry:
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Why I Believed: Reflections of a Former Missionary by Kenneth W Daniels
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Stephen King's Dark Tower Series made me shed quite a few tears along the way. The epic journey involved romance and loss as well as friendship. It took me quite some time to read, and none of it was wasted!
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This will be the cheesiest response, but "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks. Cried at the ending!
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Post by MacGuffin »

Came close to tearing when I read the end of Blood Meridian. It was just too horrifying on the whole.
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Post by esawyer »

Some of the more recent ones for me were comic series, and it was always at the end.
Y:The Last Man by Brian K. Vaughn and Pia Guerra - it's a comic about what would happen if every living thing with a Y chromosome died except for a young man and his monkey.
Daytripper by Fabio Moon and Gabriel Ba - it's a series with each issue focusing on a different part of the main character's life, but there's a major twist at the end of each issue. The final issue is so poignant.

I remember as a kid that I cried to Where the Red Fern Grows.

I'm a pretty emotional reader, so there are loads more.

-- 26 Jan 2013, 16:40 --
otleylovebug wrote:Had to think about this - I cried at lots of films - but a book that did make me cry was Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. So sad at the end and dramatic as he is going tothe guillotine. :(
That was definitely very emotional. I was very cynical when I read it (high school), but that was probably the most moving part.
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Post by primrose777 »

ichandlersgirl wrote:This will be the cheesiest response, but "The Notebook" by Nicholas Sparks. Cried at the ending!

Dont worry, I cried when I read The Note Book too, same with the movie..... everytime!!!!!
There are years that ask questions and years that answer. Zora Neale Hurston.
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Post by galegirl »

Cold Mountain. Sobbed through a whole box of tissues on that one. :cry: Sad but riveting.
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Nicholas Sparks always makes me cry.
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Post by Megan Jevons »

I cried a little reading The Vow: The True Events that Inspired the Movie, by Kim Carpenter, Krickitt Carpenter, John Perry, Dana Wilkerson.
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Post by rishabhsachan »

Edgcar Swatelle this book always my eyes wet
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