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09-05-2001, 04:53 PM
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My husband came to get me at lunch today and told me that he had read several books to my son this morning. One of them was The Velveteen Rabbit. He said he wasn't sure if our son followed it all, but he listened intently and noticed that a couple of times his daddy stopped reading and wiped away tears.
What books have you read (either in childhood or as an adult) that really turned on the tear duckets?
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09-05-2001, 05:25 PM
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The saddest book I have ever read (and one of the best) is Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther. The true story of his son Johnny's fight against brain cancer, I cry my way through it every time.
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09-05-2001, 06:51 PM
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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09-05-2001, 08:38 PM
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The Secret Of NIHM, Watership Down, The Red Badge Of Courage, The Velveteen Rabbit just off the top of my head
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09-05-2001, 08:45 PM
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09-05-2001, 09:30 PM
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe --I cry every time the Witch kills Aslan (then and now).
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who is moved to tears by too many books to mention
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09-05-2001, 10:49 PM
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Am I the only one who cries at the end of The Return of the King?
The High King by Alexander makes me sob. The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and even more The Last Battle (when the dwarfs shoot the horses as they gallop up the hill, saying that they won't let either side gain the advantage).
Bridge to Terabithia (sorry for any spelling fu) is heartrending.
I've never had the nerve to read Old Yeller, but Steinbeck's The Red Pony is tough. Also Enemy Mine, though I guess that's a short story/novella. Rilla of Ingleside.
And, the killer of killers, the most sob-inducing book I've ever read: Charlotte's Web. I cry every time. I keep reading it. I keep crying.
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09-06-2001, 02:37 AM
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There was a book about a kitten who had a song sung to her by her mother, got raised by people, lived a full life all loved and everything, got ill, and then passed on. Was a total tear-jerker. Not sure of the name of the book, but I really don't feel like being sad around the cats.
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09-06-2001, 07:45 AM
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Ugh, where do I start?
To second books that others have mentioned, I cry at Bridge to Terabithia and Where the Red Fern Grows.
A Wrinkle in Time brings me close (when Meg is trying to get Charles Wallace away from IT.)
Dicey's Song (when Dicey is seeing her mother in the hospital) gets me, as do parts of The Giver.
And of course, I cry in These Happy Golden Years when Laura Ingalls Wilder gets married. I've done that every time since I first read it around age eight.
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09-17-2001, 04:22 PM
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I'm a serious sap...
I am guaranteed to cry at some point when reading any of the following books:
The Velveteen Rabbit
Anne of Green Gables (specifically, when Matthew dies)
The Diary of Anne Frank
Jane Eyre (at the end, even though it's a relatively happy one) | |
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