Which Books Make You Cry?

i want to laugh.... but its kind of strangling itself inside

 

"Empire of the Sun" by J.G. Ballard when the young kamizaze pilot who gives Jamie a mango bleeds to death in the marsh and jamie tries to rescuscitate him

 

Ishmael
Daniel Quinn

 

a million little pieces...james frey

 

Any book with no happy ending and lost opportunity. The right people end up with the wrong ones or no-one at all.

 

The end of Steinbeck's "Tortilla Flatt"

 

" Little prince" Ekzupery

 

Night-Elie Wiesel
probably way too many others

 

Angela's Ashes - Frank mcCourt

 

1984
Lord of the Flies
Requiem for a Dream

 

Time for living and time for dying by Remark

 

They don't quite make me cry, but they're sad (Good, but sad) books-
Pet Sematery (Spelling mistake included ) and The Dead Zone both by Stephen King. I won't spoil the plots but I really recommend them.

 

in cold blood comes to mind..

 

Hearts in Atlantis

 

The very last pages of 1984.

 

Mists of Avalon

 

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer.

Webster's Unabridged if you drop it on my groin.

 

That was beautiful. Kudos.

 

The Stoning of Soroya M. by Freidoune Sahebjam

its a true story the author went and talked to a village of people who took part in the stoning of a young women, these included her own family, her elderly father her husband her two sons and all the people of her village people who had known her all her life .

if youve ever seen a stoning its very slow and painfull the stones they use are ones that cant kill you with one hit , if your a women they bury you up to your waist in a pit you cant run you just sit there with your upper body as a target .


she was stoned for adultery but most likely even that was a set up job by her husband , she offered no defence because she knew she didnt have a chance , the story isnt that unusual whats unusual is someone was bothered enough to write a book about it .



there is a extract of some of the book here
http://www.geocities.com/hammihanirani/soraya.html


a video of stoning from iran
http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm

Freidoune Sahebjam had to leave iran after writing the book I think he now lives in france

 

The Silmarillion by J.r.r.Tolkien: Of Beren and Luthien always gets me teary.
I know this is really sad... but Harry Potter and the half blood Prince made me cry. Last few pages i was a waterfall.
And to be a complete cliche, The Alchemist made me cry as well as Don Qioxte (what Ive got through) and Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard