What was the first book to make you cry? - Page 2

Sweetpea · 03-19-2009, 04:28 AM

No idea, but there are some books where I have problems keeping it dry...

Black Beauty is one of them, but not the only one.

I think a book where you really can laugh with or cry for (or with) the main character is a book well written. Those are also the books I'm loath to finish as I know I will miss the characters in the book.

dragonbone · 03-19-2009, 04:32 AM

Recently;
The Hunger Games made me cry a lot too.... I so hope there will be a follow up book...

Moejoe · 03-19-2009, 05:41 AM

Weirdly enough, nothing at all until I read a single chapter in a YA novel by Christopher Golden, part of the Prowlers series. Great read, and this one chapter just got to me where the characters are at a funeral. I'd never had such a visceral reaction to fiction before. And no, I'm not some inhuman monster, I get chocked up with a lot of different stories, but they never actually made me cry up until that point. Now, films on the other hand...the stupidest, sentimental, feelgood movie can make me well up

GeoffC · 03-19-2009, 07:11 AM

"The Eagle and the Raven", Pauline Gedge - perhaps not cry - but the description of the attacks on Boudicca's daughters brought a lump to my throat.

krisk · 03-19-2009, 09:25 AM

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Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Maybe "Where the Red Fern Grows"?

No, for some reason I didn't stumble upon that until my early teens, (my Dad may have kept it from me). I can remember reading the Fury books very early on. Black Beauty is also a possibility. I had my Grandfather's copy. It was published in England in the late 1800s. It influenced my early language use, I apparently had a very colourful British caste to my written vocabulary as a wee one.

rebarnmom · 03-19-2009, 12:48 PM

The first book I recollect was the one I when I realized that I needed reading glasses,

but seriously I'm too old to remember any specific titles. But I can assure you I'm a real gusher and always have been when it comes to books and movies (it's so embarrassing!)

=X= · 03-19-2009, 12:48 PM

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Originally Posted by Madam Broshkina

When I was young my family was very poor and could not afford a high chair so I had to sit on a copy of War and Peace when we ate dinner. One time when I was bringing the book to put on the chair I accidentally dropped it on my big toe. I really do not remember the whole thing but my Mom says that I cried for about 9 1/2 minutes.

LOL! you're killing me madam.

Quote:

Originally Posted by desertgrandma

Maybe "Where the Red Fern Grows"?

This was a great book. His other book "Summer of the Monkeys" was also good, but "Where the Red Fern Grows" was the best by far.

=X=

PGP_Protector · 03-19-2009, 01:05 PM

None.

pshrynk · 03-19-2009, 05:46 PM

Pretty much anything by L Ron Hubbard.

Daithi · 03-19-2009, 06:14 PM

I hate to admit this, but Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series made me cry -- and not just because the last book sucked.

Cujo also made me cry.

Ok, I admit it, I cry pretty easily when reading a book.

julia103 · 03-19-2009, 06:50 PM

"Toby Tyler", about an orphan who runs away to join the circus but finds it wasn't what he expected. I was probably around eight or nine when I read it.

Fledchen · 03-19-2009, 09:10 PM

Do picture books that were read to me count, or does it have to be the first book that I read for myself that made me cry? If the former, I believe "The Story About Ping" was probably the first book to make me cry because the little duckling gets a spanking at the end, which seemed to me at the time to be grossly unfair after his ordeal. I was 3, ok?

fugazied · 03-20-2009, 12:32 AM

Strange, I can't recall any books that made me cry. Some were so poorly written that I wanted to cry, but I guess that's different.

Probably something to do with my reading tastes, there's not much in the non-fiction and clive barker/stephen king style books to make you cry easily.

stoogeswoman · 03-20-2009, 10:54 AM

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Originally Posted by fugazied

Strange, I can't recall any books that made me cry. Some were so poorly written that I wanted to cry, but I guess that's different.

Probably something to do with my reading tastes, there's not much in the non-fiction and clive barker/stephen king style books to make you cry easily.

I don't know, Stephen King can write very touchingly sometimes. "Carrie" was an extremely sad book, as well as scary.

busy91 · 03-20-2009, 01:29 PM

OMG! I'm embarassed to say.

"HP & the Goblet of Fire"

Only the part where Harry & Ron fought and they stopped talking to each other.

I don't recall crying before that, but I sure cried enough after.

03-19-2009, 04:32 AM	#17
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03-19-2009, 04:28 AM	#16
Sweetpea Grand Sorcerer Posts: 9,707 Karma: 32763414 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Krewerd Device: Pocketbook Inkpad 4 Color; Samsung Galaxy Tab S6	No idea, but there are some books where I have problems keeping it dry... Black Beauty is one of them, but not the only one. I think a book where you really can laugh with or cry for (or with) the main character is a book well written. Those are also the books I'm loath to finish as I know I will miss the characters in the book.

03-19-2009, 05:41 AM	#18
Moejoe Banned Posts: 5,100 Karma: 72193 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: South of the Border Device: Coffin	Weirdly enough, nothing at all until I read a single chapter in a YA novel by Christopher Golden, part of the Prowlers series. Great read, and this one chapter just got to me where the characters are at a funeral. I'd never had such a visceral reaction to fiction before. And no, I'm not some inhuman monster, I get chocked up with a lot of different stories, but they never actually made me cry up until that point. Now, films on the other hand...the stupidest, sentimental, feelgood movie can make me well up

03-19-2009, 07:11 AM	#19
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	"The Eagle and the Raven", Pauline Gedge - perhaps not cry - but the description of the attacks on Boudicca's daughters brought a lump to my throat.

03-19-2009, 12:48 PM	#21
rebarnmom Wizard Posts: 1,289 Karma: 4525055 Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: rural Illinois, USA Device: Sony PRS-700 (traded in), Sony PRS-650	The first book I recollect was the one I when I realized that I needed reading glasses, but seriously I'm too old to remember any specific titles. But I can assure you I'm a real gusher and always have been when it comes to books and movies (it's so embarrassing!)

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pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	Pretty much anything by L Ron Hubbard.

03-19-2009, 06:14 PM	#25
Daithi Publishers are evil! Posts: 2,418 Karma: 36205264 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Rhode Island Device: Various Kindles	I hate to admit this, but Stephanie Meyer's Twilight series made me cry -- and not just because the last book sucked. Cujo also made me cry. Ok, I admit it, I cry pretty easily when reading a book.

03-19-2009, 06:50 PM	#26
julia103 Connoisseur Posts: 71 Karma: 212 Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Baltimore MD Device: Sony PRS-505	"Toby Tyler", about an orphan who runs away to join the circus but finds it wasn't what he expected. I was probably around eight or nine when I read it.

03-19-2009, 09:10 PM	#27
Fledchen Guru Posts: 663 Karma: 84658 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Minnesota, USA Device: PB360+, Sony950, VR Stream, iPod Touch, iPad	Do picture books that were read to me count, or does it have to be the first book that I read for myself that made me cry? If the former, I believe "The Story About Ping" was probably the first book to make me cry because the little duckling gets a spanking at the end, which seemed to me at the time to be grossly unfair after his ordeal. I was 3, ok?

03-20-2009, 12:32 AM	#28
fugazied Wizard Posts: 1,305 Karma: 1958 Join Date: Jan 2009 Device: iPod Touch	Strange, I can't recall any books that made me cry. Some were so poorly written that I wanted to cry, but I guess that's different. Probably something to do with my reading tastes, there's not much in the non-fiction and clive barker/stephen king style books to make you cry easily.

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03-20-2009, 01:29 PM	#30
busy91 Connoisseur Posts: 79 Karma: 264 Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: NYC Device: Kindle 2, Nook Color	OMG! I'm embarassed to say. "HP & the Goblet of Fire" Only the part where Harry & Ron fought and they stopped talking to each other. I don't recall crying before that, but I sure cried enough after.