The first book I remember sobbing over was Where The Red Fern Grows. I've never reread it since.
Hermanos! The devil has built a robot!
Numero Cinco ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Jessica - Jul 04, 2011 11:07:28 am PDT #15531 of 28293
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ginger - Jul 04, 2011 11:14:32 am PDT #15532 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I sob over Sgt. Bothari.
Now, if I get teary, it's more over Jo's grief, over any missing of Beth.
That's just where I start crying.
In To Kill a Mockingbird, I cry at "Miss Jean Louise, stand up. Your father's passing."
Anne W. - Jul 04, 2011 11:15:35 am PDT #15533 of 28293
The lost sheep grow teeth, forsake their lambs, and lie with the lions.
Also cried more than once reading The Hunger Games trilogy.
Me, too.
Though the best moment is when Bigwig drags himself up and says, "My Chief Rabbit told me to stop you here." And the other rabbits go, "Shit! He's *not* the Chief Rabbit??? There's someone *he* takes orders from???"
Oh, hell yes. I love that scene, and I love that book even though it is a tearjerker in many parts.
Laga - Jul 04, 2011 11:16:30 am PDT #15534 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
I cried repeatedly throughout The Book Thief. I had to stop reading sometimes I was crying so hard. And then again when Mark of Mark Reads read it.
Sophia Brooks - Jul 04, 2011 11:25:47 am PDT #15535 of 28293
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
I don't think George Orwell was going for a tearjerker, but when poor Boxer gets taken to the glue factory when he thinks he is going to retire, I cry like a baby. I am even tearing up right now. Poor, loyal Boxer.
Connie Neil - Jul 04, 2011 11:26:32 am PDT #15536 of 28293
brillig
I sob over Sgt. Bothari.
Oh, poor Bothari.
It's so hard to read some books in public, because if you start crying someone is bound to say "are you all right?" and then they look at you funny when you say "It's just the book I'm reading."
Leave me to my emotional catharsis, people!
Laga - Jul 04, 2011 11:41:36 am PDT #15537 of 28293
You should know I'm a big deal in the Resistance.
Poor, loyal Boxer
totally
Consuela - Jul 04, 2011 11:42:13 am PDT #15538 of 28293
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
Though the best moment is when Bigwig drags himself up and says, "My Chief Rabbit told me to stop you here." And the other rabbits go, "Shit! He's *not* the Chief Rabbit??? There's someone *he* takes orders from???"
Man, I love that scene. I love Bigwig.
My niece called me this morning looking for a copy of Deathly Hallows: she just finished HBP last night and said she cried, even though she knew what was coming.
Deaths in books don't usually make me cry, unless it's animal deaths. Kill a dog or a horse and I'm all sniffly. The thing that gets me is a last-minute rescue, like the arrival of the Rohirrim at Minas Tirith.
erikaj - Jul 04, 2011 11:46:07 am PDT #15539 of 28293
Always Anti-fascist!
There have got to be some...I know there must be. But none of them work as well as "Where Wallace at, Stringer?"
Ginger - Jul 04, 2011 11:49:10 am PDT #15540 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The things that get me are big, damn heroics.