I bawled like John Boehner at the end of Never Let Me Go.
Simon: You are my beautiful sister. River: I threw up on your bed. Simon: Yep. Definitely my sister.
'War Stories'
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."
Hayden - Jul 04, 2011 3:07:20 pm PDT #15549 of 28293
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
Ginger - Jul 04, 2011 3:10:56 pm PDT #15550 of 28293
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
What was the line?
This is the line that kills me:
But until I was four, almost five years old, I couldn't walk, only crawl. I spent a lot of time looking at people's knees. But if there was ever a parade, or something to see, I had the best view of anybody because I watched it from on top the Sergeant's shoulders.
Gris - Jul 04, 2011 3:56:01 pm PDT #15551 of 28293
Hey. New board.
"Is that it? Are we done?"
I know I'm supposed to know what this comes from. I don't.
askye - Jul 04, 2011 4:03:56 pm PDT #15552 of 28293
Thrive to spite them
First book I remember crying while reading is A Lantern In Her Hand. And then Where the Red Fern Grows.
DebetEsse - Jul 04, 2011 4:04:40 pm PDT #15553 of 28293
Woe to the fucking wicked.
Gris, Angel. Doyle.
Scrappy - Jul 04, 2011 4:07:00 pm PDT #15554 of 28293
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I remember as a kid, crying at the end of a book called Tom's Midnight Garden [link] But not because it was sad, just because i enjoyed it so much that I didn't want it to end.
Gris - Jul 04, 2011 4:18:24 pm PDT #15555 of 28293
Hey. New board.
Gris, Angel. Doyle.
Ah! Yes.
It was part of my tag once. I am ashamed.
Sue - Jul 04, 2011 4:26:11 pm PDT #15556 of 28293
hip deep in pie
More than Anne of Green Gables, I cried hard at the end of Pat and Emily series by LM Montgomery. I read the Pat series again when I was older and didn't love it as much, so I've stayed away from Emily of New Moon.
hippocampus - Jul 04, 2011 4:32:33 pm PDT #15557 of 28293
not your mom's socks.
Books make me sad, but more often, they'll make me angry on behalf of a character, or a group.
But I'm a sucker for visuals and injustice, and HKF recently caught me sniffling over a Little House on The Prairie episode HKF was watching. What? It was sad that Mary didn't take the test after she nearly burned down the barn. See also, Ever After.
Rayne - Jul 04, 2011 5:31:24 pm PDT #15558 of 28293
"Oh no! Has falling sky liquid once again caused you the sadness?" -Starfire
Don't feel bad, Gris. I couldn't immediately place it either.
Add me to those people who bawled at Where the Red Fern Grows and Charlotte's Web. I had the misfortune of deciding to read Where the Red Fern Grows on one of our family car trips across the country. I was in the back seat reading and sobbing. I went through a whole box of kleenex. My mom was so worried she made my dad pull over until I calmed down.
eta: Man, I just went to read a summary of WTRFG and now I'm sobbing like a baby AGAIN.