What book has made you cry or has given you very strong emotions?

I'm a mess desu, 90% of books make me cry.

Elliot Rodgers autobiography. Tears of laughter

A farewell to arms.
I dont cry tho nigga.

>>9479721

Not sure that qualifies as a book since it hasn't had any kind of legit publication

crime and punishment

>>9479869
Self published. Also, available as audiobook on youtube.

>>9479871
Same

>>9479501
the ending to Stoner's probably the only prose that's done it for me. I'm a sucker for movies though.

>>9479880

Those really don't count, certainly not as literature

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Don't remember all the times really. I get emotional quite a lot while reading or watching movies. Last time was while reading The Old Man and the Sea.

>>9479501
Disgrace
Mrs Dalloway
So Long, See You Tomorrow
Ironweed

>>9480831
Also, Gilead

>>9479501
Stoner. I was reading the last chapter as I got the news my father had just died. He found out about his cancer on the day he retired and he lasted for another six months and a unsuccessful operation. You can see how the last page got me good.

Last few pages of Breakfast of Champions

>>9479892
Yep, this one for me too.

>>9479501
The Road, unironically, something very similar to my father and me about it

>>9479501
Siddhartha.

>18 replies
>no The Waves
Man, lit has really gone downhill.

"It was my turn" -- Hillary R. Clinton, 2018

>>9479871
Saddest part was when Svidrigailov killed himself.

>>9482131
why

he was literally r9k

Stoner

>>9479501
Schindler's List
Broke my heart to see the Nazis lose the war.

flowers for algernon
>>9482223
Schindler was so broken up about it he pawned the jew ring to buy booze

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>>9479892
>>9482052
this

also richard yates by tao lin, was devastating

>>9479501

for sadness: Quixote
for empathy: IJ (Mario), Karamazov (Alyosha)
for humanity: the one about the tundra

>>9482569
You could have just said Alyosha.

>>9482576

I can think of three other characters offhand that could elicit significant feels: Ivan, Zossima, and Kolya. But yes mainly Alyosha

>>9482601
I was saying that Mario is literally just Alyosha.

>>9482606

Ah okay, right. And I should've mentioned Myshkin too

>>9482095
Rhoda is my waifu

Timbuktu.
Damn dog got me in the feels

>>9482661
I just read the Brothers K and it has been a long time since I cared so much about a character as Alyosha. I spent so much time on "avant garde lit" that I bypassed tBK altogether. It's really an excellent book.

>>9479691
literally me. passages that depict a pure, beautiful relationship between characters can make me burst out in tears.

>>9479501
Notes from the underground after realizing I was literally the main character

>>9479501
The death scene of Prince Andrew in War and Peace was one of the most depressing things I've ever read. We all will truly die alone

Cliche as fuck but, A Farewell to Arms. HEMMINGWAY IS A DICK

The Bible. Not memeing

>>9482569
what are you referencing by "tundra"

All Quiet on the Western Front

cried twice in white nights

first time during the main characters dialogue when he says

>he gloomy, sullen gnawing which now gives me no rest by day or by night. And one asks oneself where are one’s dreams. And one shakes one’s head and says how rapidly the years fly by! And again one asks oneself what has one done with one’s years. Where have you buried your best days? Have you lived or not? Look, one says to oneself, look how cold the world is growing. Some more years will pass, and after them will come gloomy solitude; then will come old age trembling on its crutch, and after it misery and desolation. Your fantastic world will grow pale, your dreams will fade and die and will fall like the yellow leaves from the trees. . . . Oh, Nastenka! you know it will be sad to be left alone, utterly alone, and to have not even anything to regret — nothing, absolutely nothing . . .

second was the entire ending sequence.

>>9482962
fucking butterfly's

Sodom and Gomorrah by Proust

The fragment of Titus Awake made me tear up.

>from here on the content and the writing become too difficult to decipher

The Machine Stops
Made me realize just how far back you could tell when the world was slipping from reality into, whatever it is now.

Flowers for Algernon

Death of a Salesman

Of Mice and Men I have an autistic brother (mid-spectrum).

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The last few pages of this are like taking a pool cue straight to the nose, I physically have to tear up

The Return of the King

The Judge's monologues in Blood Meridian.

The sirens of titan

The Bell Jar
Of Mice And Men

just fuck my shit up senpai

>>9482960

the thing /lit/ collaborated on that makes me weep for humanity

>>9479501
Stoner

>>9479856
Pussy. That shit was OD stupid. Heavy handed, not believable and idk just kinda cheesy imo. Was trying too hard to be a downer for no particular reason. I like Hemingway and have no problem with depressing shit, but idk I thought it was done badly, I didn't feel shit when he lost Catherine and the baby.

>>9479892
REAL SHIT. That was beautifully done, it was super depressing and yet had this kind of affirmative acceptance and peace to it.

>>9482083
what made you cry about that story?

>>9479501
Catcher In The Rye

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>>9484816
Didn't feel a thing my guy? Have you never had a crush b4 and imagined how life would be together? And then its all taken away, instantly, just like that! Catherine's death felt rushed I'll give you that but I believe that's because death comes suddenly.

>>9479501
Stoner

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I've cried over a book only once.

At the end of 100 Years Solitude a now excessively old, blind Ursula discovers that her grandsons and granddaughters were in fact mocking her, writing offensive remarks on her face.

She cried, and I cried with her.

Lolita knocked me out for 3 days and I felt exhausted and had to cry whenever I thought of the final chapters.

>>9479501
Most recently, The God of Small Things by Roy. Hyped for her new novel.

>>9485175
Eh really really fucking rushed. I know death is sudden but it was out of left field and I don't feel it was dealt with in an engaging manner.
And yes I've felt love and loss before. Doesn't mean I like the way it was handled in that book.

>>9482809
>tfw can't even watch porn without crying

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>>9479501

milk and honey awakened my inner femininity, a soft and serene gentle side that was kind and caring that i wasn't aware i had

now i approach life with love and modest joy, bringing good tidings to my colleagues and family, always being supportive of them

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>>9479501
>or has given you very strong emotions
I recently picked up Lolita and I don't think I can go on reading it.
>After school group in our elementary school where kids with parents who work late stay before they can go home
>You play with friends, play with legos, do sports w/e
>Had this roudy girl, 9 just like me, always come with a couple other kids to our school where this after school event happened so this was the only time I would see her
>She was aggressive with me
>pushed me around, made fun of me, then hug me for a bit and go back to pushing and making fun of me
>She always wanted me to get agressive with her like wrestle her to the ground
>One day she is more active than usual and pulls me around with her
>End up in a corner of the big winding room by book cases, empty toy boxes, pillows, blankets, shoes
>She is whirling around pulling hard on my clothes
>Especially on my pants
>She gets what she always wants; I get "mad" and do to her what she has been doing to me
>wrestle her to the ground onto a yoga matt or something similar and pull down her pants and tug hard on the top
>She is laughing uncontrollably, as she always does, and keeps pulling on me as well
>Hold her down incredibly lightly with my left hand while I free her from her pants and underwear down to just above her knees.
>(I remember this part incredibly well)
>Am shocked for a moment and just stare at her from belly button to the gap between her legs
>She is laughing loudly and banging with her fists against my shoulder and back, still being held down by my numb weak left hand
>One punch hits hard and I snap back
>Without really thinking I shove my hand down but turn my head to her and we laugh like maniacs into eachother's faces
>After messing around a bit I slip my ring finger inside her
>I still remember how odd "moist" but still dry she felt and also still so warm and easy when I moved my finger inside her

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>>9485379
>She is awkwardly kicking me with her knees but not punching anymore and still laughing loudly
>I twisted my arm around and bend my finger while still inside her
>Her head snaps back and she is laughing louder than before
>Her crooked and missing upper row of teeth are still visible to me today
>I fall on my back holding my hand as if I had hurt it close to my chest and cover it with my other hand
>I am no longer laughing but starring at her rolling around with her pants still down by her knees laughing
>I thought I heard someone coming so I crawled away quickly
>Later that day I told my parents I didn't wanna go there anymore because the kids weren't nice and that I would feel OK staying at home alone waiting till someone showed up
>Really I jsut felt incredibly guilty and was frightened that I might meet her again and that I would get introuble for touching her the way I did from supervisors or my parents if she told someone or they somehow found out
>My older Brother would later go to the same High School as her and sometimes talk to her on the train to school
>He told me that the very few times they spoke she asked about me and said funny things but I never got the impression that she told him exactly what happened eventhough he had a wicked smile and a snickering tone in his voice when telling me about what she had said to him this time
>I had repressed this memory and forgotten about it
>Now that I read how Nabakov writes about young girls (nymphs) I was reminded of it
>But this time as an adult, the feeling of this young girl's vagina, how she laughed, fought and felt
>The smell of her clothes, her vagina on my fingers and the taste of her hair that would always get stuck into my mouth I can still remember
>I remember how an 9 year old girls vagina feels and seemingly tastes, how I enjoyed sticking my thumb, digging deep into her belly button at times grabbing her tightly around the arms
>I get incredibly aroused by reading the book and am always reminded of that girl
>I get Incredibly aroused
>I first started reading Lolita when I was too early to class so I sat in the library and didn't stop till after I read a couple chapters cowering in my chair hiding my erection
>Never had I felt as horny, and the need to jerk off, as hard as when I was reminded of the girl I groped and felt, from reading Nabokov's description of nymphs (which she definetly was)
>I feel incredibly wrong and feel less attracted to girls my age now eventhough it has only been a little over a week and I do hope this doesn't last
>First time I passed a Kindergarten after this experience I was scared I would feel something looking at the girls play but gladly it was just as usual
>I still get hard just thinking of the incident now and imagening I at my current age in the same situation.
>If he describes the rape of a young nymph I am not gonna be able to finish that book or chapter at least I believe

The Iliad part where they describe a battle and it's just a mess of dirt and limbs and the bodies become indistinguishable.

>>9480635
I read this to my father and he teared up, too.

>>9485370
I hate her even more every time I see another one of her "poems".

>>9485384
you're lucky. try engaging in a 69 foursome with three girls, one your age, 8-9 i recall, one older, one younger, taking turns with them as they giggled and jumped away, the youngest enjoying it with me and getting caught together. I still remember the scent, the taste, everything. it has affected me substantially and is impossible to forget. lolita had the same adverse reaction to me, so i stopped reading it. my advice is to cherish grown women, and somethibg specific, learn to love hair, look at old playboys and see the tufts of blond and brunette hair curling round. appreciate the now and the receptive mind of a woman now, there are adult nymphs, i assure you. no question attraction is still there, and the feeling is not one that should be one of shame, but understanding the power every woman holds over our minds from a supremely young age for them and for you.

oh. and don't you dare ever take liberties. ever.

>>9485458
The thing that it made me wonder is if women are attractive more if they are at a different age than you are.
That as a young but adult man I would find young girls and older mature women more interesting and have a greater longing to be with them than a girl my age.
Similar to how old men would die to have a 20 some year old hardbodied brunette.
Saying, that it isn't just that girls in late teens and especially early to mid twenties are the most attractive to guys but rather the women the same age as them are boring compared to older or younger ones who seem exciting and simply different than jsut the female counter part of you.
This seems strange and everytime I spent just a little time thinking about it I wonder how stupid I am but still somehow I think this to be true.

The last paragraph of The Dead always has me in pieces.

>>9485525
well, that's the curiosity and newness taking hold. Just be careful. I feel as though through my life i have made my mistakes and come to far more complex internal understandings, just from brooding so much. You will have to figure out this for yourself. I found someone my age, and I can understand the concept of boredom from being in the same place in development and spirit and body, but there is plenty of learning and curiosity and fun to be gained, and never at the expense of someone else's innocence, someone else's purity, nymph or otherwise. there are things we avoid doing despite the pleasure because they are wrong, and they are wrong because they hurt others. No matter how hard you try you're never going to feel like you felt at that age. never again. never even a glimpse. you must gain appreciation for the now. for better feelings, more distinguished and mature emotions and thoughts. that is growth. i think so anyway. good luck, friend. don't dwell too much. just do like i said, learn to love signs of feminine maturity, an acquired taste in some of us.

>>9485596
>and never at the expense of someone else's innocence, someone else's purity, nymph or otherwise
Of course not. This started because started reading Lolita and the description awoke old memory and possible new desires, but to act on them is gonna need a little more convincing than one fictional book if it is as possible great as people claim it to be.

>>9485621
i've done a bit of research on Nabby, and i doubt he would intend for anyone to gain desires from his work. the more i learn, the more i like to hope he used his writing as a tool to understand the desire, and perhaps to live it out in a harmless yet fulfilling way. i have come go the understanding that Nabokov was possibly abused by his uncle, so the idea of therapeutic literature is comprehensible. anyhow, an interesting conversation nevertheless.

>>9485651
>he used his writing as a tool to understand the desire, and perhaps to live it out in a harmless yet fulfilling way
Sounds very reasonable

>>9485458
>>9485379
>theres still pedos on cuck chan

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>>9479501
This+++

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Flowers for Algernon
The Road
Madonna in a Fur Coat

>>9485935
Those were both personal experiences as children.
Sorry that remembering events in your childhood is a thing.

>>9485987
its all the shit you wrote after that tells youre a pedo

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>>9485953
>>9485967
>The Road

>>9485998
Read some shit by Freud then if I don't get it faggot.

>>9485935
literally nothing wrong with it desu

>>9479501
Lolita. I almost cried whle reading that final part of the "pentapod monster". I felt so identified...

>>9485379
>>9485384
Welcome to the club. You also gave me a boner.

I tear up at poetry because of how beautifully written it all is sometimes. Kubla Khan for example.

There's also one passage in Gatsby that I find way too relatable. Where Nick describes seeing random women and imagining his life with them and then ultimately concludes on how lonely he is. That always makes me feel things, guilt mainly.

Oh and I cried at A Thousand Splendid Suns for simple reasons.

>>9482522
>also richard yates by tao lin, was devastating
what?? that book was so devoid of emotion the only way it could have made me cry is if someone destroyed my copy before i had the chance to do it myself

>>9479501
The Magic Mountain

>>9486123
>Welcome to the club
You have a story from yor youth as well?
>Do share.

>You also gave me a boner.
I'll take that as a compliment

>>9479892
>at my parents' house after I finished my exams
>was reading Stoner in front of them
>get to the end
>start crying my eyes out
>parents get worried and ask me what's wrong
>can't even talk because I'm crying like a baby
Stoner's ending might be one of the most beautiful things I've ever read.

>>9486184
Not really a story. When I was 7 I briefly played "doctors" with a cousin (nowadays she do have a bf that is exactly like me).
I lost the chance of being with the girl of my life when I was 11 (this affected the rest of my romantic life).
Nowadays I'm into my 9yo half-sis (and she tried some weird things, not me. Really).

Just kill me.

>>9486194
Would be fun if you could greentext the reaction of your parents.

>>9486203
How the hell you survive reading Lolita then?

>>9486203
>I lost the chance of being with the girl of my life when I was 11
No, you didn't

>Nowadays I'm into my 9yo half-sis
Worrying. Infuriating that your parents have no way of knowing either. Get help.

>>9479501
Didn't actually cry, but Dostoyevski's Crime and Punishment, John Fowles' The Magus and Unica Zürns's The Man of Jasmine got me pretty hard on the feels.

>>9486224
>>9486231
>>9486224
>How the hell you survive reading Lolita then?
Hardly. Every chapter hurted more than the previous one. The fun fact is that the mother of my half-sis noticed when I bought the book. "Some friends told me it's a great classic" I said while sweating af...

>>9486231
She becomes jealous when I pay attention to other girls. Seriously, she's always marking her territory.

>>9486219
>dad often reads books
>probably sees me holding Stoner
>he's sitting and relaxed
>mom isn't a reader
>jumps up in a panic and runs to me
>asks me what's wrong
>I point to the book and babble
>mom's panicking and mad at dad
>"He's fine. It's just what he's reading."
>I nod my head, still crying
>I wave her off
>she goes to get me a cup of water while I calm myself
I'm guessing something like that has happened to my dad before, which is why he was so calm. Now that I think about it, I never asked him if he has cried from a book. I imagine he has though. I recommended him Blood Meridian some years ago and he told me he had to take a break halfway through because he got nightmares. Chances are that some book made him cry.

>>9486274
I appreciate it. Remember to recommend this book to your sons in a future.

Nice parents, btw.

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>>9486250
>Some friends
refers to /lit/ as freinds

>>9482209
Not the anon but tbqh, some of the most emotionally disturbing things I've seen in my life were the posts of robots saying goodbye to the board before they killed themselves and other anons who told them nice things before they go.

I think some great literature could be written about /r9k/. Perhaps not by /r9k/.

>>9486283
No problem, anon. And thank you. They're great parents and I love them with all my heart.

>Remember to recommend this book to your sons in a future.
I'd probably push Stoner onto them after their first or second year of university, to see if it affects them the same way it did to me. Maybe it'll get them thinking about their university life. Assuming I ever have children.
God I hope so.

>>9486322
>Assuming I ever have children.
Lots of poor children are willing to be adopted. The last time I travelled to eastern Europe I dropped a few tears.

>>9486331
True enough. That may be the route I take if my poor luck with love continues.

>>9482958
Why would that be a meme?
I hope most people who reads it does or at least gets moved in some way or another.
It's a powerful book

i just finished A Farewell to Arms and I cried

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oldie but goodie

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This desu

>>9479501
Most recently the Sirens of Titan had me on the verge of tears at the ending.

The Unnamable really consistently gets me, but I'm not sure why.

>>9484707
uhm
ohhhhhhh

>>9479501
as someone else mentioned previously, flowers for algernon made me sob as a child.

as others have mentioned, lolita aroused me immensely. the first half of ada or ardor also did the same thing for me.

the death of argos when odysseus returns home to ithaca breaks my heart everytime i reread the odyssey.

finally, for any malazan fans out there, the hobbling of hetan made my stomach churn.

>>9479501
I think Lilith made me tear up at one point. But I have trouble remembering that book. It's like a dream in my memory.

>>9482109
"Please clap."

I haven't cried over any form of media and I can't imagine having the sentimentality to do such a thing
Am I too cynical and cold or is everyone else too emotional and foolish?

>>9486213
This almost got me but then I realized it was basically fujoshit despair porn

The last chapters of Moby Dick had me feeling dreadful.

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>>9479501

>>9479501
I never cry, but I started feelin it towards the end of The Remains of the Day, which I wasn't expecting.

>>9479501
Of mice and men, didn't read in highschool so actually enjoyed it when reading it this year for the first time.

The short story in "the idiot" dostoe, where the woman is accepted by the town after being hated by everyone.

also the end of C&P and Demons a little bit and also my dairy desu..

>>9479501
In Galaxy in Flames when the final bombardment of the city happens and Lokens lasts thoughts in that situation

a single tear dropped that day

>>9486231
>Get help.
Patricians do have patrician tastes. Don't blame others for your ordinary tastes.

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>citrl+f les miserables
>0 results
/lit/ is always the same

>>9488188
>the whole section of Fantine basically taking herself apart so that she could feed and clothe Cosette
I just remembered that part thanks to you and now my heart hurts.

>>9479501
When I was about to finish Rum Punch I felt unbearable sadness. I wish I could've cried, but I lost that ability four years ago.

I've been reading Rilke's "Duino Elegies" recently. Just decided to take an indefinite break from seeing my girlfriend so every line nearly brings me to tears.

>>9479501
The alchemist

>>9479501
I cried when Akaky Akakievich had his coat stolen. The build-up about his simple existence and the new coat being his only pride and joy was too much.

>>9486296
Ive never been to /r9k/ what the fuck do you mean by robots saying goodbye?

>>9486693
I'm glad I wasn't the only one.

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I've lost a friend and his name is Gatsby

>>9486158
Why guilt?

>>9487067
Most likely cynical and cold, but no one is pointing a gun to your face demanding you to cry at art, so who gives a rat's ass?

>>9488992
Absolutely disgusting

>>9489919
why?

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This series made me cry more than anything I had read up to that point. From the second book on, it's incredibly emotional. It's the only genre fiction to ever get legitimate tears out of me.

Also, Women and Men had me in tears a few times.

>>9490941
Likely because whoever responded to you didn't read it. That or it's shit, friend. I'm not sure.

>>9491586
Its a pretty basic read, but its a really good book

>>9482569
how in the world is Don Quixote even sad? his farewell chapter is literally

>he went to sleep
>and he got better
>I hate chivalry! ave maria!
>the end, and to hell with anyone who tries to write part III!

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>ctrl f charlotte's web
>phrase not found

>>9486123
>>9485384
>>9485379
I don't even consider H.H. a real pedo, the wistful child-romance w/ proto-Lo in Annabel and even managing to bone adult women undermines H.H's pedophilia

genuine pedophiles do not have sexual sport with little girls - at any age

>>9491677
worded that oddly, rather Pedos don't have reciprocated romances, that's far too normal.

to be frank, this is more of a defense of Nabokov, whom is most definitely not a pedo

>>9485223
That's the destiny of humanity: to be mocked by time.

>>9487067
I'm the same, desu. But I prefer to cry about my life.

>>9487067
neither, you do not need identify with the characters and can objectively evaluate the artistic value of a given scene. good!

most of this thread is full of cry-babies, toddler sad-sacks reading for escapism! sad!

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>>9479501
I usually tear up whenever I finish a good book because I immediately miss the characters and the setting. It's inevitable.

Aside from that, I'm also very sensitive to mentally ill characters because I was in a relationship with someone with a personality disorder for years and years. The disappearance of Okada's wife in Wind-Up Bird Chronicle made me stop reading for the night; it was predictable and I was prepared for it, but it brings up memories I don't like to revisit. I just push through it, though.

>>9479892
I'm hearing a lot of good things about this book.

>>9482131
I second this, I felt so much for such a despicable character and I can hardly explain why

>>9479501

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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>>9479501
The tunnel of Ernesto Sábato. A book short but that reaches deep to human emotions.

>>9489077
catching the bus, remington retirement plan, etc.

>>9491677
>>9491684
Real (not exclusive) pedo here. I can promise that H.H. is pretty real. Ask me anything.

Froth on the daydream - Boris Vian

cried a river

Ender's shadow, not even memeing.
The moment Bean quotes solomon to the Pilots in the ships he knows to be advancing towards death feelin the pain of a man who would want nothing more than have his own life taken if only he could give it, coupled with the knowledge that his very actions will cause the end of an entire species of intelligent life.
Understanding, for the first time, what sorrow could rip such words from a mans tongue.
That just gets me. It's truly tragic to me. Especially since I read it after completing speakers for the dead and feeling the true futility of the war that is being waged, purely based on the impossibility to take any other action. And committing to this atrocity solely based on this very idea, concious of these very problems. All hoisted on the shoulders of a child. If that doesn't get you, you're just a pretentious shithead imo

>>9479501
There's been many books that have made me cry. I remember crying at the end of A Separate Peace and Crime and Punishment.

Not a book but"The Ballad of Reading Gaol."

>>9479501
No meme, but Infinite Jest made me well up twice: once when Mario high fives the "touch me" guy, and again when he asks The Moms how to know if someone (Hal) is deeply unhappy

Ham on rye,didnt make me cry but I felt like somebody lived my life before me.

>>9482569
yeah man, feeling you on Mario (>>9494412)

>>9479501
opening chapter of "skagboys" recounts a coal-miners' strike that was broken by the police and signaled then end of the british working class for over a generation. i always related to renton more that is was healthy, and his experience of it left me in bits and then made me a commie

>>9479501
There's a lot of books that have made me feel like shit but I think eeeee eee eee by Tao Lin is the strongest one for me.

>>9485370
Yo is that poem meant to be ironic? Or is the author eleven years old? Please tell me thats not serious, taken seriously, or purchased for currency.

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>>9479501
I get as close to tears as I can get, as a man, when I'm reading Robin Hobbs work.

>>9492000
Is Blindness good?

>>9494723
Na, it's pretty shit really.
Imagine, not being able to see your own reflection.

I don't know why I've been chasing loneliness through music, I think literature can help me out much more in my search. i'm sure there are many books on pariahs and failures
>>9486274
god damn it fine ill read Stoner

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>>9479501
Disclaimer: I am a pleb

The Corrections by Franzen: A particular scene near the end made me teary. I know this book isn't (in general) liked on this board, but I thought it was great, though admittedly a little "pulpy," in a page turning sort of way.

Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov: probably the best "love" story I've ever read. I genuinely found the scene where Van forces himself to see Ada in a random work girl heat-breaking. I can't recommend this novel enough. Pic related

>>9482809
pussy

>>9491677
>>9491684
>>9493132
Well, technically H.H. wasn't a pedophile, he was a hebephile.

The Outsiders ending made me tear up a little bit.

>>9494845
He was into his very own Annabel, no matter the age.

>>9480831
The last scene of Rezia and Septimus fucked me up

>>9494892
Nah, HH comments on his "aging nymphet" when Lo is only 14, clearly there is at least an upper age constraint

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>>9491664
>went to sleep and he got better
Anon, he died. And his last thoughts were full of regrets. Sure, we've all made some mistakes in our lives, but for a man to die thinking of themselves as an old, worthless fool? At the last moment, where there's nothing they can do to change their fate? How can you not feel sad from that?

I understand Cervantes wrote Don Quixote as someone to mock, and the first half is full of funny, memorable moments. But the second half feels so different to me. To me, it's about a man desperate to hold on to his ideals, and how the world that just twists them apart and abuses him.

>>9494918
this is one of the reasons why this book is so complex. the target of satire is no longer clearly the one that holds lofty ideals but potentially the society that mocks these ideals.

truly the greatest novel ever written.

>>9489077
Before they kill themselves.