I never shed tears when reading books. Maybe I've never

>>9802832
Confessions by Saint Augustine made me cry
Peer Gynt got really really close

>>9802832
Stoner was the saddest book I've ever read

>>9802832
I can share your feeling anon.
I am just a cold-hearted son of a bitch when it comes to books.

>>9802832
Moby Dick
Mason and Dixon
All the Pretty Horses

The only time I shed tears is when I read something so corrosive to the mind like some Freudian nightmare, and I weep like a child and I want to have never existed.

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>tfw to intelligent to have emotions

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>>9802848
>you have to go further

>>9802832
my standard reply to these threads, of mice and men ( didn't read in highschool ) and the short story in Dostoevsky demons when the poor woman is hated by the villagers.

Better than crying to nearly every book you read.
>cried to GR and a harem LN
>eyes glossed over reading a joke a friend sent me, and a couple of greentext stories
t. straight generally masculine male

>>9802832
I cried like a bitch at the end of The Road

>>9802928
I had tears of joy at the end because I could finally stop reading that piece of garbage.

Flowers for Algernon

>>9802852
I don't think I'm a cold-hearted, because I already cried to movies and to music.
Rereading a short story that I read, like 7 years ago, I almost cried because I felt the same way when I was reading it for the first time.
So I think I just need to know books aimed to make the reader weep.

the western civilization is dull and dead from the inside, all that hardcore porn and hedonistic media consumation did this

The closest I got to crying was while reading Don Quijote and Crime and Punishment.
For me, movies are far more effective at bringing me to tears.

>>9803064
edgy

The Pokler and Ilse chapter in Gravity's Rainbow. Didn't cry but it left me almos in a state of shock.

>>9802832
>Recommend me some powerful books that, indeed, make the readers cry.

the idea that art should make you cry is a total misunderstanding. deep emotional manipulation is the domain of kitsch, not art. if you want to cry at things go watch a soap opera or something, literature has nothing to do with this.

>>9803630
>the idea that art should make you cry
Nobody here is saying that art should or must make you cry.

>>9802928
>There is no prophet in the earth's long chronicle who's not honored here today.

Love that sentence.

>>9803630
Where did I say that art should make people cry? Did you read my post?
>Maybe I've never read any book with the intention and capacity to cause this feeling.
Is literature art?
Is art able to touch the emotions and feelings of people?

>>9803402
C&P gave me misy eyes. I cried realy hot tears reading The Odyssey.

>>9803630
t. cold-hearted khv

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Catch 22 is supposed to be a funny book, but there are some parts that genuinely fucked me up
>There, there. There, there.

There's a part in Out of The Silent Planet that I cried for 15 minutes over. I rarely ever get emotional when it comes to books or movies but something about that really got to me. Lewis is a god.

>>9802832
Depends on the person.
What do you think would make you cry?

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i cried a lil when Captain Maximilian of the spahis declares he is going to kill himself to his love, Valentine the moment she is forced to marry Baron Franz D'Epinay in the count of monte cristo

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>>9802868
What part in mason and Dixon made you cry? I've never read it

>>9802832
The end of Gatsby made me cry.

>>9804540
The Odyssey is the closest I've come

the part where he's speaking to his dead mother was brutal

>>9804668
my name's kuwabara n i gotta sword

>>9802832
JR, by Gaddis. Many instances of silly dialogue followed by abrupt and quite sad scenes

>>9804958
I'll start the Odyssey in few days, thank you for the spoiler!

>>9805755
>reads for the plot

Gravity's Rainbow made me cry, so did a few parts of Infinite Jest. Mason & Dixon will almost certainly fuck you up, if you pay attention.

>>9805812
what does that have to do with?

Under the Volcano is fucking crushing. You watch a guy and his family and friends struggle to save himself, with everyone knowing deep down the whole time that he's beyond redemption. His entire life is just destroyed.

>>9802922
very generally

It looks like GR made a lot of us cry.

>>9804847
then why the FUCK you askin what part.

>>9803630
>being this much of a pseud
Sometimes things are just so sublime or profoundly emotional that you shed a few tears. I'm not ashamed to admit that The Dead made me cry. Maybe one day, after you stop being an autistic pseud, you'll experience it.

>>9804847
The part that was sad

>>9805755
>spoiler about a 2500+ old book
You probably know about half of the book already, that shit is talked about and referenced everywhere.

Honestly read The House of Mirth. Wharton is a master of emotion. It's about regret. You know. When you loved a women but you failed her because you grew bitter. Etc. it's more than this of course. There is one scene that gets me every time. This is one of the most devastating works of literature I've ever read.

>>9806108
The Dead made me cry as well.

>>9802832
>shed tears
the word is cry you fucking pseud

>>9802832
I never got around to GR. Would any of you clarify what's so emotional about it? I thought it was supposed to be wacky postmodern hoohah

>>9802922
What is LN? Also I think it's beautiful that jokes and green text stories have made you misty desu, I also find they can be affecting although I have never cried to them.

>>9802832
The gospel according to luke
I read an Rfk biography by evan thomas and approaching the ending was a bit sad.

>>9802832
Flowers for Algernon is the only book to have made me cry. Something about his helpless decline into retardation really affected me. Probably because I could really sympathize because I'd probably want to kill myself in that situation.