what book have you read and you have felt sad when you have finished it...

[colnelcustard]

not because its a weepy but because you have enjoyed it so much.

I am going to go out on a limb here and say harry potter..... I actually felt sad when I finished reading it because I thought, I am never going to read anything like that again. I remember feeling so excited before the next book came out.

I will fess up to being 33 now.

Then I found twilight god help me.

I remember when I was younger reading the flowers in the attic series and felt like I had never read anything so wonderful and tragic in my whole fourteen years of life.

[meltedmarsbars]

The Long Walk this book.

Okay, its not fiction but I have read it again every few years. An outstanding book.

[colnelcustard]

i feel ashamed of my choices meltedmarsbar

[meltedmarsbars]

Don't!

I too read the "flowers in the attic" series and loved them as a teenager.

[IMoveTheStars]

LOTR. I was relieved to have finally got through it, but had spent such a long time reading it that I was sad to see it go.

I read the entire Flowers In The Attic series... all the Heaven ones too. Pretty traumatic reading for a 13/14yo

[meltedmarsbars]

LOTR? Eh?

[IMoveTheStars]

Sorry, Lord of the Rings.

[WashIrving22]

the steig larsson trilogy of books, just very good thrillers that kept me hooked right til the end, an unusual occurrence in fiction these days i find.

i read the flowers in the attic series too! must've been required reading for hormonal teenagers in the eighties

[Claire2301]

Catchy - same as you! The Twilight Saga is proving to be a bit of a nightmare. However many times I re-read the books I still want to re-read them! This results in me being tired and grumpy the next day as I am up till 1am reading!

[sockmonkey]

Another Twilighter here... read all 4 in about a week, then wished I had taken my time with it... but just went back to beginning and read them again.
One of my friends has just started reading Twilight, and I am a bit jealous she is reading for the first time and loving it.

[colnelcustard]

there was a facebook group or something called 'do you ever wish you had had amnesia so you could read harry potter for the first time again'.

i can relate to that, sad but true. although it would be a bit inconvenient.

[BendyBob]

The Magus

[Nezzi]

A Fine Balance by R Mistry. It was wonderful and I felt bereaved when I finished it.

I'd forgotten about the Flowers in the Attic series, gosh that brings back memories!

[yogabird]

The magus too but it was a book of a time for me, rad and re-read it lots in my 20's came back to it a few years ago and it had lost its appeal rather. May need to give it another go now that you've reminded me Bendybob since i loved it back then. Year of Wonders - Geraldine Brook is another great one

[yogabird]

just looked on Amazon for 'A Fine Balance' not there - what is it about?

[Nikna]

Just finished 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'
by Khaled Hosseini. It's better than the 'Kite Runner'.

[infin]

A Fine Balance
That too would be my choice. I was bereft when I finished it. Not a joyful read, however!

[SearchingForMyInnerJoan]

Anything by Michael 'The Hours' Cunningham -
The Home at the End of the World
Flesh and Blood

He has a wonderful way with characters that makes you feel bereaved when you part from them.
And one of the few writers who makes me cry -
in a good way, of course.

[thumbchick]

Pride and Prejudice - I wanted it to go on a bit more and find out more about them! Ditto several of the Georgette Heyer books - I don't like them stopping dead at the hero/heroine finally getting together.

And I'm not really a romantic person at all!

[drivingmissdaisy]

The Help by Kathryn Stockett, I didn't want it to end.

[VodkaAndTonic]

The Secret History...ok, so it is sad at the end, but really I was sad to leave the characters whom I had come to love. I re-read it once a year as a treat.

Homeboy by Seth Morgan...absolute corker of a novel, set on the mean streets of San Francisco featuring a cast of characters including pimps, prostitutes, gangsters, criminals, who each have a story to tell that interlinks. Dialogue is killer. Tons of twists. Felt sad and empty at the end.

[Goingspare]

Recently - Wolf Hall; huge and satisfying. Sequel on the way, apparently.

[ChangeNameChangeLife]

So many books have made me feel that way but the ones to stand out are The Farseer trilogy by Robin Hobb.

[bobbiewickham]

Half a Yellow Sun. I adored that book.

And I second A Thousand Splendid Suns.

Also Fingersmith.

[Shodan]

I have just finished the Twilight saga. 4 books in 4 days. I just need a leetle break and I'll start them again.

SOmetimes I just get a bit....obsessed with books. I also had the Flowers in the Attic thing (although I saw how awful they really were when I reread them as an adult).

Another one was Diana Gabaldon's Cross Stitch series. I really am an absolute sucker for a larger-than-life love story with supernatural/mythical connections.

[mumoid]

I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and better still, O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker. Cutting, quirky, charming, poetic, funny, nostalgic. Bit like mumsnet