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Is it wrong that the only book to ever make me cry proper real tears . . .

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TheCountessOlenska · 28/06/2012 18:26

is Black Beauty Blush

However many times I read it! And also, at several different points in the story!! (Ginger off to the knackers yard, Black Beauty's ruined knees, when James says "why it's our old Black Beauty from Orchard Farm, I'd know that star on his forehead anywhere" etc etc)

I don't even like horses that much Confused

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whatphididnext · 05/07/2012 09:46

The Cat that Walked a Week - I cried so much my mum made me read the ending when I was only half way through the book to see that it had a happy ending! My DS cried in the Norton books, so sad cat books must be a genetic weakness.

Colyngbourne · 05/07/2012 09:34

The worst ones for me are "Through A Glass, Darkly" by Jostein Gaarder, and "The Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde, but "I Heard The Owl Cry My Name", and "Before I Die" are strong contenders.

juneybean · 05/07/2012 00:52

I think I sobbed through PS I Love you and definitely through Schindler's Ark.

121 · 04/07/2012 23:44

Oh The Selfish Giant, you are SO right... [sad but beautiful]

alana39 · 04/07/2012 17:03

The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde.

I saw it in a bookshop and remembered loving it when I was a child. So does DS2 but I can't get more than half way before the blubbing starts. DH can't even stay in the room.

Mog, ah Mog. Your death was enough to make me sit in the dark and think dark thoughts.

Clawdy · 04/07/2012 14:21

For me,the most poignant bit in "Little Women" is when Beth plucks up courage to go next door and thank old Mr.Lawrence for sending her the lovely piano. He says softly as she is going "I had a little girl once,with eyes like those..."

tiggy114 · 02/07/2012 19:14

The green mile gets me at the end with the mouse

Poledra · 02/07/2012 14:33

LBE, are you my DH in disguise? [suspicious] He will not allow the DCs to have Goodbye Mog, as he 'is not ready for it yet'. He's 43, FFS...

Lancelottie · 02/07/2012 14:17

Bridge to Terabithia, oh god...

squoosh · 02/07/2012 14:08

Matthew dying in Anne of Green Gables. A shiver just went down my spine, I'm that much of a sap.

Before I Die by Jenny Downham about a teenager dying of cancer. Jesus Christ I wept! It sounds overly sentimental but is actually really well written.

Private Peaceful - read the last chapter of this on the train and sniveled and sobbed. A brilliant, brilliant book. So utterly moving.

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LadyBeagleEyes · 30/06/2012 21:49

As long as I never have to read the last book, Mog will live forever.Grin
If I ever have grandchildren I'll pretend it doesn't exist.

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TheCountessOlenska · 30/06/2012 21:32

Ha ha LadyBeagleEyes, but Mog can live forever in your heart Grin

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LadyBeagleEyes · 30/06/2012 20:55

I agree about Oscar Wilde's fairy tales, they're beautiful.
I refuse to read the last Mog book, Mog was my favourite book to read to my ds when he was little, Mog can't be dead. I won't accept it.

IamtheSnorkMaiden · 30/06/2012 20:33

Several of the books already mentioned make me blub. I read the end of His Dark Materials in the bath and big fat tears were dropping in the water.

The last thing I read that made me cry was I Heard The Owl Call My Name by Margaret Craven. Not a particularly well written book but lovely nonetheless. An Amazon reviewer said 'it's the kind of book that whispers to you rather than shouts' and it describes it perfectly. By the end I was sobbing.

HexGirl · 30/06/2012 14:37

YY to Rilla of Ingleside - the bit that gets me is when Walter dies. He was my secret book crush when I first read the series as a young girl and I was traumatized when he was killed.

When I was older, reading Schindlers List reduced to tears.

TheSmallClanger · 30/06/2012 14:11

I read Roald Dahl's The Witches with DD several years ago. I read it when it first came out when I was about 9, but reading it as an adult, I understood the ending and had a huge lump in my throat.

givemushypeasachance · 30/06/2012 13:52

Thought up some more - The Call of the Wild and White Fang, full of tragedy and abandonment issues and the undying loyalty of a dog/wolf to his pack or chosen owner...

The Animals of bloody Farthing Wood - another one where the TV series was also signficantly to blame for childhood nightmares, but the books were also desperately sad in parts.

I haven't read it myself but I know the story - I'm surprised The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas hasn't been mentioned yet.

BumgrapesofWrath · 30/06/2012 10:47

I cried inconsolably at The Book Thief when I was sat by the pool on holiday. I had to scurry back to the hotel room to sort myself out.

niminypiminy · 30/06/2012 10:40

Oh, I am David... crying now as I think of when he knocks at his mother's door...

Children on the Oregon trail? When they finally get to Oregon and the oldest boy goes and lays his head in the minister's wife's lap (after leading his siblings across the rockies and nearly dying loads of times), ohhh...

CheerfulYank · 30/06/2012 01:41

Oh I forgot about little Dog Monday!

MedusaIsHavingABadHairDay · 30/06/2012 00:38

Jem being greeted by Dog Monday in Rilla of Ingleside makes me howl. Every single time I read it (it's my favourite book of the whole series)

And Goodbye Mog.. I tried to read that to my kids and sobbed my way though it!

I am David... oh yes...

And for adults.. the last few paragraphs of C.S Lewis' 'The Screwtape Letters' (letters from an older devil to a younger one on how to get your human's soul into hell' ) I'm not a Christian but the end is just... whoa!

CheerfulYank · 29/06/2012 23:03

Oh, "Good Night Mr Tom"... "he called me Dad"...

barbarianoftheuniverse · 29/06/2012 22:33

The Little Prince (Antoine de Saint Exupery)

(Good Night Mr Tom known in the school where my friend teaches as The Wet Bed Book!)

Chubfuddler · 29/06/2012 22:32

Bridges of Madison county. Read the book and cried. Went to see at the cinema and there was a woman behind us proper sobbing. Really heartbroken.