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Books that made you cry?

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jamiesam · 27/07/2006 21:24

I've just re-read Birdsong and really enjoyed having a good sob. Am keen to read another weepy and looking for recommendations (ps am pg so inclined to be more emotional than normal )

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chonky · 01/09/2006 23:08

Anne of Green Gables - when Matthew dies

The Time Traveller's Wife
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Fragile by Nikki Shisler
Before I say Goodbye by Ruth Picardie

JennyLee · 01/09/2006 23:07

lol the ending is pants but i thought, very upsetting

expatinscotland · 01/09/2006 22:55

I thought it was pants, too, Jools.

danceswithmonkeys · 01/09/2006 22:54

Captain Corelli's mandolin - Louis de Berniere

Takes a while to get going but so, so, beautiful.

Joolstoo · 01/09/2006 22:54

never got all the fuss about Corelli - thought it was pants!

olivia35 · 01/09/2006 22:53

Have just finished 'Private Peaceful' by Michael Morpurgo (teaching it next week, thought it might be an idea to have a quick gander in advance - bloody last minute timetable changes...)

I can definitely recommend it, jamiesam, if you're going thro' a WW1 phase! A weepy & beautifully written - really looking forward to year 8 classes now.

JennyLee · 01/09/2006 22:53

Sunset song, angela's ashes, captain corelli's mandolin....

Joolstoo · 01/09/2006 22:51

lovely bones has been on my shelf for yonks - is it no good then?

what book made you cry expat?

expatinscotland · 01/09/2006 22:50

'The Lovely Bones' should come w/a box of matches, b/c it's best used as kindling.

expatinscotland · 01/09/2006 22:49

'We Need to Talk about Kevin'.

Cuz it was so bad, I wept for the time I wasted trying to muddle through it.

Joolstoo · 01/09/2006 22:48

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn - now out of print (I believe)

Socci · 01/09/2006 22:45

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all4girlz · 01/09/2006 22:27

I would also recommend my friends girl-and- the island---
both from richard and judy's book club,
I read them recently and cried alot at both.

The island I could not put down and although a bit hard going in places it was a one afternoon read.
The time travellers wife is brilliant too I would love a sequel.

UselessMum · 01/09/2006 22:00

jamieson I've been into that for an entire winter (before I had DD of course and cried almost daily, even on the tube believe it or not - without shame even, but I am shameless when iit comes to books anyway!)

if you're interested 'All quiet on the western front' is a must and if you like it get the next which is 'A time to love and a time to die'. You will cry yourself dry!

don't make me started

JoPG · 01/09/2006 21:56

I agree, An Evil Cradling made me cry too.

Have just bought 'We need to talk about Kevin' - it looks tio be quite harrowing.

Spidermama · 01/09/2006 21:38

An Evil Cradling - Brian Keenan
Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey.

I can't help thinking about The Collector, after that poor girl was locked in a cellar.

cleaninglady · 01/09/2006 21:29

My best friends girl by Dorothy Koomson

I sobbed from start to finish
two friends who had a big falling out reunited when one of them is about to die but needs her to adopt her daughter and then the story from there - I defy anyone not to sob whilst reading it!!

chocybickie · 01/09/2006 20:39

the 5 people you meet in heaven

or something like that, can't be bothered to get up to look at the title and author. but still made me cry which is a first for a book.

twinsetandpearls · 01/09/2006 20:38

Brothers by Bernice Reubens, made me sob out loud, rather embaressing on a tube!

kimi · 01/09/2006 20:31

A child called it, read it in a day could not put it down, and cryed the whole way through.
Then just hugged my DSs

Medulla · 01/09/2006 18:13

I can truthfully say I have never read a book that made me cry - films are a completely different matter

TheLadyVanishes · 01/09/2006 18:09

The Lovely Bones, bought to take on hol but read it before in one afternoon, sobbed for ages, didn't dare buy her other book (which was true)

FrogBellyRatBone · 01/09/2006 09:56

Fiction -Time Traveller's Wife - Absolutely brilliant, sobbed and sobbed.
Non Fiction - One and Two Halves to K2 by James Ballard. The journey of Alison Hargreaves' family to K2 following her death - heartbreaking and uplifting.

Molesworth · 01/09/2006 09:50

Oh yes whiffy, John Diamond's "C" is a brilliant book, so moving and honest.

dinosaur · 01/09/2006 09:48

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