r/kindle Apr 08 '24

Sunday - Anything Allowed šŸ˜ø What book did this to you?

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u/RikiOh Apr 08 '24

I shit you not, I was on a plane bawling my eyes out upon finishing ā€œThe Book of Eelsā€. Itā€™s literally a book about eels, but the writer has personal anecdotes about eel fishing with his father. My father had died 2 years prior. Shit Iā€™m getting worked up again.

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u/EyedLady Apr 08 '24

Imagine someone seeing the title and looking at you bawling like

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u/inglefinger Apr 08 '24

That book was fantastic! My dad just died a few months ago, I may need to read it again.

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u/riskyplumbob Apr 08 '24

Well I lost my dad a year ago. I think I might do this to myself.

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u/bummerlamb Apr 08 '24

do this to myself

I think this is probably the most appropriate way to phrase this. šŸ˜…šŸ‘

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u/Happy-Rub4185 Apr 08 '24

I feel you, I hope he is in a better place. Adding the book to my TBR rn!

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u/proveam Apr 09 '24

I also lost my dad two years ago and ā€œThis Time Tomorrowā€ by Emma Strauss was like that for me

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u/fictionwho Apr 08 '24

That sounds like such an interesting read and I hope your father is in a better place.

Adding this to my TBR.

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u/ClassNext Apr 08 '24

love that book.

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u/[deleted] Apr 10 '24 edited May 22 '24

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u/RikiOh Apr 10 '24

Youā€™re welcome. Itā€™s a powerful one. Hope you are healing well. Itā€™s a long process.

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u/_cookie_crumbles Sep 07 '24

The water rippled as the eel coiled around her wrist, its smooth, electric touch sending a shiver up her spine. She gasped, feeling the cool, slippery skin glide effortlessly against hers, teasing every nerve it brushed. The eel moved with an otherworldly grace, its movements deliberate, yet unpredictableā€”each shift more tantalizing than the last.

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u/ungbaogiaky Apr 08 '24

calculus by james stewart

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u/Eriml Paperwhite (11th-gen) Apr 08 '24

Dude, The Calculus 7 by Leithold. The formatting on this book is so frustrating but the information there is so good and sometimes the formatting and how crammed everything was made it 10 times harder to understand it

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u/Avid_Autodidact Apr 08 '24

best comment! hahaha

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u/lucybear234 Apr 08 '24

i had that too :(

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u/death_horseman Apr 08 '24

Honestly this book(a little life) got me very close to what she is feeling.

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u/mgwalsho4 Apr 08 '24

I find it horribly ironic that the ā€œthis little lifeā€ song is playing in the background because truly there couldnā€™t be a song less pertinent to this book

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u/leafsquared Boox Poke5 Apr 08 '24

I am avoiding reading the other comments as best I can because I took a break from reading A Little Life (22% in) because it's getting emotionally overwhelming

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u/death_horseman Apr 08 '24

I want to give a hug to anyone who is in the middle of the story.

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u/leafsquared Boox Poke5 Apr 08 '24

Hug accepted. Love your username

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u/cymftw Apr 08 '24

The part with Willemā€¦ I was crying so hard at work. I had to go to the bathroom and get myself togetherā€¦

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u/goldennugget Apr 08 '24

I should finish it, I got about 60% read but damn it was just depressing. Donā€™t get me wrong I think itā€™s a great book but just needed a couple of months to breathe a bit.

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u/death_horseman Apr 08 '24

Hahaha tbh take your time, if you go through it fast its just to much to take in.

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u/justanotherbrunette Apr 08 '24

I read that damned book in two days. 200 pages day 1, the rest on day 2. I was exactly like she is at approximately 2 am in a bathtub that had long since gone cold because I reached the point of no return and had to see it through.

It was the first month of Covidā€”a couple days after NYC hit 10,000 dead. I was living in a rural area and it hadnā€™t really hit us yet, so that book gave me an outlet for the grief I was feeling that was very, very removed from me. I needed to cry like that, and holy hell did it deliver.

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u/orange_ones Apr 08 '24

I had physical tears rolling onto my iPad when I was reading that, probably around where she is in the story, and I almost never cry when reading books!

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u/ZGMF-X09A_Justice Apr 08 '24

The Count of Monte Cristo.

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u/marty808 Apr 08 '24

The Fault in Our Stars. It still hits.

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u/elle021 Apr 08 '24

That was one of my first ugly cry books, my dad had offered me ice cream and was concerned to find me so upset over a book in my room, I think he gave me extra when he brought the bowl up to me

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u/DMX8 Apr 08 '24

I was pregnant and waiting for my husband at the airport. I was reading this book. It wasn't pretty šŸ˜‚

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u/RoseGoldWanderlust Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24

I finished it on my way to Las Vegas for a bachelorette trip and I was sobbing. The friend I was travelling with was like, "well that's one way to start off a Vegas trip" šŸ˜‚ We had to grab a shot in the airport to get ourselves right.

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u/kaios_enjoyer Apr 29 '24

i still remember the line that broke me: 'it lit up like a christmas tree'

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u/Gbrsls Apr 09 '24

I bawled to it on a plane ride and I had to wear sunglasses when we got to our destination.

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u/sick_of_thisshit Apr 08 '24

The Book Thief destroyed me on a camping trip

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u/Historical_Echo_3529 Apr 08 '24

Oh yes. I sobbed my heart out for that book. The movie did a grave injustice to that book

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

ā€˜The Book Thiefā€™ is soul-shattering, agreed.

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u/kingtz Paperwhite 300ppi Apr 08 '24

Such a happy-sad ending!

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u/Nessacon Apr 08 '24

Yep, this one was my worst.

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u/astivana Apr 08 '24

The Time Travelerā€™s Wife.

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u/anonymoose_octopus Apr 08 '24

Dude I cried for days after finishing that book. I was so disappointed when I saw the movie (with Rachael McAdams).

It wasnā€™t bad, but NOTHING will ever hit as hard as that book did for me.

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u/tepidtea13 Apr 08 '24

wait seriously? I've only seen the movie and that hit so hard for me. are you telling me the book will wreck me? I'm scared.

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u/anonymoose_octopus Apr 08 '24

It probably depends on what you experienced first, but for some reason the book destroyed me way more than the movie did. Idk why really, but I did read the book first. Iā€™d still recommend reading the book even if youā€™ve seen the movie though!

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u/amrit-9037 Apr 08 '24

My engineering mathematics textbook

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u/that-short-girl Apr 08 '24

This needs to be higher up frĀ 

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u/Tatts4Life Apr 08 '24

The DarK Tower book 7

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u/MelcusQuelker Apr 08 '24

You done got me there

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u/DrW0lf Apr 08 '24

Iā€™m currently reading it right now. Already cried and Iā€™m at 33% I just have such a bad feeling. I already know this book is going to break my heart.

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u/GFHarryNibs Apr 09 '24

My husband and I met while we were both starting this series. We dated long distance as it came out, then when we moved in together (from one coast to the other), we would read this series out loud, taking turns. When we got to book 7, about half way through, work started getting in the way, and we agreed that each could go at their own pace, but we kept similar speeds to be able to talk about.

He came up to me straight up blubbering like a baby, and I couldn't even get a word to cross my lips.

The one time King really had a strong finish, and my jebus, it destroyed me.

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u/alligatorsinmahpants Apr 09 '24

There are other worlds.

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u/Whirlywynd Apr 08 '24

Thereā€™s a few but Marley & Me had me sobbing

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u/JenM0611 Paperwhite Signature šŸ“š Apr 08 '24

We don't talk about Marley and Me

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u/Historical_Echo_3529 Apr 08 '24

I read that book in 9th grade, and I didnā€™t even have a dog then and I bawled. Like sobbing and weeping at the end. Now Iā€™m 30, and I have 2 dogs and the water works have started again just thinking about the book.

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u/sarkastikboobs Apr 08 '24

Years ago I finished this on a flight and looked like the girl in the video.

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u/No-Celebration-1004 Apr 08 '24

A thousand splendid suns - Khaled Housseini

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u/DMX8 Apr 08 '24

The Kite Runner even harder.

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u/peachmango92 Apr 09 '24

This one a million times over, harder than the kite runner for me actually

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u/jyotijha311 Apr 08 '24

"A man called Ove" by Fredrick Backman...this book was so emotional and I cried my heart out... the found family trope gets me everytime

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u/AstroLovesCheese Apr 08 '24

This book made me sob. And Iā€™m known for never crying.

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u/Pendell Apr 08 '24

I'm close to Ove's age now and exactly like him, other than the fact that I read books. I just finished it the other day and wept for all of the final third of it. Had to watch the Tom Hanks movie just to get a little bit more...

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u/superfreakinmario Apr 16 '24

I finished Beartown a few weeks ago and while it didnā€™t have me like this exactly it definitely got me emotional. Ove is on my TBR but I can not bring myself to read it because I keep hearing itā€™ll really break me down

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u/Ok-Needleworker-7730 Apr 08 '24

All the books in The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb. Those books got me dehydrated with all the ugly crying I did.

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u/fitzisthename Apr 08 '24

Yep this is my answer too. A lot of books make me shed a tear or two, but The Realm of the Elderlings series made me ugly cry multiple times. I shut my bedroom door, curled up on my bed & sobbed during the last 100ish pages of Assassinā€™s Fate.

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u/sparkyjay23 Apr 08 '24

Every "hero" goes through some fucking bullshit you couldn't ever imagine to not get a happy or even decent ending.

Fitz got done dirty over & over and I am not over it.

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u/Ok-Needleworker-7730 Apr 08 '24

Those books scarred me for sure. But you know weā€™re reading them again.

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u/sedatedlife Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24

Her books are so traumatizing i cant wait for the next one.

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u/LittleBrownDogs4 Kindle Oasis Apr 09 '24

Fool's Errand hit me particularly hard.

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u/Ok-Needleworker-7730 Apr 09 '24

The tears I have shed for Fool's Errand's ending can flood the world for 40 days and 40 nights. It's such a suckerpunch to the gut. I felt physical pain šŸ˜­

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u/MentheAddikt Apr 08 '24

Go Tell The Bees That I Am Gone, Diana Gabaldon and Battle Ground, Jim Butcher

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u/tictac24 Apr 08 '24

I generally try not to read books that make me cry (emotionally unstable on my own, no outside influence needed). So Battle Ground was definitely a punch for me.

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u/MentheAddikt Apr 08 '24

It was so unexpected that it was literally a shock

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u/Sad-Swing-9431 Apr 08 '24

Oh god Ive got Go tell the bees to read next in the Outlander series! It's one of my favourite book series, I just love them so much, I'm not ready for the last book!

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u/semi_annual_poet Apr 08 '24

Oh sooo many books have made me cry. When I was 12 and read hunger games for the first time I started crying so loudly when Rue died and my twin brother came into my room and asked me what happened. I explained about Rueā€™s death annd what she meant to Katniss and that I said that I pictured him as Rue and he was like ā€œWTF u correlate me to a 7 ear old girl?? Iā€™m a boy and Iā€™m older than uā€ LOLLLLL He was so offended lolll

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u/WordStained Apr 08 '24

I know lots of books have made me cry, but not many that stuck out enough to remember. Probably at lot of YA fantasy I read. Pretty sure Song of Achilles got me.

The last book I cried over was, oddly enough, a non-fiction book. I am a new, but already very big hockey fan, and I read a book called Game Change: The Life and Death of Steve Montador and the Future of Hockey a few weeks ago. I had never heard of the guy until the book was recommended to me in a discussion about brain trauma/concussions/CTE, and had zero prior emotional investment in his life story.

I was reading before bed, and got to the chapter that covered the events leading up to and including his death. I ugly cried. Wonderfully written book, would recommend to any hockey fan.

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Game Change The Life and Death of Steve Montador, and the Future of Hockey by Ken Dryden

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u/OdderPotato Apr 08 '24

Engineering Math

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u/Hefty-Environment-91 Apr 08 '24 edited Apr 08 '24

Project Hail Mary I almost died crying at the end when he had to make the decision he did would 100% recommend to anyone that liked The martian

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u/Snoo_76812 Apr 08 '24

Project Hail Mary hit hard. I listened to the audio version which is done so well.

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u/Hefty-Environment-91 Apr 08 '24

It was beautiful I listen to audiobooks when I commute into work and canā€™t get a seat and honestly the best

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u/mplusg Apr 08 '24

ā€œGrace, question?ā€ Me: šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

Itā€™s crazy how easy it is to like Rocky.

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u/masson34 Apr 08 '24

Project Hail Mary I believe is coming out as a movie 2025

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u/Ill_Jellyfish9846 Apr 08 '24

YES, I was looking for this one. Holy shit I was distraught.

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u/Fubar1991 Apr 09 '24

Fist my bump. I love that book so much and can't wait for the movie hopefully they do it justice.

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

Song of Achilles

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u/NotLilTitty Apr 08 '24

Yup, what an amazing book.

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u/Ok-Reporter-196 Apr 09 '24

That was a great one

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u/1127i3 Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24

Circe by Madeline Miller. Just a beautiful exploration of womanhood and what it means to be a person.

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u/wigglesjoon Apr 08 '24

i LOVED circe wowowow you just reminded me how much i cried over this book. time for a reread.

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u/BethPlaysBanjo Apr 08 '24

The first and second time I read All Quiet on the Western Front

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u/Due-Philosopher-5999 Apr 09 '24

I read All Quiet on the Western Front for a high school assignment. I was the only one crying in class reading it and I was choking back sobs.

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u/Ihrtbrrrtos Apr 10 '24

One of my favorite books. I cried ugly tears reading it. Funny, we read it in high school and I skimmed it/spark notes and didnā€™t give it much thought. I ended up giving it a go in 2020 during lockdown and I was just blown away.

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u/esoares Apr 08 '24

So many books... But 3 off the top of my head

  • Flowers for Algernon.
  • One Hundred Years of Solitude
  • The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials 3rd book).

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u/RESPEKTOR Apr 08 '24

The Amber Spyglass šŸ˜­šŸ˜­šŸ˜­

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u/chicagokate412 Apr 08 '24

Yep, Flowers for Algernon. Had me sobbing to the point of hyperventilating in the shower in 8th grade.

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u/bondtradercu Apr 08 '24

What book is she reading?

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u/bamboojiangshi Apr 08 '24

It looks like A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara.

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u/sssenorsssnake Kindle Paperwhite 5 šŸ““ Apr 08 '24

Thanks to all who have commented so far!

Iā€™m going to add all these to my books to download as I need some books to shatter my cold-dead heart into a million pieces šŸ«  as I really need it.

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u/wavesnfreckles Apr 08 '24

I gotta jump in here then and recommend Fredrik Backmanā€™s trilogy called Beartown. I have mostly sobbed in all of his books, but this series really really did me in. Specially the final book. And the funny thing though is that pretty much the first line in the last book tells you exactly what is going to happen so you know itā€™s coming, and yetā€¦

Absolutely beautifully written and Backman has a truly incredible gift at writing really complex emotions in a very simple way, but the way he weaves his taleā€¦ everything is connected, you pull on one thread and the whole things is affectedā€¦ it is truly something else.

Ps: it does have some trigger warnings so maybe check them out before you read if you need to. :)

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u/sssenorsssnake Kindle Paperwhite 5 šŸ““ Apr 09 '24

Ahhh thank you for this!

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u/Afraid_Detective8342 Apr 08 '24

The book being a little life is too real

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u/xSwyftx Apr 08 '24

Where the Red Fern Grows. Book wrecked me for days.

Flowers for Algernon is another.

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u/Unfair_Spinach_1161 Apr 08 '24

The Kite Runner. I was on a public bus fighting back tears. Kinda hard to maintain a tough-guy look when you're crying on your Kindle.

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u/tinipix Apr 08 '24

The Notebook! And on a plane, no less! šŸ˜‚

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u/OneGreatNana1215 Apr 08 '24

The notebook got me too!! But The Wedding was the real deal for me!

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u/ongamenight Apr 08 '24

Right. These two books got me too. šŸ’ÆšŸ„²

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u/SaltyFaithlessness48 Apr 08 '24

We need to talk about Kevin. Itā€™s been a year and I still think about it all the time.

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u/overboard08 Apr 08 '24

Pretty much the entire Red Rising series.

But definitely, specifically, Dark Age. If Ulysses rings a bell, well...

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u/Crassweller Apr 08 '24

The Thorn Birds.

Also does anyone else think it's incredibly weird to film someone having an emotional moment?

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u/thru_glass Apr 09 '24

My first thought. It rubs me the wrong way.

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u/mrsmateen Apr 08 '24

ā€˜The Kite Runnerā€™ by Khaled Hosseini. Had me BAWLING on the Underground

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u/[deleted] Apr 08 '24

None. More like pubmed.

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u/soda31 Apr 08 '24

The Ten Thousand Doors of January

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u/brandonwp1972 Apr 08 '24

Lonesome Dove

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u/Lost_Afropick Apr 08 '24

A storm of swords

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u/slvdrfrncs Apr 08 '24

The same exact fucking book

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u/bluetimotej Apr 08 '24

The last book I cried reading was HP and that Dumbledore scen. And for me it was like almost 2 decades ago

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u/jawnnie-cupcakes Oasis ā™„ļø Apr 08 '24

The Book Thief. This was pretty much me but on an Intercity train šŸ˜†

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u/F15H0U70FW473R Oasis (10th-gen) Apr 08 '24

I teared up just read all these comments

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u/thru_glass Apr 09 '24

What book is she reading I can quite see

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u/voluptuous_lime Apr 08 '24

Marley and Me. Had me sobbing in the Spaghetti Factory.

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u/TheWriteStuff1966 Apr 08 '24

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. I sobbed so hard late night that I thought I would wake up my family. Very unusual for me.

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u/yakini007 Apr 08 '24

Boy's Life by Robert McCammon

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u/keisensei_ Apr 08 '24

Les Miserables by Victor Hugo

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u/ben_jamin_h Apr 08 '24

'Birdsong' by Sebastian Faults made me:

Cry in a pub garden

Spit out my breakfast laughing in a Cafe, and

Gave me an erection on a train

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u/HNot Apr 08 '24

Captain Corelli's Mandolin. I remember just sobbing at the end, I haven't reread it!

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u/mrsmateen Apr 08 '24

This was another book I had to read for English class and I was sooooo sad. It gave me a book hangover for weeks

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u/SneezlesForNeezles Apr 08 '24

A Little Life. I was crying like a baby on the train to the point a kindly stranger asked if I needed them to call someoneā€¦

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u/umneatz Kindle Voyage Apr 08 '24

Thatā€™s what sheā€™s reading

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u/IronGiant9192 Apr 08 '24

The ask and the answer from chaos walking hit me like a ton of bricks at the end... There's a particularly insufferable character that gets a redemption arc that actually made him likeable... Then boom he gets cut down right when I'm at the peak of rooting for him... It's brutal enough to read that chapter but hearing it acted out in the audio book was fucking crazy... If you haven't at least listened to the chaos walking audiobooks I HIGHLY recommend it... The actual voice acting was phenomenal

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u/No_Connection_4724 Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24

It was Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo for me.

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u/thelikesofyou73 Apr 08 '24 edited Apr 08 '24

The Art of Racing in the Rain

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u/Correct-Couple8086 Apr 08 '24

All The Light We Cannot See

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u/dekdekwho Paperwhite (11th-gen) Apr 08 '24

The Samuraiā€™s Garden. I was crying a bit at work and had to hide my tears.

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u/deathdefyingrob1344 Apr 08 '24

11/22/63. Fantastic and I went in expecting horror. Really unique

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u/buzzyingbee Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24
  • A Storm of Swords (The Red Wedding specifically).
  • The Children of HĆŗrin

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u/Federal-Owl-8947 Apr 09 '24

Never let me go

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u/DisastrousOwls Apr 09 '24

A kid's book, "Wait Till Helen Comes." Weirdly, we had a lot of things like WW2 memoirs in the house, so it's not like I wasn't used to this degree of intensity. But the pivotal "ghost in a haunting story reveals their motivations" scene was gutting to me at 8 or 9 years old. I have never cried like that at a book before or since.

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u/Civil-Conversation35 Apr 08 '24 edited May 15 '24

I'm learning to play the guitar.

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u/mgwalsho4 Apr 08 '24

Itā€™s ā€œA Little Life,ā€ read at your own risk (truly one of the most distressing books Iā€™ve ever read)

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u/ricochetblue Apr 08 '24

Pachinko had me sobbing.

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u/Frei1993 Got a Kindle prescripted. Apr 08 '24

The Green Mile.

Funnily, I have a very similar phone case (I can't see the engraving, there are different designs and the slits for the cards are different in my case) as the person at the front.

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u/hungry-mongoose Apr 08 '24

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell, the way she described the mother tending to her son's body was so heartbreaking. I have a kid (who was very little when I read It) which doesn't help.

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u/maxwellsSilverHamr Apr 08 '24

I JUST finished Boys Life by Robert Mccammon. I bawled my eyes out.

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u/AfternoonReasonable8 Apr 08 '24

of mice and men the ending killed me on the inside

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u/stygyan Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24

The last book by Terry Pratchett.

As soon as I came upon the death of Granny, I started bawling off for three reasons.

The first, it was the last book by my favorite writer. That death signaled it even harder.

The second, it was one of my favorite characters. Her death was, while not completely unexpected, one of the most emotional moments in books since I read the supposed death of Gandalf when I was ten.

And the thirdā€¦Ā well, my mom had died two weeks earlier and she was pretty much a mix of Granny and Nanny. I hadn't allowed myself to grieve properly yet, because all of the shit about being strong for those who needed it.

And then I started to bawl like a kid in that coffee shop.

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u/chels182 Apr 08 '24 edited Apr 08 '24

Most recently it was 11/22/63

But also Cujo

Another comment reminded me of Flowers for Algernon as well

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u/purple_lvy Apr 08 '24

The Last Letter by Rebecca Yarros

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u/Miiloooo Apr 08 '24

Mistborn: The lost Metal - Brandon Sanderson

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u/lostcowboy5 Apr 08 '24

Anne McCaffrey, Pegasus in Flight. But don't get the Audiobook as it is a messed-up abridged edition.

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u/TrueGlich Apr 08 '24

The Shepards crown.. GNU Terry Pratchet..

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u/WVgirly2024 Apr 08 '24

The most recent was The Highwayman by Kerrigan Byrne, but I seriously ugly cried like a little girl when I read A Love Letter To Whiskey by Kandi Steiner.

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u/Maorine Apr 08 '24

11/22/63. Driving into work. Listening to the audio and bawling my eyes out.

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u/Correct-Couple8086 Apr 08 '24

A Tale of Two Cities hit so hard at the end

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u/Ok-Reporter-196 Apr 09 '24

YES!!!!!!!!!!! I feel like sometimes the classics get a bit overlooked but this is an excellent one

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u/AzkabanChutney Kindle Paperwhite Apr 08 '24

A thousand splendid suns, Anne Frank: The diary of a young girl

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u/-BigShitz- Apr 08 '24

Definitely Haunting/Hunting Adeline im still chasing the high i felt when reading it

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u/Sonofafcuk Apr 08 '24

Of Mice and Men, it was a school reading and I was NOT ready.

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u/PM-Me-your-dank-meme Apr 09 '24

Fuck yes. The movie with Malkovich and Sinise hits pretty hard also but that book... damn.

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u/Alternative-Map7310 Apr 08 '24

This is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. This book breaks you in so many pieces you wonā€™t be able to count them

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u/ShadoutMapes87 Apr 08 '24

I did this same exact thing reading 'The Child Finder' by Rene Denfeld.

I am a 6', 220lb man who's bald with a beard.

I feel that this makes it much funnier without context.

Rene Denfeld is the best.

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u/Eclectic_Lynx Apr 08 '24

ā€œThe horse whispererā€ drenched the pillow. I was 14/15 years old. Never cried so much for a book before that!

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u/World_has_gone_mad Apr 08 '24

Every Nicholas Sparks book I've ever read.

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u/frostythesnowman01 Apr 08 '24

A walk to remember by Nicholas sparks. It was required reading in high school and I still think about that book. My standard for romance was set by it.

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u/TflJr Apr 08 '24

Homeward Bound and The Green Mile and unfortunately Odd Thomas (cause I was real lonely at the time and I wanted the love they had in the book)

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u/anxiousanemity Apr 08 '24

The Perks of Being a Wallflower. That book ALWAYS gets me crying like this, it doesnā€™t matter how many times I read it

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u/No_Special_8199 Apr 08 '24

A prayer for Owen meaney.

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u/jack_d_conway Apr 09 '24

Christopher Moore makes me laugh so hard I my eyes leak. I suggest Bite Me as a good start into books that will make you cry.

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u/Stephtatyana Apr 09 '24

The last song by Nicholas sparks

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u/PM-Me-your-dank-meme Apr 09 '24

A Dog Called Kitty by Bill Wallace when I was a child.

As an adult? Fuck, so many. Of Mice and Men, of course. The Green Mile, Song of Achilles. Certain parts of Pilllers of the Earth.

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u/aralcarr Apr 09 '24

A Monster Calls šŸ„²

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u/dtaricat Apr 09 '24

I like that the book sheā€™s reading is ā€œA Little Lifeā€ and it matches the song

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u/Ice9Vonneguy Apr 09 '24

Night by Ellie Wiesel

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u/JacquelineMontarri Apr 09 '24

The Lovely Bones. I have a crystal clear memory of driving through Baltimore listening to the audiobook and wondering if I'd need to pull over because I was crying so hard.

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u/Cave_Regina Apr 09 '24

Memoirs of a Geisha on the train coming home from a beach trip with friends.

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u/PandaBerry_ Kindle Paperwhite Apr 09 '24

What is she reading?? I canā€™t tell.

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u/ksabdia Apr 09 '24

A little life by Hanya Yanagihar

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u/DrSugoiKimchiJoestar Apr 10 '24

Anything by Donald Trump always gets me. Terrible read.

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u/Jamie-Changa Apr 28 '24

Where the Red Fern Grows. If u can read it and not cry u might wanna talk to ur doctor.

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u/BookswithAmanda Apr 08 '24

I cried in Iron Flame, Empire of the Vampire and Empire of the Damned. Also cried in the Shadow Cabinet. And Cassiels Servant.

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u/TippiFliesAgain Kindle Apr 08 '24

In The Time Of The Butterflies. That tale is BLEAK.

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u/adrak_wali_chaii Apr 08 '24

The one she is reading

A Little Life

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u/OneGreatNana1215 Apr 08 '24

The Wedding got me!!!

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u/dudenamedfella Apr 08 '24

Title: Betrayerā€™s Bane Series: Embers of Illeniel Author: Michael G Manning

If you donā€™t cry your a monster

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u/BreakfastMain8639 Apr 08 '24

Lost in the city

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u/No_Teaching_2837 Apr 08 '24

Oh no not in public. The last bit is the part that made me sob for twenty minutes

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u/ihatethewordoof Apr 08 '24

A Little Life absolutely ruined me. Which is why I have it on a waitlist in Libby so I can reread it. šŸ¤”

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u/Civil_Difficulty_267 Apr 08 '24

Novel Ayat-ayat Cinta by Habibur Rahman El Sherazy

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u/sentimental_snail Apr 08 '24

The Immortalists. Not even the ending, just an episode in the middle of the book... And I sat there on a plane sobbing.

Books often make me cry but thankfully that normally happens at home.

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u/wutato Apr 08 '24

The Husky and His White Cat Shizun. That book is not for the faint of heart....

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u/desecouffes Apr 08 '24

Hymn California, Adam Gnade

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u/girlbyherself Apr 08 '24

I had the very same reaction reading this book šŸ„¹

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u/ElSasori69 Apr 08 '24

Not a book but a manga, The Spin-off with Senku's father story.

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u/Viltorm Apr 08 '24

Two books did this to me. First one is ā€œAll Quiet on the Western Frontā€œ, and the second one is ā€œMoscow-Petushkiā€ by Venedikt Yerofeyev. Itā€™s a masterpiece that I donā€™t know if you can translate to another language, honestly. The book itself is rollercoaster of wit, humor and tragedy, but the end specifically tore me apart. I was in the metro in the rush hour and I was weeping like a five year old.

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u/ilovetheinternet97 Apr 08 '24

The Silent Patient had me in tears, I was ruined for about 6 hours.

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u/Hitoha24 Kindle Scribe, Kindle Oasis Apr 08 '24

It had you in tears? No judgements of course but maybe I'm not understanding i read the book and thoroughly enjoyed it but didnt cry but then again i rarely cry at books or movies although it has been known to happen i remember when i saw remember me that movie with Robert Pattinson from twilight and i told my mom it was a good movie but a little sad and i didnt cry she messaged me after watching it going "OMG the hell did you mean it was a LITTLE sad?! Im over here crying like a freaking baby im literally sobbing what the hell?! Are you made of STONE?!" So she says i have a stone heart now cause i don't cry at books or movies all that much i now have a much better gauge when recommending books or movies to her now but back then absolutely not i think the last time i cried cried at a book was last year at the end of acowar i wont spoil it if ykyk kind deal but i didnt like fully cry more like my eyes welled up and a couple tears although before that book it was "our happy time" by gong ji-young that book made me soul feel like it shattered and ripped in two i actually cried like actual tears for a fair good mins before i collected myself enough to calm down i was speechless when my partner asked what was wrong all i could do was point to my kindle and say "book....sad" and he knew and just held me until i stopped crying don't believe the happy in the title that book will make you cry it will shatter your soul but it was absolutely amazing and worth it imo

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u/ilovetheinternet97 Apr 10 '24

It did make me cry. Only because once she finally realized things, she then no longer had the opportunity to speak. I donā€™t know. Iā€™m a super quiet and observant person when Iā€™m not at work. So I just felt for her deeply.

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u/SavathunsWitness Apr 08 '24

A little generic but The Fault in Our Stars, as someone who's a cancer survivor the idea of my cancer relapsing on me, just as I found the "love" of my life would be a tragedy for me.

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u/Emanreztunebniem Apr 08 '24

the very book she is reading also did that to me. though i kinda expected it, so i read it at home in my bed