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Thorns and Spices Captain
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 Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:04 pm
Which books make you cry, every time, without fail?
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:22 pm
Flowers for Algernon, King of the Wind, Black Beauty, Stormy, Misty's Foal, The Titans Curse, Antigone and other books that I just can't think of right now.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:28 pm
No book has ever made me cry twice. However, plenty of books have made me cry once.
* Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
* Night
* Vector Prime (Its was so terrible it brought me to tears. That book is the reason I want to kill R.A. Salvatore! scream The b*****d single handedly ruined the Star Wars Expamded Universe with that single hit-and-run novel. The b*****d!)
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:43 pm
Oh god Flowers for Algernon. crying That book was written specifically to cripple people emotionally. I didn't even THINK about Flowers for Algernon. That book depressed the s**t outta me.
I always cry, without fail, at Erik's monologue at the end of Phantom of the Opera. When he starts going "don't look, Daroga!" I just dissolve.
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Thorns and Spices Captain
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 5:54 pm
Thorns and Spices Oh god Flowers for Algernon. crying That book was written specifically to cripple people emotionally. I didn't even THINK about Flowers for Algernon. That book depressed the s**t outta me. I always cry, without fail, at Erik's monologue at the end of Phantom of the Opera. When he starts going "don't look, Daroga!" I just dissolve.
The thing with Algernon, though, was that I had to read it for school. Whenever a book is required reading for me, I sort of detach from it emotionally, its not recreational, its work. I turn in some interesting book reports that way and make decent marks, but I just can't get emotionally stirred by it. Even now when re-read it, it does nothing to me. Call me heartless, but...
As for Erik's thing at the end of Phantom, I'm sorry, but I felt it was just a little over dramatic. I actually found it just a little humorous, actually. Blame it on the fact that I've seen way to many parodies of it before reading the actual book but it made me laugh rather than cry.
Also, I'm apparently a "heartless a**", as many of my friends have put it.
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Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2010 6:10 pm
Of course it was dramatic, it was in Paris at the turn of the century neutral The place was goddamn teeming with bohemians and romantics. You couldn't turn around without falling over a poet. I mean for crying out loud, the whole book was melodramatic in the extreme. How did you get that far, even?
You're not heartless, just totally unromantic. Or maybe you have empathy issues.
I read Flowers for Algernon while I was feeling lonely in a random person's house after midnight. So....
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Thorns and Spices Captain
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 12:37 am
Thorns and Spices Of course it was dramatic, it was in Paris at the turn of the century neutral The place was goddamn teeming with bohemians and romantics. You couldn't turn around without falling over a poet. I mean for crying out loud, the whole book was melodramatic in the extreme. How did you get that far, even?
I never said I didn't laugh through the entire rest of the book. I just couldn't take is seriously. Everyone was just so over-the-top. (And Christine was a b***h, but that's neither here-nor-there.)
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 1:34 am
The managers were hilarious, yes. And Christine was a bit of a b***h, and Raoul was frankly wet. I quite liked his brother though.
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Posted: Sun Dec 19, 2010 11:33 am
Sanguina Cruenta The managers were hilarious, yes. And Christine was a bit of a b***h, and Raoul was frankly wet. I quite liked his brother though.
Oh god, his brother was awesome! biggrin
And yes, the managers were funny, but they went a little to over the top for me towards the ends there with their little pin adventure and what-not.
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Posted: Mon Dec 20, 2010 4:08 pm
I loved the pin thing xd When the kid opens the door and Firmin is all "DO YOU HAVE A SAFETY PIN." It was so bizarre. Maybe it's a French thing.
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Thorns and Spices Captain
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Posted: Wed Dec 22, 2010 9:44 am
Hmm, that's a toughie.
Where the Red Fern Grows. Every single time. And yet I keep going back and reading it again.
There are a couple of Christine Feehan's Carpathian novels that get me every time, especially Dark Desire, Jacques story never fails to make me cry.
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