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Books that made you cry so badly your tear ducts dried up

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I know that almost evryone can answer this one...my book was Flowers for Algernon
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there have been a lot.

The NOtebook
Walk to Remember
The Wedding
My Sisters Keeper
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Lasy Days of Summer by Steve Kluger.
I'm Good Enough, I'm Smart Enough and Doggone it, People Like Me by Al Franken's alter ego Stuart Smalley. Absolutely the funniest book I have ever read. Ran out of tears on both.
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Post by Voices_In_My_Mind »

Oh my goodness, awelker - I loved reading My Sisters Keeper, but it did make me cry alot.
Ecspecially at the end.
I think the author Jodi Picoult can write so beautifully but all of her books are so sad.
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[quote=I think the author Jodi Picoult can write so beautifully but all of her books are so sad.[/quote]

I agree. The Pact made me cry soo much ... all three times I read it =) For some reason, I truly adore that book. Guess I'm a sucker for love stories ...
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The Pact is one of my favorite books of all time. pretty much heartbreaking.
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CollegeReader wrote:
I think the author Jodi Picoult can write so beautifully but all of her books are so sad.[/quote wrote:
I agree. The Pact made me cry soo much ... all three times I read it =) For some reason, I truly adore that book. Guess I'm a sucker for love stories ...
im a sucker too.
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There have been many, but I think the worst has been The Time Traveller's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I literally cried so hard I threw up and gave myself a migraine!
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Post by Voices_In_My_Mind »

I loved the Time Travellers Wife so much sleepydumpling, and it made me cry too. (Though, I didn't throw up)

Audrey Niffenegger writes really differently and at first I was really confused about how she flicked from one time to another, but I really enjoyed it.


I liked the Pact too, but that was sad, I would have to agree with you all that I am also a sucker for love stories. :P teehee
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Ok.... I'm going to be honest here. :oops: I used to be really stoic and only cried after one of my several rereadings of The diary of Anne Frank when I was 13 or so, until I read HP & The Order of the Phoenix and Sirius died. I cried like a baby, a big, huge, fat baby. Cried for hours and cursed JK Rowling... :oops: Go ahead and hate me for it... :oops: Oh, and I cried also when DD died in book 6. And I haven't cried again while reading a book. Yes, I know.
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I've never cried after reading a book.. or watching a movie.. i don't know i'm just not big on the crying =/
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The first book to make me cry was a Sunday-School prize, A Peep Behind The Scenes by Mrs O.F.Walton. I used to have to get my mother to read a certain couple of pages to me, because I couldn't see the print through the tears.

My most recent weepy session was when re-reading Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin for the first time in years!

I do love the old Victorian tear-jerkers!
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Rebeca Darklight wrote:Ok.... I'm going to be honest here. :oops: I used to be really stoic and only cried after one of my several rereadings of The diary of Anne Frank when I was 13 or so, until I read HP & The Order of the Phoenix and Sirius died. I cried like a baby, a big, huge, fat baby. Cried for hours and cursed JK Rowling... :oops: Go ahead and hate me for it... :oops: Oh, and I cried also when DD died in book 6. And I haven't cried again while reading a book. Yes, I know.
i cried like a big baby too when they both died. It was really sad. Both of my favorite characters.
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I got a little verklempt after listening to Stephen King's GREEN MILE.
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I cried at all of the Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants books. Harry Potter when Sirius died got me too. I stayed up all night sitting on my porch bawling my eyes out like a love-sick teenager! White Ghost Girls did it to me for other reasons.
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