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Post by jennifer on Mar 8, 2011 20:49:03 GMT -5
You will all probably laugh at me for this but what the hell.
I recently bought a book off ebay, Dear John by Nicholas Sparks. The book is basically narrated by John who is a soldier in the Iraq war and he returns home on leave to visit his father. He meets a young girl called Savannah at the beach after saving her handbag that fell into the water. They hit it off straight away and he ends up spending his whole two weeks leave with her. Just before he returns to duty they both realize they have fallen in love with each other.
There's a lot more to it than that but I didn't want to give too much away just in case some people haven't read it. But from the moment I started reading this book I just couldn't put it down. Maybe it's because I'm feeling some what emotional lately but I just couldn't stop the tears from welling up in my eyes. I felt like a bit of a doofus actually because my bf was in the lounge watching a movie and I was reading in the bedroom and by the time it came to eat dinner I walked out into the kitchen and he could see my eyes were red. He asked 'what's wrong' and I said 'nothing, I was just reading.' And then he said 'your crying over a book?' lol
There were so many moments in this book that made me smile as well but it could have also been the ending too. It didn't end how I expected it to end. I attempted to watch the movie of this book but I just couldn't get into at the time so I really only watched the first 15-20 minutes of it. I've found most of the time that a movie based on a book is always better than reading the actual book. This time I think I was wrong. The book was so much better.
So what books have made you cry? Or is it just me being an emotional doofus, lol!
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Post by dinuriel on Mar 8, 2011 21:11:06 GMT -5
Alas, I have never cried over a book or a movie or any sort of fictional media (which is weird, because I cry at the drop of a hat in real life). I'm probably in the minority here, though.
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Post by jennifer on Mar 8, 2011 21:24:23 GMT -5
Dinuriel - No it's not weird. Everyone gets affected differently by what they watch or read. I can cry at the drop of a hat in RL too.
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Post by sb on Mar 8, 2011 22:40:10 GMT -5
Gavin Maxwell's Ring of Bright Water.
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Post by jennifer on Mar 8, 2011 23:27:10 GMT -5
SB - I looked that book up and it sounds wonderful. I'm now going to try to find a copy. Anything involving animals I'm definitely interested in and there's also a guarantee I will cry too. lol
I should have named this thread 'Books that make you cry....and laugh' because I can think of a couple that have add me in hysterics. From one extreme to the other, eh. lol
The Beach by Alex Garland is pretty funny. But I think in some ways it's best if you've seen the movie too which stars Leo DiCaprio. He really played the part of Richard so well and imagining him while your reading really adds to the effect. I've lost count of how many times I've read this book.
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Mar 9, 2011 19:41:00 GMT -5
You see I tend to prefer the books to the films. Which is why if I know there is a film I watch the film before the book or I don't tend to like the film. But most of the Harry Potter's disprove that rule. LOTR I watched film 1 read the entire trilogy before film 2 came out and then hated film 2 and 3. And don't get me started on P.S. I love you brilliant book completly ruined by a film which changed pretty much everything from the book. Books that made me cry: Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Just in case you want to know the bit and haven't seen the movie/read the book When Dumbledore died it was just so sad. Harry Potter and the Deadly Hallows. The bit is in the second film not the first hence the spoilers Seriously what's not to cry about at the end. One of the Weasley twins dies, Lupin and Tonks die leaving their baby an orphan, Harry dies and is resurected and you know he's walking to his death and there is that anticipation which just makes it worse, then when he alive again you cry, then when Neville gets to kill Nagini because you feel so chuffed for him, and when Harry is alive again. I think I cried during either Wilbur Smith's Monsoon, or River God book I just can't remember which one it was.
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Post by rad on Mar 10, 2011 4:25:12 GMT -5
Oh dear, I just remembered that I cried at the Deathly Hallows too... When they name the baby after Snape
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Post by pinkfiend1 on Mar 10, 2011 14:32:42 GMT -5
But it was a bril book and you've gotten to know them over 7 books so it's good cry. It would ahve been weird not to Rad.
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Post by somuchsong on Mar 10, 2011 18:07:49 GMT -5
I cried during the end of A Prayer For Owen Meany. I don't know if I've ever cried like that (or at all, actually) during any other book, although I'm usually a big crier with other things. Honest to God, I cried during the movie Hotel for Dogs. I'm so lame!
But Owen Meany is such an amazing book. I didn't read fiction for probably a few months afterwards, because I knew whatever I chose wouldn't measure up.
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Post by laura on Mar 10, 2011 19:04:01 GMT -5
Oh, Owen Meany! For real! I am a little bit of a crier though, lol!
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Post by jennifer on Mar 10, 2011 20:42:50 GMT -5
Okay this is cool and I don't don't like so much of a doofus now. lol Thanks guys. Pinkfiend1 - I'm a real movie freak. I love them. So that's probably why I prefer the movies than the books. Plus I always end up watching the movies before reading the books. Well most of the time anyway. Rad - OMG, talk about spoilers! lol What's that about Snape!!! Somuchsong & Laura - I will cry at anything to do with animals because they are just so helpless and always get the tough end of the stick (so to speak). I haven't read A prayer for Owen Meany but I just googled it and gosh it sounds really sad.
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Mar 10, 2011 22:09:11 GMT -5
Green Dolphin Country by Elizabeth Goudge. Makes me cry. She also has a short story called The two Caves that makes me cry every time - and it's one that I read aloud too.
As for movies - don't get me started. I've banned certain movies from playing because of it.
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Post by jennifer on Mar 10, 2011 22:29:20 GMT -5
Oh this is cool, I'm getting together a great list of books and I'll be crying for months on end. ;D Kiri - Lol at banning certain movies. I tend to avoid re-watching some as well because of that. But then some that make me cry are my absolute favorites, just one example is Dances with Wolves. I just googled Green Dolphin Country and .... oh no he wrote the wrong name on the letter!!
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Post by celebkiriedhel on Mar 11, 2011 5:58:15 GMT -5
yes. Kind of. But you need to read the whole story - there's about 4-5 different places in the book to cry.
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