Of Mice and Men makes me cry. What work of fiction makes you go all blubbery?

[proteus_lives]

Book or movie. Every time. Can't stop it.

[BlueIris]

1. Every time? Book: " A Farewell to Arms." Movie: "Gladiator."

"There was a dream that was Rome. It shall be realized."

[proteus_lives]

2. The end gets me.

When he sees his family, that's strong stuff.

[seaker]

3. Where the Red Fern Grows

[Biker13]

6. Me too!

I will NEVER read that book again!

Biker's Old Lady

[jobycom]

4. The Color Purple (book), Shakespeare in Love (movie).

I cry at soft drink commercials, though. I'm pathetic. And I'm even more pathetic because i like doing it. :)

[Orsino]

5. Dandelion Wine

Specifically, Colonel Freeleigh in the "Calling Mexico" bit.

[Biker13]

32. Dandelion Wine

Is my favorite book, hands down, of all time.

I have a signed copy.

Biker's Old Lady

[Taverner]

7. No book, but Big Fish makes me go all blubbery at the end

[Brickbat]

8. I cried when I read "Charlotte's Web" and "Stuart Little" to my kids out loud.

Can't help it.

[mix]

11. Those two books were the most important books of my childhood.

They were the first books that I really got as a young reader, during the phonics era, giving me confidence and making me a life long reader.

I would have cried too!

[lazarus]

9. Harry Potter

seriously, the end of the series is just beautiful.

Lots of movies make me lose it.

[mix]

10. The Dead James Joyce

A few light taps upon the pane made him turn to the window. It had begun to snow again. He watched sleepily the flakes, silver and dark, falling obliquely against the lamplight. The time had come for him to set out on his journey westward. Yes, the newspapers were right: snow was general all over Ireland. It was falling on every part of the dark central plain, on the treeless hills, falling softly upon the Bog of Allen and, farther westward, softly falling into the dark mutinous Shannon waves. It was falling, too, upon every part of the lonely churchyard on the hill where Michael Furey lay buried. It lay thickly drifted on the crooked crosses and headstones, on the spears of the little gate, on the barren thorns. His soul swooned slowly as he heard the snow falling faintly through the universe and faintly falling, like the descent of their last end, upon all the living and the dead.
http://mockingbird.creighton.edu/english/micsun/IrishResources/dead.htm

[nomorenomore08]

16. +100

I don't think I could ever read that passage aloud. I'd embarrass myself completely. :cry:

[Tikki]

12. "A Tale of Two Cities"...Dickens

Book or Movie...


Tikki

[Bluzmann57]

13. Movie?

Ok. Mask. Cher played a good role, but Eric Stoltz played a better role. I admit that I cried my eyes out during that movie. And I usually like action/adventure and suspense type movies as well as comedies.
I guess Mask isn't fiction, but I still can't help it. Dammit, it's touching. Sorry.

[Enrique]

14. Lonesome Dove

Book or movie. :cry:

[Midlodemocrat]

15. Where's Waldo? That poor bastard has been wandering for years.

:cry:

[proteus_lives]

17. He's a modern retelling of the Wandering Jew.

How did Waldo offend God? ;-)

[Midlodemocrat]

18. Story for the ages.

:cry:

:rofl:

:hi:

[abq e streeter]

19. Really sensitive romantic love scenes get to me; this one with Kumar especially

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-hKoBtTCZc

I can't help it; just a sentimental fool

[proteus_lives]

21. I've met Kal Penn in real life.

Nice guy. Give me his John Hancock.

[abq e streeter]

23. How cool--glad to hear he's a good guy in person; seems like he would be, but ya never know

I probably should be embarrassed for loving the Harold and Kumar movies like I do ( I'm well into my 50's) but still love a really good, silly, stoner comedy... I hear there's another one in the works too...:smoke:

[proteus_lives]

33. It's true.

You never know but Penn was a swell fella.

Don't worry about liking what ya like. I'm nearly thirty and I still collect comic books and watch cartoons. I love 'em. ;-)

[triguy46]

20. I think "Tuck Everlasting" is about the saddest story I've read...

And though its Young Adult fiction, it strikes me as hauntingly said. Ford Madox Ford starts his novel The Good Soldier with "This is the saddest story..." and it is true. But in a very adult and complicated way. Tuck is simple, sweet and sad.

[blue neen]

22. "Cold Mountain"

I think it's the first time that I absolutely sobbed while reading a book!

[SayitAintSo]

24. The Yearling n/t

[blue neen]

25. I can't even make myself watch that movie.

It is beyond heartbreaking!

[orion007]

26. The Good Earth, read 1st. time in 9th grade, 4x since n/t

[triguy46]

27. I cried when I read Marley and Me, but I'm a total sucker for labs.

[proteus_lives]

34. Oh yeah, Marley and Me broke me.

I love dogs.

[SoxFan]

28. Glenn Beck

[Aristus]

29. All Quiet On The Western Front.

'He fell in October, 1918, on a day that was so quiet and still on the whole front that the army report confined itself to the single sentence: "All quiet on the Western Front."
He had fallen forward and lay on the earth as if sleeping. Turning him over, one saw that he could not have suffered long; his face had an expression of calm, as though almost glad the end had come.'



I was DAYS getting over that the first time I read it...

[no_hypocrisy]

30. The movie at the end with all the school mate/soldiers looking behind them for the next one

as they march into battle.

[Aristus]

31. Yes, incredible, heartbreaking image...

[Courtesy Flush]

35. Silas Marner

The scene near the end, when the girl expresses her love for her adoptive father had me in tears. My wife read it and cried at the same scene.

[Demoiselle]

36. Oscar Wilde's short story, "The Happy Prince."

[cyberswede]

37. On the Beach (the book) n/t