Books/Comics that made you cry - From the silver screen to the written word, sad moments.

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Misty eyes throughout Lolita at Nabokov's command of image, but sobs at the end when
it's revealed that Dolly died in childbirth, and the closing paragraphs as the letter to her that she will never read.

Bonus Nabokov:
the third canto of the poem, about Hazel's suicide
in Pale Fire.
 
Not me, but my father (old-fashioned man) cried at the end of Cold Mountain, and it soured him on reading.

Oh, remembered the only one of mine I can think of: Where the Red Fern Grows.

I was holding in crying because I didn't want to look like a bitch in fifth grade.

Then, we had a bathroom break, and when I got to the restroom all the boys in there were crying.
 
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke was bleak enough that I skipped the miniseries adaptation. "Yeah, nope. One soul-crushing is enough. I'll just reread 1984 to lift my spirits instead."
 
Neil Gaiman's short story "The Price" made me cry. I have a big soft spot for cats, and any depiction of them in pain or suffering abuse really gets to me. The last paragraph of the story, especially the final sentence is what got me.
 
I read "A Monster Calls" in a single day and ugly cried my way through the last third of it.

Any book I read as a kid with a dead dog at the end also qualifies.
 
The Road by McCarthy
Homer, Iliad, by Alessandro Baricco: the author modernized the prose and story without losing any of its beauty. I especially love Hector's character, how torn he is between his family and his duty as a soldier - how he knows he can't defeat Achilles, but he has to fight, and just wishes to be remembered by his people.
La main hantée (The Haunted Hand) by Louise Dupré: poetry book about the author having to euthanize her cat. She reflect on cruelty and mercy, on having to decide when to end the life of another being, on writing with a "haunted hand" - the hand that carried an empty cage back to her home.
 
I get a bit misty-eyed over the scene in All-Star Superman when Supes stops a girl from killing herself.
"It's never as bad as it seems. You're much stronger than you think you are. Trust me."
 
I had to read The Bell Jar for school when I was 15. I didn't cry but I did get pretty uncomfortable when I read the part where the protagonist describes her depression and indecision by imagining herself sitting in a fig tree and watching all the "figs" (opportunities/possibilities for her future) ripen and subsequently fall off the tree and rot, starving to death because she can't choose which one to eat. I had this weird moment of foresight where I was like "hey that's pretty much going to be me as an adult isn't it?" The fact that I was right doesn't make it any better.
 
Gates of Fire. It fucked me up when I first read it and every time since. You know how it's going to end--it's about the Spartans at Thermopylae, FFS--but you spend all this time learning about the main character's experiences among the Spartans and seeing him struggle to make something of himself, you get to know the warriors and their squires and follow their stories and their personalities and their stupid in-jokes ... And then Thermopylae just grinds them to pieces, one after another. I get teary, and then I get mad at myself because I fucking knew this was gonna happen and they're not real people anyway, ya dumb bitch. Then I turn back to the beginning and reread the first couple of chapters so that I can put the book back on the shelf with the last thing I read being them still alive.

The Tokaido Road, too. I can take or leave the protagonist for the most part, but again, that ending ...
 
I guess my most recent experience, and only one i can really remember at the moment, were parts of The Sandman series (which took me way too fucking long to get into and i still regret not reading it years sooner). However, i think im crying more now that its been announced as a new netflix series. Ugh gross
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I second @Locomotive Derangement in that I can remember crying the first time I read both White Fang and Call of the Wild as a kid.

I was mad that I cried when I read She’s Come Undone because it was such an obvious tearjerker.

A couple of Fannie Flagg books have gotten me- I Still Dream About You and Standing In The Rainbow especially.

And of course, the James Herriot story about the old woman who rescued the golden retriever.

“Mr Herriot,’ she said, and in the dark probing eyes the pride was still as warm, the triumph still burning as new as if it had all happened yesterday.

‘Mr Herriot, haven’t I made a difference to this dog!’”
 
Wheat King dijo:
I had to read The Bell Jar for school when I was 15. I didn't cry but I did get pretty uncomfortable when I read the part where the protagonist describes her depression and indecision by imagining herself sitting in a fig tree and watching all the "figs" (opportunities/possibilities for her future) ripen and subsequently fall off the tree and rot, starving to death because she can't choose which one to eat. I had this weird moment of foresight where I was like "hey that's pretty much going to be me as an adult isn't it?" The fact that I was right doesn't make it any better.
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Sylvia Plath was quite the gas.
 
There's a Danish childrens book called The Brothers Lionheart and I'm not ashamed to say I ugly-cried through most of it.
 
After School Nightmare. I was going through a lot of emotional stuff when I read it the first time and the story really got to me and hurt me in a way I had never been hurt before or since. To this day I'm not sure if I could ever bring myself to read through it again even considering how good I think it is.
 
I already posted, but Joyce's Dubliners has a moving, sad (but somehow bittersweet) and above all very Irish ending in the last story, The Dead.
 
I don’t really cry reading books, but I read The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and... Wow. Felt so empty inside.

The fact that they couldn’t release Harriet’s story, Martin and his father’s crimes because of all that shit... Wow. I’d release it either way. Idc. I had to agree with Lisbeth.
Also I felt sad that she didn’t end up with Mikael, even though he’s kinda a Gary Stu who sleeps with every female in the story. He made her happy
 
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