Books that made you (almost) cry...

[Sharmai]

And books that evoked other major emotions within you...

I know this isn't something us macho men are supposed to be able to do but I have to say I enjoy books that draw me in so deeply that when something major happens in love or disaster I can genuinely feel something.

For example I recently read David Weber's Honor Harrington series and there are a number of times when I felt something this strong.

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Such as when Honor comes back home from planet hell and greets with Mack. Or how her personal guard are absolutely and completely devoted to her throughout.

This series has a ton of emotion evoking moments.

Another one I think was the Black Company but I am not 100% sure
.. If I have the wrong book I am sure someone will remember this scene and point out the correct book.

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A general was taking his people and soldiers across a mass amount of terrain to escape from the rebels that arose behind them and are chasing them down. The engineers are constantly being asked to do more and more and the people are having to make more and more sacrifices along the way.

I can't remember exactly what it was called but it was the something "train"

Discworld - Rincewind

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When he threw the boomerang intending to not get involved any anything else at all and then the book ended. I think I laughed for a go 15 minutes.

The black magician

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As the story progress and she goes from full on hatred to cooperation...

World War Z

... Yea I could probably just quote the whole book here....

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[Ashes Emberblade]

I find the Dune series, as written by Frank Herbert, pretty evocative. Dune Messiah especially.

[Ancalagon]

It didn't make me cry, but ASoIaF's Red Wedding...

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...definitely hit me hard, as I know it did many others. It didn't leave me emotional, but rather emotionless. I distinctly remember reading through the scene, reading, in disbelief, so fast that I missed swaths of what was going on. Without stopping to contemplate I turned back a few pages and began again, slower. And then a third time. Only then did it sink in. And all I could think was 'what the fuck...'

It seems lame to say now, but when I read The Lord of the Rings as a 12 or 13 year-old Gandalf's 'death' was pretty rough. I remember thinking in my head 'damn, what a badass', as he stood on the bridge and roared at the Balrog. Even now I can remember some of what he said 'I am a servant of the secret fire, wielder of the flame of Arnor. Go back to the shadow, flame of Udun!' Etc. My reveling in that bit of (nerd) awesome followed immediately by his fall was tough to take. Frodo's poem in Lothlorien made it all the more poignant: 'He stood upon the bridge alone // fire and shadow both defied // his staff was broken on the stone // in Khazad-dum his wisdom died'. My memory's not that great, but I remember that shit.

[Azrayne]

I know I pimp out Robin Hobb outrageously at times ,but the ending of Fool's Fate definately had me choke up slightly once or twice. Only time a book has done that, in my memory.

[MrGraham]

Where The Red Fern Grows

[Heylel Teomim]

Originally Posted by Ashes Emberblade

I find the Dune series, as written by Frank Herbert, pretty evocative. Dune Messiah especially.

Reading Dune makes you realize just how many people have ripped off Frank Herbert over the years. The Fremen are pretty much the prototypical "elite native", which we see again in the Aiel of Wheel of Time.

And then of course there's The Matrix, which is pretty much just Dune with wires in its head. The Wachowskis stole so much they should be ashamed of themselves.

[Thrawnseg]

Originally Posted by Sharmai

Another one I think was the Black Company but I am not 100% sure
.. If I have the wrong book I am sure someone will remember this scene and point out the correct book.

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A general was taking his people and soldiers across a mass amount of terrain to escape from the rebels that arose behind them and are chasing them down. The engineers are constantly being asked to do more and more and the people are having to make more and more sacrifices along the way.

I can't remember exactly what it was called but it was the something "train"

Coltaine's Chain of Dogs from the Malazan series. It was in book 2.

And a book that brought a tear to my eye when I was growing up was actually a kid's book. Tough Boris.

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..and then his parrot died.

Really? They hit you with that in a kids book?

[Taloo]

The Outsiders? I think? Greasers Socs someone correct me if I have the title wrong.

When Gandalf "died" I cried like a bitch haha.

Both of those were when I was early teens/preteen the only thing recent would be Marley and Me. Fuck that book. I hope the author burns in hell with my mother for telling me the dog dies before I even picked it up. Read it when I'm bored at a friends place so only half way through it but I cry every time the puppy does something awesome.

[MagicNumbers]

When I read "Of Mice and Men" I got a little misty.

[Malt]

Originally Posted by MrGraham

Where The Red Fern Grows

This. I can not believe my parents let me watch this movie a few months after my dog died when I was a kid. Then the book got me again in high school.

[Araxen]

The end of the Ghost King almost did..

[Dirus]

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

[DoctorSpooge]

Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Womack
A Farewell to Arms - Hemingway
Hyperion & The Rise of Endymion - Dan Simmons
Use of Weapons - Iain M. Banks
King Lear - Shakespeare
All Quiet on the Western Front - Remarque
Ulysses - Joyce

[Ashes Emberblade]

I'll second All Quiet on the Western Front and add The Sun Also Rises by Hemingway and The Stranger by Camus.

[Ebris]

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Coltaine's last stand out side of Aren at the end of the Chain of Dogs, when the old solider is forced to shoot him and the crows come to take his soul ... Steven Erikson, Deadhouse Gates

and the Red Wedding.