Books That End In Tears - Progressive Rock Music Forum

I don’t recall crying during any book but then again movies and music don’t make me cry either.
There have however been some books that filled me with a kind of sadness that was hard to shake afterwards. I remember reading George Orwell’s Shooting An Elephant and thinking about it non-stop for weeks. Hell I still find myself pondering the relationship we have with animals and why it is that we feel for some whilst we gleefully stomp all over others...many a times merely because X critter looks cute.
I agree about Dee Brown’s book. That was one of those strange reads where I simultaneously found myself plowing through it and wanting to throw it out the window.
Another one that feels like a trip down a dark rabbithole is Max Frisch’ Homo Faber. Such an enveloping read that literally pulls you into a “robot-man’s” inner voyage spanning from perfect equillibrium and a mechanical worldview to beautiful madness and hellish taboo. I don’t want to make any spoilers for peeps who haven’t read it...but yeah it’s one of those where you’ll want to tear your teeth out and/or shout at the characters.
There are so many bleak and heartbreaking stories out there. Goethe’s infamous The Sufferings Of Young Werther was supposedly so dark and seducing that it lead to a string of youngins taking their own lives. Talk about ending in tears...then again it is a heartbreaking tale of woe..and teens at the time were probably as charmingly insane as they are today.

Edited by Guldbamsen - April 26 2021 at 09:07

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Matti wrote:

Tennessee Williams' play The Glass Menagerie made my cry when I read it some while ago.
I saw it on stage about 20 years ago, so the memory of the stage play (which had been a moving experience) only helped me to feel the book deeply too.

My most intense tearjerker play was The Zoo Story by Edward Albee.

Edited by Shadowyzard - April 26 2021 at 07:25

"Of Mice and Men" made me cry at the time.

While,

I didn't find "A Farewell to Arms" impressive in the least. But my dad was very much affected by it.

So,

This means we are indeed very diverse in lots of ways, as a species.

SteveG wrote:

I don't read much fiction so I would say "Chernobyl: A History of a Nuclear Catastrophe." Truly sad real life event.

I mean books in general, not necessarily novels.

...and by the way, NO NUKES!! (From the first country that has banned nuclear energy, about 30 years ago)

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The title of the new TRK album has given me the idea of this topic:

Mention the books that made you end in tears (or with just a sad end)

My first choices are:

City (Clifford D. Simak)

Windhaven (Lisa Tuttle)

I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution