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book that made you cry?

I have just finished reading "Dear John" and oh boy did it tug at the heart strings.

Loads of them lol, I can weep for Britain at the moment.

xx

a child called it dave peltzer, i balled my eyes out lol

Gloria Hunniford,first book on her daughter
Caron Keating's death.

Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. The tears were rolling down my cheeks.

'If This is a Man' - Primo Levi

nice one Eldrick!!!

"The Rape of the Fair Country" by Alexander Cordell - a weepie for the Welsh

Gloria Hunnifords book did it for me too.
I cried at her desperation.
I'm sure most mothers who read it would cry at the unfairness of it.
Cath

A book by Leslie Pearce had me in tears .I can't remember which one but it was about a girl who had to leave England and was sent to Australia.It could have been called Don't Look Back ,but am not sure.

Brothers in War by Michael Walsh.................


Tells the story of Amy Beechey and her eight sons who served in WW1 five of them being killed.........a mothers worst nightmare five times over.

Annx

I wep very easily over happenings in books. Gone with the wind was the first one I can remember.

hi straykitten david peltzer had me in tears to, I read them all. saw him interviewed and couldnt believe after all he had been through , what a level headed, intelligent person he has become, I was sure it would have affected him mentally. dont know how he survived it all

Jane, Lesley Pearse wrote Never Look Back but it was mainly set in America, about Mattie who started life in the slums of London as a flower girl, saved a toddlers life and went with the family to America. That was sad in places.

Oh Jean - I was just thinking, the first time I wept was when I read 'Gone with the Wind' in 1969. When I finished it, I was on my own on New Year's Eve, in a little flat I rented with a friend in Shepherd's Bush and she was away and everyone was out having fun, I'd just finished with a boyfriend and was feeling sorry for myself, no telly, just my book and I wept buckets. I was so in love with Ashley!!

Tim: An Ordinary Boy

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tim-Ordinary-Boy-Colin-Parry/dp/034061790X



For the Love of Ann

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Love-Ann-James-Copeland/dp/0099131102/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1275429155&sr=1-1

Two books come to mind:

The Green Mile by Stephen King

The Bridges of Madison County by Robert James Waller.

I cried buckets reading both.

Deb

Read Sheila Hancocks book on John Thaw.(The Two Of Us)

Its written in "diary form" with flashbacks to Johns early life, so funny in parts but so wonderfully written, you go with Sheila for the practical parts of coping with the knowledge of losing one of the people you love most, but still recall all the wonderful/down times of the relationship.
It made me laugh/cry and Sheilas way of coping.
However famous you may be, it dos'nt matter, this book is from the heart, its a book you can relate to, its a "must read"

Wend, I'm afraid it would be Brett for me!
I had forgotten Black Beauty. We did it in school, and for yeasr I could recite the opening lines...When I was born, I ran by my mothers side'

My first "grown up" book I got was Little Women by
Louisa May Alcott. I have read it over and over again
through the years. My grand daughters were given this
book by me when they were old enough and still have
them. I also loved the film with Liz taylor, Margaret O'Brian
etc and cried buckets. Silly old fool but loads of things make me cry.