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What books made you cry and perhaps changed your view on life.

Posted by lifeshighway • 10 days ago • Subscribe to this Discussion [RSS] • Report This Topic
Topics: books, movies

I just read that Will Smith will be producing and acting in a movie adaptation of "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes.

I cried through the entire last half of the book. The story line had a profound affect on my teenage years and managed to knock me out some of my narcissist adolescent behavior.

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10 days ago

AnastasiaFB

Lots and lots. Knut Hamsun's Victoria comes immediately to mind.

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10 days ago

morgantj

Romeo and Juliet.

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10 days ago

amybyrd21

I dont have time to read books for me any more. I read for my 5 year old and the only thing those do to me is make me want to cry of bordem. The last book that I read that stuck in by brain was Lord of the Flies. and one about the meat packing indusrty. (no you dont want to read it)

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1. 10 days ago
  
  lifeshighway
  
  I agree on the Meat Packing book. I do not want to cry from horror.
10 days ago

crazyTsu

The count of Monte Cristo

Books, especially foreign ones dont change view on life

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10 days ago

AroundTheWaygirl

Oh a bunch!

Too Kill a Mocking Bird was one, I loved Flowers for Algernon and cried too, and again the second time, Wuthering Heights, Where The Red Fern Grows, The Catcher in The Rye and Love Story. Tons more ....

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1. 10 days ago
  
  lifeshighway
  
  Where the Red Fern grows that one made me cry for days after I finished it. Wuthering Heights was one of my favorite books as a young teen. I find that when I am retelling the plot of a book and I tear up, that book makes the top cry list.
10 days ago

NatetheGrate

Boys don't cry.

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1. 10 days ago
  
  lifeshighway
  
  yes, but maybe men do.