Augie Ray

I don't often cry when reading books. I was reading the last book in Stephen King's Dark Tower series while flying this week, and tears were falling (as I sniffled into my mask.)

I was thinking of books that made me cry. Four others came to mind:
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Blackout/All Clear by Connie Willis
The Dog Stars by Peter Heller

What about you? What books made your eyes leak?

Apr 11 at 5:03pmWeb
Show threadKnowAttitude1d ago
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The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak
Show threadPinchy63 πŸ‡¨πŸ‡¦1d ago
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Five Little Indians by Michelle Good.
That book still haunts me.
Show threadHdunagan1d ago
@augieray Thanks for the warningβ€”I just started reading β€œThe grapes of Wrath.” I think I read it in high school but was too distracted to remember much.
Show threadDavid Palk#RejoinEU πŸ’–πŸ‡ͺπŸ‡ΊπŸ•ŠπŸŒˆ1d ago
@augieray The Lion of Boaz Jachim (Hoban), Gaia (Lovelock), & On becoming a person (Rodgers) but thats just me in the here and now. All change by tomorrow. πŸ˜ŽπŸ‘πŸ½πŸ’–
Show threadgeoff martin1d ago
@augieray A Man Called Ove
Show threadAlecia Batson (she/her)1d ago
@augieray Death in a Promised Land by Scott Ellsworth Β» https://bookshop.org/a/99085/9780807117675
Show threadChristopher1d ago
@augieray First three that come to mind are β€œA Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara, β€œEast of Eden” by John Steinbeck, and β€œThe Song of Achilles” by Madeline Miller.
Show threadA. Tang1d ago
@augieray Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Show threadMostlyTato1d ago

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The last Dark Tower book had lots of sad bits that I kind of wasn't really expecting.
The book that made me cry on my first read was the ending of Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deadhouse_Gates

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Deadhouse Gates - Wikipedia

Show threadLynn1d ago
@augieray I tend to avoid tragedies, so when a book makes me cry, it's typically a book that I relate to unexpectedly and breaks my heart. Phillip Gulley's writing does this to me. (the harmony series and even some of his opinion articles). it's folksy and humourous, but real. And sometimes the reality of his central Indiana characters, and their life twists puts me in tears.
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Show threadNate1d ago

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Isn't the ending just awesome?

30 years, and he absolutely stuck the landing.

Show threadAugie Ray1d ago
@nolsen311 still getting to the end. No spoilers! πŸ™‚
Show threadNate1d ago

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Oh, I don't remember it clearly enough to spoil it, not that I'd do that on purpose.. but I recall how I felt about an epic that took the better part of his career.

It was definitely not a Chinese Democracy (Axl Rose; IYKYK)