/lit/ - Literature

>>7209964
Has anyone on here ever cried reading a book?

>>7209975
By becoming emotionally invested in a narrative. It's something that humans do.

>>7209975
Yes. I was young, but this is the only book to draw tears from my eyes.

Ples no bully ;_;

>>7209975
yeah, twice.

The way literally everything went so horribly wrong for Stoner felt like a cheap soap opera.

>>7209975
nope

>>7210000
>>7210000
I felt this at some points, but for the most part the drama was justified, Williams choice to keep the POV squarely on Stoner made it harder to understand other character's motivations, but after thinking about how people acted the way they did, and what their possible reasons were, it made sense.

Still, I think the book would have benefited from a more thorough explanation of the more antagonistic character's motivations.

>>7209975
Gotten a bit choked up sometimes. Never gone as far as actualy crying.

>>7210000
>those quads

Gratz, man

>>7209975
Yes, several times.

i wanted to beat the shit out of the wife. what a fucking cunt.

>>7209975
ender's shadow or game, i forget which one

>>7210038
did you cry because of how shit the books were?

>>7210041
i was like 12

>>7209975
Mason and Dixon gets the heavy feels in places, especially that ending.

>At Bishop they learn'd that Dixon had been buried in back of the Quaker Meeting-House in Staindrop. Doctor Isaac stay'd with his Father, step for step. At the grave, which by Quaker custom was unmark'd, Mason beseech'd what dismally little he knew of God, to help Dixon through. The grass was long and beaded with earlier rain. A Cat emerg'd from it and star'd for a long time, appearing to know them.
"Dad?" Doc had taken his arm. For an instant, unexpectedly, Mason saw the little Boy who, having worried about Storms at Sea, as Beasts in the Forest, came running each time to make sure his father had return'd safely, — whose gift of ministering to others Mason was never able to see, let alone accept, in his blind grieving, his queasiness of Soul before a life and a death, his refusal to touch the Baby, tho' 'twas not possible to blame him.... The Boy he had gone to the other side of the Globe to avoid was looking at him now with nothing in his face but concern for his Father.
"Oh, Son." He shook his Head. He didn't continue.
"It's your Mate," Doctor Isaac assur'd him, "It's what happens when your Mate dies."

"Since I was ten," said Doc, "I wanted you to take me and Willy to America. I kept hoping, ev'ry Birthday, this would be the year. I knew next time you'd take us."
"We can get jobs," said William, "save enough to go out where you were,-"
"Marry and go out where you were," said Doc.
"The Stars are so close you won't need a Telescope."
"The Fish jump in your Arms. The Indians know Magick."
"We'll go there. We'll live there."
"We'll fish there. And you too."

>>7209975
I cried reading Crime and Punishment.

>>7209964
>she dedicated her book to him
that hurt

>>7209975
Read some horrible crap around 16 but I wanted to finish the book.

Then the main character's dog died.

I was crying for an hour.

>>7209975
In elementary school: all of Kate DiCamillo, and Where the Red Fern Grows.

the part where that one graduate student bullshits his oral defense and openly derides the chick in the class reminded me of /lit/

>>7210018
I felt this as well, I couldn't really understand the way his wife (after originally reaching out for him) was so guarded with her own family and seemed not to be in touch with herself.

>>7209975

Books I've cried to and how hard:
By O.P. Phaggot

Bridge to Terabithia in like fifth grade when the girl gets caught in the flood. :(

Million $$$ Baby. The short story the movie was based on. I trane the UFC style so this kind of sort of hit home for me. :| :( :'(

Things They Carried. :'|

Stoner :')

I cried over 2666 over the little girl's autopsy report. I couldn't really empathize with the adult women victims but the kid wrecked me.

>>7210050
This is the only book that has ever made me cry. People who say Pynchon is unfeeling are wrong

>>7209964
It wasn't that emotionally intense. It kinda read the way a Hopper painting looks.

>>7210994
They are prob extrapolating from reading 20p of GR. It's become an annoying fucking meme whenever Sincerity comes up.

>>7211031
so like shit

>>7209975
The ending to the Screwtape Letters makes me tear up every time I read it.

>>7210000
>The way literally everything went so horribly wrong

sounds pretty realistic to me tbh

>>7210000
soap operas have a lot more cheating, deceit, and surprise characters. Stoner had a consistently soul crushing life. That's much more like reality
nice quads

>>7211065
Well no. It's not life-shattering, but it's enjoyable.

>>7210492
I think it's because Stoner really failed to continue his inquiry into her inner world. Edith's entire life up to that point pretty much allowed no introspection, and her distance from her parents and constant isolation made her so focused inward that she couldn't really break free of herself without some consistent coaxing. Stoner really just didn't understand what he was getting into there, she was a ball of neurotic-ism and unexpressed feelings, and he and she both failed to truly bridge the gap on their honeymoon. Leading to a miserable marriage, where she feels abandoned by the only person she ever reached out to and he finds her antagonistic because he can't understand why she acts the way she does.

>>7209975
i cry all the time, i'm a huge faggot like that
this did the trick

>>7209975
Teared up pretty bad in Catch-22.

You know the chapter.

>>7210000
probably why i relate so much

>>7209975

I cried at the ending of Stoner and Notes from Underground when the guy breaks down in front of the prostitute.

>>7211845
oh well, what the hell?

>>7210060
>he didn't see Katherine driscoll again

that one line got me

>>7209975

Yup.

>>7211845

The one where he's realizing just how badly Snowden is wounded or is it the one where Aarfy goes beyond redemption and everything gets darker and darker by the line?

why did Stoner take no control of his life and keep being a useless goof?

>>7209975
Yes, Ilyusha's death in the brothers karamazov

>that scene where the father is following the casket, and picking up flowers that fall off and setting them back on
>that description of the father not knowing where to stand and wringing his hat
>tfw you find out Dostoevsky had a son named Alyosha that died at age three

>>7212297

Keep in mind you're seeing a whole man's life compressed in under 300 pages. It makes the failures seem much more constant. If your life was compressed in such a way would you really fair substantially better than Stoner?

>>7212329
Yes because I'm younger so if my story ended now it would be tragic

>>7209975
The Hobbit when Thorin died, LotR when they went to Valinor (8 and 9 years old), 1984 when Winston gives in, maybe Stoner but I'm not sure.

>>7212319
why did you not spoiler the first line?

>>7209964
That abrupt way we learn about Dave Masters' death at the end of one of the earlier chapters.

>>7214631
Saddest part of 1984 is when he tells about stealing chocolate from his brother.

I cried at the end of the second part of Ulysses. Also a little bit at the end of Molly's chapter.

>>7209975
Some Asian story about a crane I read in 3rd grade made me weep like a bitch.

>>7210000
His life didn't go so horribly wrong, he had a comparatively good life. He pursued his passion and made a career out of it, he fell in love, he had a daughter whom he loved, and he had one or two good friends. Many people go through life with much less. A novel covering the life of an average American today would likely be a depressing read too, and probably lacking many of the beautiful moments that Stoner experienced.

>>7209964
>this book is great because it produces an emotional response
When will this meme die

>>7209964
you lack sympathy

If you hate Edith you're a rape apologist and cis scum that deserves to be castrated tbh

It was the last book I had a strong reaction too as well. I'm interested in seeing if it will rise in status over time to be hailed as a classic on par with other 20th century works. The prose is a bit dry, so I'm uncertain.

>>7218145
>The prose is a bit dry
your brain has been turned into mush by maximalist shit.

>>7217882
kill yourself you white knight faggot.

>>7218535
>>>/reddit/

>>7218552
>>>/9gag/

>>7218552
but reddit is the biggest group of whiteknights on the planet. what?

>>7218564
>>>/lit/

>>7218575
damn......

Regardless of what you think of the book the ending was written beautifully, what an ace description of him dying.