What Is The Most Emotional Book You've Read?

[scdan4]

The Book Thief by Marcus Zusak. Incredible, caused floods of tears, which was awkward as couldn't see the words properly anddesperately wanted to keep reading.

One of the best books I have read in a long time.

[onomatopoeia]

Me before you, by Jojo Moyes, which I read entirely at random and could not stop reading once I started. It tackles a controversial issue head on and is massively, unashamedly sentimental about it. It's also completely different from my normal reading fare (sci-fi etc)

There are a couple of others but they are way to personal to talk about.

Dan_1981 said:

May have borrowed Ps I love u from the missus and also my sisters keeper. Both had there moments!

My sister's keeper certainly provoked a reaction in me, although perhaps not the one the author intended, in that what she did in the final chapter made me decide never to read another of her novels as I was so annoyed .

[jmcc500]

Going back a fair time... When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs. Terrifying and sad.

[marcosgt]

I've seen this thread and thought "I've never found a book, emotional", but "When the Wind Blows" (which I've not read) reminded me of "On The Beach" by Nevil Shute which really did make me feel incredibly sad.

M.

[Legend83]

The Book Thief
If This is a Man
The Price of Glory
A Thousand Splendid Suns

[vx220]

Don't remember crying at "the book thief"

But blubbed through "love story" in one hit, really well written

[LandR]

knotweed said:

The fault in our stars by John Green. It's about teenagers who meet through a cancer support group. It's the only book that's ever made me cry.

I read The Fault in Our Stars this week, the dialogue just made me cringe almost all the way through. It read like a book aimed at teenage girls.

I wouldn't recommend it.

This is a book where teenagers talk like this:

the fault in our stars said:

“I'm in love with you," he said quietly.

"Augustus," I said.

"I am," he said. He was staring at me, and I could see the corners of his eyes crinkling. "I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you.”

the fault in our stars said:

“You realize that trying to keep your distance from me will not lessen my affection for you. All efforts to save me from you will fail.”

the fault in our stars said:

“Because you are beautiful. I enjoy looking at beautiful people, and I decided a while ago not to deny myself the simpler pleasures of existence”

Yuck.

Edited by LandR on Friday 20th December 01:11

Edited by LandR on Friday 20th December 01:12

[69 coupe]

The Book Thief, very unusual story telling, great book.

About a Young girl Lisle and Ruddi, not the saddest but more a uplifting tail of innocence & coming of age and death during WWII in a small town in Germany, narrated by Death.

Edited by 69 coupe on Friday 20th December 01:17