RE: Books that brought you to tears
July 7, 2014 at 1:06 am
(This post was last modified: July 7, 2014 at 1:09 am by Ravenshire.)
I dropped a couple tears for Eddie in Stephen King's "It" (but not in the horribly bad mini-series).
I blubbered like a baby when Dobby was killed in "The Deathly Hallows." Again when the Weasly boy got it. I also cried at Dumbledore's passing, but not as much as I was expecting it.
I don't just read books. I climb right inside and experience them. In a sense, I make the characters my friends, so I guess I should expect to be emotional when bad things happen to them. I sometimes do the same thing with particularly good movies and even, sometimes, TV shows. When Sarah Manning's daughter (BBC America's Orphan Black) is hit by a car, all I could no is repeat no,no,no,no,no,no,no over and over while tears streamed down my cheeks. I spent the second half of "How to Train Your Dragon" (both of them) scrubbing my cheeks, not because they are terribly sad but because they are (at least to me) emotionally powerful films.
I've cried over fictional characters too many times to count, including Darth Vader's funeral pyre and Captain Kirk's death in that horribly bad "Next Generation" film. Hell, I cried the first time I saw the Enterprise getting shot to shit in "Star Trek II" and if I'm drunk while watching it, I still do. I probably get wayyyyyy to emotionally invested in my fiction.
I blubbered like a baby when Dobby was killed in "The Deathly Hallows." Again when the Weasly boy got it. I also cried at Dumbledore's passing, but not as much as I was expecting it.
I don't just read books. I climb right inside and experience them. In a sense, I make the characters my friends, so I guess I should expect to be emotional when bad things happen to them. I sometimes do the same thing with particularly good movies and even, sometimes, TV shows. When Sarah Manning's daughter (BBC America's Orphan Black) is hit by a car, all I could no is repeat no,no,no,no,no,no,no over and over while tears streamed down my cheeks. I spent the second half of "How to Train Your Dragon" (both of them) scrubbing my cheeks, not because they are terribly sad but because they are (at least to me) emotionally powerful films.
I've cried over fictional characters too many times to count, including Darth Vader's funeral pyre and Captain Kirk's death in that horribly bad "Next Generation" film. Hell, I cried the first time I saw the Enterprise getting shot to shit in "Star Trek II" and if I'm drunk while watching it, I still do. I probably get wayyyyyy to emotionally invested in my fiction.
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