Can books make you cry?

Movies have made me cry before but can books make you cry the same way?

I dont think books would make me cry. Im assuming that, because movies make me almost shed a tear for how epic some of them are but books have never made me feel any emotional connection to them. I hear of people crying when people die in books, I dont know if I would though.

definitely, you ever been smacked over the head with War and Peace? That hurts.Allicrombie

I may get touched but never cry.

The only movie that made me shed some tears was... Cast Away. WILSON!!! :cry:

definitely, you ever been smacked over the head with War and Peace? That hurts.Allicrombie

I always thought you'd be comatose too quickly for anything to register as pain.

I hadn't cried while reading a book until last year when I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

It wasn't the saddest book in the world overall, and Of Mice and Men definitely trumps it for most super-saddest moment, but just in the context of how much you grew to know the characters it could bring out all the feels.

I can't think of an example right now, but I'm sure they can. I get more connected to characters in books than I do in movies.

I hadn't cried while reading a book until last year when I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

It wasn't the saddest book in the world overall, and Of Mice and Men definitely trumps it for most super-saddest moment, but just in the context of how much you grew to know the characters it could bring out all the feels.

MetroidPrimePwn

Twilight made me cry

It... it sexually violated my favorite fictional creature

Your the true monster StephanieMeyers, your the true monster:cry:

Yes.

The Road really put my emotions through the ringer.

mmm so far no. only book to ever get my heart racing with worry was the The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allen Poe.

only certain songs (upon being in the right mood) have made me cry, and an extreme few movies, like Frida, Across the Universe, and Les Miserable.

many movies and few games had my eyes well up.

Twilight made me cry

It... it sexually violated my favorite fictional creature

Your the true monster StephanieMeyers, your the true monster:cry:

dercoo

When can we move on and stop making Twilight jokes?

Absolutely.

For me personally, books (or written stories in general) have the ability to draw me in more than any movie can. So yes, it's very much possible. Though I suppose it really depends on how each person uses their imagination.

As a kid a couple of books scared me half to death - I remember reading Haunting of Hell House during a thunderstorm and getting really scared. As an adult "Salem's lot" and "The Shining" did the same thing.

But cry? (Oh, ok, I MAY HAVE shed a tear over Dumbledore - but who didnt? DANG didn't see THAT one coming.) :cry:

Movies have made me cry before but can books make you cry the same way?

I dont think books would make me cry. Im assuming that, because movies make me almost shed a tear for how epic some of them are but books have never made me feel any emotional connection to them. I hear of people crying when people die in books, I dont know if I would though.

slipknot0129

The Count of Monte Cristo definitely made me cry.

[QUOTE="dercoo"]

Twilight made me cry

It... it sexually violated my favorite fictional creature

Your the true monster StephanieMeyers, your the true monster:cry:

Pffrbt

When can we move on and stop making Twilight jokes?

Where the Red Fern Grows made me cry when I was a child. I recently reread it, and sure enough, tears flowed.

Yes,books have made me cried.

My eyes watered at the end of the Harry Potter series.

[QUOTE="MetroidPrimePwn"]

I hadn't cried while reading a book until last year when I read The Fault in Our Stars by John Green.

It wasn't the saddest book in the world overall, and Of Mice and Men definitely trumps it for most super-saddest moment, but just in the context of how much you grew to know the characters it could bring out all the feels.

Allicrombie

Books? I suppose so. With sad music in the background even more so. I tried muting the music on this Lost Odyssey Dream Sequence, but it wasn't the same.

Nope. Nothing makes me cry really.unrealtron

Yes.

Nah, books never make me cry. They can make me smile and laugh though. I've almost cried during the end of a very dramatic movie though.

only when i had to read them for school

They have yet to, I think. I guess there's a distinct difference between an actual visual of the events taking place versus my own imagination.

At least to me.

It has never happened, and I do cry pretty easily with movies.

Books definitely make me cry more than movies, Prehaps it's because there is a more mental and emotional attachment to the places and characters in the stories, since you have to use your own personal imagination to create them.

It has never happened, and I do cry pretty easily with movies.

Pierst179

Never made me cry, but I've never cried from watching movies either. I read Survival in Auschwitz and the sh*t he had to do to survive was insane. Also the dude killed himself later. Still didn't make me cry though.

But yeah that was one book I couldn't handle reading for more than about half an hour at a time.

Ya, in "A Storm of swords" (part of the A song of ice and fire series- or more commonly known as the Game of Thrones series) [spoiler] the Red Wedding was pretty sad because of Rob's fate, what makes it more sad was what they did with the body- the attached Grey Wind's head to Robbs body. A final insult. [/spoiler] dracolich55

50 shades of grey.