Which book had you like this?

>>24561795 (OP)
The Bible

>>24561795 (OP)
the 2000 page Spanish tax rules manual

>>24561795 (OP)
performative

>>24561795 (OP)
>battling
?

>>24561846
Having a battle.

>>24561795 (OP)
honestly, I got teary eyes once and that was at the end of The God of Small Things.

I cry at the end of almost every good novel.

>>24561795 (OP)
Someone gave a summary of this book, isn't it a highly improbable setup? Something about a very successful guy having all the worst shit happen to him?

>>24561795 (OP)
Why is that train larping as a plane?

>>24561870
>four or five college buds
>all go on to become THE BEST IN THE WHOLE ENTIRE WORLD at their job
>all go on to become MILLIONAIRES
>all end up being gay and having sex with each other
>the cripple was cartoonishly sexually and violently abused his whole life
>the moral of the book is sometimes suicide is the answer
It's peak woman slop. It's extremely melo-dramatic. It has the irreality of a play but it's a 800 page novel.

>>24561863
The part when all the jeets are stuck in a car in the middle of the revolution march?

>>24561835
If only you knew

>>24561857
Kek

>>24561795 (OP)
I simultaneously love and hate women.

End of that WW2 novel when the good guys lost and the bad guys escaped to genocide Palestine and subvert the USA

The end of Don Quixote

>>24561949
no, [spoiler[when Velutha gets beaten to death and Ammu gets basically crushed with grief and shame.[/spoiler] I really don't know why it got me that way.

>>24561966
+1

>>24561795 (OP)
I cried on a plane, sitting between two strangers, while reading The Courage to Write by Ralph Keyes.
I also cried reading The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn while riding the train home one night.
If you don’t cry or laugh while reading, you aren’t doing it right. Slow down, speed up, hold the book right side up, whatever you have to do experience human emotions.

>>24561795 (OP)
The Hobbit

>>24561795 (OP)
critique of pure reason

>>24562107
Was it too easy to see yourself in Bilbo's place because you are short and hairy too?

>>24561795 (OP)
End of Storm Of Steel

Tolstoy Short Stories
Napoleon the Great by Andrew Roberts
Ten Days That Shook the World by John Reed

>>24561795 (OP)
why are zoomers all over this book? i keep seeing it

>>24562183
It's gay misery porn written by a woman for women

>>24562197
How dare she.

>>24561820
everything white people do is like this, just performative. they're like goofy little monkeys. like the quirky chungus girl except more annoying.

>>24562040
Yeh, do whatever it takes to be manipulated beyond the limits of your human dignity, be good obedient goys

Can women ever do ANYTHING that isn't performative

>>24562250
>Can honkies* ever do ANYTHING that isn't performative
you're literally all like this, little fucking gay divas

>>24562255
Don't conflate Americans with the rest of us

>>24562261
it's more an anglo thing than an american, i'm including all anglos in that, but europeans aren't very different unfortunately. i commonly observe that same narcissistic tendency in all of you.

>>24562255
Blacks and browns don't do performative actions is your argument?

>>24562264
We don't cry IN GERMANY
We find it highly illogical and verbotenstatenwaffer

>>24562266
not in my observation, no. there is far less observable narcissism, blacks and browns operate with far, far more clarity of thought and purpose.
>>24562269
maybe so. the germans/austrians i have observed were actually less melodramatic and more colder and clear-minded so there is that.

>blacks operate with far more clarity of thought
THIS BAIT IS GETTING CRAZY

24562277
see this is exactly how i *expect* your kind to respond, with these histrionics and theatrics, you're almost a caricature at this point. kill yourself lil timmy.

>>24561795 (OP)
One time in the toilet while I was reading Metamorphoses.
Lucky my neighbours weren't in the backyard because I had the window open and I was reading it out loud

Having emotions would seem performative to stunted mental midgets.

sounds like exactly the kind of thing a woman would say. that is all you honkies are now, pretend women.

>>24562301

>>24562301
Ugh, fucking women *rolls eyes* I mean, like seriously?! Omg...

pretty much the exact caricature i think of when i think of lil timmies like you, honky
keep digging, this is fun

>>24562309
Heh... I guess I stepped right into your ethernetic trap.

Where'd you go? Dance for me nigger boy.

>>24561795 (OP)
It's going to sound like I'm lying but this is unironically the one and only book that has ever made me cry

24562330
dance? you're the performer. you dance, honky.

>>24561795 (OP)
A Farewell to Arms

>>24562255
>speaks zestily
Mighty pecuilar...

>>24561835
Ugly fuck

>>24562397
>jelly jeet

>>24561795 (OP)
Dream of a ridiculous man by Dostoyevsky

>>24562337
Based.

>>24561795 (OP)
Fucking retarded

>>24562661
Ikr? It makes me so angry that someone felt something

>>24562337
what in it made you cry?

>>24562269
based

>>24561939
it's a plane, you can literally see it taking off. IDK why they didn't all stop whatever they were doing to feel it, i always do it, it's not something you can experience every day.

>>24562227
as opposed to in your indian home, right saar?

>>24562227
the brown biomass will never understand white people experience emotion

>>24561795 (OP)
I don't cry at books because I'm mentally stable

>>24561820
A woman's entire life is a performance.

>>24561939
Looks like first class.

>>24562275
How many videos of obese black women with fake eyelashes and acrylic nails throwing chairs at each other at mcdonalds do I have to watch until I see the fabled clarity of thought and purpose

the pajeets seethe at white people expressing emotions while reading a book is insane.

>>24562337
R U chinese??
https :/ /files. catbox.moe/qb8n7l.mp4

>>24561966
Good choice. I had zero idea the book would get serious at the end and it hit me hard

mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm let's kill them :)))

>>24561795 (OP)
Little Women and I'm a guy

>>24562675
When he was purged and sent to work in Jiangxi in 1969 and at the end of his life after his Southern Tour

It's a very inspiring story, Deng Xiaoping had an incredibly fascinating and difficult life by choice yet his perseverance paid off in the end

>>24562900
I'm white

Unironically? A Farewell to Rart.

>>24561967
Great job adding spoiler tags retard

>>24561795 (OP)
Only a couple books brought me to tears. The ending paragraphs Myth of Sisyphus is one. This alone is what secured Camus his nobel prize. Plato's Apology (the trial of Socrates) is another--truly one of the most heartfelt experiences recorded in all of literature, bordering on the religious. Then there's Ecclesiastes 9.11:
>I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, neither yet bread to the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all.

If this does not move you you're an irredeemable npc.

It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. "I conclude that all is well," says Œdipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men.
All Sisyphus' silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is a thing
Likewise, the absurd man, when he contemplates his torment, silences all the idols. In the universe
suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up. Unconscious,secret calls, invitations from all the faces, they are the necessary reverse and price of victory. There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny, or at least there is, but one which he concludes is inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of his days. At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate,
created by him, combined under his memory's eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling.
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus
teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy.

>>24563446
Sorry for the awkard formatting

>>24563445
Also Dostoevsky does it to me sometimes:

Every day and every hour, every minute, walk round yourself and watch yourself, and see that your image is a seemly one. You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenceless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love. Brothers, love is a teacher; but one must know how to acquire it, for it is hard to acquire, it is dearly bought, it is won slowly by long labour. For we must love not only occasionally, for a moment, but for ever. Everyone can love occasionally, even the wicked can.

My brother asked the birds to forgive him; that sounds senseless, but it is right; for all is like an ocean, all is flowing and blending; a touch in one place sets up movement at the other end of the earth. It may be senseless to beg forgiveness of the birds, but birds would be happier at your side--a little happier, anyway--and children and all animals, if you were nobler than you are now. It's all like an ocean, I tell you. Then you would pray to the birds too, consumed by an all-embracing love, in a sort of transport, and pray that they too will forgive you your sin. Treasure this ecstasy, however senseless it may seem to men.

>>24561795 (OP)
The Bible
A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

>>24563445
Phaedo also hits me in the gut. If anything it's the more human of the two. All of Socrates friends are utterly devastated and distraught to see him condemned to death, and the way he gently comforts them and stoically shakes off the fear of death is ennobling.

>>24562337
Based understander. It’s no wonder that no American or frankly Western leader could even begin to understand in those days what kind of circumstances made the people of Deng and co’s generation. Just like how FDR could never possibly understand someone like Stalin when thinking he could sweet talk him, since while he was spending his days at Harvard Stalin had already been on the run from the Tsarist police and had been in and out of jail in Siberia before becoming who he was, which compared to some polio is not something he could even conceive of. Compared to people in America, Deng had probably already lived 10 different lifetimes by the time he became premiere. The American Revolution was honestly history on easy mode when compared to the Chinese Revolution, and add to the fact that everyone who was in the American one had been dead for more than a century by the time of the Chinese one

I've cried in private a couple of times after reading a book. I weaped a bit after finishing Stoner, but bawled like a bitch after finishing The Metamorphosis. I've laughed in public while reading but I end up feeling kind of embarrassed about it.

>>24563439
oh no, you've been spoiled to a book you'll never read. the humanity

>>24561795 (OP)
The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō, Pierre by Herman Melville, The Eumenidae by Aeschylus, unironically Ulysses
>>24562900
>pajeets
/pol/schizo, how do you know that guy's ethnicity? He could be from anywhere at all. I don't want to hear this shit. Yeah, I'm seething. Damn jannies won't do their job.

>>24563609
Oh, and Montaigne's Apology for Raymond Sebond.

>>24561795 (OP)

Well, I cry quite easily in general- I get very emotional. So quite a few. The most impactful books off the top of my head in no particular order:
>The Children of Hurin (Tolkien)
>The Death and Life of Zebulon Finch Book 1, At the Edge of Empire (Kraus)
>The Apology, Phaedo and Crito (Plato)
>The Metamorphosis (Kafka)
East of the Mountains (Gutterson) [VERY underrated. Great book, I highly recommend.]
>The Positronic Man (Asimov)
>The Lions of Al-Rassan (Kay)
>King Lear (Shakespeare)
>Flowers for Algernon (Keyes)
>the Count of Monte Cristo (Dumas)
>Frankenstein (Shelley)

>>24563045
Is the book 100% written by him or is it like one of those sanitized stories? My comment is not meant as a jab at China because european bastards also constantly white wash themselves like heroes and the true soul of the world. I just wonder what kind of book it is.

I read Last Witnesses when my kids were the same age as most of the kids in the book and found it a bit much and started tearing up on the train

>>24561795 (OP)
my diary

>>24561795 (OP)
The only book I can remember that had me crying (with laughter albeit) was Don Quixote.

I got emotional reading Return of the King when Theoden died

I also got very exited when Van Helsing was introduced in Dracula, because I wasn't aware he was part of the story

>>24563578
>a book you'll never read
True but that still doesn't excuse you being an incompetent moron

>>24561795 (OP)
Mein Kampf

>>24561967
It didn't like the book overall but this got to me as well. Maybe because of the stark contrast with the rest of the book which was almost silly.

>>24561943
Women are the faggots of gender

>>24563609
>how do you know that guy's ethnicity
Really now?

>>24562275
>Blacks
>Browns
>Less observable narcissism
Hahahahahahahaha hahahahahahahaha!

>>24564143
this will trigger your programming but virulently seethspamming about wypipo is way more black and hapacel than indian

>>24563650
The author was a professor at Harvard and an American intelligence officer. That alone made me very hesitant to read the book but for a westerner, especially an American, he is about as sympathetic as you can get for a biography on Deng Xiaoping and that whole era of Chinese history.

>>24564255
I will also add that it’s not 100% sanitized or uncritical, in fact a good amount of information was redacted/edited for the Chinese release. I think there’s probably some bias towards China despite his background, but he doesn’t entirely whitewash a lot of the labor disputes that happened during the initial period of reform and opening up, and if anything he is especially critical of Mao-era policies and party dynamics of the time.

>>24562130
On the contrary, I’m tall and hairless (literally only have 4 hairs on my chest)

>>24561795 (OP)

the ending of don quixote and worm ouroboros. curiously i was also in an air port when finishing worm ouroboros and was trying to make sure no one saw my heroic tears

lotr has a few spots like this, boromirs last stand, gandalfs stand against the balrog, the rohirrim showing up at the siege of minus tirith when the defenders thought that rohoan had abandoned them and all hope was lost...tearing up a little now just remembering it, eonwe suicidal stand against the witch king

>>24563914
yeah, I mean, everything up until that point seemed like a children's story with playful words and innocence, almost lullaby-like. then it hits you like a brick.

>>24563846
yeah, well. it is what it is

>>24562269
You cry when you get mogged by Arabs and Russians and Turks.

>>24561835
is that sanchovies?

>>24561795 (OP)
The part in the Idiot where Myshkin is telling the story about how all the kids went the funeral of the adulteresses

>>24561943
A girl I was talking to got me to read A Little Life during university; she hyped it up as the saddest novel ever written, the pinnacle of fiction writing -- I could be retarded, but after her hour-long explanation I assumed it was a novel set during WWI.

She waited for me to sob after finishing it, unfortunately for her, I was checked out after the third evil pedophile abuser got into a death machine and attempted to run over the cripple like a video game boss.

She stopped talking to me after I posted my Good Reads review:
> Misery porn for young liberal women.

Thanks for reading my blog.

>>24561939
>>24562769
>>24562838
It's a plane. The two of you who thinks it's a plane are fucking retards. First class doesn't have that much legroom or that kind of seat. The woman was clearly not wearing a seatbelt. And here's the real killer, the overhead compartment is clearly something you would never find on a plane.

>>24561795 (OP)
Brothers Karamazov

A couple of years after my father's passing, I remember almost breaking down in my uni library while reading Aeneid.
I could never finish a portuguese quasi biographical novel also about grief and the loss of a father.
The Tartar Steppe also left me feeling crushed, but not the point of tears.

>>24561795 (OP)
what airline keeps it that bright in the cabin at night tf

>>24561795 (OP)
Lolita, the scene where Humbert tries to convince Dolores to leave Dick and go with him.
I understand he is trying to make the reader feel bad for him, but it made me emotional nonetheless.

>>24561795 (OP)
my diary desu

>>24564809
The part where he starts crying while the raindrops spattered the windshield?

>>24564582
>It's a plane. The two of you who thinks it's a plane are fucking retards
well, which is it?

>>24564264
Don't forget that Deng is easily sanitized as the being Not Mao. It's a good book but it's actually just a long predictable condemnation of Mao by proxy, like how a positive biography of khruschev is really just saying "Stalin bad"

>>24561795 (OP)
The ending of volume 1 of Les Misérables
The poem by Pushkin that starts Я вac любил—любoвь eщe быть мoжeт
>>24563609
>The Book of Tea by Okakura Kakuzō
great book but which part made you cry

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

>>24561939
fake it til you make it

>average /lit/ retard tries to bootstrap his way to being an intellectual
>it doesn't go well

>>24564281
Mhm, likely story. Post feet if they would even fit in the frame.

>>24561795 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8tA1s0xzNgE

>>24566102
my only issue with this book is that Martin's merits hang on Russ. If they don't find each other (they seem to be fated in their meeting, and recognizing each others prowess) then followed by the subsequent death of Russ, Martin wouldn't have ever reached his heights and his wanted validation. Also, London seems to follow the same idea from White Fang and Call of the Wild, meaning that the protagonist suffers a complete transformation from his initial nature, but in Martin Eden he rejects his improvement as he's disillusioned by becoming intelectually better.

Also, I can sort of see a small similarity between Hunger by Hamsun and Martin Eden in the stubborness of both protagonists and their respective pursuits.

>>24562227
Your inferiority complex is showing

chateaubriand atala

Is she getting a headache from reading on a moving vehicle l?

>>24561795 (OP)
That part in Oliver Twist where the rich guy waits for Oliver to return but Oliver gets pulled into some gang shit and doesn't return