[Donteb84]

I have never cried during a book, but I have got a little teary eyes. Assassins Apprentice, and the second book of The Sword of Truth series. I am a fairly new reader (only been reading for 2 years now), but I was hoping to get some other books that are so good, that you can feel for the characters so much that it can make you that emotional while reading it.

[ElinIsabel]

David Eddings always made me cry.

I cried about halfway through Kavalier and Clay, after repeatedly banging the book against the back of a seat on the Metro-North (it was an empty 9:37 to New Haven and no one's peaceful commute but mine was disturbed, I swear) And then I kept on reading because I had to know what happened.

It's a simple short love story, but "Darkrose and Diamond" in Tales from Earthsea made me cry, because it was so sad and then so beautiful.

A Thousand Acres made me cry. Unhappy families make me cry.

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin made me cry. Any book about a young girl leaving home. King of Elfland's Daughter almost made me cry for the same reason.

I cried for Guienevere at one point in Once and Future King.

I in LOTR.

In any rendition, prose novelization, a song, the actual Tain, whatever, the Death of Cuchulainn and the story of Deirdre and the Sons of Uisenach makes me bawl. I cry just thinking about it.

On that note, Yeat's "Two Trees" makes me cry.

I'm a wuss.

[TheImp]

i never cry due to fiction (cos i'm a manly, manly man you know :cool:) and i can't remember every occasion that i came close, but recently mistborn certainly came close to bringing it out of me.

specifically

kelsier's death

i find most 'sad' scenes bring out anger in me more than sorrow lol. but that one really did make me feel sad mostly because of how it would have felt to vin

the ending to the lions of al rassan was also pretty emotional.

[WhiteKnight]

For my money, it's the inspirational and/or tragic nonfiction novels that move me the most--people who've defied odds, saved lives, or endured the unimaginable. Stories like Braveheart, USS Indianapolis, Bataan Death March, Auschwitz, Alive, Touching the Void, The Worst Journey in the World, etc. Fiction has never been able to compare, for me. Although the end of the Mistborn series kinda had me in knots LOL.

[Bear]

McCarthy's The Road and Zusak's The Book Thief both made me cry. Those are the only two in recent memory that went beyond being teary eyed.

[Michigan]

too many, which I can admit because no one I know will ever read this. some noteables, GGK has a tendency to get to me, definitely Tigana and probably Lions and Sarantium also. The 4th Darktower book for sure, and most recently parts of ASOIAF, though surprisingly not any of the major character deaths. On the SF frontier, the end of the Hyperion Cantos definitely had me crying.

[Hellions]

Fool's Errand by Robin Hobb. I believe the expression "crying a river" applies here. The rest of the trilogy got to me too.

Impossible to name or remember all the authors who've gotten me misty-eyed over the years. Then there are those who failed completely despite trying very hard.

[TheEvilKing]

I think Hobb is the only writer to make me cry like a bitch. That's it, I think, as far as books go, though I could see myself crying at ASOIAF if sorrowful things happen - GRRM just hasn't gone that route yet.

TV is a different story...

[Loerwyn]

King and Hines have brought me close, but no one's made me "tear up" yet.

King with the events in The Dark Tower #7: The Dark Tower's Dark Tower of Dark Towers in Dark Tower Land, Dark Tower Planet, Dark Tower Galaxy.

Hines with some events in The Stepsister Scheme, and one or two things in The Mermaid's Madness.

[Eliot Wild]

I guess I'm just a big sissy 'cause I cry a lot when reading good fantasy.

It doesn't necessarily have to be sad events that make me cry and it doesn't have to be the first reading. A well told story that touches me because of its passion and/or the depth of character that is being expressed can do it.

For example, I must have read LOTR a freakin' thousand times. I swear. I read Tolkien the way some devout Christians read the Bible. And I remember reading outloud, or at least trying to read outloud, to my girlfriend in bed one night the scene where Eowyn defends her dying uncle from the Witch King. Couldn't do it without blubbering like a baby.

And I believe it is the characterization of Eowyn as seen POV through the eyes of Merry that makes me tear up every single time. I don't have the book in front of me right now, but Merry is thinking to himself how he can't let her stand alone when she steps between Theoden and the leader of the Ringwraiths. And he describes her standing there so valiently, so strong and so fair and so outmatched.

Of course, Tolkien's version is much better than mine. But the point is, depth of character, depth of emotion and passion, uncommon valor and heroism--or perhaps I should say in thinking of Eowyn: uncommon "heroine-ism"--these sorts of things when done well have the ability to touch me and make me tear up.