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Um... Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy... Set back... Oh, early. When there were czars still, but later in that period. It deals with an affair and stuff like that. It's depressing, but well-written. Anna is a 30 year old beautiful women, soo...
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Termite wrote:Um... Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy... Set back... Oh, early. When there were czars still, but later in that period. It deals with an affair and stuff like that. It's depressing, but well-written. Anna is a 30 year old beautiful women, soo...
Thanks, I'll check it out! And don't worry if the people are the wrong age or anything, last year my best piece was when I played a blind man, it'd just be convenient if I didn't have to act so much.
The Left Behind series. Wow. I cried several times when the main characters died... I seriously would like to read them all over again. *gets shivers remembering*
I don't read a whole lot of emotional books, but that series really teared me up in places.
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Iron and Light wrote:Edgar Allen Poe is very depressing, but he certainly could write.
Depressing is one way of putting it.
Walkabout. I have no idea who wrote it, but I cannot think about the book without wanting to crawl into a corner and die.
Which might have something to do with the fact that I read it when I was like, eight. And have no actual recollection of its subject. Because I refuse to re-read it.
American Eagle wrote:The Left Behind series. Wow. I cried several times when the main characters died... I seriously would like to read them all over again. *gets shivers remembering*
I don't read a whole lot of emotional books, but that series really teared me up in places.
Thanks people, keep 'em coming!
I've read the Left Behind series, but the problem is that the story is stretched over so many books, and you really can't cut a story from just one book, everything ties together so much that it would be very confusing to cut one story out of one book.
I don't read many "sad" books, but I guess the ones that I think are kind of tragic are The Goodness Gene, The Cure, Animal Farm, and Ender's Game. In the first two a bunch of the main characters die (which I hate), Animal Farm has this sense of hopelessness to it, and Ender's Game makes me feel sad because Ender's life is so messed up.
Pretty much every book I've read by Lurlene McDaniel had me in tears. They are short and amazing. Although, I would suggest "Prey"... At all. She's a "Christian" author, too.
Danae wrote:Pretty much every book I've read by Lurlene McDaniel had me in tears. They are short and amazing. Although, I would suggest "Prey"... At all. She's a "Christian" author, too.
Woah, thanks so much for that lead! I'm reading about her books and they look positively amazing. *Checks out dozens of books from library*
Danae wrote:Pretty much every book I've read by Lurlene McDaniel had me in tears. They are short and amazing. Although, I would suggest "Prey"... At all. She's a "Christian" author, too.
Woah, thanks so much for that lead! I'm reading about her books and they look positively amazing. *Checks out dozens of books from library*
American Eagle wrote:The Left Behind series. Wow. I cried several times when the main characters died... I seriously would like to read them all over again. *gets shivers remembering*
I don't read a whole lot of emotional books, but that series really teared me up in places.
The Left Behind series had that effect on me as well in places... as did the radio drama version. I certainly got quite attached to those characters for awhile.
Other books that I specifically remember making me cry are A Tale of Two Cities, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Francine Rivers' An Echo in the Darkness, the first two were excellent books that I haven't read since high school, but would like to read again - they're definitely worth reading all the way through.