Rue's death absolutely ruined me. It haunted me for days.
Only other one that comes to mind right now is Paper Towns. It's just tragic. For those that saw the movie but didn't read the book; the book ending is a lot harder hitting. They sugar-coated the ending as much as possible for the movie and I have no idea why... it's just so forgettable by comparison.
Didn't read the book, but saw the movie, and that scene gave me the tears quite well. That was actually the point where I said to myself "Ok, this movie isn't great, but it's not bad either." It's had some genuinely good scenes in it, and this scene just made me cry. So good on it. It succeeded at playing with my emotions, which means it's doing it's job well.
still remember a few years back i was on holiday visiting a friend came down with the flu so went to this little second hand book story and just picked up a pulp sci fi novel that sounded curious. read it in that afternoon and its one of the creepiest and most disturbing messed up things ive read.. the men in the jungle by norman spinrad.. cannibalism of slave children is common place and it get more messed up from there.
Currently on Dust of Dreams in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It's had many feels moments throughout so I'll just pick some of the biggest ones:
The end of the Chain of Dogs. To come within sight of their final goal only to be so utterly betrayed and have the entire army slaughtered was one of the biggest gut-punches I've ever experienced in fiction. We spend the entire book with these soldiers, getting to know and admire many of them and then they're just snuffed out in a terrible way.
Kallor's betrayal of the alliance against he Pannion Seer. Okay, you could see is betrayal coming from a mile away in his POV sections, but to have him cut down one of my favourite characters (Whiskeyjack) was brutal. Also, Itkovian taking on the burden of the T'lan Imass was incredible.
The end when the Adjunct Tavore cuts down her own sister, Felesin, without even knowing it. It's made all the worse knowing that a lot of what Felesin did was started off by Tavore's actions at the beginning of Deadhouse Gates. Tavore did for her what she thought was best, but it ended up going far worse than she realizes.
This book was huge on feels moments and as a result, is probably my favourite book (along with Reaper's Gale actually) in the series. I'll just list off some of the major ones:
-Rhulad Sengar's transformation throughout the book
-Several heated discussions between brother's Fear and Trull Sengar
-Rhulad demanding Fear's wife for himself
-Tehol Beddict almost dying and seeing Bugg's rage and then relief to have him alive
-Brys Beddict's death
-Hull Beddict's entire character
-Trull trying to do the honourable thing in the end when the reader knows exactly what will come of it
-Basically, the entire transformation of the Tiste Edur people.
The betrayals and Malaz city. After seeing everything the Bonehunters had gone through in this book, to have their empire basically abandon them was awful. At least this army's betrayal wasn't meat with the deaths of many beloved characters since Tavore had anticipated something like this.
Similar to Midnight Tides, this one has a lot:
-Toc being killed and having his face cut off moments before his friends arrive to save him.
-Trull being cut down while lamenting over Rhulad's corpse. Trull was probably my favourite character in the whole series so this stung the most.
-Udinaas actually getting a fairly happy ending and getting to spend time with his son.
-Fear's death. He basically reenacts the very thing that caused the schism between the Edur and Andii only this time, he's swiftly killed. He believed he was doing the right thing, but as we shortly discovered, his last act was incredibly pointless and would have been detrimental to an entire realm. It's made all the worse knowing that he was one of the most honourable characters in the entire series and his final act is betrayal.
-Beak's sacrifice to save the marines.
-Happy feels came in the form of the ending with Tehol and Bugg. Tehol meeting the Adjunct in his bloodied blanket was much needed comic relief after the insanity that had just occured.
Anomander Rake's sacrifice to bring Mother Dark back to his people. Not only do we lose an amazing character, but the gift that he gave his people is incredible. It wasn't until this book that I began to understand the Tiste Andii mindset of losing their god. Any chapter involving them seemed to have a pervasive bleakness. Hopefully this will start to be alleviated now that Mother Dark has embraced her children once again. To be honest, the entire climax of this book is one feels moment after another, but this stuck out the most. Also, the Deaths of Mallet and Bluepearl earlier in the book hit me pretty hard
too.
Oh god, The Book of the Fallen. Too many feels I say!!! Dust of Dreams and Crippled God are in a league of their own though, so enjoy that
Aside for bits you havent got to yet, i agree with pretty much every point you made, and a few besides; watching Crokus realise that he'd made himself into somebody who didn't belong in Darujhistan anymore, anything involving Tool or Toc, and watching the Jaghut uphold their pacifism to the point of borderline extinction are all high (low?) points for me.
Also Icarium..... poor fucking Icarium
On the plus side, at least we got Bottle, the least OP mage in the series and genuinely relatable looser.
I seriously recommend you read the Tales of the Malazan Empire boks too when youre finished with the main series, they tell the plot from a completely different perspective and are a lot smaller and more character focussed. Cue even more gutpunches
Currently on Dust of Dreams in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It's had many feels moments throughout so I'll just pick some of the biggest ones:
The end of the Chain of Dogs. To come within sight of their final goal only to be so utterly betrayed and have the entire army slaughtered was one of the biggest gut-punches I've ever experienced in fiction. We spend the entire book with these soldiers, getting to know and admire many of them and then they're just snuffed out in a terrible way.
Kallor's betrayal of the alliance against he Pannion Seer. Okay, you could see is betrayal coming from a mile away in his POV sections, but to have him cut down one of my favourite characters (Whiskeyjack) was brutal. Also, Itkovian taking on the burden of the T'lan Imass was incredible.
The end when the Adjunct Tavore cuts down her own sister, Felesin, without even knowing it. It's made all the worse knowing that a lot of what Felesin did was started off by Tavore's actions at the beginning of Deadhouse Gates. Tavore did for her what she thought was best, but it ended up going far worse than she realizes.
This book was huge on feels moments and as a result, is probably my favourite book (along with Reaper's Gale actually) in the series. I'll just list off some of the major ones:
-Rhulad Sengar's transformation throughout the book
-Several heated discussions between brother's Fear and Trull Sengar
-Rhulad demanding Fear's wife for himself
-Tehol Beddict almost dying and seeing Bugg's rage and then relief to have him alive
-Brys Beddict's death
-Hull Beddict's entire character
-Trull trying to do the honourable thing in the end when the reader knows exactly what will come of it
-Basically, the entire transformation of the Tiste Edur people.
The betrayals and Malaz city. After seeing everything the Bonehunters had gone through in this book, to have their empire basically abandon them was awful. At least this army's betrayal wasn't meat with the deaths of many beloved characters since Tavore had anticipated something like this.
Similar to Midnight Tides, this one has a lot:
-Toc being killed and having his face cut off moments before his friends arrive to save him.
-Trull being cut down while lamenting over Rhulad's corpse. Trull was probably my favourite character in the whole series so this stung the most.
-Udinaas actually getting a fairly happy ending and getting to spend time with his son.
-Fear's death. He basically reenacts the very thing that caused the schism between the Edur and Andii only this time, he's swiftly killed. He believed he was doing the right thing, but as we shortly discovered, his last act was incredibly pointless and would have been detrimental to an entire realm. It's made all the worse knowing that he was one of the most honourable characters in the entire series and his final act is betrayal.
-Beak's sacrifice to save the marines.
-Happy feels came in the form of the ending with Tehol and Bugg. Tehol meeting the Adjunct in his bloodied blanket was much needed comic relief after the insanity that had just occured.
Anomander Rake's sacrifice to bring Mother Dark back to his people. Not only do we lose an amazing character, but the gift that he gave his people is incredible. It wasn't until this book that I began to understand the Tiste Andii mindset of losing their god. Any chapter involving them seemed to have a pervasive bleakness. Hopefully this will start to be alleviated now that Mother Dark has embraced her children once again. To be honest, the entire climax of this book is one feels moment after another, but this stuck out the most. Also, the Deaths of Mallet and Bluepearl earlier in the book hit me pretty hard
too.
Oh god, The Book of the Fallen. Too many feels I say!!! Dust of Dreams and Crippled God are in a league of their own though, so enjoy that
Aside for bits you havent got to yet, i agree with pretty much every point you made, and a few besides; watching Crokus realise that he'd made himself into somebody who didn't belong in Darujhistan anymore, anything involving Tool or Toc, and watching the Jaghut uphold their pacifism to the point of borderline extinction are all high (low?) points for me.
Also Icarium..... poor fucking Icarium
On the plus side, at least we got Bottle, the least OP mage in the series and genuinely relatable looser.
I seriously recommend you read the Tales of the Malazan Empire boks too when youre finished with the main series, they tell the plot from a completely different perspective and are a lot smaller and more character focussed. Cue even more gutpunches
I'll definitely be reading the other books after I'm finished the main series. I'm still pissed about Korbolo Dom and Mallick Rel, so I need to see how all of those plotlines end up panning out.
Bridge to Terabithia was one that really got to me, and I was in my late 20's when I read it. Also, as someone mentioned above, Where the Red Fern Grows definitely got me teary eyed back in elementary school.
There were a couple of bits in the Dragonlance series of novels Dragons of Winter Night, Dragons of Spring Dawning, and Dragons of Summer Flame.
These being the deaths of Sturm Brightblade, Flint Fireforge, and Tanis Half-Elven. Having become so close to the characters it almost physically hurt to have them die. I think Tasslehoff's grief over Flint's death was more painful than losing Flint, actually.
Happyninja42 said:
Cowabungaa said:
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TakerFoxx said:
The Dresden Files do this a lot, especially the end of Changes.
The latest book, Skin Game, got me notably close to that. Even more so than that thing in Changes. Mostly because it's a real looking-back-at-roads-traveled type deal, showing Harry's character development, the situation they're in now. And then
he finally dares to get close to Maggie and ho god my heart.
Yeah, that was a good bit, from what I heard from Jim himself, James Marsters had to re-record that particular part multiple times for the audiobook, because he kept getting choked up by it. To which Jim responded with a fist pump and "Yes! I made Spike cry!! I love my job!" xD
Currently on Dust of Dreams in the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. It's had many feels moments throughout so I'll just pick some of the biggest ones:
The end of the Chain of Dogs. To come within sight of their final goal only to be so utterly betrayed and have the entire army slaughtered was one of the biggest gut-punches I've ever experienced in fiction. We spend the entire book with these soldiers, getting to know and admire many of them and then they're just snuffed out in a terrible way.
Kallor's betrayal of the alliance against he Pannion Seer. Okay, you could see is betrayal coming from a mile away in his POV sections, but to have him cut down one of my favourite characters (Whiskeyjack) was brutal. Also, Itkovian taking on the burden of the T'lan Imass was incredible.
The end when the Adjunct Tavore cuts down her own sister, Felesin, without even knowing it. It's made all the worse knowing that a lot of what Felesin did was started off by Tavore's actions at the beginning of Deadhouse Gates. Tavore did for her what she thought was best, but it ended up going far worse than she realizes.
This book was huge on feels moments and as a result, is probably my favourite book (along with Reaper's Gale actually) in the series. I'll just list off some of the major ones:
-Rhulad Sengar's transformation throughout the book
-Several heated discussions between brother's Fear and Trull Sengar
-Rhulad demanding Fear's wife for himself
-Tehol Beddict almost dying and seeing Bugg's rage and then relief to have him alive
-Brys Beddict's death
-Hull Beddict's entire character
-Trull trying to do the honourable thing in the end when the reader knows exactly what will come of it
-Basically, the entire transformation of the Tiste Edur people.
The betrayals and Malaz city. After seeing everything the Bonehunters had gone through in this book, to have their empire basically abandon them was awful. At least this army's betrayal wasn't meat with the deaths of many beloved characters since Tavore had anticipated something like this.
Similar to Midnight Tides, this one has a lot:
-Toc being killed and having his face cut off moments before his friends arrive to save him.
-Trull being cut down while lamenting over Rhulad's corpse. Trull was probably my favourite character in the whole series so this stung the most.
-Udinaas actually getting a fairly happy ending and getting to spend time with his son.
-Fear's death. He basically reenacts the very thing that caused the schism between the Edur and Andii only this time, he's swiftly killed. He believed he was doing the right thing, but as we shortly discovered, his last act was incredibly pointless and would have been detrimental to an entire realm. It's made all the worse knowing that he was one of the most honourable characters in the entire series and his final act is betrayal.
-Beak's sacrifice to save the marines.
-Happy feels came in the form of the ending with Tehol and Bugg. Tehol meeting the Adjunct in his bloodied blanket was much needed comic relief after the insanity that had just occured.
Anomander Rake's sacrifice to bring Mother Dark back to his people. Not only do we lose an amazing character, but the gift that he gave his people is incredible. It wasn't until this book that I began to understand the Tiste Andii mindset of losing their god. Any chapter involving them seemed to have a pervasive bleakness. Hopefully this will start to be alleviated now that Mother Dark has embraced her children once again. To be honest, the entire climax of this book is one feels moment after another, but this stuck out the most. Also, the Deaths of Mallet and Bluepearl earlier in the book hit me pretty hard
too.
Oh god, The Book of the Fallen. Too many feels I say!!! Dust of Dreams and Crippled God are in a league of their own though, so enjoy that
Aside for bits you havent got to yet, i agree with pretty much every point you made, and a few besides; watching Crokus realise that he'd made himself into somebody who didn't belong in Darujhistan anymore, anything involving Tool or Toc, and watching the Jaghut uphold their pacifism to the point of borderline extinction are all high (low?) points for me.
Also Icarium..... poor fucking Icarium
On the plus side, at least we got Bottle, the least OP mage in the series and genuinely relatable looser.
I seriously recommend you read the Tales of the Malazan Empire boks too when youre finished with the main series, they tell the plot from a completely different perspective and are a lot smaller and more character focussed. Cue even more gutpunches
I'll definitely be reading the other books after I'm finished the main series. I'm still pissed about Korbolo Dom and Mallick Rel, so I need to see how all of those plotlines end up panning out.
Among the pantheon of great space operas, The Star Kings must rank somewhere near the top. It has all the elements which have since become commonplace in the genre. One can't help but wonder if this book inspired George Lucas.
It still pushes all the right buttons for the modern reader, I reckon.
A Memory of Light stands out the most for me. Not just because I thought the ending of the series was brilliant, but because I've been following the series for over a decade prior to finally seeing it end. The author who started the series, Robert Jordan, sadly died before being able to finish it so it was finished by Brandon Sanderson (whom I think did a great job of it) and when I finished that last book that was the final part keeping him alive in my mind. He lived ion as long as the books were still coming in my mind, but after finishing the book it was as if he died again. I also got extremely sad over some of the things that happened throughout the book too.
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