Tearjerker

DeniseMang Posted: Jun 12, 2003 02:27 PM

Tearjerker

Can you girls recommend a really good tearjerker? I need a good cry.

Thanks,
Denise

dandj Posted: Jun 12, 2003 04:22 PM

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The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks... a really quick read, but I started crying half way into it and didn't stop until a half hour AFTER finishing the book. I finished it and just sat and sobbed! If thats what you are looking for, this is the book for you.

MrsTC Posted: Jun 13, 2003 10:36 AM

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the Lovely Bones.....I forget the author. SO sad.

DeniseMang Posted: Jun 13, 2003 10:45 AM

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Thanks! :)

mlp924 Posted: Jun 13, 2003 01:37 PM

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I cried straight thru The Lovely Bones. Matt kept shaking his head at me. I couldn't put it down though.

MrsTC Posted: Jun 13, 2003 03:47 PM

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It was so heartbreaking....you kept thinking...if only she would have gone another way..

Sage10.03 Posted: Jun 16, 2003 02:47 PM

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'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold....

Anything written by Nicholas Sparks is a sure tearjerker!!!! Along with Notebook, Message in a bottle is emotional!

'I know this much is true' by Wally Lamb is not a classic tearjerker in the sense, but it made me cry....

jeng Posted: Jun 16, 2003 04:49 PM

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Beach Music by Pat Conroy made me cry a bunch of times...a little on the long side though.

JennRenee Posted: Jun 16, 2003 10:43 PM

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Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas. I didn't cry, but EVERY other person I know who read it did.

Chloegirl Posted: Jun 18, 2003 09:43 AM

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Both Lovely Bones and Suzannes DIary for Nicholas made me cry. Both great Tearjerkers...

Red30NY Posted: Jun 19, 2003 09:24 AM

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I have to second Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. I read it a year and a half ago, and FH still makes fun of me for bawling through it.

tanbride Posted: Jun 20, 2003 11:00 PM

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ohhh, i forgot about Suzanne's Diary For Nicholas - awesome!!! MUST< MUST read The Notebook - it was recommended to me years ago by 2 of my MALE friends who are VERY manly men and raved about it - I cried reading it on the LIRR!!

Sunny Posted: Jun 20, 2003 11:26 PM

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Definetly Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and the notebook- both so sad!

lilmrs Posted: Jun 23, 2003 06:14 PM

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I just re-read Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and I cried through it the second time too!

lilmrs Posted: Jun 23, 2003 06:15 PM

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The other thing about thatbook...is there a life lesson in there called the lesson of the five balls...I have been known to be a workaholic...the five balls certainly has been changing me of that.

DeniseMang Posted: Jun 26, 2003 10:27 AM

My review

Ok, well in just under one week (6 days to be exact), I finished reading both The Lovely Bones and Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas. Ok, here goes my reviews.

The Lovely Bones, did nothing for me. I don't know why. I think it was very sad that she was killed and how her family suffered, but I just didn't shed one tear. Also some of the sentences I had to read over twice and I do see myself as an intelligent person, but this book was slightly diffucult to understand.

This morning on the LIRR, I finished Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas and I was trying so hard not to cry. It didn't work and I was embarrased! That one hit me--hard! And for James Patterson? I was very impressed! For all you beautiful mothers out there, if you haven't read this one yet, read it. It was beautifully written and eloquently expressed the deep, deep love a mother has for her child!

That's it! :)