John Green is a real bastard and I wish I could be more like him.

I’d say that pretty much sums up that book. Just read it last week and had all the feels.

*hug*
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Doctor Who is awesome, and yes anyone who watches it will laugh and cry and wonder why we have such crappy TV like SMASH over here…

And I don’t know this book yet, but it has gotta be better than Twilight. Damn teen vampires, they just look hungry, not sexy….
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Oh, Jenny. I feel you. I cried whilst reading The Fault in Our Stars. Who didn’t? And I cry so hard during Doctor Who. It’s perfectly normal. Or we’re all just crazy. Probably the latter.

That book was amazing. And I cried like a baby.

I totally get it. John Green is a delightful bastard who has simultaneously ruined my makeup on dozens of occasions and made me fall madly in love with him.

They appreciated that you spent the little time they had left with them, I’m sure you brought sunshine and rainbows into their imaginarily tragic pseudo-existences. x
(And thanks for the tip for another book to add to my “don’t read on public transport” list)
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I had tears rolling down my cheeks when watching “Angels take Manhattan”. . . .and I will quite regularly end up crying at books. . .in fact, I’m more likely to cry at a book than a TV Show or movie. . .

Because I appear to be first person posting a comment. . . I just want to thank you for being you – I’ve been going through heartbreak/pain/anxiety/depression over the last two months and, when I am feeling particularly down; I will come onto your blog, realise that I’m not alone and I see the community that you have gathered around you and I get hope. . .you have helped me through my life being torn asunder. . .thank you, thank you, thank you!

I love John Green books. I did not, however, read that one yet.

Have you read Thirteen Reasons Why, by Jay Asher? (Also not like Twilight)
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Dammit – in the time I took to write that – 12 other people beat me to it. . . .

A good YA book series on zombies is The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan.

It’s sad to think that some people will never experience the beauty in crying with your imaginary friends when terrible things happen to them.
I say Victor is just jealous of the attention you’re giving the characters in the book.
Even that or he’s heartless.
Do you want to be heartless, Victor? I didn’t think so.
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That book is amazing and totally deserving of a read and all of the tears and emotions that go with it! Some of my favorite book quotes are from that book.
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read a happy book next… or really confuse him and read one that makes you mad so mad you throw the book and yell at it….now i’m just hoping i m not the only one that has done that

If a book doesn’t make you cry, whats the point? Unless it makes you laugh!
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I don’t know about that one but The Lovely Bones had me bawling uncontrollably. Even thinking about it makes me well up.

I look books that ruin me emotionally; it’s kind of a masochistic thing, I think. It was amplified after becoming a mother.
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John Green made me break my age-old rule of never, but NEVER, read books about sick and dying children.

And I am so glad that he did, because this book is too important to miss. It’s a song about life and living, not a dirge for the dead.

And yea, I cried when reading it, but never once felt like I was duped into mawkish sentimentality.

FEEL ALL THE THINGS, JENNY. And pass the Kleenex.

@David Eagle
Looking for Alaska is a great book, but imo Paper Towns is better while still being the same general theme. Have yet to read and Abundance of Katherines though. TFIOS kicks all it’s asses though, hands down. The tears (and I’m not a cryer)

You just explained every emotion I have when reading a book. Seriously, I always make myself the main character, and every other character becomes my best friends… I LIVE in those books… I’m sorry your imaginary friends had cancer and were really sick… I hate it when they die… Hope they didn’t die… Even though it’s about Terminal Cancer… I’m not helping either, am I…

Ahhhh I HATE IT WHEN BOOKS DO THAT TO ME. Sigh.
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I once had to leave a restaurant because I was reading a sad book and started to cry and people were beggining to look alarmed. Since I was eating alone, I’m sure they assumed something tragic had just happened in my life… But alas, I’m not that interesting and ‘Memory Keeper’s Daughter’ is just a really sad book! I figured I would leave and save the concerned strangers the awkward decision of whether to approach the clearly troubled diner. You’re welcome, other patrons! Airplanes are another place where book-crying gets really awkward….
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I laughed and cried with your book…but I didn’t feel the same way about The Fault In Our Stars. Your book was hilarious and the best part of all…it didn’t try to force-fed love to a reader. You were just being you.
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I’ve never heard of this John guy, sounds like a bit of an ass hole writing cancer books for kids.
I also thought that you wrote that the book title was “fault in our stairs”. And I couldn’t draw the connection between cancer and shoddy contractor work, which made him seem like a bigger asshole in my eyes.

I completely get lost in books! I cry and rejoice with those characters as if we were childhood friends. Carry on.
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Ok, if you can watch the Van Gogh episode of Doctor Who and not cry, you have no soul. Just sayin’…

John Green is my daughter’s ALL TIME FAVORITE author. If you haven’t watched any of the Vlog Brothers videos (John and his brother) on youtube you don’t know what you’re missing! Keep the kleenex handy as she tells me a lot of his books give you feels.
Victor clearly doesn’t understand books.

Wow. Ok, I will have to skip those for now. Don’t think I am up to it.

Sorry Victor! One day, dude. One day. You will get it.

Or you won’t and Jenny will have to check your vital signs to make sure you haven’t turned to stone.

Eiher way!!! We’ll be here for you, man. Or stone. Again, which ever. Doesn’t matter.
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In my house, it’s best to not open a new book unless the next few days are free. It takes time to bond with new friends.

Poor Victor for not understanding how books work.
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I loved Field of Dreams.

I love my imaginary book-friends. And I cry at all sorts of things. (It gets worse as you get older, darlin’ just warning ya!)
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My brother-in-law doesn’t get books either.
My sister says she takes at least 3 books on every flight to ensure she has enough to occupy her.
But she says her husband just sits and stares straight ahead for THE ENTIRE FLIGHT!
He’s a terrific guy in every other aspect, but this flight behavior makes me wonder if he has android ancestry.
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My 12 year old had to write a short story for school. While he was supposed to be at the computer working on his story, I found him in a ball on the couch crying his eyes out…I asked him what was wrong, and he said, “my story is just. so. sad!” lol The story he was writing, made him cry as he was writing it!!

Are you a Nerdfighter yet Jenny?
DFTBA and check out the Vlogbrothers on YouTube

Yes. To all of this. Just… yes.
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I always save those books for when I need a good cry. Usually I have to go read them out in the living room because my sobs shake the bed and wake up my husband. I also ugly cry at Doctor Who, and certain movie previews, most of the past season of Downton Abbey, and about every other episode of any medical/hospital drama ever made, so there’s that. I’m kind of on the verge of tears at all times…I had to stop watching certain shows and movies because my husband just laughs at me when I cry, and then I start laughing while I’m crying, and then I get horrible headaches. And now my daughter does exactly the same thing. Normally when I cry, she is very concerned and comforts me, but when it’s something on the tv, she just points and laughs. I’d always hoped I’d have another tenderheart in the house to cry with me, but instead she takes after her father.
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This is why books are great. In this messed up world of ours, at least books can make you feel something strongly again.
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/Hugs…because I understand completely.
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Staying so far away from that book. So glad you posted this. Enough tears flowing around here for a lifetime.
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When we were teenagers my sister and I went to the drive in (giving away how old I am) to watch “The Outsiders” when the guy died who I think was played by River Phoenix, we were both bawling our eyes out until my sister said between sobs, “And and he was so beautiful.”
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OMG I read that book, too, and it is soooo sad. That being said, DO NOT EVER EVER UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES READ “KITE RUNNER”. TFIOS is sad, but Kite Runner will make you comatose level sad. I was seriously laid up in bed for days after finishing it.

Well. I’m sorry I can’t join in your sobbing. I happen to be reading your book and I’m peeing my pants laughing!
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I ADORE the Fault in Our Stars, my review is here http://www.darkmatterfanzine.com/dmf/fault-in-our-stars-by-john-green/ and my response to the Daily Mail accusing YA of being Sick Lit and exploitative is here http://www.darkmatterfanzine.com/dmf/fit-lit-or-sick-lit/

I cried BUCKETS. I could. Not. Believe. It. when someone at uni pulled out the Fault in Our Stars to read in public. I mean, HOW COULD YOU READ THAT BOOK IN PUBLIC? It requires tissues and privacy to WEEP.
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Yes, that’s a tear jerker, that one. I’m glad I read it in the comfort of my living room and not uncomfortably on public transit. Best to leave the child cancer victim books at home (not to be consumed in public).
Although, I have been known to tear up reading Mo Williams’ books (knuffle bunny books)

I cry all the time from books, movies, music and even tv commercials. I’m a giant sook. But how can you not be? Those stories are heart wrenching. I read slower towards the end of the book because I don’t want my friends to go away.
See there are many of us with this problem. Show victor the comments and maybe he will understand.
*hugs*

I just saw this Robert Pattison quote on Pinterest and it made me almost forgive him for perpetuating the sparkly vampire myth. ALMOST.

‘If you find a girl who reads, keep her close. When you find her up at 2 AM clutching a book to her chest and weeping, make her a cup of tea and hold her. You may lose her for a couple of hours but she will always come back to you. She’ll talk as if the characters in the book are real, because for a while, they always are. Date a girl who reads because you deserve it.’

And imaginary people are more real than some real people, Victor.
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I cries several times while reading that book.

It was a great book. Just a lot of sadness in it.

I was surprised a youth fiction could make me cry… but it reallllly did.

I don’t know if I should read it. Reading Watership Down still makes me cry. In fact, every time I hear the song Bright Eyes I tear up a little. Still. After reading all the comments I know I will, so thanks in advance for the tears people.
As for Doctor Who, my memories of watching it as a child are from behind a sofa cushion with my eyes shut. So while it has been known to induce tears my biggest pleasure is watching it get that same reaction from my children. Seeing my 11 year old diving for the door every time a Weeping Angel appears, and his steadfast refusal to re-watch the Empty Child brings joy to this loving mother’s heart.

All of his books do that to me. Looking for Alaska damn near killed me and then the fault in our stars made me ugly cry In bed. . . It was awful.
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I hate to admit this, but I am a 31 year old who is obsessed with this book! I read The Fault in Our Stars for the first time two years ago and have reread it no less than 10 times since. I teach 9th grade English, and after introducing it to one student, it has swept its way through the rest of the 14 years olds like a wild fire! We are all John Green-obsessed. I truly truly truly believe that it’s the BEST book I’ve ever read.
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I just cried today when I read this book to my 3 yr old. I mean seriously, this book will make you cry if you don’t have kids (I totally did). It is practically impossible to read without crying. That is why it has been hidden on the big people bookcase and not with all the kids books. Maybe I will be able to make it through if it hits heavy rotation….here’s hoping. Damn kids and their curiosity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Love_You_Forever

I loved that book. I did not cry, but that is because I am a soulless monster. Like, I considered crying, but then decided I was too lazy to clean my glasses after said crying.
Jen Lancaster recommended The Fault In Our Stars during her last book tour stop here. Right after she complimented Dallas women on their bravery in the face of Pageant hair, and our fondness for concealed weapons.

Does he not understand the FEELINGS within books?
Then again it’s not just him…I remember being 10 years old, thrilled because my dad was home after 6 months overseas, and then a few hours later I read ‘Seven Little Australians’ and was weeping. Dad was so confused, he didn’t understand why I had to keep reading it.
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I have watched Four Weddings And A Funeral approximately a hundred times and I STILL cry when Matthew delivers Gareth’s eulogy. Every. Single. Time. I think TFiOS would kill me, YA book or no. So I will not be reading it. Some sense of self-preservation is a good thing!!
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Seriously. I’m with ya. Cried like a baby.
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Have you read the YA Thirteen Reasons Why? That book was very painful to read despite being fiction. Thx for the suggestion.

Oh I totally know what you mean! I cry over books and movies and fall in love with the characters constantly!

But to be totally honest, I can’t promise I won’t make any of my beloved characters suffer when I finally finish my book, because then there would be no plot! sigh!
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Reading…you’re doing it right! We should totally be friends. For a funnie teen book about cancer, you should read Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie. I’ve never laughed so hard or cried so hard at a book.

When I read, I will laugh, cry, comment, yell, curse, groan, giggle.. and every single time, hubby looks at me and says “what”.. and I’m just reading.. he rolls his eyes at me and says.. “I don’t understand how you can laugh or cry at a book..”. *sigh* some people just don’t get it. He’s more of a manual kind of guy too Jenny. But again, not heartless.. I’ve seen him tear up. The Time Traveler’s Wife. yep, he cried.
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I read TFIOS when it came out, and I started crying about halfway through the book. Didn’t stop until I’d finished. Admittedly that was at 2 am the next morning…. And I cry every time I re-read it, which is a lot because it’s an AWESOME book. DFTBA!

I avoid reading greeting cards for the same reason. Which is why I never give out birthday cards.
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My reaction to reading this post: “Sounds like a book I need to read!”

My husband’s reaction to reading this post: “I think Victor and I should go out and get a beer together.”

My husband is obviously as soulless as yours. Let’s go on a date and we can go romp through fields of gold while they instead go have a few beers and complain about our strange obsession with animals.

In other news, we were driving back from Florida a few days ago and we passed a little store that had A YARD FULL OF METAL ANIMALS. My reaction? “Beyoncé!!” He actually TURNED THE CAR AROUND to go back before he realized that I was talking about giant metal chickens. Since it wasn’t our giant metal chicken-aversary yet, I instead bought us a metal skeleton dog. He has no name yet, but is FREAKING AWESOME. Would you consider this metal taxidermy?

Reading it now and I get it, Jenny. It’s one of those books that you need to scream about from the rooftops. I thought the first two pages were witty so I was holding out hope that I wouldn’t be sobbing.

Joules- that quote is by Rosemarie Uroquoco (sp?). Not RPatz. Sorry. :/

I second whoever mentioned The Lovely Bones as a sob book. Even my husband, who doesn’t get emotional over books, refused to keep reading it because it was “so stupid- why would anyone write something that sad??”

I read that book while feeding my son at all hours of the night. Sobbing at 3 am is not pleasant, but I seriously stayed up after baby went to sleep just so I could read more.

When I was at home studying for the bar exam, my husband would come home for lunch and usually find me sobbing over someone who had “died” – and usually their deaths involved super great orchestral music. At first he thought it was cute, then he thought it was annoying, and finally, he disconnected the cable. And since we lived in Midland, I was pretty much screwed after that .

Love Young Adult Lit! John Green is one of the best in this genre. Have you read Paper Towns?

I try not to read books of utter sadness, UNLESS there are vampires, or serial killers. I’d rather laugh a little, or shrink in horror, or something.
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Don’t listen to Victor–it is perfectly acceptable to cry over books. I do it all the time.
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I second Karla above – The Kite Runner turned me so inside out that, two years later, my heart still breaks at the mere thought of it. And I can’t bring myself to read another of Hosseini’s books because I don’t want to go through that again.

TFiOS was fantastic – looking forward to reading more of Green’s books (with tissue at the ready).

Every time I sell that book, I tell the customer to read it with a box of tissues. Mainly because I was pissed when I was reading it and I didn’t have any tissues. And I was in public.
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Go read Will Grayson, Will Grayson. It will help you recover…. Same awesomeness without nearly as much angst.

Imaginary people? While I am reading a book, these people are very real to me. I cry with them and for them.

And Doctor Who often makes me cry. I sobbed when he left Rose behind. I sobbed when he had to send Donna home. I sobbed when the Angel took Rory and when Amy followed. In fact, the love story of Amy and Rory was full of tearful moments.
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Sounds like a good one.
While rewriting my first novel last week, I started crying. I was so happy! It was a good sign. And then my dog started barking at a squirrel right outside my window. Really??? Was that a sign too??? I hope that it was just a sign that my dog is really annoying sometimes…
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That book was so heartbreaking. I believe I used a lot of curse words when yelling at the friend that told me to read it. We now treat it like the movie in the ring you have to pass on the pain. It’s cruel but you got to do what you got to do.

I always get lost in stories so I totally get your tears. I cried at Frankenweenie. Yup, the Tim Burton kinda sorta kids movie about a boy and his dog. I sobbed. In a theater full of parents and children. All of whom started looking around to see who was crying like a fool. My husband laughed at me until he realized that the crying wasn’t going to stop with just a few sniffles. Then he just looked alarmed. Especially afterwards when we were discussing the film and the sobbing started up again. Even now if I think about it too long I well up. The kicker?? Every time I see it in stores I want to buy it and watch it again because I loved every second of it. But I’m afraid of another all out crying jag…

I just happened to finish this book yesterday and I had to stop a couple of times because I was crying so hard I couldn’t see to read…

One of my new favorite books! At first I didn’t want to read it because of the subject but am so happy I caved. I would also recommend Looking for Alaska by Green. Young adult literature has come so far since my adolescent days.

Reading it right now for the second time. I picked it for my book club which is tonight. I can’t wait to see what my lady friends thought. Went out on a limb picking a YA book. I love everything that John Green writes. He his so smart.

I feel slightly sorry for Victor, not understanding about how good writing can make you sad or happy (depending on the book). But only slightly.

Reading the comments, I’m getting titles for more books that I will have to read at some point. I think I have enough to keep me occupied for the next year or so.
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Love, love, love John Green! He’s fabulous!

When his first book was published I happened to be on an ALA (American Library Association) book selection committee and received a galley copy before it was published. Could not put it down. It was so wonderful! When I went to the ALA Conference he was sitting in his publisher booth trying to give away free copies of his book, but as nobody had heard of him yet, he was looking a bit lonely and forlorn. I asked him to sign my galley copy, geekily gushed all over him and told him that within a few months, people would be standing in line for the honor of meeting him. His first novel won a major award that year and yes, indeed, people now stand in line to meet him!

The Fault in Our Stars is one of my favorite books. It’s beautifully written even though it is sad.
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Oh, Jenny, by saying exactly what I think sometimes you make me feel like I am in good company! I agree with EVERYTHING that you just said! Let me recommend “Will Grayson, Will Grayson” from John Green and David Levithan to make you happy again. It has a one of the best fictional characters in the world called “Tiny Cooper” who is described as follows: “Tiny Cooper is not the world’s gayest person, and he is not the world’s largest person, but I believe he may be the world’s largest person who is really, really gay, and also the world’s gayest person who is really, really large.” It is amazing! Also, let me also introduce you, if you don’t know him already, to Hank Green, John Green’s brother, who is one of the brilliant masterminds behind The Lizzie Bennet Diaries. The show is terrific and now I want to get both Green brother to be my BFFs.

Minority opinion: I NEVER read books about sick kids — my mom brain just can’t handle it. But it was on my daughter’s kindle and I started it accidentally and I loved it. I thought it was funny and smart and uplifting. Apparently if it *starts* with everyone doomed, I’m ok.

I loooooooved this book! It is the most amazing book I have read in a really long time! (side note: It is also my favorite of all of John Green’s books, not all of which are nearly as sad)

Since I am one of those benighted people who reads the END of a book first (forever scarred by “Old Yeller”!) –
I truly appreciate the heads up that reading this book will not result in a marvelous feeling of ‘and they all lived happily ever after…’
One must be prepared to enter the world of books with their curling arms of words that can catch and clutch the unwary reader.

I also sobbed through at least half of TFIOS and had to hold off reading it when it first came out because a girl I knew in high school died (from brain cancer) the day TFIOS came out. Talk about all of the feels.

Looking For Alaska will also make you cry, if you’re looking for another fabulous book. Also, Twilight is like the shittiest example of a “teen book” ever. It was actually written for suburban 30-something ladies and publishers decided to market it towards teens. There is so so so much FANTASTIC literature out there classified as Teen or YA and it totally sucks that Twilight gets lumped in with the fabulous stuff. Ask your librarian for recommendations – I’m sure they’d happily oblige.

Nothing makes me want to read a book more … going to buy it tonite!

My 18 year old gave me that book to read and I grounded her forever about halfway through. I was sobbing. SOBBING.

God help me if George R.R. Martin ever kills off Arya Stark. I’ll never recover.
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I worry about Victor. Every day.
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Yeeeeeeep. All the John Green. Ha, sniff, sob, ha again.

Uncontrollable sobbing…but worth the stuffy nose and puffy eyes. Thank God there’s wine at our book club, because we all needed it.
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I finished *The Fault in our Starts* just LAST NIGHT! Two days before that I finished *Looking for Alaska.* I’m now on suicide watch–I’m 37 and 3/4 old–and yes, my 16 year old friends have all met tragic ends. Effffff.

“No one with a soul can watch Doctor Who without occasionally crying.” My thoughts exactly. What kind of a monster can watch Rose get lost forever and see the Doctor break in pieces and think, “huh. I could go for a sandwich”??

That’s why we read books!! To make us cry!
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This pretty much sums up my reaction to the book perfectly.
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I have cried at the ending of many books when it wasn’t a sad ending. i was crying because the book was over. Real life was back.

One of my favorite books, ever, period. Brilliant.

For three college semesters I read Holocaust literature — all nonfiction. For three semesters I sobbed, gut wrenching, snorking and honking, one wretched chapter at a time. Even the good stuff, the heroic stuff, is emotionally exhausting.

And in the middle my sister died. Fucking cancer.

Sometimes, I was grateful to cry through the books. To feel for everyone and not just for me. Not just for her. But to take in the all-encompassing grief and let it pour through me.

I can’t read sad books right now. Maybe not for a while. But I’ll find one again and be right there with my sniffling, tissue-clenching, mascara-ruining sad-book sorority sisters. Cuz that shit IS life-affirming, damn it.

Oh my I wept like freaking crazy when I finished reading that book. Sobbed myself to sleep. Damn great book though ugh.
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I sobbed through so much of this. I should not have been surprised. But it was so worth it. Just so glad that I didn’t read this on the train like I was originally going to.

(My fiance does not get crying over movies/books/shows, and starts to worry about me when I do so.)

Great book – try the audiobook if you can’t get it at the library. It’s very well done.

It is very clear that Victor does not understand how books work.

I haven’t read this yet, although it has been recommended to me several times.
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This reminds me of that picture that’s been circling the web for a long while now. It says:

“That moment when you finish a book, look around, and realize that everyone is just carrying on with their lives…

as though you didn’t just experience emotional trauma at the hands of a paperback.”

That’s a familiar feeling. We know how you feel.
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I’ve read it twice and cried just as much the second time. Had to go out and buy a copy. It’s an amazing, perfect book, even if it is incredibly sad.

I just read this page to my daughter, a huge consumer of teen novels (but NOT Twilight she tells me proudly!) She hasn’t read this book, but her bestie has.

DD’s reaction to your post? “I love her.”

wow Nerdfighters meets Bloggess. My internet lives colliding.

“If I had a dollar for every time I felt more emotion for a fictional character than people in real life, I could pay for the psychiatric help I obviously need.”

My source, though not original, I suspect:

For me, it is sometimes the well crafted TV commercial. I’m glad I don’t have a TV in the house anymore.
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HOLY BALLS
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OMG, that book. Amazing.

As a guy who cries while reading books, leave me alone. I just have some dust in my eye(s).

Jason
The Cheeky Daddy
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Oh, man. I really want to read this now. Because I’m apparently a masochist. But I’ll have to wait until I live closer to my boyfriend because I don’t do well with books that make me cry.

(No joke, one time I made my ex-boyfriend drive to my house at 2 am because I’d stayed up late to read a book and I was SO WORRIED the characters wouldn’t end up together and it was just So Sad. Except that it was a romance book, and by definition the characters have to end up together. Oh, and I’d read it before.)
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Hmmm another book I will reconsider picking up. I’m a huge sap and cry at commercials. This book sounds like it’ll send me into a tailspin of depression. Ok maybe not that deep, but I’ll be buying stock in Kleenex..
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One of my favorite books!
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I went to college with John Green! Not at all bastard-like.
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So it’s a good book I gather…I should look for it at the bookstore. Not sure I want to cry.

The comment luv didn’t work above…I feel like crying since I’ll never be funny like you.
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I cry at books all the time. There’s nothing wrong with that!

I was bawling–downright BAWLING–during Doctor Who the other day, and my husband was attempting to be supportive but he obviously thought I was a freak. Stupid British, trying to rip out my soul.
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Men: never invest a moment’s thought in your woman’s emotions. They are not like your emotions. They are fashion accessories, worn on a whim, and enjoyed as a means of demonstrating superiority over other women (just like everything else in the universe). Just keep practicing the Blake Clark mantram: “Yeah, you’re right. I’m sorry.”

She’ll still think you’re an asshole, but at least you’ll be an asshole who isn’t bashing his head in utter futility against the brick wall that is trying to please her.

I’m fairly certain I am the only woman on earth who has not yet watched a Dr. Who episode.
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Hey, give Victor credit for trying at least!
Go Team Victor!

I have similar conversations with my husband when I’m reading online articles. I’ll be innocently searching articles about how cute cats are and inevitably come across a horrible one about some sociopath who microwaved a cat to death. Then at the end of the article there’s ‘more like this’ and the downward spiral begins. The first time this happened my husband was bewildered but supportive. The second and third time, not as much.

Husband: What’s wrong?
Me: Humans all deserve to die for being evil!
Husband: You’re reading that article again, aren’t you? I TOLD you to just click away when you find those…
Me: I CAN’T or the murderers win
Husband: …Right then, I’ll get the chocolate…

On a lighter note I still get a kick out of freaking people out when I startle them by laughing aloud at something funny I just read. It’s like people expect book reading to be such a somber, quiet, emotionless thing when it’s anything but.
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Poor Victor.

For weeks my entire review of TFIOS was “Dear John Green, Fuck you. You made me like your characters and I can’t even. “

Oh my word yes, this book was so terribly, terribly sad and yet so terribly, terribly good!

Maybe you should Start a book club Jenny
Though I generally prefer to read books that make me laugh like a lunatic in public rather than cry
because I hate crying
I have read books that have made me cry, certain songs have same effect for me too. Most men in my experience do not get it. First time I bawled to a song my ex was just like stop listening to it why would you do that. haha
Some times the book, music, movie is worth the feels good or bad

i think theres something wrong with me – this book made me laugh my ass off. Or at least once i got past the cancer part. i thought that was kind of the point the characters were trying to get across: “we might be dieing but WE’RE NOT DEAD YET” i mean the way they utilized the time they had left with each other and their parents i LOVED them all, and i found they’re demeanor and outlook hilarious!!. They kind of tell you how to feel about them from start to finish “you loved him?” “yes” “and even though he’s dead it was still worth it?” “yes” “now you know how we feel” John Green does it right with the emotional precision. you knew you were going to lose the characters from the beginning – STILL WORTH IT!

watch out for the movie coming out soon!!

None of my imaginary friends are sick but most of them really should do a stint in rehab.
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John Green is terrifying. I don’t want to feel the feels! I say I don’t want to!
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I would never knowingly pick up a book that’s going to make me cry – I am way too sensitive as it is. I always used to forget that when I was in my classics stage and I read a new Thomas Hardy book. I would start out all optimistic and then find myself sobbing at the fate of a completely ostracized couple who had had (whisper) sex before marriage, and watch the disaster of a story unfold as their pre-teen killed his four little siblings before hanging himself.

I wanted to stab myself in the eye.
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My husband acted the same way as Victor while I read TFIOS so I made him read it too. Then he reacted the same way as you and I (and anyone with a soul) when we read it.

I sobbed half the night reading The Fault in Our Stars. I get it!
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if you think that’s said, try Jenny Downham’s Before I Die- glorious but I cired like a bubba

I FEEL YOUR PAIN.

And if you want to induce some more book-sobbing, try Elizabeth Wein’s AMAZING Code Name Verity. Spies, friends, planes, tears.
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I preordered this book for my daugher, forgot about it. When it came out, I put it with MY books, and picked it up trying to figure out why I had bought it. Fast forward a bit, and my husband finds me sitting on my bedroom floor sobbing over this book.

I wouldn’t have picked it up for myself – I cry at Hallmark commercials. But its an AWESOME book. My daughter was in a snit at me for a while for “hiding” it from her, however.

OH MY GOD! Victor DOESN’T get how books work! I don’t even understand what he didn’t understand about “a book made me cry.”
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Oh God, The Fault in Our Stars made me feel ALL the feels. Laughing out loud, and reading bits to my friends and gut-wrenching sobbing and ugly crying. I’m so upset that the Norwegian title has been changed to Fuck Destiny, basically, meaning that I suspect quite a few parents may have reservations about buying it for their kids, and some school libraries may be worried about displaying it. I don’t entirely see why they needed to put swearing in the title, but I’m not a translator or publisher, so what do I know?

Your post pretty much sums up my conversations with my husband about books, or the Lizzie Bennet Diaries or occasionally even movies. He doesn’t really see why I get so worked up about fictional characters. Yet we are still together.
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My cousin messages me the other night telling me she couldn’t stop sobbing, which concerned me since she suffers from depression and she doesn’t usually tell me when she’s crying. Her next message was “it’s all your fault. You and your stupid John Green book!” I had given her the book months ago. Guess she finally got around to reading it. I regret nothing!

I struggle to fight the tears when I watch vet shows. Especially when the animals die. They’re the worst.

Books to really get the sobs going;
The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein *seriously, good luck getting the lump out of your throat
Zamba, by Ralph Helfer
Modoc, by Ralph Helfer
The Bronze Horseman, by Paullina Simons

(hangs head In shame). I haven’t ever watched and episode of Doctor Who but I have a really good reason. I went to England and my friend brought me to and exhibit and it was all creepy and scary and things popped out at you and I have PTSD and I almost peed my pants and cried in public! So it’s her fault not mine.

My partner doesn’t understand books either or why I insisted on standing in line at midnight ever time a new Harry Potter book came out and then stayed up the whole night reading it. She also thought I had lost my mind when I threw the last book of the Hunger Games across the house and every swear word I knew came flying out of my mouth when a certain character died!

When the boy I nannied for before I got sick was reading the Harry Potter books someone spoiled Dumbldore for him and he was dying for me to confirm it for him and my response was I will neither confirm nor deny that this statement is true… Drove him crazy. He also hated that I would not tell him if Snape was bad or good. I told him he had to figure it out for himself just like the rest of us. I would be happy to discuss his ideas about it but I would not tell him one of the most important parts of the book. It’s kind of crazy for about two years the best person I had to have a conversation with was a 8 year old and I swear he came up with the best discussions! I had to go back and reread some of the books just so I could answer his questions lol.

I have one friend who will randomly call me and say OMG so and so died I have gotten to the point of asking her if this is a real person or someone from one in her book. I do the same thing to her she’s usually a book ahead of me though so I’m usually prepared for the death which is good for me I don’t like surprise deaths in random books had she done it to me in the Harry Potter series I would have killed her.

No one I could handle a book about kids with cancer I’d be a mess!

I can’t read much right now due to being sick it effects my eyes so I’ve been listening to audio books and downloaded IT because the movie terrified me… Yeah I forgot that Golden rule that the Book is always better aka scarier in this case than the movie… And since I spend so much time in bed in and out of sleep and twilight sleep while listening it made for some interesting terrifying dreams I can only imagine what a book about kids with cancer would do to me!!

Btw I cried like a baby during parts of the HP books and a few others. My girlfriend doesn’t get it either.

This just happened to me last week. I came to work and everyone’s all, “How are you?” And I’m like, “Great, except that one of my friends just got caught in a terrible scandal.”

And then I remembered that no one else was reading the same book I was. Their loss.
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OMG! that book! took my heart and crushed it with its perfect well-written fists. I don’t know if I hated him for writing it or loving him for the same thing.

Esmertina-
I used to teach developmentally disabled adults, and my assistant and I decided to read them the Little House series. Cut to the two of us sobbing in the hallway because Jack the dog died (and we didn’t want to scare the class)! To top it all off, our boss thought we were crying because our STUDENT named Jack died. It was so embarrassing to explain it all…..

I finished the end of this book in the back of a classroom at a middle school. (I work there, I’m not a creeper) The middle schoolers mocked me as I sobbed. That book killed my soul!!! You’re pretty spot on about the Doctor too!

I can’t watch Dr. Who without crying either.

I love the friends I meet in books more than most people I know in reality.
Gosh, you people are wonderful. Can we all get together and sit in a circle and read? (While passing the vodka, of course).

OMG! Best book ever… I loved it so much, I bought one of these posters: http://dftba.com/product/14o/Our-Little-Infinity-Poster

BEST. BOOK. EVER.
I was reading the ending while giving my toddler a tub. I kept burying my head in his towel to keep from freaking him out. Weirdest game of peek-a-boo to date. But still… Oh my LOVE for this book. Just posted about it actually…
http://voldysgonemouldy.blogspot.com/
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Duly noted. Will be putting that one on the ‘don’t read in public list’. I am so lame I cry while watching The Bold & The Beautiful.
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I now have a book list for the next year, thanks to comments on this thread. I’ve cried at books my whole life, especially animal books like Black Beauty, or “Beautiful Joe” by Marshall Saunders and “Bristle Face” by Zachary Ball. One wonderful book that was not mentioned yet is “Oh My Stars” by Lorna Landvik.
Now I really have to figure out how to see Doctor Who, with no TV.

Oy, the sad with that book! At one point I actually though “I know! I’ll stop reading now that way NO ONE HAS TO DIE!” Didn’t work.
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Loved that book, it was amazing!

My book club went through a series of sad tales, Green being one of them. Thankfully we are now on to your book. I went from tissues to peeing my pants with laughter. Teen books are way underrated. Try the Book Thief if you want to cry more.

Been out of town and catching up with posts. There are people who DON’T cry during Doctor Who? (Ok, so my boyfriend doesn’t.) And all the people in my books are my friends. I hate when the books are over because I don’t know what’s happening to them anymore.

I see two other people have mentioned it, but I will also mention The Art of Racing in the Rain. It is an EXCELLENT book and very well written, but my God, I was SOBBING during the last 20 page, to the point that MY husband came in and asked what was wrong. And then, he said, “OMG, it’s JUST a BOOK.”

-_-

Yeah.

i totally cry when Doctor Who is on too!!!!

Finished this book all in one sitting. Cried so hard, my boyfriend asked me who died. Great way to start Spring Break, right?

Regardless of all the tears it causes, read it, it’s so worthwhile and wonderful.

I can’t tell you how many times my husband has come into the room, visibly alarmed by my crying, and the only explanation I have for it is “TV is being saaaaaaaaad.”