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Posted 10/14/08 - 08:05 AM:	#21
The translation of 'Le Petit Prince' (The Little Prince) by Antoine De Exupery. A storybook-style, but still mature, look at adult life and the ridiculously seeming quirks of manners and social conventions. It's altogether heart-touching and beautiful. I dare you to read it through without crying once.

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Posted 10/15/08 - 11:46 AM:	#22
Most hardcover books.... They hurt when they fall on your foot.` Well; actually there's this magic: the gathering book. Forget it's name but they have these neato elves with color changing eyes! Well really its' everything else that happens; though the eyes and 'history' behind the elves is indeed pretty awesome. With the exclusion of guns and gun powder; they managed to hit dozens of seperate subjects in a way that actually creates a story; and not just one dammed thing after another. They touch on like 5 seperate society stylings, like 9 inidividual vs others subjects in addition to pulling off a "mini-epic" where the sum of all the happenings create the background story. Most everything else are key phrases or happenings for the most part; many different author's.
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Posted 10/16/08 - 02:21 AM:	#23
I got teary eyed a long time ago when I was still a teenager reading Jin Yong (Chinese) novels . His novels are really long, easily few thousand pages so you really got into the story and characters after . And in those times I used to read on for a whole day and night non-stop.
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Posted 05/31/09 - 05:27 PM:	#24
I know it's happened to me, but I can't recall when and what it was that made me get teary.
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Posted 06/07/09 - 05:43 PM:	#25
Weetzie Bat had me goin teary eyed for a while. I forget the writer, an ex-girlfriend of mine showed me the book and at the age I was..about fifteen or so? It had some rather provocative and explicit concepts I thought for a teen novel. I can't make any recollection of specifics though.

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Posted 06/08/09 - 08:02 AM:	#26
The mere thought of having to read any book by Sartre, Marcuse, Foucault, Derrida, Kierkegaard, Heidigger and most any Continental philosopher after Kant, will make me cry. Actually reading such a book will make me very angry.
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Posted 06/08/09 - 08:29 AM:	#27
Quote:'' Foucault, Derrida, Kierkegaard, Heidigger and most any Continental philosopher after Kant, will make me cry. Actually reading such a book will make me very angry''. Why do you cry Willy? Why do you cry? Why Willy? Why Willy? Why Willy? Why?

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Posted 06/08/09 - 10:54 AM:

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Vigotski wrote:
Quote:'' Foucault, Derrida, Kierkegaard, Heidigger and most any Continental philosopher after Kant, will make me cry. Actually reading such a book will make me very angry''.

Why do you cry Willy? Why do you cry?

Why Willy? Why Willy? Why Willy? Why?

They are a frightening bunch. "Why?" is indeed a question I ask myself when I ponder this philosophical rogues gallery. Why did they write such stuff? Stop whining--shut up and live (well, that's when I'm angry).

Why, by the way, didn't you include Sartre and Marcuse in your quotation?

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"There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it."--Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Posted 06/08/09 - 01:47 PM:	#29
I was at a coffee place when I finished "1984", I actually collapsed (literally, threw myself on to the chair beside me weeping uncontrolably). It really broke my heart. Winston drinking cheap gin having lost all hope. After that it was "Attonment", to my shame, as I have gone off McEwan and his books are right wing cliches. Nonetheless. I was at work and I got so bad, people were comming over to me to see if I was okay. Also, What is wrong with Sartre's writting, whatever about his philosophical ideas, his novels are great. I loved "The age of Reason", which incidently made me cry. Also, my favourity four pages ever come from a Camus book. Oh, yes, the little prince, is so beautiful, I did also shed a tear. Edited by ms anthropist on 06/08/09 - 01:55 PM

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Posted 06/08/09 - 03:11 PM:	#30
Keep it coming. War and Peace, Tolstoy when someone dies who you expect to live. Les Miserables, The ending ripped me apart inside. Brave New World, made me cry because its the present. Hyperion Saga, by Dan Simmons made me cry in the last book, it combines a sad and happy ending at the same time.

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