This post was inspired by the wonderful Luke at http://www.fantasybeyond.com/urbanknight/blogger.html. I'm in a pissy mood due to relationship shit so a sad post is right down my alley.
Here are my "tearjerkers" in different catagories:
Songs:
Time in a Bottle - Jim Croce - His death makes this song so much more poignant to me.
Mercy, Mercy Me - Marvin Gaye.
Miss Saigon, The Cast Album- almost every song on the album brings me to tears. Now that I've Seen Her - I Still Believe - There are so many - these songs are heartbreaking - I can't listen to the album without crying.
Renee - Lost Boyz - It's like a punch in the stomach for me.
Janie's Got a Gun - Aerosmith - Another punch in the stomach. They made us face the realities of "Middle America."
Stan - Eminem - heartbreaking. Genius.
Books:
Death Be Not Proud - John Gunther - I read this in high school and I still grieve for his son.
Angela's Ashes - Frank McCourt - the descriptions of life for his family broke my heart. I cried for Frank as a little boy.
The Color Purple - Alice Walker - I had to stop and start and stop and start - I cried repeatedly.
The Joy Luck Club - Amy Tan (also The Kitchen God's Wife, The Hundred Secret Senses) - she's a great writer who has pulled me into the Chinese culture.
Feast of All Saints - Anne Rice - early college days - it really moved me.
A Seperate Peace - John Knowles - this was back in high school and I cried for a long, long time.
Excuse the Mess
5 comments:
No Sade?!? I Never Though I'd See the Day has always been one of my curl-up-and-die favorites.
On the nerd tip...the story to Final Fantasy X was a tear jerker...I can't even get into it, but when that joint ends I just think that would have been a great movie
Sorry to hear you are encountering some relationship bumps in the road.
Here's a big hug to help you out of your funk and a few of my own tearjerkers...
SONGS:
"I'm Moving On" - Rascal Flatts
"What Hurts the Most" - Rascal Flatts
"Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor
BOOKS:
"Memoirs of a Geisha" - Arthur Golden. (Mr. Nobu breaks my heart every time I read this.)
MOVIES:
The Object of My Affection (hasn't everyone fell for that one impossible love?)
Brokeback Mountain (the ending never ceases to have me tearing up...and that music!)
Life is a House
So glad I'm not the only one that tears up listening to "Time in a Bottle."
"Moon River" has made me weep since I was a child!
I can't do this right now. I'm starting to cry just thinking about it. But I agree with all your choices except Anne Rice, which I haven't read.
The Joy Luck Club is a piece of work, eh? It's almost infuriating at times!
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