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Post by Syrinx on Jun 21, 2010 20:00:35 GMT -5
I am looking for depression books. Yes, I want books that make you cry when you read them.
Why you might ask?
Because I am on my school's Speech team as I might have already told some of you and besides doing persuasive speeches, I started half-way through last season doing Prose, a category where you take a serious piece of literature (if you can make the judges cry, it's a super plus) and preform it.
Last year I had an attempt at it with Skinned by Robin Wasserman, a sci-fi book about a girl who dies, gets downloaded into a robotic body and finds out that she shouldn't be alive still...it's a good book and I won 6th place in an honor round with it...but, apparently sci-fi might not be the best category for it.
What should the books contain?
Basically anything realistic that made you cry when reading it.
Any titles you know that would fit well with his and is a good read, please reply her with the title and author. =]
<3 Syrinx |
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Post by CRISP; on Jun 21, 2010 20:44:02 GMT -5
Well, recently I tend to cry over anything, but I do have a couple books that made me cry especially.
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. Definitely realistic, and a favorite of mine. My mother told me to read it a couple years ago and I couldn't stop crying. It's pretty much a good topic overall, but it's become very popular since it was made into a movie.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven and For One More Day, both by Mitch Albom. If I didn't cry enough in the first book I mentioned, I definitely cried more in these. Both are about death, and in some way are magical and really make you think and look around you. Very realistic too, and from the start of the books til the end I cried.
All three deal in some sort of way with the afterlife, and the last two are smaller the first, but all three are powerful |
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Post by ` cagliari on Jun 21, 2010 22:37:33 GMT -5
Well, recently I tend to cry over anything, but I do have a couple books that made me cry especially.
The Five People You Meet In Heaven and For One More Day, both by Mitch Albom. If I didn't cry enough in the first book I mentioned, I definitely cried more in these. Both are about death, and in some way are magical and really make you think and look around you. Very realistic too, and from the start of the books til the end I cried.
I don't really have much to add, but I would like to agree with what Crisp said. Anything by Mitch Albom is actually incredible material if you want to turn on the waterworks.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is also really good. It's pretty...intense in some spots, but if you can stomach some of the infrequent graphic material, you'll be alright. It doesn't happen on every page. I cried reading it, lent to a friend and she cried reading it. It was a gigantic tear-fest.
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Post by CRISP; on Jun 22, 2010 1:18:48 GMT -5
I don't really have much to add, but I would like to agree with what Crisp said. Anything by Mitch Albom is actually incredible material if you want to turn on the waterworks.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is also really good. It's pretty...intense in some spots, but if you can stomach some of the infrequent graphic material, you'll be alright. It doesn't happen on every page. I cried reading it, lent to a friend and she cried reading it. It was a gigantic tear-fest.
I haven't read all of Mitch Albom's books, but I intend on reading the rest of the books he's written at some point. He's an awesome writer, and definitely brings out the tears. I've never actually read The Kite Runner, but I've seen the movie. Definitely cried throughout that one too. So, agreed on that one.
I've also heard that The Road by Cormac McCarthy is pretty sad as well, although I've never read it. A few of my friends and my favorite English teacher have read it though, and they loved it. It's setting is a post-apocalyptic earth, so I don't know if it's in the realistic catagory. |
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Post by Syrinx on Jun 22, 2010 8:31:22 GMT -5
I'll take a look at those. I know a girl did The Lovely Bones last year so I'll probably not do it this year (she was good, but...it was wasted. She wasn't dressed as formally as she should've been so the 'speech' feel was lost a tad).
The Kite Runner. <3 We read that book this past year and I balled my eyes out more than once. I would do that one, but people tend to stay away from nooks that've been turned into movies because really, that's just not as good. xD I would do A Thousand Splendid Suns by the same author, but I know a girl who already has like two cuttings of the book that I think she's doing it this season.
Anywho, I'll take a look at those you mentioned Crisp. If anyone has anymore, hit me with the. ^^ |
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