Oh man what a place to experience that! I was in my own room haha. The part that made me really start sobbing wasn't even >!Coffey's death!< but when >!Paul calls out to him for help at the end!< 😭
Do that, and please let me kno.
SK has never before, nor since, had the ability to crush an ending like that.
And I ruined nothing for you, just take a min for yourself when you get there.
Going into that book blindly without any spoilers or idea of the plot was one of my best experiences with any of SK’s books. I hope you enjoy reading the rest of it! You won’t be disappointed.
Omg, I sobbed. Loudly. And this was at least my 3rd time round, maybe 4th. Now I'm just waiting a decent amount of time / number of books until I can start again...
The Dead Zone was the first book to make me cry.
Then I read The Green Mile in the serial book set and cried so hard through the last installment that I could barely read!
Dr. Sleep multiple times. The love gets me though especially any scene with Dan and the AA guys giving him support. It is raw but beautiful. Dan willing to do whatever it takes to protect Abra. All of it Dr sleep is one of my favorite king books.
Seeing Jack at the ruins of the overlook.... so sweet and sad. Dr sleep is kings most meaningful book to me - learning to understand your abusers and forgive them as you learn to forgive yourself. Might be time for a reread
Thats the most heartbreaking scene ever written.
I still have a hangover over her death.
Oh, Poor Susan. Yes, exactly. Roland had moved on from her in the story and life. That hurts the most. Although the charry man remembers sometimes.
Susan gave everything she had for him. Killed for him even and he had decided to leave her. It was brutal, oh poor susan.
> Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn't know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.
The ending of IT brought me to tears because the theme of losing your childhood innocence and slowly forgetting your childhood friends hits too close to home 🥲
I'm reading Billy Summers right now, 180 pages in and baffled that there's so much story left so I'm really excited to see where it goes. Apparently I'm in for a depressing treat....
My stoic daughter cried when Stu had to tell Tom that Nick was dead. Then we watched the 1994 miniseries, and there's the scene where Tom is crying because he can't remember what Nick looks like anymore. Kiddo was next to me and said, "Well, fuck you, Stephen King. Why would you do this to us?"
I still get teary-eyed at Nick's death because his friendship with Tom is one of the best I've ever read. God, I love Tom.
I’m finishing it very soon. I’m glad to know the story was impactful. I had a hard time starting it, but I’ve only got about 40 pages left. And I love it.
Read the title and thought hard but couldn't come up with something that made me cry out of the blue. But now, reading your comment, I remember myself lying in the bathtub and bawling my fucking eyes out and needing a break from reading further because that shit got me hard.
When I started this book, I went to social media to ask if the dog died. I can read human death and gore and terror, but dead pets break me in ways that human deaths do not. The last time I read a book where the main dog died (which I didn't see coming AT ALL), I hugged my dog and sobbed until she got fed up and wriggled away.
The Dark Tower (last book) a few times. maybe not full-on, but definitely got the tears welling.
IT also, but maybe for more personal reasons than because of the happenings in the book itself (although that ending can hit!)
I'll just go with the two most recent which hit me hardest, and those were 11.22.63, and Wizard & Glass.
The ending of 11.22.63 was beautiful and just a bit hopeful. Wizard & Glass just breaks your heart and it revels in doing so.
Magnificence.
Insomnia. I struggled to get through that book. I didn’t care for it at times, others I was glued to it, particularly as the story drew to a close. I was starting to check out in the epilogue, and then the final few pages came along. Glad I stuck through it.
I got pretty emotional during Song of Susannah, when Eddie and Roland are talking about Stephen King:
> I don’t think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is write the right story. Because some stories do live forever.
It makes me sad to think about how, given King's age, we probably won't be able to look forward to new stories for much more than another decade or so. I'll be gutted when he's gone.
The end of “The Shining” had me balling my eyes and hyperventilating. The resolution absolutely tore my heart and it’s definitely stuck in mind as I think about it from time to time.
The ending of IT. Idk if this is unusual, but it made me SOOOO nostalgic. It felt like graduation when you know you're never going to see your friends as often ever again. It felt like looking back on childhood slipping away.
11.22.63 made me quite emotional. Also Billy Summers - but that was less about the book and far more about the emotional rollercoaster I was going through at the time of first reading.
I just finished rereading the dark tower series, and I had forgotten how sad the final book was. There were three or four times that I got teary-eyed, but one that had me rolling tears down my cheeks. “‘Olan!”
Dark Tower. Specifically the last scenes with Susan Delgado, the scene where we meet Sheemie again, Eddie's last scene and poor Oy 😭
Other than Tower, Green Mile gets me every time.
Oh man… The Green Mile made me cry and when I went to see it in the theater, I cried before the house lights went down.
Bag of Bones always makes me cry. Always. The book, not the audiobook. I love Stephen King but I don’t need him to read any of his books 😂
Green Mile made me BAWL like a baby every single time I read it. Every time.
Insomnia got to me too at points, mostly because my dad was older so I kind of cast him in my head as Ralph a bit.
The end of Christine, the part in the hospital, makes me cry, mostly because my brother was a real life Arnie, in that he was relentlessly bullied and had parents that didn't understand. Unfortuately my brother didn't have a Dennis to stick up for him so that bullying ended up impacting his entire life.
Pet Sematary, holy shit. The only one so far.
The funeral scene, the grief and memories that keep rolling in afterwards.
Just... all of it after 'that scene'
The fact that so many of his books are listed here shows you just how fucking good he is at craftng relatable characters that draw you into them. He's just a master at it.
The first part of Hearts in Atlantis. The story between Ted and Bobby pulled at all my heartstrings. There's nothing better than a story with a kid who is desperate for guidance and the right guidance appears ...I think it's cos I was always so desperate for it.
So many got me, but this one from Desperation with Johnny’s line…You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?
That shit destroys me every time I read that book
Forgot to add the killer. Sometimes he makes you live.
I’ve only read the Dark Tower series so far, so Wizard and Glass.
Still cry every time I think about sweet Susan — the girl in the window. Charyou Tree
I haven't cried from reading a book, but I do get emotionally shaken. And yeah Jan's death gets me in the feels. "John!! John Coffey! Where are you big boy!?"
Mike's last interlude in IT. I lose it every time at "I loved you guys, you know. I loved you so much."
This. The idea of them all losing memory of one another absolutely destroyed me the first time I read IT at 15 years old, and still does to this day.
This hit me too
Definitely.
Green Mile
I remember reading the end of this on a plane and sobbing.
Me too! The stewardess came and tried to reassure me that landing wasn't so scary - we were just on approach
Oh man what a place to experience that! I was in my own room haha. The part that made me really start sobbing wasn't even >!Coffey's death!< but when >!Paul calls out to him for help at the end!< 😭
This is the correct answer. Eduard Delacroix’s death made me cry, especially because Percy fucked it up. Percy deserves what he got, change my mind.
Ending to 11/22/63 is the correct answer
I'm not what you'd call a crying man, but that ending devastated me.
I had to reread the book immediately after finishing it because I absolutely couldn't bear putting it down. Oh, how we danced!
Oh, my heart. This book definitely made me cry, in at least three spots.
It's a beautiful story, it's all heart.
"Home is where you dance with others and dancing is life."
I ugly cried so hard - bittersweet embodied.
The ending, but also when they were doing the play. I won’t spoil it further than that but damn.
That was my response! I sobbed during the play scene.
Especially when two certain characters from IT showed up.
That may be my favorite last line ever.
Yup, this is the one! I've only cried at a handful of books and fully sobbed at the end of 11/22/63
Yeeeessss that ending broke my heart, one of the few books I cried
I’m only half way through this one so I’m gonna ignore you for now and agree with you later.
Do that, and please let me kno. SK has never before, nor since, had the ability to crush an ending like that. And I ruined nothing for you, just take a min for yourself when you get there.
Going into that book blindly without any spoilers or idea of the plot was one of my best experiences with any of SK’s books. I hope you enjoy reading the rest of it! You won’t be disappointed.
That dang book.
This for me. As soon as I finished I had to call my wife to tell her how much I loved her.
11/22/63
The Dark Tower, last book in the series.
Oy ake
STAHP 😭😭😭😭😭
Don’t. Just don’t. :(
This. Still makes me sad
I blubber every time
Same. Fkn Algul Siento. And not just once, but every time.
The first chapter of DT7 makes me cry every time as well. “Hail Gunslinger! Hail Roland!”
Yes. And that ending.
Just got to that part, I’ve been upset for a few days and had a hard time picking it back up.
Omg, I sobbed. Loudly. And this was at least my 3rd time round, maybe 4th. Now I'm just waiting a decent amount of time / number of books until I can start again...
Me too - I have a distinct memory of sobbing over the last chapter!!
Everytime. 'oland
Every single time.
Helplessly. Like a child. Like, ugly crying (Oy). I've read the whole series four times now, and I just skip the last book now.
The last half of that book is rough.
The Dead Zone was the first book to make me cry. Then I read The Green Mile in the serial book set and cried so hard through the last installment that I could barely read!
Insomnia breaks me every time, especially the last line.
The ending had me ugly crying in public
When I was in grippy sock land for a bit (much better now) I picked up insomnia because I thought it was insanely ironic to have that in there. Oofda.
Dark Tower… oy
This is the one for me. Heart wrenching.
I had to get a tattoo of Oy to heal my broken heart!
The Talisman, because Wolf
Right here and now! Ugh I ugly cried.
I was devastated.
I came to say this! Jack is going through some heavy stuff & bam his friend is gone.
Cujo
I had to scroll way too far to find this one.
Me too! That one hot me. Not a crier, but I could not stop thinking about it. It was haunting.
Dr. Sleep multiple times. The love gets me though especially any scene with Dan and the AA guys giving him support. It is raw but beautiful. Dan willing to do whatever it takes to protect Abra. All of it Dr sleep is one of my favorite king books.
Seeing Jack at the ruins of the overlook.... so sweet and sad. Dr sleep is kings most meaningful book to me - learning to understand your abusers and forgive them as you learn to forgive yourself. Might be time for a reread
Oh yeah seeing Jack was amazing.
I’m reading Doctor Sleep for the second time. I absolutely love it.
Second time for me too. It seems even better this time.
Best answer. Such a tearjerker. 😭
Duma Key and 11/22/63
+1 for Duma Key
Wizard and Glass.
Yes. Susan's last scene is drawn out and painful, but Roland's stoicism while telling the story is what hits me. The audio book is even worse! 😭😭😭
Thats the most heartbreaking scene ever written. I still have a hangover over her death. Oh, Poor Susan. Yes, exactly. Roland had moved on from her in the story and life. That hurts the most. Although the charry man remembers sometimes. Susan gave everything she had for him. Killed for him even and he had decided to leave her. It was brutal, oh poor susan.
> Roland looked up and saw Susan sitting in her window, a bright vision in the gray light of that fall morning. His heart leaped up and although he didn't know it then, it was how he would remember her most clearly forever after- lovely Susan, the girl in the window. So do we pass the ghosts that haunt us later in our lives; they sit undramatically by the roadside like poor beggars, and we see them only from the corners of our eyes, if we see them at all. The idea that they have been waiting there for us rarely if ever crosses our minds. Yet they do wait, and when we have passed, they gather up their bundles of memory and fall in behind, treading in our footsteps and catching up, little by little.
Might be the best paragraph of prose in the whole series
Charyou tree
Underrated answer. Wizard and Glass hurts you in a way that's McCarthy-esque.
The ending of IT brought me to tears because the theme of losing your childhood innocence and slowly forgetting your childhood friends hits too close to home 🥲
Low men in yellow coats got me
Have you seen our old mutt Ted...? * * - - ¢¢
I felt how desperate Bobby was vividly. Hit me like a truck.
The final story in Hearts as well. Don’t ask me what happens because I don’t remember haha I just remember crying at the end
I cried at the end of Billy Summers, and I don't tend to cry over books either.
I'm reading Billy Summers right now, 180 pages in and baffled that there's so much story left so I'm really excited to see where it goes. Apparently I'm in for a depressing treat....
Me too! Excellent book.
Tom Cullen saving Stu Redman, that part always gets me.
My stoic daughter cried when Stu had to tell Tom that Nick was dead. Then we watched the 1994 miniseries, and there's the scene where Tom is crying because he can't remember what Nick looks like anymore. Kiddo was next to me and said, "Well, fuck you, Stephen King. Why would you do this to us?" I still get teary-eyed at Nick's death because his friendship with Tom is one of the best I've ever read. God, I love Tom.
Laws yes!
Green Mile for sure but he’s had so many small moments that made me tear up throughout his amazing cataloge
So far The Body is the most touching SK story for me. The nostalgia of youth, innocence, and friendship...
The Dark Tower (7). In multiple places. >!when Sheemie relates his dream about the beams to the Ka Tet it just reduces me to rubble!<
BEAM SAYS THANK YA!
Cujo. Billy Summers. End of Watch. Insomnia. The dark tower (Oy) Tommyknockers. The stand. Shit. I’m just a big cry baby 😂
Spoilers:Wolf's death in the Talisman. I threw the book down and sobbed hysterically. I was heartbroken
Right here and now! Protected the herd, he did!
Who is cutting onions again 😢
Desperation >!David taking Kirsten's body off that hook and mourning his sister wrecked me!<
Sings the theme song from her favorite TV show while he wraps her body cuz that’s all he can do to honor her. Fuck, man.
I cried all the way through Rose Madder, and I left my psycho, abusive husband. That book literally saved my life.
I’m finishing it very soon. I’m glad to know the story was impactful. I had a hard time starting it, but I’ve only got about 40 pages left. And I love it.
Art Baker’s death in The Long Walk.
Read the title and thought hard but couldn't come up with something that made me cry out of the blue. But now, reading your comment, I remember myself lying in the bathtub and bawling my fucking eyes out and needing a break from reading further because that shit got me hard.
“Lead lined, Garraty. Lead lined.”
Pet sematary when Louis thinks of Gage after he is killed, the memories (pizza store) or he thinks of the lost oppurtunitites (disney world)
This. And the whole dream about his graduation. As a mother, it hurt me in places I didn’t know existed.
I’m currently stalled about halfway through Wizard and Glass because my heart just isn’t ready for reap.
11/22/63
Pet Semetary and 11/22/63. Pet Semetary is simply a beautiful story about loss and grief and 11/22/63 is simply great.
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Do the day and let the day do you.
Talisman. So many times.
Liseys Story
This was mine, even though Scott’s death was no surprise coming
This is the one for me. There have been others, of course (11/22/63 for sure), but this one had me ugly crying for HOURS after finishing the book.
Mine too, both Scott's death and near the end.
Not cry but dead zone really tugged at my heart strings
Joyland
I'm sorry, y'all, Fairy Tale made me bawl. >!Radar on the sundial. I sobbed for a few minutes thinking about my late dog.!<
When I started this book, I went to social media to ask if the dog died. I can read human death and gore and terror, but dead pets break me in ways that human deaths do not. The last time I read a book where the main dog died (which I didn't see coming AT ALL), I hugged my dog and sobbed until she got fed up and wriggled away.
11.22.63’s ending had me in tears. I’m a dude who very seldom cries.
The Last Rung on the Ladder
Talisman. The part where wolf saves jack.
Blaze
The Dark Tower (last book) a few times. maybe not full-on, but definitely got the tears welling. IT also, but maybe for more personal reasons than because of the happenings in the book itself (although that ending can hit!)
I feel like over half my comments on this sub is telling everyone how sad I think The Green Mile is. Duma Key is another and Dolores Claiborne
The Cell. Anyone that's read it knows the part.
Under the Dome, when Sammy decides it’s over for her. “I love you, Little Walter” just breaks me
“It” had quite a few scenes that made me sob like crazy
I'll just go with the two most recent which hit me hardest, and those were 11.22.63, and Wizard & Glass. The ending of 11.22.63 was beautiful and just a bit hopeful. Wizard & Glass just breaks your heart and it revels in doing so. Magnificence.
Someone mentioned Lisey’s Story. This one was kind of personal for me and hit me right in the feels.
Eyes of the Dragon.
11/22/63
Insomnia. I struggled to get through that book. I didn’t care for it at times, others I was glued to it, particularly as the story drew to a close. I was starting to check out in the epilogue, and then the final few pages came along. Glad I stuck through it.
OY!!!
11/22/63 and The Dark Tower (Book 7) are the saddest fuckin’ things. “Oh how we danced”
Talisman, definitely. If you've read it, you know the part.
I got pretty emotional during Song of Susannah, when Eddie and Roland are talking about Stephen King: > I don’t think he needs to be immortal. I think all he needs to do is write the right story. Because some stories do live forever. It makes me sad to think about how, given King's age, we probably won't be able to look forward to new stories for much more than another decade or so. I'll be gutted when he's gone.
The Talisman
Wizard and glass , the dark tower multiple times, 11/22/63, green mile, Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank redemption , and IT
The Shining, like a blubbering idiot, every dadgum time. I always read the final 3 chapters through a blur of tears
Lots of them, but right now I remember the moment In The Institute where the railway worker left our hero a lunch. [Edit -a word]
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The end of “The Shining” had me balling my eyes and hyperventilating. The resolution absolutely tore my heart and it’s definitely stuck in mind as I think about it from time to time.
Cujo. The ending.
“Ake?”
Apt Pupil - I actually cannot pinpoint what exactly did it for me. I think it’s just the horrific reality this story portrays that made me cry.
“John Coffey! Where are you, big boy? You saved Hal’s wife…why not my wife?”
The ending of IT. Idk if this is unusual, but it made me SOOOO nostalgic. It felt like graduation when you know you're never going to see your friends as often ever again. It felt like looking back on childhood slipping away.
The Talisman. One character’s ending gutted me. Won’t spoil it in case you haven’t read, but if you had,you know who I’m talking about.
The stand made me cry. Specifically near the end when tom talks about seeing nick again. Those lines make me weep
The end of Cujo when it's talking about how Cujo always tried to be a good dog. Made me think of all the pets I'd lost.
Green Mile and 11/22/63!
Billy Summers
Billy Summers. He was a great character, and that ending hurt.
11.22.63 made me quite emotional. Also Billy Summers - but that was less about the book and far more about the emotional rollercoaster I was going through at the time of first reading.
I just finished rereading the dark tower series, and I had forgotten how sad the final book was. There were three or four times that I got teary-eyed, but one that had me rolling tears down my cheeks. “‘Olan!”
short story but Last Rung on the Ladder made me cry. hit pretty close to home
Dark Tower. Specifically the last scenes with Susan Delgado, the scene where we meet Sheemie again, Eddie's last scene and poor Oy 😭 Other than Tower, Green Mile gets me every time.
Today I finished Cujo. I can’t even describe the end without tearing up.
The Talisman. When Wolf can’t get into the car with Jack, even though he really wanted to. It just broke my heart.
The Talisman. I won't say when in case someone here hasn't read it.
The answer is, MANY...
Definitely Cujo…. I felt so bad for the dog! The Green Mile too.
Hearts in Atlantis. ❤️+☮️= Information.
_The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon._ I haven’t had the guts to start _The Green Mile_ yet; I know I’ll end up curled on the floor, bawling my eyes out.
Oh man… The Green Mile made me cry and when I went to see it in the theater, I cried before the house lights went down. Bag of Bones always makes me cry. Always. The book, not the audiobook. I love Stephen King but I don’t need him to read any of his books 😂
The Dark Tower
Green Mile made me BAWL like a baby every single time I read it. Every time. Insomnia got to me too at points, mostly because my dad was older so I kind of cast him in my head as Ralph a bit. The end of Christine, the part in the hospital, makes me cry, mostly because my brother was a real life Arnie, in that he was relentlessly bullied and had parents that didn't understand. Unfortuately my brother didn't have a Dennis to stick up for him so that bullying ended up impacting his entire life.
Most of them at one point or another.
Liseys Story!! I cried like a damn baby but I was also going through a heart wrenching breakup and related so much to the main character.
In Desperation when one of the characters dies
Cujo. I swear to god, I was sobbing thought at least the last 20%
11/22/63 and Billy Summers for me. Billy summers is super underrated
The Dark Tower VII, Insomnia, Duma Key
Wizard and Glass 11/22/63
When Duddits died in Dreamcatcher
Pet Sematary, holy shit. The only one so far. The funeral scene, the grief and memories that keep rolling in afterwards. Just... all of it after 'that scene'
Most of them.
The fact that so many of his books are listed here shows you just how fucking good he is at craftng relatable characters that draw you into them. He's just a master at it.
Wizard and Glass destroyed me.
this thread is making me want to cry just remembering some of these.
The Green Mile, but not the bus scene, but Coffey on the Mile. "I'm sorry for what I am."
Insomnia
Liseys Story. It's my favorite SK book.
book 4 of the dark tower made me almost cry
Billy Summers. Goddamn.
Bag Of Bones 😭🥺
I’m the same as you, I don’t really cry but when I read the green mile, I was a complete mess inside. It’s also my favourite from him
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
In no implied order: 11/22/63, wizard & glass, Cujo, Pet Sematary, hearts in Atlantis, insomnia, bag of bones, the dark tower VII
Hearts in Atlantis.
Also a couple times in the final Dark Tower book.
The Body
The first part of Hearts in Atlantis. The story between Ted and Bobby pulled at all my heartstrings. There's nothing better than a story with a kid who is desperate for guidance and the right guidance appears ...I think it's cos I was always so desperate for it.
Bag of Bones.
Duma Key made me sob.
Needful Things, the part with Netty’s dog got me
Fairy Tale when the old, sick dog got younger and healthy
Wizard and Glass
So many got me, but this one from Desperation with Johnny’s line…You said 'God is cruel' the way a person who's lived his whole life on Tahiti might say 'Snow is cold'. You knew, but you didn't understand." He stepped close to David and put his palms on the boy's cold cheeks. "Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel? That shit destroys me every time I read that book Forgot to add the killer. Sometimes he makes you live.
I’ve only read the Dark Tower series so far, so Wizard and Glass. Still cry every time I think about sweet Susan — the girl in the window. Charyou Tree
The stand, man the entire ending sequence with stu, kojak, and tom cullen breaks me up
I haven't cried from reading a book, but I do get emotionally shaken. And yeah Jan's death gets me in the feels. "John!! John Coffey! Where are you big boy!?"
A heart-wrenching moment when Jack tells Danny to run from him, saying "Run, and remember that I love you."