Which King book (if any) made you cry? ***SPOILERS***

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Originally Posted by adrianmarley

I rarely, if ever, cry whilst reading books (or watching films, for that matter). But I have to say that the one Stephen King book where I cried was Pet Semetary when

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Gage was killed

. I found the book to be one of the most desolate and despairing of King's books. When I read it, I wasn't married and didn't have kids. Now that am married and have 2 small children, I'm not sure that I'd be able to read it again.

Having said that, I think Pet Semetary is one of King's finest achievements. It's a book that has the courage of its convictions and not once does it try to sugar coat its message. It's almost 20 years since I last read it, but I can still remember the last line, and it still give me a chill:

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"Darling," it said.

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I can definitely understand why you wouldn't be able to read it again after having kids! I remember in an interview that King said it was hard just to write it cause of the subject matter.

For me, the ending of the Green Mile made me cry a bit.

Hmmm...I was just a kid myself when I read Cujo, but I was very disturbed when Tad trenton died

the Stand when

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Larry underwood died, it also got me tearing up when Stephen King quoted Born to run. "Sprung from cages out on Highway nine, chrome wheeled fuel injected and stepping out over the line

The Dark tower ending made me tear up as well

Dead Zone

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Cujo

and Hearts in Atlantis

I read through all of these, and I'm surprised there's only a handful of people who mentioned The Dead Zone. I guess I really just fell in love with Johnny's character. If I wasn't sitting in class when I read the ending, I probably would have bawled.

Also,

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Mattie's death

in Bag of Bones. Unfortunately, I was stupid enough to read the end and knew it was going to happen far before I got there.

I think it would be easier to list off the ones that didn't make me cry.

The first (and last for the moment) time I cried reading a book was with the DT.

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Eddie's death

was particularly hard for me. And the worst is that I also cried at the end of the DT-7... but for another reason. I was just so sad to know there will be no number 8...

I never cried again for any other book. I was very near for it for some (Blaze and The Stand especially), but the Dark Tower was the most intense...

In The Stand -

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When Stu and Tom are making their way back to Boulder and Stu tries to celebrate Christmas with Tom. I don't know, I found it really touching. When they sang I found myself tearing up.

For me, I've cried when in The Stand

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Nick Andros died, when Dana killed herself, and earlier on during Larry's entire visit with his mom

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Then in FireStarter when

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The dad dies pretty much everything after that

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And of course, Cujo. I love animals, and this one just...I refuse, flat out to watch the movie because

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just reading about the kid and Cujo's death was bad enough, I don't need to watch it happen!

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Originally Posted by Todash

Like many others, I'm sure, I cried—bawled—reading The Dark Tower when

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Oy died

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Broke my heart.

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I admit, it broke mine too.