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What is the most moving book you have read?

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stigmata_in_my_eye said:
ummmm! has anyone read lonely bones?

It's Lovely Bones, I think, and yes, I have read it. But it seemed too much like a romance to me for it to be really moving.

However, Elie Wiesel's Night is another story. A true story, rather.
 
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Romany said:
What book moved you the most?
Mine is 'The Catcher in the Rye'
For me it was the Brothers Karamazov and also Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card. Honorable mentions would go to the Hyperion Series, Middlemarch, and the Children of God series by Maria Doria Russel.
 
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By the middle of Steppenwolf I felt that the book was almost physically assaulting me, and I almost stopped reading it, I was really feeling troubled by it. But I kept going because I knew I had to be in the worst of it, and lo and behold it eventually ended up building me up into a better person than I had started out as. When Haller is at that mirror, I felt a tremendous joy.

I've never had an experience even remotely like that with any other book (including the many other works of Hesse that I have read. Don't get me wrong, I liked them, but they just didn't have a lasting effect on me beyond perhaps implating an idea or two into my psyche.)
 
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How can you find the Bible moving? I mean just as a book. Thought-provoking, interesting yes. Moving, no.

Romany

wow, i totally disagree. :scratch: even if i thought the bible was just a story (which i don't) the "charactors", their beliefs, and perservence would move me. how can one not be moved by a person, imaginary or not, who would give his life for people he didn't know?:confused:

anyway, one of the most moving books i've read is suzanne's diary for nicholas by james patterson. read it in one day and cried almost the whole time.:cry: they are going to make a movie of it, but i know it won't be as good.
 
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skeptic86 said:
I would also add Tale of Two Cities by Dickens....these two novels contain two of the best endings ever.

Really? I've given up reading that book. You bring me hope to persevere through the whole Lucie Manette storyline. :sick: I skipped on to reading Bleak House by Dickens- much much better I have to say.
 
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Pen Pals by Carol Hegberg

I finished it 10 minutes ago - wow!

I expected a romance and got an inspiring war. (I hated an imaginary character - not even Wilkie Collins can do that!)

It's about our wants and how God uses these to put us where he sees best

Everyone should read this!
 
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