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Post by Claire on Feb 21, 2011 14:04:00 GMT 1
What books make you reach for the hankies? (A bit of a downbeat thread but its on the top 10 list!)
Surely Black Beauty must be the all time blub-inducing book?. I also find A Horse Named Cinnamon (aka A Horse For Cassie) by Jean Hovde pretty heartbreaking. And War Horse by Michael Morpurgo.
BTW dont forget if you have any more suggestions for best and worst books get them in soon as I need to make the polls for them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 21, 2011 15:08:18 GMT 1
Not many books actually make me weep but Black Beauty is an obvious one. Strangley it never made me cry as a child only now when I read it I have a tear in my eye. Don't know what that says about me!
Blind Beauty is another that made me sniffle, and War Horse
Can't think of any more off hand.
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Post by haffyfan on Feb 21, 2011 17:48:10 GMT 1
yep would agree with blind beauty and also free rein when Dogswood dies.
Elyne Mitchell also makes me sniffle on a regular basis...
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Post by darkhorse on Feb 21, 2011 22:46:07 GMT 1
Yes, Black Beauty for sure. One of the Black Beauty's family series also but can't remember which one it is. Battlecry Forever is sad and Riding with the Lintons. It is not in a horse story, but when the horse Boxer is taken away in Animal Farm, that always gets me.
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Post by Buster on Feb 21, 2011 23:23:03 GMT 1
Black Beauty doesn't make me cry :? it has a happy ending! I never really cry actually, I know i'm strange, but the only book which has had me close to tears is Marley and Me. I can't really think of any others... but i'll keep trying
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Post by Claire on Feb 21, 2011 23:25:08 GMT 1
What about the bit with poor old Ginger...surely you must have a bit of a sniff at least! ;D Well they dont have to make you cry but a lump in the throat moment would qualify.
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Post by kunuma on Feb 21, 2011 23:32:19 GMT 1
It would be the ones I refuse to read again! Black Beauty Silver Brumby Whirlwind The Magic Pony Leitch
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Post by Claire on Feb 21, 2011 23:34:28 GMT 1
omg forgot all about the Magic Pony! Silver B Whirlwind is sad but in a sort of nostalgic way.
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Post by susanb on Feb 22, 2011 17:06:08 GMT 1
The Crumb by Jean Slaughter Doty....as it concerns abuses in the showing world, there's more than one opportunity to sob in this book (but I love it anyway!)
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Post by Claire on Feb 22, 2011 20:20:09 GMT 1
Some more with sad endings: The Wild White Stallion by Rene Guillot and another one set in the Carmague, The Homecoming by Marlena Frick which is a full box of hankies job! Also Kingdom For A Horse by Dorian Williams is a bit of a weepie.
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Post by Buster on Feb 23, 2011 15:26:51 GMT 1
Well yeah the Ginger bit was depressing but it says she looked peaceful! The version my Mum originally gave me had Ginger go to a nice home, so admittedly it was a shock when I read the true version!
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Post by kunuma on Feb 23, 2011 19:39:20 GMT 1
Well yeah the Ginger bit was depressing but it says she looked peaceful! The version my Mum originally gave me had Ginger go to a nice home, so admittedly it was a shock when I read the true version! WHAAAAT someone rewrote Black Beauty?? WTF?
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Post by Claire on Feb 24, 2011 0:50:27 GMT 1
Another sanitized version!!! PC gone mad. Misses the whole point of Black Beauty by doing that...so ridiculous!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2011 7:21:27 GMT 1
Well that explains why I never cried when I read it as a child, I obviously had the fluffy bunny version
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Post by susanb on Mar 20, 2011 16:58:38 GMT 1
Thought of another: Stormy, Misty's Foal by Marguerite Henry....when they're out in the boat, seeing all the ponies that drowned in the storm
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Post by Claire on Mar 23, 2011 20:30:12 GMT 1
Has anyone mentioned Lucky Purchase - sad ending!
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Post by vera on Mar 23, 2011 21:57:05 GMT 1
I cried when I read "Cobbler's Dream", I could not believe people could e so cruel. I remember crying through Rosina Copper, although I don't remember the story. Not a pony book, but Lassie Come Home had my mother fighting to take the book from me I was so upset. (I wouldn't let go, about 7 years old at the time). On Black beauty, Rowena and I watched the movie recently and were both sniffling into the tissues. Row has always had a think about "those ginger horses"; she loves chestnuts! It's definitely at the top of sad pony books for me in spite of the happy ending
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Post by fizz on Mar 24, 2011 22:01:34 GMT 1
Vera the happy ending, in fact the last sentence of the book does it for me every time!
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Post by Claire on Apr 11, 2011 11:39:14 GMT 1
Well the heat wave is over and I dont feel obliged to spend the time tidying up the gardening any more so thought I'd get some of these polls sorted, as I've got a little behind with them.
Just checking through the posts and I think the Black Beauty's family one mentioned is Black Velvet although Black Ebony has moving moments too, so I'll stick 'em both in.
Also whilst thinking about The Magic Pony I realised that the next book Ride Like the Wind is even more heartbreaking as Jinny has to make the painful decision to let the old pony go.
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