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and i can only remember crying at a book once in recent memory, and i had pulled myself together by the end.

"And they all lived happily ever after"

I've never ever cried at a book. I welled up when Blackburn Rovers beat Spurs (I think) in the Rumbelows Cup a few years back. I'm not even a Rovers fan.

I've never really got passed the lump-in-throat stage. The last thing I read (and coincidentally the last film I saw) where I really didn't want to leave the characters behind was Let The Right One In.

I spent basically the whole program welling up and then walking into the kitchen to calm down. then coming back only to get up again 5 minutes later! For some reason it was just profoundly moving

Aw...

If I was you I probably would have reacted in a similar way to the ending of His Dark Materials. As it is, I just went and got something to eat while fantasising about riding an armoured bear.

When I finished The Dark Tower books, I laughed for about 45 minutes though. Best ending ever.

The Bible was just too funny.

Sometimes there's been moments that are so shocking, so powerful or so moving that I feel like all the air has been robbed of my lungs and I'm hanging in a state of catatonic shock, unable to turn the page/look away from the screen, or that the only physical reaction I can muster is a brief, stoic nod like the fat black guy in Prince's video for 'Purple Rain'. But that's it.

I guess the last time I felt like that was when I was reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Dobby died. I was completely stunned when it was revealed the wee guy got a knife to the chest and just stared at the page for a while, then when Harry was digging his grave I gave a stoic nod and thought "You know, Harry, you're not that big a cunt after all".

quite annoying with books though when you cant see the page for tears.

longest ive ever spend crying is probably well over an hour, actually, i think i remember crying myself to sleep a few times over books or movies. usually true stories.

but I was unable to speak for about an hour after reading The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas.

but the first time I'd cried in 3 years was watching the last ever episode of Six Feet Under. It's just the best ending to anything I've ever seen. but I've never cried at a book.

has me blubbing like a baby every time.
Books rarely make me sob, normally just shed a tear then move on but that and possibly Time Traveller's Wife got to me.
And as for poems; A Marriage by R S Thomas.

The book was about this friendly wolf. I was 11. I was gay.

read it when I was about 10, depressed me for about a week

when Christian Bale died in Harsh Times, but that is an acting master-class. Didn't cry though, never cried at a film or a book.

about 7 hours of absolute constant crying, and a two or three of weeks of at least a couple of hours a day.

Quite a few manga series have resulted in a few hours. ASoIaF has made me cry a lot, and probably gets the most hours, though nearly all the crying is due to frustration.

And the film Grave of the Fireflies made me cry for at least five minutes.

but I was in public so I soon pulled myself together. This doesn't often happen, but that book is such an odd, strange journey - and even more so in the context of its strange history and posthumous publishing.

Hopefully anyone who's read it will know what I mean.

The yellow flowers bit in One Hundred Years of Solitude is probably the most affecting thing out of all the things I've read, but even that didn't get the tear-ducts going. I have cried at a poem though. 'Pigtail' by Tadeusz Ròzewicz. That one had me shedding a tear or two.

the last book that made me tear up was Cormac McCarthy's The Road.

the Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection. I don't know how to explain this though.

I think I probably cried the longest after Catch-22, but it wasn't a huge cry. The biggest cry I've had at a book was in the middle of Catch-22, or possibly the last HP.

made me sob my heart out at the end. my whol family came into the living room to find me in floods of tears. then i read the epiloge and it annoyed me soo much. the book would have been better without it.

but in a massively little-frilly-girlish turn of events, the penultimate bit of Jude The Obscure in the old church had me a bit soppy.

When I got totally upset over the ending of Silent Running.

Cripes...

The Brothers Karamzov made me well up quite a lot. Specifically the denouement of Iluysha and the sympathy of calling a child an "old fellow".

probably a different sort of 'upset' to what you're describing though. Nearly cried reading The Time Of Our Singing by Richard Powers, and The Road inevitably too.

came pretty close.

Sad stuff.

i didnt feel anything for 'the road' it was a good book. just didnt feel that emotionally attached.
I think the last time i cried at a film was Lion King when the dad dies.