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Great topic, Krista. I'm a bit slow on the uptake, but "The Holographic Universe" is a book that's inspired me lately.

I don't remember which was my first cry, actually. I remember crying in high school to, "Speak"- and my last good cry was reading "The Book Thief"

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Santos: Lucky was disturbing for me, I tried to start it in high school, maybe when I was fourteen or fifteen. It definitely jarred me and I never finished it. Perhaps now I can pick it up again.

Danielle: Steve Martin?! I'll add it to my list.

Nuke: The Kite Runner is already on my list, but you've definitely put a spark in me to read it sooner rather than later. (As well as A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Zahir.)

Robert Penn Warren also said, "History cannot give us a program for the future, but it can give us a fuller understanding of ourselves, and of our common humanity, so that we can better face the future."

I agree with both Warren and Twain in that it seems too simplistic. Obviously, logically, history isn't repeating itself. The same events aren't happening over and over. But some similar events do happen. And if we look at the past and study ourselves as human beings, we're bound to run into the same sort of problems we had in the past in our future. It would be great to learn from our past- and some of us do- but people in large groups tend to be stupid. They tend to follow authority and forget the past. They get swept up. Trying to get a whole nation, a whole world, to remember and cherish a past in which sometimes they weren't apart of is hard.

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There are several different types of books that "move" us, ones that inspire, surprise, and generally leave us feeling something afterwards.

I'm looking for books that move you to tears.

Any suggestions anyone?