Saddest Moment in a Published Work--Nominations Closed

[Jean]

I nominated a moment that's not shown.

I am sorry love, this list really was a tricky sonofabitch, - I was going to comb the thread another time, though, in case I had missed something. I am very grateful for this nomination, and third it - I love The Tommyknockers and that particular moment was really heartbreaking.

I will update the list Monday morning, keep nominating and seconding! In the end, nothing will be left unheeded.

Is anyone going to nominate anything from Blaze? I'd second it...

[ksmithcats]

Spoiler from DT-7: The Dark Tower...

Spoiler:

Oy's reaction at Jake's graveside.

If that doesn't make you cry, check yourself for a "Made by North Central Positronics" seal because you are a robot.

I think I "fourth" this one. I cried so hard I was violently ill.

oops...how did I miss page three? I "sixth" this one.

(oh, and I'll cast a side vote for the one by Woofer...those characters kill me)

[Woofer]

I nominated a moment that's not shown.

I am sorry love, this list really was a tricky sonofabitch, - I was going to comb the thread another time, though, in case I had missed something. I am very grateful for this nomination, and third it - I love The Tommyknockers and that particular moment was really heartbreaking.

I will update the list Monday morning, keep nominating and seconding! In the end, nothing will be left unheeded.

Is anyone going to nominate anything from Blaze? I'd second it...

Thankee sai. I have no doubt that it was a real pain to juggle and that you didn't mean to omit mine. I think it originally got lost in the shuffle of the thread because nobody even seconded it before and there are a lot of very caring people here at tdt.com.

Spoiler from DT-7: The Dark Tower...

Spoiler:

Oy's reaction at Jake's graveside.

If that doesn't make you cry, check yourself for a "Made by North Central Positronics" seal because you are a robot.

I think I "fourth" this one. I cried so hard I was violently ill.

oops...how did I miss page three? I "sixth" this one.

(oh, and I'll cast a side vote for the one by Woofer...those characters kill me)

Don't they just? Thankee.

[John Blaze]

I don't know if this has been put up, but I doubt it.

Bridge to Terabithia, when he gets back home from the museum, all the way until he throws his paints in the stream and his dad talks to him.

That has got to be the single saddest moment in literary history, at least in my eyes.

I hope you guys have read this, and if not I gave away no plot points.

[jayson]

That does sound sad JB, but I think it's for King works only.

[Girlystevedave]

I'm surprised it hasn't been nominated, but from DT7...

Spoiler:

when Eddie dies

[Jean]

Already nominated:

DT7

Oy's reaction at Jake's graveside.

6

DT 7

When Oy died.

5

DT 7

Jake's death

3

DT 7

when Eddie dies

1

Wizard and Glass

When Olive Thorin snuck into her sleeping husband's room to lay down with him a while then snuck out before he woke up.

6

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Apt Pupil

Todd climbing the water tower with a high-powered rifle

1

Bag of Bones

Mattie being killed

3

Black House

The death of Henry Leyden

3

The Body

Chris Chambers' death

3

Carrie

When Carrie dies

1

Cell

when alice was killed by a rock to the head.

1

Cujo

when Tad dies

3

Duma Key

"Now I would just sit here by myself on the sand, and look out at the Gulf, and think about my daughter, Ilse Marie Freemantle, who had weighed six pounds and four ounces at birth, whose first word had been dog, who had once brought home a large brown balloon crayoned on a piece of construction paper, shouting exultantly, "I drawed a pitcher of you, Daddy!"
Ilse Marie Freemantle.
I remember her well."

3

The Green Mile

Death of Mr. Jingles.

4

The Green Mile

When John Coffy was killed

4

It

the last chapters/pages of IT when everybody is forgetting again.

6

It

Eddie's death, and Richie saying they couldn't leave him there, he is afraid of the dark

3

Lisey's Story

Scott Landon's back story about his father and brother

3

Pet Semetary

Gage being struck and killed

3

'Salem's Lot

when Ben kills Susan

1

The Stand

Judge Farris's killing during the final attempt at infiltrating Flagg's camp in Las Vegas.

1

Storm of the Century

when all the townspeople voted to give Andre Linoge what he wanted except for the sherrif

1

The Talisman

When Wolf dies

4

The Tommyknockers

When Gard sees Peter (the beagle) hooked up like a battery in Bobbi's shed.

4

[bluelph24]

i would like to sixth the It saddest scene. that scene, because of the buildup to it, nearly makes me weep every time i read it. i've read the book a handful of times and wish that that scene were different everytime. it is because of that ending that i went on to read everything else sk wrote. i sixth IT, definitly

[B Rag]

I third the Cujo scene.

[Aaron]

Nominations for this category close later today.