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Where the Red Fern Grows
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:51 am
Posted on 7/25/25 at 11:51 am
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Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:03 pm to travelgamer
I read the book when I was 9 or so and home sick for a day… I could not stop crying. Did not help with feeling ill. Was still a great read, remembered to this day.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:14 pm to travelgamer
Saw it at the theater in Vicksburg when I was 15. Went to summer school at All Saints Episcopal School that summer. They took all of the kids in summer school to see it. Probably 30-35 students, some priests and the dorm counselors. As the movie ended, the theater turned the lights on.too quickly and I got caught wiping tears from my eyes. Some of the guys laughed, but the hottest chick enrolled that summer ate it up.
Even though it helped with a relationship, If I met the manager of the theater today, I 'd still let him know his employees should leave the lights down thru the credits of a tearjerker like that. It breaks me up still.
Even though it helped with a relationship, If I met the manager of the theater today, I 'd still let him know his employees should leave the lights down thru the credits of a tearjerker like that. It breaks me up still.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:18 pm to travelgamer
A sweet book and movie that young people today would have a hard time fathoming the poverty and life back then.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:19 pm to travelgamer
That and old yeller-
Posted on 7/25/25 at 12:22 pm to travelgamer
Don't think I ever saw the movie. Fantastic book though, reminded me of stories my grandad would tell about growing up in the country. I always thought it was the better "dog dying" book over Old Yeller.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 1:39 pm to nes2010
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"dog dying" book
...not my favorite genre.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 1:48 pm to drizztiger
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I read the book when I was 9 or so and home sick for a day… I could not stop crying. Did not help with feeling ill. Was still a great read, remembered to this day.
We read it in school in the 5th grade. I took my childhood desk with me from home to law school. I found my copy of Where the Red Fern Grows in the desk all highlighted with notes in the margins. Others brought laptops and surfed the net during class. I handwrote my notes, so I would put Where the Red Fern Grows (also other books from grade school I found like Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH) inside my legal texts and read it while pretending to keep up with class
Posted on 7/25/25 at 2:05 pm to travelgamer
This movie was watched a lot as a kid.
We read the book, probably in 3rd grade.
I think we taped the movie from TV in the early 80s.
My sisters had "A Bridge to Terabithia"; boys had Where the Red Fern Grows.
We read the book, probably in 3rd grade.
I think we taped the movie from TV in the early 80s.
My sisters had "A Bridge to Terabithia"; boys had Where the Red Fern Grows.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 3:04 pm to travelgamer
Watched it as a kid can't watch again. Just can't.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 3:15 pm to travelgamer
Watched it when I was in elementary school. think I was in around 2nd grade in 1979/80. The librarian wheeled out the film projector with the canasters of film. A bunch of us were crying.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 3:53 pm to drizztiger
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I read the book when I was 9 or so and home sick for a day… I could not stop crying. Did not help with feeling ill. Was still a great read, remembered to this day.
The teacher read it to us in class in elementary school. Maybe the 4th or 5th grade. The whole class, including the teacher, were bawling.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 4:53 pm to travelgamer
Had to read it as summer reading in like 5th grade. Will always remember it because it’s the only time a book made me cry.
Posted on 7/25/25 at 5:03 pm to travelgamer
Never knew it was a movie. Read the book as a kid.
Old Dan and Little Ann. Sad story. This and Old Yeller.
Can't decide which was sadder. Old Yeller getting Rabbies and needing to be put down by the boy who loved him. Or Old Dan saving Billy from the cougar and then drying from injuries and then his sister dying of sadness. Both are total downers that make you want to hold your dog and cry.
Old Dan and Little Ann. Sad story. This and Old Yeller.
Can't decide which was sadder. Old Yeller getting Rabbies and needing to be put down by the boy who loved him. Or Old Dan saving Billy from the cougar and then drying from injuries and then his sister dying of sadness. Both are total downers that make you want to hold your dog and cry.
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 5:08 pm
Posted on 7/25/25 at 7:57 pm to mizzoubuckeyeiowa
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A Bridge to Terabithia
When I watched this I had no idea what was going to happen. It tore me up.
Tubi link to movie
This post was edited on 7/25/25 at 8:10 pm
Posted on 7/25/25 at 8:45 pm to travelgamer
From middle school through high school, every summer I would read Where The Red Fern Grows and The Lord of the Rings.
I’d cry every damn time those two dogs died.
frick.
Just typing that makes me feel a kinda way.
I’d cry every damn time those two dogs died.
frick.
Just typing that makes me feel a kinda way.
Posted on 7/30/25 at 6:13 am to chinese58
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As the movie ended, the theater turned the lights on.too quickly and I got caught wiping tears from my eyes. Some of the guys laughed,
They must’ve grown up to be serial killers if they didn’t shed a tear at that movie.
Posted on 7/30/25 at 4:32 pm to SOLA
I read the book when I was 10 or 11 and I cried my arse off.
Posted on 7/30/25 at 4:53 pm to drizztiger
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I read the book when I was 9 or so and home sick for a day… I could not stop crying.
I cried too.
Posted on 7/30/25 at 4:53 pm to travelgamer
frick you Jack Hayes school; they loaded up all us naive second-graders and took us to Eastgate cinema to watch it.
even the class bully was teary eyed when we got out of that one.
even the class bully was teary eyed when we got out of that one.
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