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1286233 No.1286233 [Reply] [Original]

What's the saddest book or short story you've ever read?

>> No.1286250

There was something I read in grade school about an old man who picks up a piece of string and because of that is thought to have robbed a prince or someone (who dropped a coin). It broke my cheap ass heart.

>> No.1286259

>>1286250
lolwat

>> No.1286260

http://www.authorama.com/a-dogs-tale-1.html

>> No.1286262

>>1286250

That's De Maupassant. What do I win?

>> No.1286266

Flowers for Algernon
For Whom the Bells Toll
Sorrows of Young Werther

>> No.1286272

>>1286259
I found it:
http://www.classicshorts.com/stories/string.html
The guy dies at the end, because he was a cheap proud ass. My summary sucked but what do you expect for something I read 20 years ago.

>> No.1286277

>>1286272

As I said. I probably should have given the story name though. Fuck am I drukn.

>> No.1286301

As I Lay Dying

>> No.1286321

Indictments on Life by Steven Miserez

>> No.1286324
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>>1286321
Now that I look at that name it was probably a nom de plume, but he was a cop, so whatever.

>> No.1286367

a christmas memory by capote

>> No.1286404

That's a tough one. 'Sadness' becomes somewhat tempered when it is mixed with growth, redemtion, etc. ala Grapes of Wrath - Steinbeck, Their Eyes were Watching God - Zora Neal Hurston, The Road - Cormac McCarthy.

I'll go with The Legend of Huma by Richard A. Knaak.
its cheesy fantasy but that knight and dragon sacrificing themselves, well, it was my first taste of tragedy when i was younger, and it always made me cry.

>> No.1286452

agree with the legend of huma

>> No.1286453

the scarlet ibis, james hurst