/lit/ - Literature

Gary Paulsens Hatchet/The sequel Brians Winter.

Why: Amazing book about a boys survival after the pilot of the plane has a heart attack and crashes in a really remote place.

>>1800480
Ah... Hatchet. Started me off on a lifelong love of survival fiction.

The Thief Lord

Why: It's a book about a bunch runaways who survive in Venice Italy by stealing. Has some crazy twists and turns.

>>1800489
Image.

A Dogs Life by Ann Martin

Why? It's about the life of a dog, it's very sad and at the same time hard to describe.

where the red fern grows
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>>1800503
this, fucking this

>>1800487
Survial fiction is a great genre.
It's always amazing to see that we can survive even the most difficult situations, and make somthing out of nothing.

Anyone going to post some sad books as was intended?

>>1800512
Yeah, OK, it seems like everything I read is sad.

1. All the Pretty Horses
2. The Crossing
3. Cities of the Plain
4. Swann's Way
5. Unbearable Lightness of Being
6. Infinite Jest

>>1800503
A great book.
Old Dan is bad ass.

>>1800520
IJ is sad?

>>1800557
Unbearably sad. The familial dysfunction. The parts where Mario wanders the grounds at night, worrying about the Moms worrying about him. The boy who won every tournament by holding a loaded Glock to his head.

Man, I'm getting fucking depressed, even as tears of laughter stream down my face, reading this book.

>>1800503
This. Also, see pic.

>>1800557
Infinite Jest was very very sad

>>1800582
South of the Border, West of the Sun and Sputnik Sweetheart were fucking heartbreaking as well.

>>1800598
Haven't read South of the Border, West of the Sun yet but I'd have to agree with Norwegian Wood and Sputnik Sweetheart both being sad as fuckshit. Silly Watanabe.. She never loved you T_T

>>1800565
OP here. I'm a two time suicide survivor (I was pronounced dead during my first attempt).

I lost my older brother to a wide assortment of drugs. I was the one who found him dead, laying on our floor.
I was 15, he was 19.

My father was a drunk, enough said.
My mother was OCD, and cleaned constantly. And forced me to clean, and I would clean for hours at a time. She would (On average) make me clean a room about 5 or 6 times over. It was never clean or good enough for her.

I have a interest with death and I like to read about how fucked up other peoples lives are and how they dealt or didn't deal with it.

When I read sad books I can relate to it helps me understand the way of things. And helps me piece together thoughts and memorys. I hope to wright a book detailing my life one day.

If you think I'm trolling well that's your problem.

>>1800582
So is the movie worth watching?

>>1800639
The movie was decent. I honestly prefer the book because it goes a lot more in-depth with certain characters. If you're a fan of the book I'd say the movie is worth the watch. If not, it's so-so.

>>1800636
You left me bewildered by your post for a second, but I gotcha now. ;)

I, too, found members of my family, dead from suicides, on the floor of my living room. I still don't understand how they managed to microwave their own heads. At the same time.

>>1800639
The movie was good. Although I thought they could have explained Reiko's story much better. They don't really go into her character in the movie at all. Which bothered me seeing as I felt she was quite important to the story.

>>1800650
Op here. Wow, all at the same time?
Now, how might that work?

Also, >>1800636 I forgot to put a comma here, "When I read sad books I can relate to, it helps"

I have enough to talk about that I could write a good sized book (Around 195-250 pages, maybe more). I have the gift and the curse of being able to photographically remember every thing I have ever seen, so recollection is not the problem, but rather presenting it in a powerful format that still is exactly as I saw and heard.

>>1800472
why is chewbacca riding a squirrel and running over nazis

>>1800739
Why isn't Chewbacca riding a squirrel and running over Nazis?

PROVE ME WRONG

Odd Thomas

i'd tell you why but it would spoil it.

Goodnight Mr. Tom. I read it in grade 6.
It made me so upset that I barely read another book until I left school.

>>1800636
well you should read Odd Thomas friend, by Dean Koontz. the guy is the master of sad/suspenseful books. or The Good Guy.

>>1800472
Making that pic related and saying Star Wars: Vector Prime.

Chewbacca gets crushed by a moon. I cried bitch tears.

It's an obvious choice.
I wouldn't say it's the saddest book I've read, but it's up there.

Anything by Augusten Burroughs is sad.
Read A Wolf at the Table.

>>1800919
>Anything by Augusten Burroughs is bad.

Fix'd.

>>1800472

The obvious and kind of cheesy answer would be Atonement.

My personal favorite would be The Painted Veil

>>1800924
Haha good one. Well I like them other than that he tries to add elements of humor where they don't belong.

A Wolf at the Table is his best work, >>1800919
All the others are not as raw.

>>1800795
It kind of irritated me. Maybe it was because I read it for class so it lost all personal value.

I bawled my eyes out when the older hillbilly brother died in Where The Red Fern Grows from falling on the axe. It bothered me. I was also in fifth grade...but still.

Hey Op,

I can suggest two sad books. One is John Irving's A Prayer for Owen Meany, which is heartbreaking, but amazing at the same time. A guy devotes his entire life to a friend from his past.

The second book was written by a friend of mine, Ben Drevlow It's called: Bend with the Knees and Other Love Advice from My Father. The book is a series of short stories collected with a reoccurring theme of memory manipulation/alteration. He recounts his brother's suicide but can't recall his place in time or where it happened or how. The book is labeled fiction, but it is nonfiction, mostly.

Hope these help. Cheers.

I cried many manly tears in 4th grade, OP,

One of the Redwall books was also extremely heartbreaking.

Not the saddest book, but the battle of Borodino in War and Peace. [Spoiler] The description up to the battle, the wounding and later death of Prince Andrei and the amputation of Anatole's leg really got to me.

I usually avoid sad books or movies, so my meek answer is A Confederacy of Dunces. Funny as it goes, but thinking about Ignatius' life depresses me. Lives with his mother, morbidly obese, has an absolutely worthless life, masturbates to childhood memories of his dead dog, gets an erection from being physically touched because he never meets other people, his mother is a miserable alcoholic because of his failed life, fuck.

>>1801729
Yes... :(

mosquito coast, this book made me feel horrible. it was good near the beginning but just tore down