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What makes a book sad?

It has to be more than "and then bad stuff happened", so what is it that touches you and makes you feel for the characters?

>> No.3385613

when the writing is good enough to make you feel the way the characters do

>> No.3385622

A book is sad when it's so bad that you become sad over what its popularity indicates.

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>> No.3385710

>>3385609
>What makes a book sad?

When the character(s) in the book are fleshed-out enough that when they feel grief and sorrow you genuinely feel sorry for them and understand why they feel as they do.