/lit/ - Literature

East of Eden
Remains of the Day
Unbearable Lightness of Being

>>763608
I didn't find Unbearable Lightness of Being to be depressing.

>Remains of the Day

shit....i forgot all about that one. Yeah...if you can read that without all your hopes and dreams shitting the bed, then....ummm....well that wont happen.

>>763608
Never read Remains of the Day, but I found Never Let Me Go to be pretty depressing.

The Girl Next Door

This.

>>763764
shit yes.
he builds it up so you think all the characters will live happily ever after and then they all just get fucked.

>>763775
Yeah, but whatever you do, don't ruin the ending for anyone! ...you bastard.

>>763781
If it's posted in a thread about incredibly depressing books, I think they can figure it out that the ending's not very happy.
My post was no more of a spoiler than your image.

A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley

>>763783
There are a myriad ways a book can be depressing.

>>763787
Protip: "There are myriad ways a book can be depressing" or "There is a myriad of ways a book can be depressing."

>>763796

>>763802
I'm just improving /lit/'s vocabulary, one word at a time. Welcome to /lit/, new fag.

Recent criticism of the use of myriad as a noun, both in the plural form myriads and in the phrase a myriad of, seems to reflect a mistaken belief that the word was originally and is still properly only an adjective.... however, the noun is in fact the older form, dating to the 16th century.

>>763815
<vocabulary

lawl, i think you mean grammar, lawl.

>>763815
>vocabulary

lawl, i think you mean grammar.

>>763825
If you want to use myriad as a noun, you must say "a myriad of." If you want to use it as an adjective, you must say "myriad." Do not ever say "a myriad."

>>763825

>>763815
>new fag

Yes, the joys of being anonymous. You have no clue who the newfag really is.

For your enjoyment, a picture of a Grammar Nazi.

The Trouble With Being Born

>>763859
Cioran is depressing and cynical, but he's also humoristic and quite deadpan.