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>> No.10460929

I want to feel again

>> No.10460990

>>10460929
feeling sucks, that's why you got rid off it

>> No.10460994

>>10460926
Can books really make you feel sad? You have to read a bunch of words before you even have an idea of what's going on at which point you're already detached from the plot, in contrast with movies where they're immersive.

>> No.10461020

>>10460926
Gatsby

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>>10460926
This
>>10460994
>this is a real post on /lit/

>> No.10461174

Does anyone knows about a good sad book that feactures in a asylum?

>> No.10461187

>>10461174

"No one will see me cry" by Rivera Garza

>> No.10461189

>>10460994
If you've ever been a fan of reading, you'd know that after a while the words just start flowing into a cohesive story. In a quiet, uninterrupted reading session you can picture and process all the events in the book as well if not better than a movie.

>> No.10461216

>>10461189
Plus, one gets into the interior of the chatacters. Reading's far more intimate.

>> No.10461590

>>10461189
This is 4chan tho. The poor lad is likely Asperger as fuck and reads Walt Whitman the same way he would a vacuum instruction manual. Probably wandered in here by mistake from r9k or the anime board.

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>> No.10461599

Anything by Robert Cormier

>> No.10461623

>>10460926

Damn you OP. That story always makes me so depressed. It is not enough that the protagonist is brought up from a "mentally challenged" state, but the gradual fall kills me.

He becomes so intelligent that it separates him from the ones he felt close to at the start of the story despite their ill intentions and teasing. Then at the peak of his intellect he sees the downward fall. He understands better then any other person could his dilemma and the unavoidable decline ahead of him.

I cannot imagine enduring such a fate. Knowing with each day you could lose another concept, some understanding or some other cognitive faculty.

>> No.10461664

La damme aux camélias by Dumas son made me cry loudly. No longer human by Dazai broke my soul in very little pieces.

>> No.10461677

My diary, desu.

>> No.10461691

Atonement

>> No.10461695

>>10461083
I can second this. Sad as fuck.

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>>10460926

>> No.10462296

>>10461703
Almost all baby books make me really sad