/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.1102435]

Post your favorite depressing book.

[Anonymous No.1102450]

The Sorrows of Young Werther

This is the ultimate /r9k/ book

[Germanbro !4.o5TrRUK. No.1102525]

Probably Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontè or À rebours by Huysmann.
Des Esseintes depresses me with his worthless empty life which he loves so much.

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1102531]

How good is OP book?

[Anonymous No.1102538]

>>1102531
the best the best.... ect.

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1102541]

>>1102538
I'll just read something else instead...

[Anonymous No.1102641]

>>1102541
fag

[Anonymous No.1102646]

>>1102541
It's probably too deep for you brah.

[Anonymous No.1102660]

>>1102541
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!! TWO DEEP FOUR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1102667]

I just meant that the guy didn't really sell it to me. Nothing is too deep for me.

[Anonymous No.1102668]

>>1102541
2deep4u

[Anonymous No.1102671]

>>1102667

That's what she said.

[Anonymous No.1102673]

>>1102667
2deep4u

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1102676]

you're just mad because i'm reading his opus which you find to difficult

[Anonymous No.1102681]

The Great Gatsby

[Anonymous No.1102689]

1984

[Anonymous No.1102690]

Le Feu Follet or No Longer Human or A Fine Balance

[Anonymous No.1102699]

>>1102676
>you're just mad because i'm reading his opus which you find to difficult
>i'm reading his opus which you find to difficult
>which you find to difficult
>to difficult
>to

definitely 2deep4u

[Anonymous No.1102701]

Well, I just finished reading " Heart of Darkness " - which I found to be pretty good. But, probably not my favorite. I dunno. I am a sucker for happy endings, really.

On a side-note, though - having also just finished playing "Red Dead Redemption" -
had anyone else noticed how much of a tribute the whole hunt for Dutch van der Linde is to the journey up the river to find Kurtz ?

[Anonymous No.1102709]

Something Happened was so depressing, I had to stop reading it. I couldn't bring myself to finish the last quarter or so because it was too god damn depressing.

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1102717]

>>1102699
>doesn't get the reference
>no wonder he struggles with most Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.1102723]

>>1102717
>implying i struggle with entry level authors such as Dostoevsky
Fucking plebeians, how do they work?

[TyBrax !WvWWh.l.CE No.1102733]

>>1102723
>entry-level
>greatest prose writer of all times
Get Out.

[Anonymous No.1102743]

>>1102733
>gets confused by entry level authors
>thinks he is deep

[Sw✡ rdy of /sci/ !3NDAYfT0Yk No.1102752]

>>1102435
notes is not depressing. its hilarious. i couldnt stop laughing through part 1

[oreo !!peQoYBwPn7U No.1102760]

>>1102667

[Anonymous No.1102803]

[Anonymous No.1102822]

Satan: His Psychotherapy and Cure by the Unfortunate Dr. Kassler.

I did not enjoy reading this book at all. It's just 500 pages of bad things happening to a poor man. The person that recommended it to me, as well as all the jerk-offs on the back-cover, assured me that this was supposed to be a masterfully written book that drags you through misery and keeps stringing you along with it's dark humor. I found no dark humor. Just the fictional and depressing life of the main character.

Can't help but feel like it went over my head. Although I'm fairly certain it didn't and it's just not a very enjoyable book.

[Anonymous No.1102853]

While not the most depressing book ever, the stories within made me long for sunshine and puppies.
Every story is about sad and depressed people, and nothing good happens to them. The worst thing, imo, is the lack of any resolution for any of the characters - you're just witness to their sad existence. There's no central conflict, no sense of conclusion, no lesson - just misery.

It is a good book, however, and the writing is great. A touch of dark humor makes it worth reading, but you have to be able to laugh at sad people.

[Anonymous No.1103280]

Les fleurs du mal : Charles Baudelaire.