/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.13768799]

>Itt the saddes book you've ever read

I just wanna cry again, not even trying to be edgy, it's just bin a really long time since a book made me genuinely sad. Drop em bois.

[Anonymous No.13768805]

its about a dog who only wants to go fast and can't wait to die so he can be reborn as a man and that his owner can finally be free of his burden

[Anonymous No.13768821]

>>13768799
My fucking diary desu

[Anonymous No.13768825]

>>13768799
Atomism made me cry a bit desu

[Anonymous No.13768831]

Steinbeck

[Anonymous No.13768882]

Children of Hurin

[Anonymous No.13768885]

[Anonymous No.13768901]

>>13768799
The denial of death by Becker. Its not sad, it just takes a great courage to go through if.

[Anonymous No.13768914]

Idiot was quite sad

[Anonymous No.13768925]

Of Mice and Men would be a good bet if you want to cry

[Anonymous No.13769118]

The Death of a Salesman

[Anonymous No.13769134]

>>13768799
Maybe it's just because I was young, but Call of the Wild man, emotional shit

[Anonymous No.13769430]

>>13768799
>The Evenings - Gerard Reve
> anything from Kafka

[Anonymous No.13770120]

tess of the d'urbervilles

[Anonymous No.13770142]

You want to know the saddest thing I ever saw? When I was a boy, my brother and I wanted a dog, so our father took in an old greyhound. A greyhound is a racing dog. Spends its life running in circles, chasing a bit of felt made up like a rabbit. One day, we took it to the park. Our dad had warned us how fast that dog was, but... we couldn't resist. So, my brother took off the leash, and in that instant, the dog spotted a cat. I imagine it must have looked just like that piece of felt. He ran. Never saw a thing as beautiful as that old dog... running. Until, at last, he finally caught it. And to the horror of everyone, he killed that little cat. Tore it to pieces. Then he just sat there, confused. That dog had spent its whole life trying to catch that... thing. Now it had no idea what to do.

[Anonymous No.13770487]

>>13768799
Unironically the Brothers Karamazov. The chapters with the captain and Ilyusha, especially the last one, gave me some very strong feels. Also the chapter with Zosima's death and funeral a bit as well.

[Anonymous No.13770488]

Stoner made my eyes water at the end

[Anonymous No.13770500]

>>13768882
Isn't that in the silmarillion, or will i have to buy another book?

[Anonymous No.13770510]

im westen nichts neues

[Anonymous No.13771013]

for me it's madame bovary

[Anonymous No.13771075]

Voices from Chernobyl is without a doubt the saddest book I've ever read.

The Swedes couldn't help giving that shit a Nobel prize just to cheer up the writer.

[Anonymous No.13771082]

>>13771075
Only book I've ever actually cried while reading.

[Anonymous No.13771096]

Far Tortuga
Cities of the Plain
Stoner
The Things They Carried

[Anonymous No.13771109]

>>13768805
Sounds like pseud shit

[Anonymous No.13771143]

>>13770500
I think it's covered in the Silmarillion, but fleshed out in a different book
not that I would know, I've not read either yet
glad I could offer an educated answer, as per

[Anonymous No.13771145]

you are all amateurs

[Anonymous No.13771147]

The Girl I Left Behind by Shushaku Endo was pretty emotional

[Anonymous No.13771154]

>>13768799
I bet /lit/ would get thunderstruck by some Cees Nooteboome shit lol

[Anonymous No.13771251]

>Yes, I've cried reading The Last Time We Say Goodbye, do you have a problem with that?

[Anonymous No.13771268]

Something Happened was so unrelentingly depressing I couldn’t even finish it.

[Anonymous No.13771272]

>>13768821
this desune

[Anonymous No.13771275]

>>13770142
bro

[Anonymous No.13771367]

>>13768805
Holy shit I'm already sad, I like dogs but lately I've seen the ones from here as something that only traps me, you could argue that responsibilities to take care of can also mean roots, as it can trap you but can also hold your back, but the dog was abandoned by the 4 other people in this family, people just filled her food bowl once a day and sometimes they even forget, no one cared if she was clean or if she was felting cold at night, I started taking care of her everyday for months, then one day they just showed up with another dog and I told them to go fuck themselves, but they didn't and the dog is still here, I haven't cared for them for the last 6 months and only see both of them as noisy and as a burden (but now at least my sister takes care of them, in her lazy way ofc, but she does)
I'll check this book

[Anonymous No.13771490]

Maybe The Growth of Soil, specifically the chapter where Eleseus leaves for America

[Anonymous No.13771519]

>>13771490
He was a fag anyway, fuck him.

[Anonymous No.13771659]

>>13771145
Could you talk a bit about it?

[Anonymous No.13771694]

Hmm.
Never felt that sad reading a book
But maybe The Tartar Steppe

[Anonymous No.13771719]

>>13768799
voices from chernobyl

[Anonymous No.13771929]

Rereading just the poem in Pale Fire makes me cry every time.

[Anonymous No.13772034]

Horns by Joe Hill. I completely lost my shit half way through this book and cried my eyes out, then again to a lesser extent at the end.

I always thought Daddy King really understood and knew how to express just how visceral and hard growing up can be, but Jesus, Joe really cut straight to my heart with this one. I mean, having the ability to hear the inner most thoughts and dark secrets of anyone around me would be a hellscape in and of itself, but the young love/infatuation story is what put me over the edge.

[Anonymous No.13772076]

>>13771096
The Things They Carried, and its final chapter especially, always wrecks me. Definitely my favorite book on Vietnam

[Anonymous No.13772112]

>>13770142
That's some unironically good writing there, bro

[Anonymous No.13772714]

>>13769134
>mNoflgL.jpg (710 KB, 1500x2400)
Same man

[Anonymous No.13772725]

>>13770142
This is perhaps my favourite copypasta of recent times.

[Anonymous No.13772864]

>>13771659
no i can't talk about it
it's too soon. the wound is too fresh

[Anonymous No.13773053]

While not overall a sad book, the last chapter of “A Farewell To Arms” takes it from 0-100 real quick

[Anonymous No.13773081]

The fault in our Stars

[Anonymous No.13773736]

>>13772112
He didn't write it.

[Anonymous No.13774773]

>>13768901
True

[Anonymous No.13774792]

>>13770142
The first season of that show was such kino, it felt like a complete story though so I’m not going to watch any other seasons, from what I’ve heard that was probably for the best

[Anonymous No.13774958]

>>13774792
Which show is that?

[Anonymous No.13775053]

>>13774958
nevermind

[Anonymous No.13775150]

Ishiguro's staff is pretty sad in general.
Also Tartar Steppe, The Moon and the Bonfires, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Stoner, The Old Man and the Sea, Norwegian Wood, One Hundred Years of Solitude are all kinda sad.

I'd add 1984 because it was really sad to me when I read it but I was also in middle school

[Anonymous No.13775313]

>>13774958
True detective

[Anonymous No.13775348]

>>13771143
>I think it's covered in the Silmarillion, but fleshed out in a different book
that's correct

>>13768799
War & Peace really got to me a few times throughout.

[Anonymous No.13775588]

recently, Flowers for Algernon

[Anonymous No.13775995]

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. You’ll want to gouge your eyes out.

[Anonymous No.13776151]

>The Quiet Things That Noone Ever Knows
A guy has to relive the death of his loved ones.
It ends with him deciding to forgo all his memories and live a life in solitude.

[Anonymous No.13776175]

>>13774958
Westworld
Dont know why the other answers lied

[Anonymous No.13776222]

>>13772864
It has a happy ending, stop being a pussy.

[Anonymous No.13777446]

>>13771096
Agree with Cities of the Plain, that ending hit me hard

[Anonymous No.13778720]

Where The Red Fern Grows

[Anonymous No.13778848]

Plebbit answer but Flowers for Algernon had me losing it.

[Anonymous No.13779210]

>>13770487
Based, Ilyusha breaking down because his father can't challenge Mitya to a duel to regain his honor because he's not aristocratic hit hard, and the description of Alyosha falling to the ground looking up at the stars was beautiful. I never fail to start tearing up when I remember that passage where Mitya cries out to Alyosha "how am I supposed to cling to Mother earth if I don't cleave her bosom?" Such a perfect book

[Anonymous No.13779220]

The Joke by Milan Kundera hit hard