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Please post/recommend some sad books that will make me cry. Thank you. I’ll start, this book was pretty damn sad.

>> No.23333710

>>23333701
Paul Auster's Mr. Vertigo is one of the saddest books I've read. Or perhaps a more precise descriptor would be bittersweet. Either way, it did make me cry.

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>>23333701
Unironically this

>> No.23334020

the ice palace by tarjei vesaas

>> No.23334021
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>>23334019
Is the old cover better or the new one? I kinda prefer the original honestly

>> No.23334037

>>23334019
>>23334021
This book is such trash. Amazing how he's completely and 100% wrong about every single thing he says. He's not just a little wrong, or a little off; he's inverted. It's like he knows the truth and then says the complete exact opposite. No wonder he killed himself.

>> No.23334045

Remains of the Day

>> No.23334068
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>>23333701
the only book that ever made me cry

>> No.23334079

>>23334045
i loved this book and then sent it to my mom who loved it. great gift for moms who like to read

>> No.23334084 [SPOILER] 

>>23334037
Elaborate and what fucking cover is better

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Good choice op.

>> No.23334132

>>23333701
Five people you meet in heaven. Not a great book and didn't really like it overall but the very end got me

>> No.23334239

>>23334020
Based vesaas enjoyer I thought I was the only one here

>> No.23334269

>>23333701
I read Flowers for Algernon last year and, even though I kind of knew the ending already, I still wasn't expecting to be just so damn affected by the book. I finished it early in the morning and I was seriously bummed out for the rest of the day. The 1st-person diary entry narration does a hell of a lot of work in getting you to sympathise with Charlie completely.
It looks like Keyes didn't do too much else novel-wise, which is a shame, but this is a brilliant book to be remembered for.

>> No.23334309

>>23334269
Yup the ending is obvious but the 1st person journal entries really puts you in the space of the main character and you feel it

>> No.23334316

>>23334239
I plan reading it.

>> No.23334388
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I love Steinbeck- I honestly cried after reading most of his books, then again I’m a softy. This one made me cry like a child

>> No.23334454

Stoner

>> No.23334457

I always found this story to be a guaranteed tear generator in women and some men. It’s quick, too.
https://imgur.com/a/zELh6M0

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>>23334457
fuck, bro. i could have saved her.

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>>23333701
The ending to Don Quixote after Quixano dies, gets me everytime.

https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/996

>> No.23336440

Bump for a good thread idea

>> No.23336443

>>23334388
great book

>> No.23336448

>>23333701
meh. it left me cold for the most part

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>>23333701
Not the most depressing thing I've read, but I read this last week and It made me feel pretty sad. I have a female friend who cried like a baby over the ending.

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>> No.23337828

The Tartar Steppe
It helps that I read it during a period of semi-NEEtdom

>> No.23337831

Flowers for Algernon was an interesting book. Felt very gnostic.

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>>23333701
Aeneid

>> No.23338622

>>23333701
The Road got me good.

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>Interviewed by Stacey Schmeidel for the Spring 1999 issue of Amherst Magazine, David Foster Wallace said, “The truth is I don’t think I've ever found anything as purely ‘moving’ as the end of The Velveteen Rabbit when I first read it.”

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Rohr

>> No.23338654

>>23338646
dangit
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11757/11757-h/11757-h.htm

>> No.23338705

>>23337831
Explain

>> No.23338978

>>23333701
Job made me cry. Brothers K had me nearly bawling at the end. I have kids now, and Alyosha is who I wish I was good enough to be. Good luck and God bless those with ears to hear him