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Looking for a good and depressingly sad title that will leave me fucked for a while. Be forewarned that I'm pretty resilient, so please no "Bridge to Terabithia." I'm talking depressing and devastating here.

>> No.3502259

Bump for great interest.

>> No.3502263

>>3502257

I'm not suggesting that I've read any of those books. Actually, the only one I've read is "Of Mice and Men."

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>> No.3502275

So I don't get this, stop me if this is incorrect:

You wanted to read some depressing literature.
You came to /lit/ to get a recommendation for depressing literature.
You saw at the top of the board that there is a wiki with /lit/ recommendations, which is there so people don't make recommendation threads all the time because this board get flooded with them and they are stupid.
You found /lit/'s recommended depressing literature chart, which is exactly what you were looking for.

Yet you still made a thread asking for /lit/'s recommendations for depressing literature, and the nerve to use /lit/'s recommendations for depressing literature as your image?

What the fuck is wrong with you?

>> No.3503896

>>3502275

I prefer live feeds of information. Ban me.

>> No.3503907

>>3503896
..Also, I'm seeking to find the personal preferences of the people on THIS board. If someone has a problem with that then just move on, or sage.

>> No.3503917

I liked The Road. Definitely blew me away more so than a lot of other books I've read.

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>>3503907
Try the Plague, it's a book where you will guess the ending from the beginning of the book, then spend the entire book reading it and thinking "It's not going to happen, no, everything will be fine, it couldn't possibly end that way".

>> No.3503937

A Farewell to Arms was pretty sad.

>> No.3503955

>>3502275

Besides, and if this is just me, fuck it. I find that wiki unbelievably stressful to use.

>> No.3503964

>>3503955
How on earth is using a wiki stressful?

>> No.3503965

>>3503964

That one is. It just shows me the books. I want reviews, accounts, experiences.

>> No.3503971

>>3503965

For reviews use Amazon and Goodreads.

>> No.3503975

>>3503971

But I want to hear from YOU guys.

>> No.3504003

>>3503975

In that case read The Tartar Steppe.
On the Marble Cliffs is also excellent but I don't know what it's doing on that chart. It has a very melancholy atmosphere but I didn't find it at all depressing.

>> No.3504038

>>3503937
How does this compare to The Sun Also Rises? I liked Hemingway's writing style but was otherwise underwhelmed by the story...

>> No.3504069

No Longer Human
Book of Disquiet
On the Heights of Despair

Those are the ones I would recommend out of what I've read on that wiki.

>> No.3504089

The Book of Disquiet and The Tunnel are not depressing books. That ridiculous.

>> No.3504099

the woman destroyed by simone de beauvoir

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>>3503937
>mfw the last chapter

>> No.3504170

Essays and Aphorisms by Schopenhauer

Easy to read. Won't leave you sad, more apathetic and nihilistic.

>> No.3504213 [DELETED] 

>>3504138
>Wife Dies
>Child Dies
>Hope Dies
>Chivalry Dies

Man...

>> No.3504221

>>3504213
>complains about chivalry dying.
>Spoils the book for people who haven't read it.

Fuck you man.

>> No.3504435

>>3504038
Reading for the story. Oh man.

>> No.3504438

Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

>> No.3504507

Doomsday Book by Connie Willis. Depressed the fuck out of me.