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What are some of the most depressing books you have ever read?

>> No.3990585

>>3990583
The Bible

>> No.3990591
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A Short History of Nearly Everything

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Johnny Got His Gun.

>> No.3990616

Stoner.

>> No.3990630

crime and punishment

>> No.3990856

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy

>> No.3990869

the blind owl

>> No.3990880

Last Exit to Brooklyn

>> No.3991195

The Mayor of Casterbridge

>> No.3991197

>>3991195

Good recommendation.

>> No.3991198

>>3991195
i've only read three thomas hardy novels and they were all depressing.

>> No.3991200

Honestly, A Million Little Pieces.
That Oprah scandal book.

>> No.3991206

>>3991198

That's the way he works.

A lot of his work tends to cover social themes, he doesn't like to shy away from them or make them see less harsh. Will paint the world as bleak as it needs to be.

>> No.3991250

>>3990583
South of the Border, West of the Sun was pretty much depressing for me, if you read it in a certain point of your life, that's it.

>> No.3991277

>>3991198
I just read Return of the Native. I was reading Jude the Obscure, but my mother threw away all my literature while I was out drinking because she had some ideas that I was being corrupted. She then gave me a copy of the bible. I decided to go sleep on the street for a couple of days to get over the anger.

Anyway, it seems Hardy has a thing for cousin fucking.

>> No.3991279

1984.

Never shall I pick up that book again.

>> No.3991283

Hunger by Knut Hamsun

>> No.3991306

>>3991279
so many feels

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>>3990583

>> No.3991311

>>3991200
That shitty gimmicky prose depressed me as well. Would rather give Palahniuk a Nobel prize than piss on James Frey if he was on fire.

>> No.3991344

>>3990616

Finished Stoner and thought, I just read my life, why bother living the rest of it out

>> No.3992801

Bumping

>> No.3992835

>>3990880
This. No book has affected me like that one.

>> No.3992844

A Peoples History of the United States

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>> No.3992898

>>3990616
This. Stoner is pretty much feels: the book.