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Which books have made you feel depressed?

>> No.5021071

>>5021056
taipei by tao lin... it bored me into feeling depressed

no but actually the bell jar by sylvia plath

>> No.5021120

They say "The Stranger" will give you a crisis and you'll realize the meaninglessness of life. Well, Pessoa gave me the strongest crisis I've ever had. Everything was, not only meaningless, but "lesser" than if it stayed inside the brain. The depression lasted for months. But even when he hurt me so much he's my favorite writer.

>> No.5021125

I cried at the end of Fahrenheit 451. I don't remember why.

>> No.5021132

>>5021120
>They say "The Stranger" will give you a crisis and you'll realize the meaninglessness of life.

>people think The Stranger is depressing

If reading The Stranger isn't an overall uplifting experience, then you're reading it wrong.

>> No.5021137

>>5021071
female PMS makes you feel depressed?

>> No.5021148

>>5021132
True, true.

>> No.5021230

>>5021120
The Stranger was indifferent to me, I don't know why people like this book so much (probably because they don't read enough).

>> No.5021272

I found The Stranger dull and The Bell Jar whiny. I've never become "depressed" by literature but I remember the last several hundred pages (when Hal is introspecting) of Infinite Jest being a more-emotional-than-usual experience for me. I also found The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, both by John Fowles, to be emotionally rich, but not depressing.

>> No.5021326

"Silk" by Alessandro Baricco. At the very end. I won't spoil you the ending, of course, but holy shit... There's a knot in my throat as I type this. It was right before his eyes the whole time, goddammit!

>> No.5021342

The Process was sad because they killed him without any reason.

>> No.5021348

>>5021071
>tfw Taipei actually did depress me because that faggot was doing cool shit all the time with his m8s, whereas all my m8s are boring straightedge faglords

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>>5021342
>The Process
I meant The Trial. By Kafka. This book is called El Proceso in Spanish.

>> No.5021358

>>5021348
I'm sad because I wish I had some drugs right now.

>> No.5021451

>>5021230
>>5021132
didn't really find the stranger/outsider that magnificent either. It's a nice thought, very easily transferred to the reader - but I found the narrative very dull, and rather unimaginative. Spoon feeding the reader with a very blunt prose. I suppose the thought was to reflect his monotony and indifference, and the overall absurd, but it gets unnecessarily tedious. Especially with the very conservative narrative.

>> No.5022895

I think just about every novel I've read has made me at least a little depressed.

>> No.5023274

>>5021120
This.
I took months to recover after the Book of Disquiet. A beautiful and devastating masterpiece.

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>book

>> No.5023341

>>5023338
After the pottery class incident, where it was suddenly established that brutal violence can be part of the story, everything else felt kind of... "unrealistic", I suppose. I felt that since something as obviously dramatic as that can happen, nothing else would be surprising.

>> No.5023349

>>5023341
I never paid much notice to that to be honest.
Although it has its themes, I just related to the journey that Punpun went through. It was far too depressing and relatable at the same time for me.

>> No.5023357

the bible

It makes me feel sad to see that some morons actually believe this bullshit.

>> No.5023363

I read "1984" when I was 10, that was pretty depressing.

Other than that, I've only felt really depressed by a book a few times, and all of them were non-fiction. I remember Jung Chang's biography of Mao to be particularly infuriating, in a depressing way.

>> No.5023367

>>5023357
People are going to tip their fedora to you, but you are completely right.
Someone get that quote that everyone posts about game of thrones and reading bad things as a waste of time.

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>> No.5023390

>>5023371
does it involve her first fuck?

>> No.5023392

>>5023371
BRIGHT AND BUBBLY

>> No.5023437

>>5023357
I'm depressed by the bible because I wanted it to be true. I was lied to my whole life then profoundly dissapointed.

Novels like great expectations and the gambler depress me because I hate seeing people ruin their lives. An unfinished story by mark twain called Refuge of the Derelicts practically makes you want to kill yourself