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/lit/, I've been reading this, and I'm around halfway through (they just found the underground bunker with all the food and shit, which was a wonderful break.)
And oh God, it some of the most soul-crushingly depressing shit I've ever read. I can't even quite pinpoint why, but it just makes me wanna ball up in the corner and wimper.

How did /lit/ feel about this book?
Also itt more soul crushing literature.

>> No.573600

>>573584
I agree. I was sobbing like a bitch by the end.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close was also pretty damn depressing, and is the only other book I can think of that moved me to tears so easily.

>> No.573605

>>573584
I enjoyed it as it reminded me of Fallout 3.
Soul crushing literature? Of Mice and Men, One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest, perhaps Nineteen Eighty-four, Perhaps Things Fall Apart, Kaffir Boy.

>> No.573616

>>573605
I just read 1984, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, & The Road in that order this month. :(

>> No.573620

>>573605
I've read Cuckoo and 1984.
Cuckoo wasn't too terrible. 84 left me with this queer semi-optimism, but yeah it was pretty soul-crushing in sections.

>> No.573621

>>573616

Jpsfssshht.

Best surround yourself with sunshine an fuckin' lolipops or you'll hang yourself by the end of the week, Jesus.

>> No.573628

Also, I recently watched Up In the Air. Good movie, by my account. But that ending... fuuuuck, man. Is it like that in the book?

>> No.573631

>>573616

Go read some Good Omens and watch cats playing, you deserve it.

>> No.573637

Read Kaffir Boy. It's a really good book which I would have never read had I not seen District 9.

>> No.573645

Good book... but yeah, depressing as fuck.

>> No.573651

>>573645
Which?

>> No.573653

I thought mice and men had a happy ending, he was happy when he died. ofc, he didn't deserve it, and the guy he killed did, but now nobody can taint his little retard soul =P

>> No.573654

This book left me with many questions.
I loved the description of the burnt-out world. Such a beautiful scenery drawn by synaesthesia. It had an interesting way of carrying out the dialogues between father and son.

>> No.573662

Who here has ever read a book by George Orwell that is NOT Animal Farm or Nineteen Eighty-four?

>> No.573668

>>573662
Nope.

>> No.573691

McCarthy should feel ashamed for having won the Pulitzer for that book.

>> No.573783

>>573691
yeah cause it's shit because you should totally know. i bet he's crying about it right now he's just a BIG PHONY

>> No.573788

>"for his invention and development of particle detectors, in particular the multiwire proportional chamber"

Georges Charpak should feel ashamed for having won the Nobel for that invention

>> No.573797
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573797

Obama should feel ashamed for having won the Nobel for that election.

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573798

>>573691
A BIG FAT PHONY!

>> No.573799

>>573584
Are you reading this for school, OP?

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573802

>he was ranked by AVN at number one in their "The 50 Top Porn Stars of All Time" list

Ron Jeremy should be ashamed for having won for that erection.

>> No.573806

>>573797

He probably did feel a little embarrassed.

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573810

>>573691

>> No.573817

>>573806
are you not listening he should feel ASHAMED ASHAMED ASHAMED. and mccarthy should feel ASHAMED for his pulitzer! SHAME SHAME SHAME. im not going to stop until everyone knows what a big PHONY he is!!!! and mobs of people crowd outside the gates of his ill-gotten mansion and DEMAND he give that pulitzer BACK because he doesn't deserve it and i hope he comes outside and apologizes and CRIES because he is a PHONY and he should feel endless SHAME for having it cry tears of SHAME old man you terrible fucking SHAMEFUL PERSON HOW DARE YOU
HOW DARE YOU

>> No.573820

>>573662
I read Homage to Catalonia ^^

>> No.573822

The Road was alright. The main reason McCarthy won a Pulitzer for this piece was to make up for the crap that Blood Meridian got when it was first released.