/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7545536]

What are the most depressive books you have ever read /lit/?

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[Anonymous No.7545538]

Depressing? Bloke chills on a beach and starches a nigga. That be some gangster as shit, cuz. Ain't nuthin' to be 'fraid of, I TELL YA WAHT BOBBY.

[Anonymous No.7545543]

>>7545536
If you think Camus is depressing, you don't understand Camus.

[Anonymous No.7545546]

>>7545536
Not depressive but definetly made me feel sad

[Anonymous No.7545554]

I saw a post about new year books a couple days ago, there was a book there everyone was calling the most depressing book ever, can't remember the name though.

[Anonymous No.7545555]

>>7545546
I thought the chapter on the nigger's isolation was the saddest part of the book

[Anonymous No.7545561]

>>7545543
The same people think Kafka is depressing

[Anonymous No.7545563]

>>7545555
Edgy word bro!!

[Anonymous No.7545564]

>>7545536
my diary

[Anonymous No.7545566]

The Recognitions is the only book I think will actually make you kill yourself if read too fast.

[Anonymous No.7545571]

>>7545563
Edgy? Not really. He was a nigger. That's it. That's the whole point.

[Anonymous No.7545574]

>>7545566
Women and Men caused me to call back home and tell my parents that I needed to be sent to a mental institution before I killed myself and my ex-girlfriend.

[Anonymous No.7545595]

>>7545571
you triggered him

>>7545566
wow this really makes me not want to read it

[Anonymous No.7545618]

Going off the existentialist vibe, Nausea by Sartre was pretty depressing.
My 15 year old edgy self loved it when I read it

[Anonymous No.7545626]

>>7545543
/thread
Plebs get out

[Anonymous No.7545632]

>>7545554
Really?

[Anonymous No.7545641]

Somehow I'll give you sun was pretty depressing, but also All the Bright Places.

[Anonymous No.7545654]

>>7545626
Agreed. The world envisioned by Camus in The Stranger is actually one of a utopic France. He has crafted a world where all Arabs are killed in the heat of the moment, in order for us to purge their violent peoples. The scene where Meursault is talking with the preacher is not a scene of anger from Meursault, but actually an anger of the Arab people's being channeled out in the preacher's direction. There is no thought that goes through the mind of Meursault but the wholesale onslaught of the Arab nation. And for that, I don't believe Meursault to have been the hero of the novel, but Camus, for saying with unreserved courage what everyone had been too afraid to say themselves.

[green !YOUlQWt3s6 No.7545672]

>>7545654
this is pretty funny actually

[Anonymous No.7545785]

>>7545672
No it isn't

[Anonymous No.7545830]

>>7545654
We get it. You read the Meursault Investigation, aka deliberately missing the point the novel.

[Anonymous No.7545858]

>>7545830
Meursault Investigation was critical of Camus' message though.

[Anonymous No.7546954]

>>7545554
cruelty of birth or something along those lines

[Anonymous No.7546977]

Flowers For Algernon

but it's also my favorite book

[Anonymous No.7546994]

>finishing east of eden
>last scene
>remember staying all night at the hospital with my grandfather who had a severe stroke
>remember getting angry at my mom because she came too late in morning so I could go home and sleep
>remember getting called by my mom after like an hour of sleep at home

I miss you old man
I really do

[Anonymous No.7547065]

>>7545554
You mean The Trouble With Being Born by Cioran

[Anonymous No.7547078]

>>7546977
That shit tore me up cuz

[Anonymous No.7547262]

>>7547065
thats the one >>7546954
im thinking of

[Anonymous No.7547289]

>>7545543
Why do you not find the Stranger depressing? I literally finished it half an hour ago and saw this thread, I'm curious.

[Anonymous No.7547321]

>>7545564
this desu

[Anonymous No.7547334]

>i didn't find The Stranger depressing

*tips fedora*

[Anonymous No.7547500]

>>7545566
explain lad

(But i haven't read it so no spoilers)

[Anonymous No.7548842]

am i a faggy tumblrina if i say this is the only book i've read to make me cry
i related to it so badly

[Anonymous No.7548848]

>>7545654
>France

Did you not read the part where it takes place in Algeria?

[Anonymous No.7548869]

>>7545555
edgy quads

[Anonymous No.7548878]

>>7545536
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>>7548869
OPPA GANGNAM STYLE :D

[Anonymous No.7548885]

>>7548848
algeria was french then pham

[Anonymous No.7548931]

The Maimed - Hermann Ungar

[Anonymous No.7549335]

literally the only good chinese comic 2bh

[Anonymous No.7549339]

>>7548878
Epic shitpost my friend.

[Anonymous No.7549349]

>>7549335
>He hasn't read Oshimi's works
Still, i couldn't make it past volume one

[Anonymous No.7549359]

>>7549349
>Still, i couldn't make it past volume one

What didn't you like?

also rec me some of his stuff, Aku no Hana first?

[Anonymous No.7549408]

>>7545536
Reading Soumission by Michel Houellebecq right now.

Holy Christ, and I am not even a /pol/fag

[Anonymous No.7549410]

>>7549408
Just read teatro grottesco too, that wasnt quite a walk in the park. The short story called "The Temporary Supervisor" really stuck with me.

[Anonymous No.7549467]

>>7549335
>only good chinese comic
>implying
nigga youve only read punpun foh
this fool hasnt even touched any other asano

[Anonymous No.7549470]

>tfw this feels like my life except Pessoa can actually articulate his feelings better

[Anonymous No.7549473]

I just finished The Crossing and it was unexpectedly brutal after reading All the Pretty Horses which was pretty joyous fare by McCarthy's standards. The whole ending of the book where Billy is carrying his brother's remains and when he runs into that old, deformed dog is absolutely soul crushing. All the hope he has in life is torn from him and he has no ties left in the world.

[Anonymous No.7549480]

>>7549467
do you honestly believe any other manga holds up to other mediums besides punpun?

like 90% of all manga is garbage berserk ripoffs and the other half is cute girls doing cute things.

[Anonymous No.7549543]

reddit: the topic

[Anonymous No.7549561]

>>7549480
my friend the majority of ever medium is absolute trash. most books are trash, most films are trash, most anime are trash, but there are undoubtably works within each medium that stand out and can genuinely be called great
if you think oyasumi punpun is the only manga worthy of the title, then it's more likely you havent read very many manga than you've truly had a look at what manga has to offer

[Anonymous No.7549636]

Is absurdism just another point/paragraph in the existentialistic philosophy? or does it deserve one of its own?

[Anonymous No.7549644]

>>7549561
hmm perhaps i didn't word that right.

what i mean is, how many truly GREAT manga's are theret? 20? 30? now, how much truly great books/movie/albums are there? well over in the hundreds.

It seems that, although there is some really great manga's, it's a lot harder to find then other mediums.

rec me some good mangas tho

[Anonymous No.7549885]

>>7549335
What is this? Very curious

[Anonymous No.7549919]

>>7549644
then you werent too wrong i suppose
i would rec:
ultra heaven
20th century boys
pluto
other stuff by urasawa
strongest man kurosawa
sanctuary
uzumaki
homunculus
lone wolf and cub
yokohama kaidashi kikou
freesia
boys on the run
stuff by yoshihiro tatsumi
blame
onani master kurosawa
a distant neighbourhood


missed some but these are all good

>>7549885
that's oyasumi punpun

[Anonymous No.7549961]

>>7549919
>>7549644
adding:
stuff by tezuka
a bride's story
number 5
nijigahara holograph
solanin
and other stuff by asano (punpun isnt the only shit that exists you fuckfaces)
a cruel god reigns

[Anonymous No.7550070]

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