/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.8685631]

What is the most depressing book you've ever read?

[Anonymous No.8685632]

>>8685631
>my
>diary
>desu

[Anonymous No.8685633]

>>8685632
quite witty

[Anonymous No.8685639]

>>8685633

[Anonymous No.8685788]

Schoolgirl by Osamu Dazai

[Anonymous No.8685796]

>>8685631
I kinda wanted to kill myself while reading Austerlitz.

Stoner is also not fun.

[Anonymous No.8685801]

>>8685631
Cuore, read it as a kid and cried (kinda Stendhal'ed)

[Anonymous No.8686516]

>>8685631
Anybody that claims to like this show I instantly dislike.. it points out common knowledge bullshit with an edgy "I realized this middle school philosophy in my twenties so I'm just too smart for everyone" overtone that is so hateable

[Anonymous No.8686525]

>>8686516
Well it's only liked by reddit, who are mostly high schoolers.

[Anonymous No.8686544]

>>8686516
what show is this

[Anonymous No.8686556]

>>8686544
Bojack horseman

[Anonymous No.8686569]

>>8685631
The Private Report on My Lesbian Experience with Loneliness

[Anonymous No.8686570]

>>8685631
Post-war Japanese literature is pretty fucking depressing. Second generational stuff, too. Check out Medoruma Shun; I think he'll get more acclaim in the states once his stories are all translated.

[Anonymous No.8686597]

Bojack is the best show. I really think you people are missing the point hard.

[Anonymous No.8686610]

>>8686597
Its all the same every time, call out bojack for being edgy pseud bullshit, call out mr robot for being teenage atheist edgelord trash in a rational way and the faggot fans realize their shows are retarded so go to self defense rational mode "hurr durr thars the point xD"

[Anonymous No.8686621]

>>8686610
>he doesn't act ironically retarded
Gay

[Anonymous No.8686628]

>>8686597
LIKE WHATS THE POINT

[Anonymous No.8686630]

Any holocaust survivor's memoir. All those Jews that Hitler failed to wipe out.

[Anonymous No.8686633]

>>8686621
What's the point of acting ironically retarded? To put yourself above people? You sound retarded and half way there to self aware, therefor you try to put down the other retards with edgy ironic humor.

[Anonymous No.8686655]

>>8686633
holy shit
Dub dubs

[Anonymous No.8686664]

>>8686655
Holy shit
Dub dubs

[Anonymous No.8686679]

If theres one thing dfw specializes in, it's making the reader depressed

[Anonymous No.8686719]

>>8686610
That's actually not the point. You're doing a fair bit of projecting there.

[Anonymous No.8686733]

>>8686664
>2 off from quads
Why live

[Anonymous No.8686744]

I think its more of the mind you put yourself when you read

Infinite Jest and the Metamorphosis for me.

[Anonymous No.8686745]

>>8686610
People get defensive because there's no reason to "call out" shit you don't like and generally act like a douche. There's really no reason to insult fans of popular things just because you don't like what they like.

[Anonymous No.8686784]

>>8686745
THIS IS A NO CRITIQUE ZONE. NO BAD TALKING ALLOWED. NONE AT ALL. YOU WILL BE DOWNVOTED IF YOU SAY ANYTHING BAD TO INTERRUPT OUR CRITICALLY APPROVED CIRCLEJERK.

[Anonymous No.8686821]

Kokoro, honestly

[Anonymous No.8686827]

Diary of Anne Frank 🤷 ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Anonymous No.8686835]

>>8686784
yeah see that, that is what I was talking about. There's a difference between critical of something or disliking it and just being an obnoxious prick.

[Anonymous No.8686838]

>>8686835
>that is what I was talking about.

But it really wasn't. Stop lying.

[Anonymous No.8686854]

>>8685631
childhoods end

[Anonymous No.8687180]

>>8685631
Molloy is pretty fucking grim. The part near the end when the ball of bees just crumples in his hand is incredibly hopeless. Also somewhere in that 30 page monster of a first paragraph is the devastating sentence:

>Can it be we are not free?

[Anonymous No.8688312]

>>8686630
Didn't know fiction could be so depressing.

[Anonymous No.8688337]

Easily the most depressing book I've ever read (and even more so when you consider the fact that the author committed suicide a year after publishing it).

At least it convinced me to finally see a psychiatrist, where I got diagnosed with Bipolar 2.

[Anonymous No.8688358]

>>8686516
Can you explain in more detail? Ive never seen it

[Anonymous No.8688360]

>>8685631

Book of Disquiet.

[Anonymous No.8688868]

Bojack season 3 might have been the worst season of television of any show ever. Absolutely vile.

[Anonymous No.8688879]

>>8688868
Are you mad? The abortion song? The Heroin overdose? The ending with the herd running?

That show is fearless.

[Anonymous No.8688892]

>>8688337
Is this like actually good? not to sound like a dick or anything, but it always struck me as the book edgy girls put on their snapchat stories so people can see them as deep.

[Anonymous No.8688897]

>>8685631
A Fine Balance was pretty depressing
nothing gets better ever, or if it does its only so that you can be torn down even harder right after so you throw yourself in front of a train.

[Anonymous No.8688907]

>>8688879
How likely is it that someone on 4chan was offended by an abortion joke or a cartoon heroin overdose?

[Anonymous No.8688915]

>>8688907
I meant mad in the "insane" sense, not the "U mad?" sense. Pardon my ambiguity.

[Anonymous No.8688940]

>>8685631
probably not the most depressing, but i recently read No Longer Human and it was pretty shit

[Anonymous No.8688953]

The recent book I've read to make me feel depressed at the end was The Heart of Darkness

[Anonymous No.8688983]

>>8688892
Yes, it's worth reading. Whether other people like something or not should have no bearing on your opinion of it. Grow up.

[Anonymous No.8689006]

>>8688983
fuck off lol. I've never liked Plath's poetry that much which is the big reason why I have no interest in The Bell Jar.

[Anonymous No.8689067]

>>8685631
Oblomov

[Anonymous No.8689082]

>watching horse version of mad men

[Anonymous No.8689090]

>>8689082
in what fucking way does it resemble mad men motherfucker?

[Anonymous No.8689094]

>>8689090
The whole thing with the horse

[Anonymous No.8689102]

>>8689082
>>8689090
Yeah, really.
It is in no way like Mad Men.

Maybe the Princess Carolyn character who is the super-competent professional female sidekick character, but that's about it.

[Anonymous No.8689256]

>>8686570
Kokoro fucked me up. also the last battle

[le anoynmous user No.8689299]

>>8685631
The Idiot by Dostoevsky

[Anonymous No.8689376]

>>8686544
ballsack the horse,man.

[Anonymous No.8689489]

[Anonymous No.8689499]

>>8685631
book of African American slave poetry that my friend had for a class she was talking. I didn't read the whole thing but it was fucking debilitating

[Anonymous No.8689527]

>>8685631
Tjon

[Anonymous No.8689550]

>>8685788
Why do you find this depressing?

It's like 80 pages, one rather tedious day in the life of a sensitive schoolgirl. What's so depressing about it?

[Anonymous No.8689563]

Catch-22, the chapter on Major Major's childhood struck a nerve

[Anonymous No.8689564]

>>8685631
The Bible.

[Anonymous No.8689574]

>>8685631
Something Happened by Joseph Heller, it broke me.

Winter of our discontent is a close second.

[Anonymous No.8689625]

>>8685632
Well, yeah, basically this, except I call it a journal because I'm insecure and/or 'diary' sounds girly.

Second pick would be The Diary of Anne Frank or Night by Elie Wiesl (or however his last name is spelt).

If I had to choose a non-diary or non-memoir type book... like a novel... I really don't know. Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban hit me right in the feels when Harry's uncle went through that... portal... thing. He's never had a father figure, finally gets one, and he's gone just like that. My old man was and is an unrelenting bastard so the idea of having a father figure finally was nice, and I felt glad for Potter that he finally had one, only to have him lose it in the very same book. Yeah it sounds stupid, Harry Potter being depressing, but that aspect may or may not have made me cry as a teenager...

[Anonymous No.8689636]

>>8688312

[Anonymous No.8689712]

The Foundation Pit. Even for bleak Soviet lit it's unforgiving.

[Anonymous No.8689961]

>>8689102
Yeah isnt more like Californication? Sadly I never got to watch that show though.

[Anonymous No.8689970]

I, like everyone else on this board, don't know how to read. Sorry.

[Anonymous No.8690055]

>>8688953
Darkness seems like such a cliche but somehow I felt the darkness enclose Marlow as he tired to comfort the fiancé. I had to sit and think about that book for a long while after reading it in a sitting.

[Anonymous No.8690082]

>>8685631

Calvin and Hobbes

[Anonymous No.8690360]

>>8686821
Is it great? I've been meaning to buy it, but decent translations in my language are pretty expensive.

[Anonymous No.8690372]

>>8685631
Not even joking.

[Anonymous No.8690500]

>>8690055
Same for the rest of the weekend I just couldn't get over that ending. Marlow comes back seriously messed up mentally and then comforts a fiancee who is so delusional.
And plus, he can't straight up tell her, Yeah Kurtz was a crazy bastard. The ending reminds of another book but I can't seem to remember. Nevermind. It was 1984 I was thinking of.

[Anonymous No.8690520]

>>8686854

Yes, nice one desu

[Anonymous No.8690522]

>>8689563
that chapter was the funniest part of the book though

[Anonymous No.8690535]

>>8688337

Yea, this is a fucking sad book. Leave your assumptions about the text at the door and enjoy the ride.

[Anonymous No.8690541]

Madame Bovary

[Anonymous No.8690549]

War and Peace. Depressing because I wasted so much of my time reading that shit.

[Anonymous No.8690584]

>>8685631
The Trigger Man

[Anonymous No.8690612]

>>8688360
This, so this.

[Anonymous No.8690624]

>>8685796
I read Stoner as a celebration over the human condition. Made me feel alive in a shared humanity, not especially depressed.

[Anonymous No.8690674]

>>8685631
Welcome to the NHK. Not because of the actual book itself but because of the two afterwords. After reading this book about a poor Hikikomori (Japanese shut ins who completely cut off social life and pretty much live alone and isolated) the afterword was just a real kick in the balls. If you wanna read them, I found them here: http://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/135606/97/Takimoto_-_Welcome_to_the_NHK!.html
and here: http://www.e-reading.club/chapter.php/135606/98/Takimoto_-_Welcome_to_the_NHK!.html

Also Oyasumi Punpun which is a manga but still fucking depressing. I don't know what it is, but the Japanese somehow manage to write stuff that can really pull you down. Almost as good as the Russians I'd say.

[Anonymous No.8690953]

Fear and loathing in Las Vegas.
>Tfw can't trust drug dealers enough to not get shitty stepped on drugs and Vegas is now all wigger bullshit
Never said this before in my life until i read this book but it made me really wish I was born a baby boomer.

[Anonymous No.8691129]

>>8686516
I agree. its maudlin whining hidden in cartoons fuck it. so mediocre

[Anonymous No.8691154]

>>8688337
this desu, I get why it's ragged on but I read this at a low point in my life and could really identify with it

[Anonymous No.8691163]

>>8686569
Fuck, is there anttging similar to it? Like, FUCK

[Anonymous No.8691169]

>>8688337
Nobody cares faggot

[Anonymous No.8691172]

Later works of Virginia Woolf, The Waves especially. It tries to capture an excited mood, but you can almost feel the inner struggle through the text. This one's kinda subtle though

[Anonymous No.8691177]

[Anonymous No.8691189]

>>8685631

[Anonymous No.8691193]

>>8689970
great post, thank you

[Anonymous No.8691239]

I couldn't even get through the first couple chapters of The Brothers Karamazov.

[Anonymous No.8691286]

Journey to the End of the Night is the most depressing book ever wrote probably. This book can actually give you the will to kill yourself

[Anonymous No.8691293]

>>8686633
>What's the point of acting ironically retarded?
Ask Socrates.

[Anonymous No.8691299]

>>8685631
Haha, woah! That's my favorite show Browjack horsemen. It's such a dark show, and it really makes me think about my life. I really can relate with the horse character a lot.

[Anonymous No.8691304]

>>8685631
Nineteen Eighty-Four. There isn't even any possibility of martyrdom or posthumous vindication. The only way Ingsoc can be overthrown is if the proles revolt, and the proles will never revolt. It is an eternally shitty present where nothing will ever change, Big Brother will always rule, and no one can ever escape. The End.

[Anonymous No.8691312]

>>8685631
so sad

[Anonymous No.8691361]

>>8691286

>Journey to the End of the Night is the most depressing book ever wrote probably.

not even close

[Anonymous No.8691363]

>>8690674
That one chapter where Sato spends a week downloading cp was real fucking depressing to read.

[Anonymous No.8691373]

>>8691293
But Socrates is actually retarded

[Anonymous No.8691381]

>>8688879
so brave

[Anonymous No.8691468]

>>8686516
If that's "middle school philosophy" then what's educated or adult philosphy to you?

[Anonymous No.8691472]

>>8686628
Lol

[Anonymous No.8691492]

>>8686516
I never watched the show, but I remember the Nostalgia Critic spoke highly of it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXzmUfoKCqQ

[Anonymous No.8691501]

Germinal

[Anonymous No.8691509]

>>8688337
I agree with him

>>8688892
They do, because teenage girls feel that Plath "gets them." People who relate to this books are often teenage girls with teenage problems - sadness because their relationship with their boyfriends or their friends and like that.

There is some literary merit in connect with many people that have some diverse problems, but these are trivial compared to the book. Plath was well down the path of depressions, enough to attempt suicide, survive only because people found her, and then finally kill herself putting her head in the over. Depression was no stranger to her, and she does a good job portraying the mind of a depressive person, her, in the book.


I remember last year I was on therapy and sort of attempted to kill myself, ironically, I was taking antidepressants for months when that happened. Reading the book helped me to ease my mind somewhat.

Another good book is Darkness Visible, William Styron's memoir. It's about his depression and eventual recovery.

[Anonymous No.8691514]

>>8685631
Your Journal desu. You've had a depressing life and I apologise for reading it without your permission.

[Anonymous No.8691708]

I just finished Neon Bible and found it quite depressing.

[Anonymous No.8691717]

>>8691501
What's it about, tell me about it anon

[Anonymous No.8691752]

>>8688915
>Pardon my ambiguity
No. Fuck you, you can't tell me what to do.

[Anonymous No.8691828]

De Avonden by Gérard Reve. A Dutch book but the translation came out recently.

[Anonymous No.8691832]

>>8691752
>No. Fuck you, you can't tell me what to do.
What did he mean by this?

[Anonymous No.8691834]

>>8689625
Kys, pleb

[Anonymous No.8691883]

[Anonymous No.8691894]

>>8686544
Hoe-jim Boris-woman

[Anonymous No.8691920]

>>8688312
Fuck off /pol/

[Anonymous No.8691945]

Under the Volcano is weapons-grade sadness. The "Deliver me from this dreadful tyranny of self" prayer-speech was unbelievably moving and reading that ending was torture.

[LEL No.8691967]

>>8685631

This one right here.

Fuck man, I've been blown away.
The feels...

[Anonymous No.8692252]

>>8691492
I think that Bojack is one of the very few shows that redeems television as a medium but after watching this video wtf I hate bojack now

[Anonymous No.8692257]

>>8685632
/thread

[Anonymous No.8692323]

>>8691832
>What did he mean by this?
What did he mean by that?

[Anonymous No.8692355]

Unrelenting

[Anonymous No.8692629]

>>8692355
>Alasdair Gray
More like Alasdair GAY! Hahahaha! Epic ftw xD!

[Anonymous No.8693296]

>>8685631
While certainly not the most depressing thing I've ever read, it definitely made me the most depressed I've ever been after reading anything.

[Anonymous No.8693410]

Trouble with being born
The temptation to exist
The conspiracy against the human race

[Anonymous No.8693417]

>>8689625
6/10 had me until Harry Potter

[Anonymous No.8693626]

>>8693410
>The conspiracy against the human race
awful book

[Anonymous No.8693640]

>>8686516
>>8686525
>>8686610
>>8688868
>>8691299
>>8691492
Bojack is a great show, bro. Your weird hatred out reddit shouldn't effect your outlook on stuff this much.

[Anonymous No.8693646]

>>8693640
>you're weird hatred of reddit

t. reddit

[Anonymous No.8693659]

>>8693646
Ah! You just snatched that comment out of my fingers, you silver-tongued old devil!

[Anonymous No.8693690]

>>8691492
what the fuck was this?

[Anonymous No.8693847]

>>8691717

It’s about a 19th century french coal mining village and their struggle for better working conditions and higher wages. The people are trapped in a system of having to work more in dreadful conditions for money that’s not enough to feed their families. There is hope when some of the workers rally together under a new socialist ideology, but protests and rallies give way to starvation and misery. And later desperation and violence.

I had read the book before I went travelling in South America. In Bolivia I went into one of the functioning mines (Cerro Rico) that made the surrounding city one of the richest in the world during the Spanish occupation. The working conditions there were awful (many noxious gases, no safety standards) and it was sobering to see conditions similar to what were in that book.

pic related, one of the miners installing dynamite near a newly discovered vein.

[Anonymous No.8694173]

>>8685796
Which Austerlitz?

[Anonymous No.8694187]

>>8691883
Fiction

[Anonymous No.8694596]

>>8693847
Thanks

[Anonymous No.8694635]

>>8685631
Rather theatre than book, but Exit the King is quite a thing

[Anonymous No.8694770]

>>8688953
Really, but why? I've read the book two times and it made me feel comfy throughout

[Anonymous No.8694780]

>>8693847
Germinal did end on a positive note though

[Anonymous No.8694849]

I think if anything this tries too hard to be depressing, but the way both the characters and the town itself are all hollow shells of themselves after the war is over is pretty fucked up.

[Anonymous No.8695317]

>>8690624
This, Stoner is life-affirming

[Anonymous No.8695475]

>>8686516
Literally everyone on 4chan talks like the characters on this show, I find it weird people would say it is so reddit.

[Anonymous No.8695524]

>>8685631
Back when I read this I found it to be very depressing, but I was like 10 at the time so I dont remember much of it

[Anonymous No.8695596]

>>8688879
A comedy that doesn't even try to be funny? A show who's agenda is to normalize depression? To make people think it's normal to feel like shit and not a result of their life?

Yeah, that's fearless alright.

[Anonymous No.8695620]

>>8695596
It's not a comedy. I've cried while watching it more times than I've laughed.

[Anonymous No.8695683]

>>8695620
its still a comedy
a black/dark comedy
its very funny and very sad

[Anonymous No.8695723]

>Of Mice and Men

Hit me straight after a tough period of dark stuff (Frankenstein, Bartleby the Scrivener, Slaughterhouse V). I just wanted some light reading. Struck me even harder after I let my guard down among the fresh country and lovely farm people. I almost cried.

>This Earth of Mankind

I'm Indonesian and reading about colonialism in old Indonesian really feels something.

[Anonymous No.8695728]

>>8685631
Isaac Asimov - Foundation

[Anonymous No.8695729]

>>8695723
Also I read this after Of Mice and Men. I thought a kid's book would be cheery.

[Anonymous No.8695742]

wuthering hights :(

[Anonymous No.8695762]

>>8695620
>It's not a comedy

t. delusional Bojack fan

[Anonymous No.8695872]

>>8685631
Snows of Kilimanjaro, although it's not a book.

[Anonymous No.8695883]

>>8695742
Yes, a very good pick

[Anonymous No.8695890]

>>8686569

Holy shit. I kind of agree.

Though it also had a bittersweet aspect.

[Anonymous No.8695981]

>>8695762
What means this t.

[Anonymous No.8696175]

>>8685631
El tunel de Ernesto Sabato

[Anonymous No.8697748]

>>8686854
seriously?

[Anonymous No.8697757]

>>8685631


a bridge to terabithia in the second grade. i look back on that book and laugh now but i may or may not have had an existential crisis at the age of 8.

[Anonymous No.8697910]

this thread is fucking hilarious haha what happened to this place

[Anonymous No.8697984]

>>8695317
It is, but the austerity, pain and longing of life isn't swept under the carpet, you are made to feel it.

[Anonymous No.8698311]

>>8697757
I was in grade 4 I think, when we read that book. Maybe it was just the atmosphere, but the book didn't really bother me. Yeah it's sad, but they were still just fictional kids in a book, I didn't really get into it. I should read that novel again some day. What REALLY hit me with the feels is on Zelda: Ocarina of Time when Link goes to leave his village only to meet Saria on the bridge. Then, she turns and runs away because she doesn't want to see him go. Genuinely, I ran back to the village to try and find her. I was 10-11 years old when i played that game, and that hit me with the feels pretty hard. She seemed so sweet... and so sad...

[Anonymous No.8698324]

>>8686516
You're simply insecure with your own intellect.

People that are secure in themselves don't get that whiny about cartoons that "cheapen muh deep thoughts" or whatever the fuck it is you're trying to say.

[Anonymous No.8698539]

>>8691492

why is the guy in this video dressed the way he is?? Why is his voice so annoying? If this video were exactly the same but he didn't make that annoying voice and he never showed his face or outfit, it would be infinitely better.

[Anonymous No.8698557]

Infinite Jest.

[Anonymous No.8698559]

>>8698557
Warden be cry

[Anonymous No.8698578]

The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.

Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history and understand which artists accomplished which musical feat, and which simply exploited it commercially.

Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

[Anonymous No.8698580]

A Man Asleep by Perec


>It is on a day like this one, a little later a little earlier that you descover without surprise that something is wrong that you don't know how to live
>and you will never know.

[Anonymous No.8698645]

>>8698578
This is fucking utter bullshit. First of all there is no consensus between jazz critics that Ellington and Coltrane were the greatest. Thats so far from the fucking truth i almost can't be arsed to read the rest of your post. There's thousands of who's the greatest pianist, trumpeteer etc. hardbop vs beebop, third stream vs free jazz. Jazz critics are themselves the most critical on defining stuff like this. If you'd ever went to a higher musical education the professors wouldn't fall into this teenage bullshit. Now second of all Classical Critics rank Beethoven as number one? That's fucking stupid. Many sees Stravinsky as the epithome of classical music. Many says Bach hasen't been overdone since (including the /lit/ Hesse).

The problem your weak ass analysis aren't anywhere near touching is that within the definition of rock itself is commerciality. It's not some bullshit teenage shit whiping about a technically skilled shitband don't get the money they deserve. There's a reason Bowie is Bowie.

I agree Beatles sucks though.

[Anonymous No.8698650]

>>8698645
It's a meme you dip

[Anonymous No.8698659]

>>8698650
Holy shit i've been memed. MODS plz.

[Anonymous No.8698727]

>>8695620
I've laughed a lot while watching it. I've never felt bad while watching it because I'm not depressed, nor am I a whiny crybaby who wants everyone to feel bad for him.

[Anonymous No.8699398]

>>8697910
Haha kill yourself

[Anonymous No.8699675]

One hundred years in solitude was pretty sad. Mostly towards the end. It left me with some kind of "how to I continue after this" feeling.

[Anonymous No.8699758]

>>8691363
Lots of it is pretty depressing. But as I'm Hikikomori myself the second afterword just hit me like a fucking train.

[Anonymous No.8699785]

raymond carver's collection Would You Please Be Quiet, Please absolutely ravaged me. such an unforgiving series of stories in there.

[Anonymous No.8700097]

How can a book have the emotional impact on a reader to be "depressing"?
I think you were already depressed man

[Anonymous No.8700388]

Blood Meridian is so devoid of any human compassion or comfort that it's astonishing. If you haven't read it give it shot because it's probably exactly what you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.8700393]

>>8686628
I read this in Shaggys voice.

[Anonymous No.8700413]

>>8685632
fpbp

[Anonymous No.8700424]

Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman

[Anonymous No.8700528]

>>8698324
What did he mean by this? No, really. Dude is saying that the show passes off basic knowledge as something "deep" that other's "don't get" in order to justify being a cunt to everybody, and you're for some reason calling him dumb?

>>8698645
>I agree Beatles sucks though.

How to spot a tasteless tryhard hack.

[Anonymous No.8700672]

>>8685631

Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe (sp?)

I read this in college and it blew me away at the time, though I haven't read it in years.

I don't remember much about the book, but I remember the feeling of being repulsed by it and unable to stop reading it.

[Anonymous No.8700763]

>>8685632
me irl

[Anonymous No.8700775]

>>8700424
ill never forget that gas chamber passage man

[Anonymous No.8701009]

>>8700528
>and you're for some reason calling him dumb?
Gain some reading comprehension, please.

I didn't call him dumb (Though I most certainly think he's dumb because of the way he constructed his thought.), I was saying he was intellectually insecure.

And the show doesn't pass off as basic knowledge as "deep", that's just your perception because you're, as I said, intellectually insecure.

You're construing what you're witnessing as being some kind of negative occurrence merely because you yourself have an ax to grind, and it upsets you that what you call "basic ideas" really ARE fucking basic ideas and therefore have a place being used in a cartoon.

You know what else is a basic idea? The idea of utilizing satire to poke fun at things. I don't get upset when shows use that basic idea because I'm not some massive insecure cunt, though.

Then again intellectually insecure" describes the majority of people that browse /lit/ so I'm not particular surprised with you asshats. Just a little disappointed.

[Anonymous No.8701153]

>>8689574
seriously, fuck

[Anonymous No.8701274]

>>8698539
that's his character, the nostalgia critic
he does reviews in a comedic manner, but lately he has been released serious commentaries that I personally prefer to his comedic reviews

I still like his reviews. He used to review old uknown movies -hence, the nostalgia critic- but after his brief retirement he started to review movies in general

An old review of his, the turkish rambo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NoWIPIMYIM

[Anonymous No.8701717]

>f3 "The Painted Bird"
>0 results
I'm honestly surprised and disappointed.

[Anonymous No.8701927]

>>8685631
lord of the flies is pretty grimm

[Anonymous No.8701957]

>>8686516

It's just a cartoon mate, bretty funny and just a nice message or somber moment here and there, nothing to get worker uo over

[Anonymous No.8701966]

>>8701717
hoax

[Anonymous No.8701970]

>>8701717
>f3

fucking faggot

[Anonymous No.8702279]

>>8691492
>07:48
>all being hailed as the new Greek mythologies
Into the trash it goes

[Anonymous No.8702285]

>>8688312
This desu.

[Anonymous No.8702497]

>>8686516
*tip*

[Anonymous No.8702537]

>>8686569
I didn't find this particularly depressing to be honest. I've been depressed before, never as bad as her, but bad enough to understand the feeling, and I was the guy in the thread who's dated depressed women, so none of the stuff in it was new to me. I'd researched and had explained to me all those emotions, but I'm jaded to it because at the same time I was being treated like shit by a clingy, controlling girlfriend who would threaten to cut herself any time things weren't going her way. You could have swapped her out for the main character of that story, except the main character had no actual dark shit in her past. The whole thing came across sincere and well written, but I did have to force myself not to view it as self pitying. It really just didn't come close to depressing me at all..

[Anonymous No.8702559]

>>8691304
This desu. 1984 is probably what made me get seriously into understanding the world and how it works; I spent weeks after the first time I read it researching to assure myself that that world simply could not happen.

[Anonymous No.8702578]

>>8695723
Of Mice and Men hit me fucking hard. It's a pity it was a setwork in high school though, it would have been far better if I hadn't overheard snippets from other people who read it months in advance.

[Anonymous No.8702604]

>>8701927
I honestly just found it frustrating and irritating, to the extent that I didn't finish it. There's nothing I find more cringeworthy than young boys being idiots, because I once was an idiotic young boy. I understand that that is probably the level of reasoning that boys that age would have, but god damn it's like a tragedy except rather than the poor hero missing a vital piece of information and fucking everything up, everyone has all the information and they're just too dumb to put 2 and 2 together. I've never cringed so hard reading a book, and the frustrating thing to me was that it was neither poorly written nor a bad story, but I still couldn't finish it.

[Anonymous No.8702611]

Kafkas "Metamorphisis"

[Anonymous No.8702796]

Spinning Gears by Akutagawa.

It's only a short story but provides an insight into Akutagawa's mind in the time leading up to his suicide. Every little event has some sort of morbid relevance attached to it. He's isolated and convinced that he is slipping into insanity, and I suspect he was correct. throughout his work Akutagawa alluded to his personal life and the problems within it, but the frankness of this story is particularly unsettling.

[Anonymous No.8702863]

>>8695872
my man

[Anonymous No.8702959]

No longer human, or stoner.
But MacBeth hit me really hard for some reason.

[Anonymous No.8703189]

[Anonymous No.8703463]

>>8686516
I like this show, and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like you, since you seem like the kind of person who isn't easy to like or be around.

Go fuck yourself, I don't want to be your friend, and I'm pretty sure there aren't a lot of people who do.

[Anonymous No.8703956]

>>8703463
The funny thing is that the person you're describing in your comment resembles you more, judging solely by your harsh reaction to a simple opinion/preference.

[Anonymous No.8703964]

>>8703956
>le projection meme
No it's in fact you who is harshly judging my comment and reacting to a simple opinion, like a fuckboi

[Anonymous No.8703971]

>>8686516
Anybody that claims to think this show is reddit I instantly dislike.. it points out literally the same thing everybody bags on any show that might relate to an anon that more than 100,000 people have viewed. it's a position to take that is so hateable.

[Kevan !0q0fLOYlE2 No.8704046]

>>8698311
>isn't moved by literature but moved by some vidya garbage renowned for its autistic fanbase
Kill youraelf

[Anonymous No.8704090]

>>8704046
>Was in grade 4
>Suggests that maybe it was the atmosphere as to why I couldn't get into the story
>Says I should probably read it again someday.
>Gets shit on for being honest because a moving moment in a vidya game is brought up, simply because of the fanbase
>all by a tripfag
>Assumes I'm incapable of being moved by literature
God damn, I think /lit/ has thus far been the most unpleasant board I've ever lurked. It's like a boardful of pricks who are completely up in their own asses, full of themselves, wishing to shit on others from as great a height as possible to build themselves up. Fuck me, how can something like books make some people so utterly unpleasant?

[Anonymous No.8704234]

>>8698578
>The fact that so many books still name the Beatles as "the greatest or most significant or most influential" rock band ever only tells you how far rock music still is from becoming a serious art. Jazz critics have long recognized that the greatest jazz musicians of all times are Duke Ellington and John Coltrane, who were not the most famous or richest or best sellers of their times, let alone of all times. Classical critics rank the highly controversial Beethoven over classical musicians who were highly popular in courts around Europe. Rock critics are still blinded by commercial success. The Beatles sold more than anyone else (not true, by the way), therefore they must have been the greatest. Jazz critics grow up listening to a lot of jazz music of the past, classical critics grow up listening to a lot of classical music of the past. Rock critics are often totally ignorant of the rock music of the past, they barely know the best sellers. No wonder they will think that the Beatles did anything worthy of being saved.
>In a sense, the Beatles are emblematic of the status of rock criticism as a whole: too much attention paid to commercial phenomena (be it grunge or U2) and too little to the merits of real musicians. If somebody composes the most divine music but no major label picks him up and sells him around the world, a lot of rock critics will ignore him. If a major label picks up a musician who is as stereotyped as can be but launches her or him worldwide, your average critic will waste rivers of ink on her or him. This is the sad status of rock criticism: rock critics are basically publicists working for major labels, distributors and record stores. They simply highlight what product the music business wants to make money from.
>Hopefully, one not-too-distant day, there will be a clear demarcation between a great musician like Tim Buckley, who never sold much, and commercial products like the Beatles. At such a time, rock critics will study their rock history and understand which artists accomplished which musical feat, and which simply exploited it commercially.
>Beatles' "Aryan" music removed any trace of black music from rock and roll. It replaced syncopated African rhythm with linear Western melody, and lusty negro attitudes with cute white-kid smiles.

[Anonymous No.8705338]

>>8702559

... and?

Holy shit, thanks for the meta downer.

Hypercrisis is real..

[Anonymous No.8705529]

Where do the last two books of the Border trilogy fit?

[Anonymous No.8705531]

I remember Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep made me feel physically ill, that's a rough one.

[Anonymous No.8705559]

>>8704090
Quiet plebeian

[Anonymous No.8706568]

>>8705531

Jesus, this. By the end of the book I was just sort of listlessly turning the pages, wondering how the fuck anything would ever be alright for the characters ever again.

[Anonymous No.8707182]

>>8685631
Anus odyssey kurwa

[Anonymous No.8707183]

>>8690953
you wish you were born earlier so you could have a series of paranoid freakouts and commit massive fraud?
I know adventure is cool, but thompson makes it very clear that the only reason duke does all that stuff in the book is because he's a self-destructive lunatic with no self control. Even then, he doesn't even enjoy it all that much.

[Anonymous No.8707191]

>>8707182
>Anus

hehehe

[Anonymous No.8707192]

>>8707191
hehehe

[Anonymous No.8707195]

>>8707182
BLYAT XD

[Anonymous No.8707223]

>>8693626
It is not awful, it's a bit silly but I enjoyed it

[Anonymous No.8707260]

>>8707195
what the fuck

[Anonymous No.8707273]

>>8707195
Those Swastika stars look amazing, truly Slavs are the most artistic ethnicity

[Anonymous No.8707281]

>>8707195
>tfw will never go russian public school

[Anonymous No.8707285]

>>8707260
Meanwhile in Ukraina.

https://youtu.be/i__K69EIHU8

[Anonymous No.8707290]

>>8707285
i like this

[Anonymous No.8707292]

>>8707281
seems like a jolly fun time to be honest

[Anonymous No.8707298]

>>8707273
Tyт бyдeшь most artistic бля

https://youtu.be/Is7ndk5y0Os

[Anonymous No.8707614]

Duuuuude, that one where the retarded indian and the psychic and the stuttering twink befriend Jack Nicholas and make some hot milf tear her nurse outfit off and then the fuckboi's mother makes him kill himself and the retard has a pillow fight with Saint Nicholson.

[Anonymous No.8709522]

>>8705531
that is a bit of a downer.

[Anonymous No.8709831]

>>8689563
More like 'there, there' struck a nerve

[Anonymous No.8709874]

>>8690674
Punpun was beautiful

[Anonymous No.8711044]

>>8705529
The middle third of The Crossing was pretty boring to be honest senpai.