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Depressing books Anonymous Wed Apr 12 04:29:37 2017 No.9370923 [Reply] [Original]

Recommend me depressing books /lit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 12 04:34:13 2017 No.9370932 One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich and Man's Search for Meaning seem like companion books to me. One just takes place with Nazis and the other with Communists. So you might like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 12 04:44:03 2017 No.9370946 Stoner had me depressed for a few days until i fully thought through the novel, now when i think of it its kind of a sad happiness

>>	OP Wed Apr 12 04:46:36 2017 No.9370948 M Y D I A R Y D E S U

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 12 06:59:14 2017 No.9371178 >>9370923 depends what you'd consider depressing I know a few books that deal with potentially depressing things >Smoke Gets in Your Eyes >Tombstone: The Untold Story of Mao's Great Famine

>>	Anonymous Wed Apr 12 11:47:42 2017 No.9371826 >>9370923 That book is not depressing at all. It's a carefully crafted trick to make you believe in his pseudo-science of logotherapy or something like that. Read Poor Folks by Dostoevsky. THAT is depressing.