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Anonymous Thu Jul 22 02:57:44 2010 No.950620 [Reply] [Original]

/lit/ what is the saddest or most emotionally vigorous book you've read? Pic related is mine, quite painfully emotional

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 02:58:44 2010 No.950624 Terranigma

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 02:59:44 2010 No.950627 I cried when I read Where the Red Fern Grows in 6th grade. Other than that, nothing major.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:01:44 2010 No.950637 The Book Thief. I cried like a bitch

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:02:44 2010 No.950642 File: 29 KB, 305x500, the-once-and-future-king.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I cried like a bitch at the end. This was 1 or 2 years ago I think.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:02:44 2010 No.950644 Boogiepop Phantom

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:04:44 2010 No.950652 >>950627 I read it in 3rd grade and cried and cried and cried. My parents thought I was a nutcase. I'm pretty sure my dad thought I was gay for years.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:06:44 2010 No.950664 >>950627 Me too.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:07:44 2010 No.950671 The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress' ending made me a bit depressed for the the day.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:08:44 2010 No.950676 OP here sharing some more; I also found maniac magee, the trial of socrates and one flew over the cuckoos nest quite lofty in emotional vigor

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:08:44 2010 No.950679 Tale of Two Cities. Fucking Carton. So fucking manly.

Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:11:44 2010 No.950688

>>950652
Man, that book hit me pretty hard, looking back. I finished it during the designated silent reading time, sobbing like a motherfucker, trying to hide my face with the book so nobody would see my tears.
I wanted to ask the teacher to use the bathroom, but was afraid everyone would notice.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:19:44 2010 No.950709 >>950620 OP i bought that exact edition the other day, can't wait to get stuck in now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:20:44 2010 No.950716 File: 24 KB, 280x438, spring torrents.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This. Although not with her translation. Constance Garnett ruined everything she touched

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:21:44 2010 No.950720 pokemon red

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:24:44 2010 No.950724 >>950709 prepare to wade through a bit of abstract musings before you get to the substance

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:25:44 2010 No.950726 >>950679 It was the best of times it was the BLURST of times?!

>>	anothershittypoet !EKlieJQ7Jw Thu Jul 22 03:26:44 2010 No.950732 File: 191 KB, 623x1041, hesse_steppenwolf.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] This <<<<< It rewards the reader for their struggle.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:26:44 2010 No.950734 Don Quixote broke me.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:30:44 2010 No.950747 >>950732 Yes. Also because of the deep similarities that I shared with Daniel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:33:44 2010 No.950758 Catch-22 is in fact an extremely tragic novel masquerading as a comic novel.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 03:36:44 2010 No.950763 File: 2 KB, 74x94, burns.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>950726 Why, you stupid monkey!

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 06:27:44 2010 No.951139 Keep going

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 06:31:44 2010 No.951149 File: 17 KB, 243x400, Feed(novel).jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] That ending was fucking heartbreaking ;_;

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 06:36:44 2010 No.951160 flowers from algernon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 07:37:44 2010 No.951301 Ryu Murakami: 69 it's a big big wow.... Also Haruki Murakami: The Wind-up Bird Chronicles....

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 07:47:44 2010 No.951314 >>951301 Seconding Ryu Murakami's works. Coin Locker Babies gave me a run for my money. He's such a brilliant author.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 07:57:44 2010 No.951329 The Time Traveller's Wife ashamed.png

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 08:19:44 2010 No.951361 >>950758 I felt so hollow when I finished it. I wanted it to just keep going and never end.

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>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 08:24:44 2010 No.951371 File: 29 KB, 323x500, 041505608X.02.LZZZZZZZ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] just from the preface you get that this is something else entirely

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 08:34:44 2010 No.951390 >>950758 Those two last chapters ...

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 09:00:44 2010 No.951433 Flowers for Algernon

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 09:17:44 2010 No.951464 I agree with OP.

>>	Oscar !!xbEXtY0MlUp Thu Jul 22 09:59:44 2010 No.951536 The White Steamboat by Chingiz Aitmatov

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 10:18:44 2010 No.951570 hmmm, Huxleys description of the world through the eyes of a mescaline user in The Doors of Perception brought me to tears, but apart from that :/not much

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 10:33:44 2010 No.951591 American Pastoral

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 22 10:39:44 2010 No.951610 Of Mice and Men

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