Let's get some S A D B O Y lit up in here

Let's get some S A D B O Y lit up in here.

Post the most depressing books you've ever read.

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There's also Cormac McCarthy's The Road. Shit was pretty brutal.

Also feel free to post books that you read as a kid and made you sad then.

For me, the Green Mile was pretty devastating. I don't know if it would have the same effect on me now.

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Before John Green turned into a cuck, he actually wrote a decent book called Looking for Alaska. Everything since then has been a cheap imitation playing on the same formulas, but that had some pretty brutal parts.

White nights by Dostoevsky

Stoner by Williams, gives you an empty feeling, existential dread type atmosphere. Wouldn't call it depressing though.

That's the one with children giving blowjobs, isn't it? You're right, the degradation of children's literature is pretty sad.

Wouldn't necessarily call it sad, but Crime and Punishment. I read it during a time I was already worn out and depressed, so I had to put it down before I finished it. It was good, so I plan on reading it all the way through some time.

I don't give a fuck about all that, some Christians made a big deal out of it, to me it was just shit that happened when I was a kid and nothing out of the ordinary.

The sad part is obviously when Alaska dies and you think this isn't happening, she'll be back, it's a kid's book. But she actually does die, and you go through the stages until accepting the fact.

...have you literally never read a kid's book where someone dies before?

Catcher in the rye

Kek.

in many ways it's a fun lighthearted book but the core of it really got to me and the ending is fucking brutal

kite runner, but the end was also really happy in a way so I guess I haven't read that many depressing books

How the fuck is this sad?

I was a kid then, not expecting it, not in a non-fantasy setting. Gimme a break man are you call me a fag because I got sad reading Watership Down too?

True but I was 14 when I read it. Had a really big impact on me.

well it's about how mediocre life is for ugly awkward people, in a very real way
the ending where she's lying on her bed crying about how she's never going to have anyone ever and that's literally the realistic scenario and her nice parents are going to just be stuck with her in her unmarriageable hopeless state until they die is unbelievably dismal, all the more so for being so low key and realistic

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DUDE just watch the south park episode about ugly people and cheer your sorry ass up

Awfully mediocre book. Would not recommend

i don't watch south park, but how will it cheer me up?
is it about how ugly people will all find happiness with each other?

No man, Watership Down is really fucking sad. You'd have to be a fag not to cry when Hazel stopped running.

>awfully mediocre book
what books do you like then, chump?

It's kinda like natural selection. Men that are unattractive have to find some other way to attract females - intelligence, creativity, humour - which is why most of the great achievements in history were not by chads but by the virgins who if they had been attractive they would have been preoccupied with chasing skirt and then had a mid life crisis when they realised they'd done nothing.

>unattractive
>a mid life crisis when they realised they'd done nothing.

Eh, you can have both, no biggie.

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but what about people who don't have intelligence, creativity or humour? these people exist and die alone in an unremembered ditch

Notes from Underground
Mainly because I related to the Underground Man at the time. It helped me turn some things around in my life.

Lot of children in this thread.

1984
Darkness at Noon
The Good Soldier
Long Days Journey Into the Night
Correction
Oblivion (especially good old neon)
Bel Ami
The Drowned and the Saved

Hard work and dedication. Read "outliers". It's more about time you put in than just talent or genetics.

You realize it;s easier to find a book depressing as a child than it is as a man when your emotions are pretty much faded into an empty void? I used to cry at films, now I'm so desensitised to that shit I actually enjoy cutting onions to be reminded of what it's like to have tears come out of your eyes.

Made me depressed for days

I'm a hardened medfag who's seen the most fucked up shit imaginable and this made me cry like a goddamn child.

Looks interesting. Can you write something about the book. I'm currently reading Life in the Clearings and I love books written in this time period.

The heart is a lonely hunter

L'Assommoir
On the Heights of Despair

What are you doing here?

I agree with this, those last few pages turn the whole tone of the book on its head

>Shit was pretty brutal.
Genuinely haunted by the description of the cannibal's cellar.

>Wouldn't call it depressing though.
This. It ends on a positive note.

>1984
No.

The Bell Jar is YA fiction for people who think they're too old for YA fiction.

The road and no longer human are the most depressing books I've read from recent memory

Not him but Kite Runner is shit. Come back when you graduate high school.

It actually helped me fight my depression because I read it and realized that I never want to be anything like the MC.

something about the description of the big barrel grill will never not give me chills

almonds: activated

Only book that ever made me cry

The section of The Bell Jar where Esther is at the height of her depression (I vaguely remember a scene where she tries to drown herself at the beach but can't hold herself under water long enough) is genuinely mesmerising

F E E L

Watership Down
Sputnik Sweetheart
Dubliners
Wuthering Heights
The Vampire Armand
East of Eden
The Once and Future King

If you want real depression rather than cheap sadness:

Absalom, Absalom!
100 Years of Solitude
Journey to the End of Night

Saw this shit hanging at a Starbucks lmao

>Intelligent and passionate girl grows up unfulfilled in a narrow, provincial town
>We follow her from childhood until she is a young woman
>Yearns for love from others but is constantly rebuked
>Father becomes bankrupt, brother goes off to work in a factory

a little life overdoes it at times in my opinion
all that misery porn definitely robbed a little of its impact

explain why then, because I wanna know why Veeky Forums shits on every single popular book

Sputnik fucked me up

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For Whom the Bell Tolls. Wtf lit no hemingway

To elaborate
The feels when no qt spanish partisan to lie with you under the winter stars in a bed pine boughs while contemplating existence.

this, also Richard Yeats

Shut the fuck up you pseud cunt

Specifically, The Depressed Person, though most of the stories are great.

Sons & Lovers

I hate Sartre. I hate this book. I hated reading it. Having all that in mind this was the most sad and depraved novel I have ever read. It almost gave me a panic attack at multiple points reading it (although that isn't saying a lot because I get those extremily easy).

just fucc me up

Last week i went to the american museum of art and there was an exhibit on sylvia plath as she is considered an illustrious american, which i agree, she's a decent novelist and great poet. However i was bothered that i couldn't find any reference to faulkner, hemingway, gaddis, mccarthy. I mean what the fuck? Do you guys think i am overreacting? Sorrh for the diatribe, none of my friends or family understand my feeling of indignation.

This book stopped me from becoming an alcoholic

I haven't seen the museum but I would agree if it is as you have described. Welcome to the modern age, I guess.

Literally the first thing on google

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