What is the saddest book you ever read /lit/?
My diary tbqh
never let me go
Bible
My new year resolutions tracker
Monster: The Autobiography of an LA Gang Member by Sanyika "Monster Kody" Shakur.
Under the Volcano
The ending is really damn rough
>>7879187
XD
>>7879015
>mfw I bought that last week hoping for comfy reading
No longer human.
>>7879005
A Prayer For Owen Meany
just the final chapter or two made it the saddest book I ever read.
Phaedo.
Leafs, Weed, and Tolerance: The History of Canada between 1963-2015
>>7879187
>tfw
>>7879005
Confessions of a mask.
>>7879005
King Lear tied with the Book of Disquiet.
The Elliot Rodger Book
>>7879508
Too funny to be genuinely sad.
>>7879005
Why do people still frogpost in the current year? Just let the meme die.
>>7879428
I'm reading it right now. It's sad so far, but I find it comforting
>>7879515
Pepe is the only eternal meme, you goofball
>>7879014
I fall back into depression when I open and read my high school one, it's a bitch but I don't want to throw it away
>>7879604
no, anime is the eternal meme
pepe will die soon enough
My Sister's Kiss
Lolita made me cry the hardest.
>>7879005
the possibility of an island
i had a good cry after i finished it.
>>7879335
Reading this soon you're getting me worried compadre
>>7879005
Marley & Me.
>>7881646
same here.
>>7881646
>>7881920
It is an absolutely fantastic book, but you watch the protagonist's life completely fall apart. It takes a lot of inspiration from Faust, but doesn't end like Goethe's -- like the original Faust legends he assumes his own damnation is a sure thing and ignores repeated opportunities for salvation.
It was intended to be the Inferno section of a retelling of the Divine Comedy, but Lowry never finished the other parts. That always saddens me too; as amazing as he was at depicting hell, I can't imagine how great his heaven would have been.
Where the Red Fern Grows
Stoner
>What did you expect?
I cried when Edith destroyed his study
"You died on me" by José Luís Peixoto
I'm not sure if it has the same effect in English, I read the original in Portuguese and fuck me, that was the toughest book I've ever had to read. Cried like a bitch the entire time.
>>7879015
The ending was so bad
Stoner
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas.
Hiroshima.
Pick a book set during World War 2. Seriously.
>>7883748
what happened
>>7879005
>Les Miserables
Literally read the last two pages through a stream of tears.
Camp of the Saints just got me really depressed
>>7883774
>the Boy in the Striped Pajamas
Pedro Paramo
Such a hopeless story. It makes you feel empty and alone.
>>7879030
>tfw the Bible is actually one of the most nihilistic works of literature ever made
>>7879005
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. Underrated writer.
>>7881903
I cri everytiem
>>7879438
I thought that one gave me strength. I talked to a friend about it and he referred me to this passage from Hamlet 5.2 (in talking about possibly dying in the duel):
Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special
providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now,
'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be
now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the
readiness is all: since no man has aught of what he
leaves, what is't to leave betimes?
>>7880314
Why do you fall back into depression?
>>7885643
A very good book indeed.
>>7879005
The Things They Carried
>>7881903
fuck don't remind me
>>7883774
I would also try "Barefoot Gen", it's a graphic narrative. The anime version of it is even sadder.
WWII feels train is real.
>>7885745
Depression is weird my dude. Sometimes just remembering stuff heavily associated with it can send you spiraling back into it. I wouldn't say you can ever really "cure" depression, you just find ways to make it manageable/cope with it.
>>7879005
three comrades by remarque
skylark, by dezso kosztolanyi
although it's also very funny. other people i've discussed it with haven't found it as devastating as i did. but it fucking tore my heart out
revolutionary road by richard yates fucked me up massively, absolutely amazing book though
norwegian wood by murakami is another obvious choice, but it felt so empty the whole time that even the ending left you with no resolution but sadness
>>7886440
There's not much that is sadder than an old maid
Stephen King - The long walk
>>7879005
Probably the road. I haven't read many sad books
Where The Red Fern Grows
