Novels that end with the protagonist or a main character becoming 'broken' or greatly more cynical?
Thinking along the lines of Full Metal Jacket here, if that helps.
1984
South of the Border, West of the Sun
Anna Karenina (Vronsky)
Disgrace
Gravity's Rainbow (Slothrop, not sure this is quite what you're going for though)
The Brothers Karamazov and The Idiot
>>7980688
People always mock 1984 for being "entry-level" or a high school book but personally I found the protagonist's time in the ministry of truth horrifying and really powerful.
The ending as well was oddly emotional in its own way
The Great Gatsby
>>7980869
1984 is a novel that rewards returns. Most /lit/izens are memed out of repeat reads.
>>7980650
american psycho
Beneath the Wheel.
>>7980688
Is South of the Border, West of the Sun any good? I'm currently trying to decide whether to read it or to skip - just finished Norwegian Wood (which is first book by Murakami I've read) and it was weird... Not sure I want more of the same, if it's similar.
it ain't me
>>7982940
It's pretty good for a short Murakami novel, but the Wind-Up Chronicle is infinitely better
>>7982946
Well, I have that on my to-read list too.
Every Lovecraft book.
>>7980869
Agreed, it's good, better than BNW
>>7980650
>Thinking along the lines of Full Metal Jacket here, if that helps.
The short timers
Everyone is broken in Under the Volcano. Far and away the best depiction of spiraling depression amd alcoholism I've ever read.
The Good Soldier
>>7984637
Literally came in here to post this
Revolutionary road
Jude the Obscure
The Return of the Native
>>7980650
Darconville's Cat by Alexander Theroux
