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Saddest Book You've Ever Read
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post Jul 9 2008, 10:27 PM
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Mine was Island of the Blue Dolphins. It was during a book club, and afterward, we had to watch the movie. I sobbed. Saddest book I've ever read.


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post Jul 9 2008, 11:48 PM
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post Jul 10 2008, 03:50 AM
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Arthur Rimbaud - Complete works. I was devastated when I finished reading it, seeing here was this developing talent that just - stopped. There was no more writing, no more words, no more thought from him. One Book- collected together from small pamphlets, short books, and letters. It is one of my favorite prose books, but it's also hard to know his situation and circumstances.

Marcel Proust - Epic Work - is the other. It's more realizing the loss of talent and the high caliber of his writing achievement - yet his own life was filled with pain and bad health. Most people don't combine circumstances with the books they read - I do. I cannot think of him without thinking of Arthur Rimbaud, and visa versa. What if Marcel Proust barely finished Swans Song and gave up writing? It would be a lost Masterpiece.

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post Jul 10 2008, 04:16 AM
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
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post Jul 10 2008, 06:22 AM
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Sorry, I can't name just one...

Vanishing Point: A Novel , by David Markson - Perhaps the best work of psychological collapse I've ever read, though as a work of "experimental" fiction it is not one I feel all that competent to judge.

The Plague Dogs: A Novel, by Richard Adams - Animal torture, err, experimentation, told from the perspective of the dogs it is being performed upon. My wife did not speak to me for 24 hours after I made her watch the cartoon made of the book. huh.gif

The House of Mirth, by Edith Wharton - A 'genteel' woman of no particular education or skills turned loose without a penny in late 19th century New York City. Her slide into poverty and ultimately death made for particularly ghastly reading.

One short story: A Dog of Flanders, by Ouida - Sentimental, over the top and silly, yes. But sad as hell.

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post Jul 10 2008, 07:47 AM
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Bridge to Terebithia.

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post Jul 10 2008, 08:03 AM
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the last sad book, I read was a lesson before dying.
its a very good book, it's ending is just very sad.


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post Jul 10 2008, 08:33 AM
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i hate to say this, but HP and the deathly hallows is actually the only book that i cried for.


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post Jul 10 2008, 08:49 AM
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I have never cried during any book, but the closest I came was while reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. But I did come even closer while reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak because it wasn't just the ending that was sad, it was the whole book. [But it is one of my favorite books ever!]

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post Jul 10 2008, 09:02 AM
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows and Bridge to Terebithia.

Those are also the two saddest books I've read. I was a mess throughout DH. I cried at every death, even Hedwig's, and I was bawling for the last few chapters. Bridge to Terabithia was an amazing book, but I was expecting what happened towards the end, and that part made me really sad.


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