Most Depressing Goddam Books EVER.

[Gyrate]

Can someone tell me how to fix this before I toss myself to the nasty robotic killing machines?

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[DVsickgirlDV]

<b>Less Than Zero</b> by Bret Easton Ellis. This book will make you depressed for about a week.

[Saint Sparky]

Originally Posted by silenus

On The Beach by Nevil Shute. I hated that book. They just gave up! So the world was a radioactive ball. Big deal. Always go down fighting!

So depressing.......

I actually liked it, but i agree, horribly depressing.

I thought "Memoirs of a Geisha" was rather depressing, the same with "Of Mice and Men", and we cannot forget the granddaddy of all depressing books "Les Miserable".

[Cosmopolitan]

Originally Posted by PookahMacPhellimey

Oh! I had forgotten about that one. He's a cheery writer altogether. I don't think I've ever read anything by him that ended even remotely well. Personally I think After the First Death is even worse than The Cheese. With The Bumblebee Flies Anyway following close on.

Oy, vey. I had to examine three books by the same author for a YA literature class that I took this past semester; I chose The Chocolate War, Beyond the Chocolate War & We All Fall Down.

Oof. Fantastic reads - I enjoyed them all & think they're valuable, but what unremitting gloom.

[irishgirl]

When I read depressing books, I like TRASHY depressing books. Wallowing in self pity is not a time to read great literature.

I vote for Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline Susann.

None of the characters have happy endings.

[Steve Wright]

Nobody got anything to say for James Joyce here?

Dubliners makes Thomas Covenant look like Gilbert and Sullivan by comparison.

[kiffa]

House of Sand and Fog: I really like the plot conflict, but shit this was a very depressing book.

There is another book, but I cannot remember the name of it; it's about an old man, crippled, who looks back on his life of nastiness and destruction. I hated that old bastard that I threw the book out into the trash [something I would never do with a book - this was the only time - since I usuallly give books away or sell them].

[elfkin477]

I don't know the author of the most depressing book I've ever read. It was something that my mother had me read when I was fourteen or so, and I handed it back asking why, why would she think I'd want to read it? I never got a good answer.

The title was Rebecca but I don't think it was the Daphne du Maurier novel, unless:

SPOILER:

There's a scene in that book about a woman throwing her infant son off a balcony, killing him. That's the only part I haven't been able to block out by now.

[The Scrivener]

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath. Sure, this (heavily autobiographical novel) ends on a tentatively upbeat note, but most readers know how Plath's own story ends.

An Underachiever's Diary by Benjamin Anastas.

[Gyrate]

Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, not the least because the events therein could well happen in the not-so-distant future.

SPOILER:

Everybody dies. Everybody in the world. Horribly. Without a killer robot in sight.