03-16-2014, 06:53 PM | #61 |
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the hunger games is rather depressing... if you skip the epilogue
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03-17-2014, 06:44 PM | #62 | |
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The Hunger Games is one of those pop culture phenomenons that really makes me think the great majority of people in this world are wacked. |
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03-18-2014, 01:04 AM | #63 | |
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03-20-2014, 04:46 PM | #64 |
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03-21-2014, 05:46 AM | #65 |
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Probably got enough to be getting on with now, but I thought I'd mention J.G. Ballard. Pretty much everything he wrote (perhaps with the exception of Empire of the Sun, though this has its bleak moments too) was dark and depressing.
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03-21-2014, 08:36 AM | #67 | |
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03-22-2014, 09:38 AM | #68 | |
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Hands down the most depressing book I have ever read. I had never read a book before were there was not even the slightest chance of hope. It was horrific and I love scary dark. Bring on post apocalyptic, bring on the worst most horrific serial killer books. If they wrote a sequel I would burn it rather than read it. applesauce |
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03-25-2014, 02:48 PM | #69 |
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The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt. Very good but horribly depressing. I had to set it down and read something else a couple of times. It's also very long.
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03-25-2014, 02:49 PM | #70 |
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04-06-2014, 07:15 AM | #71 |
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I've just purchased "anatomy of a night" by Anna Kim - the blurb seemed interesting and I think that one might well fall into the depressing category
"Amarâq, Eastern Greenland, the end of the world. A lonely, cold, hard place, yet one that’s filled with boundless joy and bewitching natural magic, Amarâq plays host to an annual tragedy: a spate of suicides races through the town each spring, a plague that leaves no family untouched. Anatomy of a Night details the events of one of these black nights, following the lives of eleven of Amarâq’s inhabitants—their loves and losses, their escapes from Amarâq and their inevitable returns, each victory and every defeat magnified by the unforgiving and unforgettably desolate landscape—and paints a portrait of a mysterious phenomenon that strikes a nearly-forgotten people, the Inuit of Greenland" |
04-16-2014, 09:44 AM | #72 |
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I thought both the "Elric" and "Hawkmoon series by Michael Moorcock were depressing. It's not a good idea to be a hero, seriously!
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05-10-2014, 07:26 PM | #73 |
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The ending of the last book of the Charlie McKelvey mysteries by C.B. Forrest was depressing. Given the previous books and the main character's issues, I wasn't expecting a truly happy ending, but I hadn't expected it to be quite as bad as it was.
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05-17-2014, 05:31 PM | #74 |
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Lord Of The Barnyard is depressing in an uplifting kind of way. Great read. And When The Ass Saw The Angel sure fits the bill. Like one, you'll adore the other.
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05-21-2014, 07:19 PM | #75 |
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Anything by Thomas Hardy, his books are very melancholic.
"Wuthering Heights". Yes, it has romance in heaps, but what a depressing romance! "King Lear" by Shakespeare. Grim, gory and depressing. Well, you wanted something deep as well as depressing. |
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