02-20-2014, 08:40 AM | #31 |
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I've only read a few of them but I found Thomas H. Cook's novels very dark and depressing.
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02-20-2014, 08:46 AM | #32 |
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I agree about Flowers for Algernon.
Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr is very dark, difficult to read and has no punctuation. I was so proud for not giving up when I finally turned the last page! The Awakening by Kate Chopin might seem light in comparison but it brings some food for thought. |
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02-20-2014, 03:59 PM | #33 |
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Lautreamont's Maldoror (must be read several times ... I absolutely love that book ) I have no idea though as to how good (or not) the English translations are.
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02-20-2014, 08:14 PM | #34 |
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Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
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02-22-2014, 12:58 AM | #36 |
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I agree with many of the suggestions posted above. However, your list is incomplete without such titles as these bestselling classics (which you might want to begin with, since February is Black History Month in the US, and the authors I've listed are black):
Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, James Baldwin's Native Son, Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man. Last edited by Froide; 02-22-2014 at 09:57 AM. |
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A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. No need to "resort" to dystopia when there are plenty of depressing things happening in the world around us!
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One Second After by William R. Forstchen.
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02-25-2014, 07:50 PM | #39 |
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02-26-2014, 01:03 AM | #40 |
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02-26-2014, 03:47 PM | #41 |
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Glad it wasn't just me. I think I remember what you are talking about when you say the dog thing. I have tried to erase as much of that book as possible from my memory. Just too depressing to even think about.....
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Had you read further, something even more depressing happens that makes the dog thing pale by comparison.
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I'm an ebook hoarder. I keep everything, even if I hate it. I keep books I got for my kid that he's now too advanced for. But this book got forever deleted in the hopes of it perhaps eventually deleting itself from my brain too. Hasn't worked so far. Did you make it to the end? Anything uplifting at all there, if so? |
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Depressing? Deep? Albert Camus will do it for you.
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03-03-2014, 10:57 PM | #45 |
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Scandanavian crime fiction is generally pretty depressing. And the last page of The Troubled Man, the final book of Henning Mankell's Detective Wallander series, was the without a doubt most depressing thing I have ever read.
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