i mean something so bleak that it put you into mild depression for a while.....for me it was jude the obscure by thomas hardy...took me a couple of days to get over it...
2006-08-31 20:31:58 · 18 answers · asked by S 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I think it's strange nobody named George Orwell's 1984. It's definitely the most dark, depressing and disheartening work of art I've ever come across. Mostly for its feeling of not even hopelessness, but inevitability.
2006-09-02 06:35:16 · answer #1 · answered by denand2003 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Continental Drift by Russel Banks, although it's also one of the *best* books I've ever read. Unfortunately that's true of a lot of great literature. I think it's a challenge to write something significant and meaningful that is not also very sad. Which I guess says much about the human condition.
Responding to another poster: I didn't find War and Peace depressing, at least not in the final takeaway. I guess maybe there are sections of it that are overwhelming... Still I was surprised to see that listed.
2006-09-01 22:59:37 · answer #2 · answered by War News Junkie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Chatham School Affair by Thomas H. Cook!
The libary classified it as crime fiction. But I disagree. It is a love story. The crime could only refer to the ''forbidden love'' between Miss Channing and Mr Reed. I am rebuked. LOVE CAN EXIST IN ALL CONDITIONS AND HAS NO LIMITS OR BOUNDARIES. I also learnt the cruelty of life--the short life of Sarah Doyle.
The narrator( Henry) loves Sarah and the author also gave hints that Sarah also loves him back. However, their love did not have the chance to blossom.
Miss Channing and Mr Reed( already married) also love each other a lot. However in the end it came to nothing wonderful but caused the deaths of Sarah Doyle and Mrs Reed, and the shattered life of Mary Reed( the daughter).
IF YOU LOVE SOMEONE, BE BRAVE ENOUGH TO DO IT. LOVE IS NEVER WRONG.
2006-09-01 04:45:16 · answer #3 · answered by Echo Forest 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
And I Don't Want To Live This Life, by Deborah Spungen, whose murdered daughter Nancy lives on in infamy in the forefront of early punk rock.
From the pictures and videos, it's easy for people to caricature her. Her mother's account culls up a very different image of a highly intelligent, impressionable little Jewish girl, who was never very long for the world.
2006-09-01 04:31:39 · answer #4 · answered by Em 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't remember the author, but I think the book was a true story called
"A Boy Named Nothing" about an abused little boy .
It's very, very sad and so Brutal.
You'll be outraged.
I read it about 3 years ago & still can't get over it.
2006-09-01 03:39:53 · answer #5 · answered by Mary* 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A novel titled Youth by a South African writer J.M Coetzee.
The story ended really in such a dark and depressing fashion for the main protaganist and supporting characters , you really had to draw in a deep breath,... out of shock. But i like the honesty of the novel.......one of those novels that truly depicts the human condition in it's most unapolagetically true to life way, i actually love the author for it bcoz it is rare for that to happen............:-)
2006-09-01 04:49:06 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Beauty of Men by Andrew Holleran, I followed that up with Cry of the Owl by Patricia Highsmith. That combination of books will make you almost suicidal.
2006-09-01 10:51:52 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Silas Marner
2006-09-01 04:25:31 · answer #8 · answered by redunicorn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont' remember the name of it, but it was about the lady who drowned her 5 kids in the bathtub. I got to the chapter describing the actual murders and couldn't read anymore. I cried for a few hours over that one!
2006-09-01 09:23:11 · answer #9 · answered by lilcountrygirl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Hours
2006-09-01 03:38:05 · answer #10 · answered by mjfluffypuff 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋