What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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+1 Also...... Sophie's Choice Anna Karenina A Little Life |
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| Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Reading it as a mother just devastated me. |
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| Angela's Ashes |
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| I read Up A Road Slowly as a child and the story of the narrator’s special needs friend disturbed and moved me. I ended up having a daughter with similar challenges and the same beautiful highlights in her hair. Life can imitate art. |
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| Read to my 3rd grade son thinking it was a normal kid book about a dog- Just a Dog. I had to take breaks to catch my breath and was sobbing at one point. Much worse than when I later read him Wonder. |
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| The road |
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| Diary of Anne Frank |
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| All the light we cannot see |
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| Bel Canto always makes me cry. |
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| A Little Life is definitely up there. |
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| Atonement |
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So many from this thread. When I ws in middle school, so very early 80s, there was a special made for TV event of A Tale oF Two Cities, and we got special flyers at school about it. My parents let me stay up and watch it, and to this day I think of that ending - It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known...... And coupled with the opening lines - It was the best of times.... I seriously think that might be the best pairing of first and last line in all of literature.
I read Homegoing last summer and found it deeply sad. Anita Brookner writes sad little novels that I think aren't supposed to be sad, but I find myself just sad and feeling a little lost for days after reading. There's just something lonely and, well sad, about her characters. I read Bel Canto over a long vacation, and while it was a great vacation, it was very tiring (lots of outdoor active stuff) and I finished the book on a cold rainy day near the end of the trip when everyone else had gone out hiking and I stayed in bed to just have a rest day and was destroyed by the ending, even though the author told us it was coming. But the book I sobbed over was Mama Day. Just sobbed! |
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| "Up a Road Slowly" was one of my favorite books in the 60's! |