Anonymous
04/03/2019 08:53
Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
"Up a Road Slowly" was one of my favorite books in the 60's!
Anonymous
04/02/2019 20:39
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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!
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!
Anonymous
04/02/2019 20:01
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Atonement
Anonymous
04/02/2019 18:32
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
A Little Life is definitely up there.
Anonymous
04/02/2019 13:32
Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Bel Canto always makes me cry.
Anonymous
03/27/2019 02:16
Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
All the light we cannot see
Anonymous
03/27/2019 01:45
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Diary of Anne Frank
Anonymous
03/25/2019 20:37
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
The road
Anonymous
03/25/2019 20:35
Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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.
Anonymous
03/25/2019 18:38
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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.
Anonymous
03/25/2019 18:33
Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Angela's Ashes
Anonymous
03/25/2019 18:26
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Walk Two Moons by Sharon Creech. Reading it as a mother just devastated me.
Anonymous
03/24/2019 21:49
Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:The Thornbirds
Omg YES. I was a teenage girl when I read this and made me cry for days.
+1 Also......
Sophie's Choice
Anna Karenina
A Little Life