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I am bawling my eyes out and my heart is aching so bad right now


just finished Froth on the Daydream by Boris Vian
What are some of the saddest books you have read

>> No.5534112
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>>5534102

>> No.5534120

>>5534112
ive read this too earlier this year

i need to stop reading such tragic novels

>> No.5534123
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>>5534112
>oprah's book club

>> No.5534127

>>5534123
its really good dont let that fool you

>> No.5534130

>>5534102
Of Mice and Men always gets the feela going

>> No.5534143

>>5534130
Yea read that in middleschool had me crying like a bitch

>“I ought to of shot that dog myself, George. I shouldn't ought to of let no stranger shoot my dog.”


fuckkk

>> No.5534152

>>5534123
Nah, I think Oprah/her crew either saw the word "holocaust" and automatically added it or just wanted to troll the audience.

Believe me, this ain't inspirational stay-at-home housewife tripe.

>> No.5534158

>>5534152
yea listen to this

Night is the most morbid piece of work ive ever read.

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>>5534102
Picked this up because /lit/ was raving over it a while back. I didn't think it was bawl worthy, but it's definitely the most depressing book I've ever read.

>> No.5534160

>>5534152
I believe there's someone in the Oprah book club book choosing team who's actually intelligent, judging from the picks: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oprah%27s_Book_Club

>One Hundred Years of Solitude
>East of Eden
>The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
>Anna Karenina
>The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, Light in August
>The Road
>Love in the Time of Cholera
>Middlesex
>Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities

When you look through the list, it goes from shit to great in 10 years

>> No.5534165

>>5534102
Death's Jest Book By Beddoes

>> No.5534181

>>5534159
I almost bought that when I was at City Lights a few months ago. Bought Trout Fishing in America instead, and I feel like an idiot.

>> No.5534188

>>5534159
Yea looking for something new to read going to go off my list of surrealism thats i need to finish but. probably pick this up instead.

Whats so fucked up in the beggining of Froth of a Daydream it was so cheerfull and innocent and i was laughing and i stop reading half way the next day (which is today) i start reading and it takes a complete turn into the abyss and mutilated all childlike love you had in you.

>> No.5534200

>>5534188
Where did you get Froth and what translation? You've officially piqued my interest and I can't find an English Kindle edition.

>> No.5534209

Hard Rain Falling

>> No.5534213

>>5534181
>>5534188
Yeah I heartily recommend it. It's a good, depressing, fall read.

>> No.5534228

Flowers for Algernon had me chuckling and tearing up at the same time...

god damn goofball

>> No.5534316

>>5534228
what bits were funny? I read and had some mild feels but nothing too heavy.

I read the long novel version though and not the shorter one which apparently is better.

any help on Foam on the Daydream btw OP? Can't locate it.

>> No.5534493

>>5534200
sorry i took so long to apply im cleaning my house cus that book left me really emotional

here you go buddy

http://bookzz.. org/book/2085702/dcc02c

>> No.5534509

>>5534200
>>5534493
reply* here some other sourcess i use i sometimes either buy my books (e.i amazon book stores) or kindle but some times i use these

bookkz DOT org

http://ebooks-shares DOT org/


http://avaxhome DOT ws/ebooks

also use this forum some times instead of /lit/ to get some recs or bookdownloads

https://forum DOT suprbay.org/Thread-list-of-free-ebook-dwnld-sites

hope this helps also report back after you read Froth on the Daydream i want to hear what you think about it :)

>> No.5534522

>>5534181
Hey I went to City Lights back in May while I was on a road trip thing out west. Really cool place, had pretty much everything I was looking for if only I had the money to buy them all.
Oddly enough though the one book I did get there was one of John Williams' other novels Butchers Crossing.

>> No.5534545

>>5534509
Thanks so much OP. Can't believe you had a pdf of it, they aren't even selling an ebook version online!

>> No.5534559

>>5534545
Well you know me :P

also the book is surrealistic not sure if you know already that so be ready for your creativity to be challenged.

>> No.5534572

>>5534316
>I read the long novel version though and not the shorter one which apparently is better.

I liked the long version more myself.

>> No.5534579

>>5534522
I'm going to San Francisco at the end of the year, has City Lights got the New York Review of Books Classics? They don't sell them here in Australia so I want to pick some up while I'm in the states.

>> No.5534588

>>5534579
Yeah, they've got a lot. Best selection I've ever seen in a bookstore honestly.

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>>5534102

Holy shit the guy who wrote that book likes exactly like Jason Segel

>> No.5534607

>>5534579
They have plenty of classics there

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>>5534593
>tfw Jason Segel looks like every author

>> No.5534637

>>5534316
>>5534493
there you go not sure if you saw it

>>5534593
lol wut

>> No.5534649

>>5534228

>>5534572

You guys talking about Flowers for Algernon? havent picked it up yet looks interesting is the short story worth the read or should i just dive into the novel

>> No.5534763

>>5534102
Just found out they have a movie coming out in English this year the french one was made lastyear by the same guy who directed Enternal Sunshine of a Spotless mind

>> No.5534792

>>5534649

The novel is already pretty short, just read it.

>> No.5534807

>>5534637
>PDF

Thanks?

>> No.5534840

>>5534807
what were you wanting sorry

>> No.5534843

Piers Anthony
Had a series of novels set in the Zanth universe.

It's silly joy filled word play puns and interesting story arcs.

Then. Basking in the warm afterglow of such a wonderful good mood feels.

You read the dedication at the end.

He dedicates it to factual people and the things that have happened to them in the real world.

You don't expect it after such a warm feel good book. And the effect is like watching your dog dying your parents in suffering AND getting betrayed by the person you love.

You are left with the darkest cloud imaginable hanging over your head and you can't stop shuddering, heaving and crying.

It's remarkable.

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>>5534843

>> No.5534863

>>5534843
just looked up the series pretty huge. ill embark on that journey on monday thining about reading Stoner

>> No.5534904

>>5534112
>kids in my little sister's high school class are reading that instead of catcher in the rye
schools need to step up

>> No.5534913

>>5534904
lol seriously what grade level? its a pretty messed up book

>> No.5534916

>>5534904
>>5534913
We read this in Junior high. 7th grade, I believe.

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>>5534102

This was really depressing. It's about the everyday life of a guy who works destroying books for the Nazi government in Czechoslovakia.

>> No.5535165

>>5534973
damn im definitely interested