"Heart of Darkness". Most depressing book of all time. Incidentally, "Apocalypse Now", based on the book, is the most depressing movie of all time.
Most Depressing Book Ending.
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Are you by chance referring to the Ray Bradbury short story "The Veltd"? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Veldtlax4life said:
That was a pretty disturbing little story there, but then so was a lot of the rest of the book. (The illustrated Man)
Hmm, sort of a confusing, frustrating ending, "The Iron Throne" (I forget the author's name)It was a fairly run of the mill fantasy story, warrior rising to king as he tries to rid the world of a monstrous villain, the usual stuff one would expect. But then came the end of the book.
Its the big climactic battle with the good army and bad army, lots of fighting, and naturally the hero and big bad search one another out, and the two go into battle one on one.
The fight is basically over before it begins. This evil overlord type just decimates the hero, and then kills him. In about the space of half a page. No joke. The hero barely has time to make it a slightly less effective victory as he destroys his magic powers before the villain can take them, but he still wins the battle. All that buildup for a sudden kick in the gut. There was one more chapter of wrap-up, but it was mostly depressing stuff about this villain being just as evil as advertised, and the one elf character depressed about it centuries later.
Yeah.
Don't know if its been said, but 1984 was pretty depressing.
Winston losing all emotion and everything of value to be replaced with Big Brother and then realizing that with him being turned over, there is no more humanity left. All thats left is the Party and what it stands for. No more thought and no more freedom. Everything is gone.
The ending of Armour of Contempt A Gaunt's Ghost novel made me fucking cry.I actually hated Dan Abnett for that ending
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Reading the end and having caff die who was one of my favorite characters just tore me up inside.
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Reading the end and having caff die who was one of my favorite characters just tore me up inside.
By far, the saddest story with the saddest ending, for me, is Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.
<spoiler= spoiler> It is about a Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, who comes to America in pursuit of work. Actually, just read the plot summary on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Plot_summary.
I'm not going to spoil a perfectly good book, but needless to say, I felt tearful while reading it.<spoiler= spoiler>It is a socialist book, so if you're offended at that sort of thing, then I would not recommend reading it.
<spoiler= spoiler> It is about a Lithuanian immigrant, Jurgis Rudkus, who comes to America in pursuit of work. Actually, just read the plot summary on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle#Plot_summary.
I'm not going to spoil a perfectly good book, but needless to say, I felt tearful while reading it.<spoiler= spoiler>It is a socialist book, so if you're offended at that sort of thing, then I would not recommend reading it.
Works of fiction don't really affect me emotionally. I can't think of any books or movies with endings that actually depressed me, and only one game has ever managed to do so. Red Dead Redemption.
this is kind of why I liked the game better....Ekonk said:
it had choices yo, and yeah, it didn't let me feel like shit
I'd have to say the book about cloning and organ replacement thereof. Like the Island only more open... A school tries to prove they have souls, and well, I don't know the name of the book, but yeah, I don't know how to use spoilers so use your imagination to fill in the last bleak, abyssal hole that is the end of the book...
Dude c'mon man! Almost ANYTHING written by George Orwell is depressing; Animal Farm, 1984, Coming up for Air, Down and Out in London and Paris!That Guy Who Phails said:
David Gemmel can get pretty depressing too. "Hey guys! I'm gonna make a bunch of unique individuals that you're all gonna have some attachment to. Then I'm gonna kill 'em!"
Martians thank you very much, and wasn't the cold that killed them, it was bacteria. The common cold is a virus afterall! And as sci-fi goes that's a pretty believable ending. Wells likened it to the deaths of savages from small pox and the like. You don't have the immune system to deals with Earth's microbiology you're gonna die from infections!Hooded.Gamer said:
I'm going to agree with you on all points here. Because yes it's believable, that's not what I have a problem with.Dwarfman said:
I have a problem with the buzz-kill it gives! It's a great sci-fi (I'd even say Horror/Sci-Fi) but the ending is just . . . . anti-climatic.
Movie would have to be the Boy in The Striped Pajamas, I mean the ending is probably the most depressing thing I have ever watched. Made everyone in the room burst out into tears.
If I had to choose a book, it would have to be The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
The Young German boy finally gets through the fence to the Jew Boy, who gives him clothes and lets him come in and be with him. But, on that day the boys are caught in the grasp of the soldiers who are on duty and take both the boys and some other men and women into the gas chamber, all the while the mother and father of the German Boy try to find him, which they wind up being only seconds too late.
If I had to choose a book, it would have to be The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath.
I remember tearing up pretty badly during a story from "The Illustrated Man".
Basically, the author was describing the last few minutes of a couple of futuristic astronauts who were slowly falling towards their death after their ship blew up. It's just depressing to imagine falling from space and knowing that you're going to get obliterated on impact with a planet's protective layer.
Basically, the author was describing the last few minutes of a couple of futuristic astronauts who were slowly falling towards their death after their ship blew up. It's just depressing to imagine falling from space and knowing that you're going to get obliterated on impact with a planet's protective layer.
*chuckle* That was actually pretty funny. XDziggydk said:
I think the whole story has a depressing tone to it mostly because it's easy to relate to the guy and how he doesn't know what he wants to do in life. I read it in high school and found myself nodding along for a good part of the book. Everyone feels at least once in their life that they don't know where they're going and no one can help or understand them.The Seldom Seen Kid said:
Martin The Warrior
Or Cat's Cradle:
After having is mother killed in a raid by pirates and his father disappearing with a stalwart band that set out after them he is enslaved by a brutal overlord. He fights for his own freedom and that of the other slaves. Many of them would not survive the battle including Rose who was to be his wife. After having fought so long and hard for the victory, it is too bitter for Martin to enjoy so he wanders off into the world, abandoning those he had helped to save.
It all turns out well for him in the end. After he is captured, has his father's sword sundered, goes on a terrible quest to find help where his blade is reforged, he finally battles another tyrant and slew her in single combat though he himself was badly wounded. He went on to help those he had freed build an Abbey and was forever known as a saint and a hero
It all turns out well for him in the end. After he is captured, has his father's sword sundered, goes on a terrible quest to find help where his blade is reforged, he finally battles another tyrant and slew her in single combat though he himself was badly wounded. He went on to help those he had freed build an Abbey and was forever known as a saint and a hero
Or Cat's Cradle:
Ice-9 is accidentially introduced into the ocean reducing all the water on earth into a form of ice that will never melt naturally. Most of the world is almost certainly killed any any who survive risk instant death every time the set foot outside as an errant particle of Ice-9 in the mouth, eye, nose or anywhere else it could find moisture would result in a person being frozen solid