What is the saddest book you've ever read?
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I cried a little when reading It's like this, cat. Gilead's Blood is a pretty sad book. Things just never seem to go right for that guy. I've never read the Hours heresy but I've read enough Lexicanum articles to know the gist and that makes me sad. In fact w40k in general makes me sad. The space marines lack of recruits, regressive policies, chaos's ever increasing influence.
Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo is by far the saddest most disturbing book I have ever read. Its about a WWI veteran that had his arms, legs, and most of his chest and face blown off by a mortar round. He spends the whole book praying for death in darkness while listening to the doctors and nurses keeping him alive. The part with the rat made me not want to leave my house ever again.
Ender's Game<\i> is quite sad at the very end. Extremely identifiable characters helped me get emotionally involved in the book as well.
I've read quite a few novels, including some of the ones you guys mentioned here; Amber Spy Glass; ender's game; harry potter; child called it; bible; 1984; Forever war; Starship troopers; etc... And seen some of the movies too, Man on fire; Green mile; etc... But none of these moved me to tears, or stirred up particularly strong emotion.
I think Hemingway and Steinbeck are good writers for sad books, but neither "Grapes of Wrath" nor "Of mice and men" made me cry, because yes it is sad, but you just get angry at the injustice of it all, and the anger covers the sadness. Same thing can be said about Anne Frank's dairy and the Rape of Nanking.
Having said that, I dropped tears at the end of "Titanic" when the engineer was looking at his watch, and the musicians kept playing as the ship sunk. Spielberg's "AI" also made me cry near the end. Somehow movies just seem like a much more intense experience.
I think Hemingway and Steinbeck are good writers for sad books, but neither "Grapes of Wrath" nor "Of mice and men" made me cry, because yes it is sad, but you just get angry at the injustice of it all, and the anger covers the sadness. Same thing can be said about Anne Frank's dairy and the Rape of Nanking.
Having said that, I dropped tears at the end of "Titanic" when the engineer was looking at his watch, and the musicians kept playing as the ship sunk. Spielberg's "AI" also made me cry near the end. Somehow movies just seem like a much more intense experience.
Flowers for Algernon is such a terribley sad book, and I would put it up there...But I cryed like a pussy at the end of His Dark Materials.
The Green Mile by Stephen King had me pretty close to a tear.
Watchmen is really quite sad too.
Watchmen is really quite sad too.
When the newspaper vendor and the black kid hug when they are about to die and when Rorschach gets it =[
The Subtle Knife/Amber Spyglass, Parts of the Game of Thrones saga (Hedge Knight in particular) and Haunted all are very sad
Probably Of Mice and Men. Read that this year in school. Lennieeeee... 
Oh, and The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde is pretty sad.
Oh, and The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde is pretty sad.
The Green Mile. I didn't just cry when I read it, I never stopped crying. I've cried much more frequently ever since I read it. You might say it changed my life, or at least the way I approach my feelings.
1984 was pretty depressing but
It can only be Metamorphosis
you can at least take solace in that he isn't being tortured anymore now that he has been broken.
It can only be Metamorphosis
the bit at the end when his family are outside in the sun talking about all the bright new tommorrows they now have since the burden of Gregor has been lifted, it really breaks my heart every time
Nice. I always liked Kar and Huttser the most, of the main characters. I also named a Tauren Shaman Tsinga.balinus said: