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24 Mar 2008, 11:08 pm

Importance of Being a Wallflower was sad for me.



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30 Mar 2008, 12:32 am

The happy prince by Oscar Wilde :cry:



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01 Apr 2008, 5:36 pm

Another vote for McCarthy's The Road.



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02 Apr 2008, 7:03 pm

MissPickwickian wrote:
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Maus, a graphic novel.

Of Mice And Men.


Mice really get to you, huh?


Bwahah. Coincidence, I think, but I did use to have pet mice.

Sorry you didn't like Maus...I wouldn't call the father completely mature though. I don't know if you read Maus II, but in it there's a very ironic scene where old Vladek is shown to be racist against African Americans despite being a victim of the holocost.



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02 Apr 2008, 7:26 pm

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George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four is more disturbing than sad, but it is sad in the fact that Winston is completely destroyed as a person by Miniluv- the Winston that was is gone by the end of the ordeal.

Other than that, though, I don't read any sad books.

I was gunna say the same thing



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08 Apr 2008, 6:17 pm

Veresae wrote:
MissPickwickian wrote:
Veresae wrote:
Maus, a graphic novel.

Of Mice And Men.


Mice really get to you, huh?


Bwahah. Coincidence, I think, but I did use to have pet mice.

Sorry you didn't like Maus...I wouldn't call the father completely mature though. I don't know if you read Maus II, but in it there's a very ironic scene where old Vladek is shown to be racist against African Americans despite being a victim of the holocost.


I hate to say bad things about someone's favorite writer. It's a personal taste thing. I am of the opinion that Holocaust stories possess a bleak purity that should not be disturbed by postmodern anything, especially weird animal allegories. That's why Speigelman, Thomas Pynchon, and Johnathan Safran Foer drove me crazy with their bizarre, purpose-defeating, holokitschy, hyper-ironic postmodernism (sorry for the strong words). Maus could have been great, but Speigelman went about it in the wrong way.


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09 Apr 2008, 5:33 am

les miserables



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09 Apr 2008, 12:46 pm

Sad books don't really bother me, so I am going for the most oppresive. For me I think that was James Joyces Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. In this book is a part in his school where a priest explain every way to get into Hell. It is a very fanatic priest, so that is just about everything a normal person does :). This part is written so horrible it almost made me sick. Absolutely fantastic!



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10 Apr 2008, 2:03 am

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding
The Plague Dogs by Richard Adams
Sirius by Olaf Stapledon
The Outsiders by Susan Hinton