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14. Mostly Harmless.

Mon Feb 20, 2012, 06:26 PM

Feb 2012

The last book written by Douglas Adams in the Hitchhiker's Guide series. I'm not going to spoiler it, but reading it made me feel like I'd wasted the previous month reading the entire series.

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Most depressing book you've ever read? [View all] XemaSab Feb 2012 OP

"Something Happened" by Joseph Heller... Scuba Feb 2012 #1

"The Magic Mountain" by Thomas Mann bif Feb 2012 #2

I finished it. The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2012 #6

Steinbeck's East of Eden Brother Buzz Feb 2012 #3

I remember laughing out loud with that book. It was the sideline story about the grandma and the shcrane71 Feb 2012 #83

Oryx & Crake by Margaret Atwood shcrane71 Feb 2012 #84

Grapes of Wrath dana_b Feb 2012 #4

Mine too!!! n/t sammytko Feb 2012 #44

anything by Edith Wharton - Ethan Fromme, House of Mirth sammytko Feb 2012 #45

edith wharton is painful to read Danmel Feb 2012 #97

The Forge of God by Greg Bear Phoonzang Feb 2012 #5

Oh! Much more than sci-fi! One of my all time favorites. kaiden Feb 2012 #22

I'm sure I'm not alone in saying "The Road." Arugula Latte Feb 2012 #7

With you on that...depressing but wonderful still nt Spike89 Feb 2012 #21

Aaaaa! Get me a sharp piece of obsidian! dogknob Feb 2012 #58

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski Silver Swan Feb 2012 #8

Yeah. That one was a real bummer. PassingFair Feb 2012 #16

No, I haven't read it Silver Swan Feb 2012 #40

I have to agree. n/t Canis Mala Feb 2012 #37

That was a tough read progressoid Feb 2012 #47

I had to read that in freshman lit..I had never been exposed to likesmountains 52 Feb 2012 #102

Not a Book exactly, but "King Lear" Burma Jones Feb 2012 #9

The Appeal by John Grisham Staph Feb 2012 #10

"Sophie's Choice" LNM Feb 2012 #11

Yeah that one still sticks with me after 30+ years. canoeist52 Feb 2012 #18

I loved the movie. It was so well done for such a harrowing story. Always meant to read applegrove Feb 2012 #28

So depressing, but I couldn't put the book down. blue neen Feb 2012 #56

Wurthering Heights was pretty damn depressing. - Tuesday Afternoon Feb 2012 #12

The Bible. ohiosmith Feb 2012 #13

SPOILER WARNING next time please! EastTennesseeDem Feb 2012 #20

Sorry! There is a surprise ending that I didn't reveal. ohiosmith Feb 2012 #38

Mostly Harmless. Chan790 Feb 2012 #14

Without hesitation, "Jude the Obscure" PassingFair Feb 2012 #15

Saw 'Jude' the film based on the Hardy novel banned from Kos Feb 2012 #24

Good old Thomas Hardy. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was not exactly a laugh riot either. PassingFair Feb 2012 #31

Any of Hardy's books ChazII Feb 2012 #36

Actually, I'm reading "The Trumpet Major" right now and it's a very good comedy. crim son Feb 2012 #65

Yes, I refuse to read that or see the film... LeftishBrit Feb 2012 #59

1984 pokerfan Feb 2012 #17

And the book is only half as depressing as the real life, truedelphi Feb 2012 #34

That is truly a great quote. snagglepuss Feb 2012 #46

Ironweed by William Kennedy hedgehog Feb 2012 #19

The Yearling. mzteris Feb 2012 #23

Read it twice as a teen. Need to suffer? n/t yankeepants Feb 2012 #79

The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath. dimbear Feb 2012 #25

"The Road" . I saw the movie "Where the Red Fern Grows" as a kid and loved it. Balled my eyes out. applegrove Feb 2012 #26

I would have to go with The Road av8rdave Feb 2012 #32

I never saw the movie: the book was bummer enough FloridaJudy Feb 2012 #80

Yeah. I didn't bother renting the movie. applegrove Feb 2012 #81

I read a lot of Science Fiction FloridaJudy Feb 2012 #91

I always think of my grandmother when I see something distopian and think "Dam, she was applegrove Feb 2012 #93

"Dutch" Joe Bacon Feb 2012 #27

My America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago n/t Massacure Feb 2012 #29

How Green Was My Valley..... Curmudgeoness Feb 2012 #30

Prozac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel Neoma Feb 2012 #33

Fine Balance La Lioness Priyanka Feb 2012 #35

Of Mice And Men. Odin2005 Feb 2012 #39

One that I haven't seen mentioned here, but tugs at my blackened heart strings mythology Feb 2012 #41

On the Beach cyberswede Feb 2012 #42

The Broken Cord by Michael Dorris, nt Broken_Hero Feb 2012 #43

Update: I started reading "To Train Up a Child." XemaSab Feb 2012 #48

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee (spoiler) Shankapotomus Feb 2012 #49

Constantine's Sword greendog Feb 2012 #50

That is a great book hifiguy Feb 2012 #53

Leviticus HopeHoops Feb 2012 #51

"The Women of Brewster Place" would be up there. there's a brutal gang rape scene. nt raccoon Feb 2012 #52

Lord of the Flies Mendocino Feb 2012 #54

Richard Wright's Black Boy DeltaLitProf Feb 2012 #55

"Anna Karenina" blue neen Feb 2012 #57

'The World According to Garp' LeftishBrit Feb 2012 #60

Captain Marooner Doc Holliday Feb 2012 #61

On the Beach tied with This is the Way the World Ends MicaelS Feb 2012 #62

Tess of the D'Urbervilles ceile Feb 2012 #63

"Madame Bovary." crim son Feb 2012 #64

The Handmaid's Tale MH1 Feb 2012 #66

"Crime and Punishment" YankeyMCC Feb 2012 #67

Hunger by Knut Hamsun rug Feb 2012 #68

One Second After MadrasT Feb 2012 #69

Pretty much any children's book from the 1930's to 50's TrogL Feb 2012 #70

'Cold Mountain' sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #71

I Am The Cheese geardaddy Feb 2012 #72

"The Jungle" by Sinclair Lewis Summer Hathaway Feb 2012 #73

Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle"... Upton Feb 2012 #76

Ooops! Summer Hathaway Feb 2012 #78

People of the Lie by M.Scott Peck.. dixiegrrrrl Feb 2012 #74

"The Diary of Anne Frank" ScreamingMeemie Feb 2012 #75

“312 Ways To Die” by Sue I. Cide RedCloud Feb 2012 #77

We Need to Talk About Kevin is on the list but nothing beats Sophie's Choice. Inspired Feb 2012 #82

I have got agree with you sakabatou Feb 2012 #85

1984 by George Orwell mvd Feb 2012 #86

Mockingbird - Walter Tevis and Earth Abides - George R Stewart jannyk Feb 2012 #87

You thought EARTH ABIDES was depressing? I loved it. I found it raccoon Feb 2012 #89

I thought I was the only one who read Mockingbird REP Feb 2012 #98

No, there are two of us! jannyk Feb 2012 #100

almost anything by William Vollmann JCMach1 Feb 2012 #88

The Jungle. Adsos Letter Feb 2012 #90

considering i've read almost every book on this list...hmmmm.... pitohui Feb 2012 #92

Sophie's Choice Luminous Animal Feb 2012 #94

Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo Frank Cannon Feb 2012 #95

My worst experience of all time is with a book of photography: "Inferno" by James Nachtwey GliderGuider Feb 2012 #96

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi Klein hifiguy Feb 2012 #99

The Gulag Archipeligo OffWithTheirHeads Feb 2012 #101