Discussion Most depressing novel

It IS too depressing.. I found myself crying for two days and question this whole world why did it have to be like that? xD But you wanted something like that right?

 

Xia Niangniang for me.

 

Now, Gate of Good Fortune is pretty ....... your right the begining was sad, just sad. The rest was good.

 

I don't have a novel in mind right now, but I would give a special mention to the Korean webtoon Kubera.

The author is a sadist. Nearly all the characters are miserable, and they are all miserable in different ways. There is such a sheer originality in misery, you're baffled by how she comes up with all these situations. And if the 'quality' of misery isn't enough, the author piles on the quantity too.

It's a series which makes dying look like the happy outcome. There are moments where it literally sucks the joy out of you.

The ironic thing is that it tricks you at first by making you think it's a comedy.

 

Now I want to know...but don't tell me.

 

The gate of good fortune

 

Invisible Dragon is so depressing... Look how he destroys stuff and things go boom... The loss of life... He must be so lonely...

 

not a light novel -> Death Note: the ending was just ............. mind-raping.

 

Falling Dreams of Fang Hua I'm afraid of continuing to read ;-;

 

Book of the Malazan Fallen (series) by Steven Erikson - It's a vast epic with great parts, awesome story and extremely depressing when looking how human nature is reflected so truly and naturally, in an unnatural world.

The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever - truly depressing in so many ways. A series of books where so little happens within all the words written, but it is absolutely enthralling in how dreary it is.


World of Cultivation - cause I read till the ending....

 

novel w/ Naive Male Lead

 

Any that contains major NTR.

 

i mean the time between releases is the depressing thing

 

It was Shen Mu.

 

this a hungarian book, about a group of young child having fun
but then private nemecsek dies a sad death

 

Lord of flies

 

Three Days of Happiness
Contrary to the name i cried through like 90% of this. It still haunts me =_=;;;;

 

dont know why people need depressing novels in brazil if you want to read something depressing you can just read the newspaper

 

i was about to say "My Fiancé is in Love with My Little Sister" but then realised people already said it

well..i dropped it cause i knew for a fact my fav ship is never gonna be together..so i made a fanfic just for them lol[in mah fantasies]

 

Little match girl
Gomen ne, onii-sama
Shuumatsu Nani Shitemasu ka? Isogashii desu ka? Sukutte Moratte Ii desu ka?
Mulberry song
Three days of happiness
Lament at changmen palace
Ballad of ten thousand gu
I want to eat your pancreas
Lemon incest

This is in no particular order, but Mulberry song, ballad of ten thousand gu, and lament at changmen palace is especially heart wrenching. Finishing each of these novels made me sink into depression for a day each. "Gomen ne, onii-sama" was also heart wrenching as hell, not because of an intense bad thing happening to her (the protagonist), but because her sense of self-sacrifice is just too much. Like, damn.
Lemon incest is no.1 depression for me, though. Its realism hits home, the ending was just the rotten cherry on top.

Aside from Kino no tabi, those novels are pretty "happy," as a whole, right?

Edit: ah, shit. Just realised this post was made around 2-3 years ago.