/lit/ - Literature

>>18055728
yes.
my diary desu

The Semplica-Girl Diaries did that to me. Walked around lost all day.

>>18055728
Unironically, certain works of erotica on literotica.

>>18055728
Your diary desu

Not yet but I'm sure I will. I'm heavily affected by stuff I read though, but the effects are usually more nuanced than crushing depression. The ending of The Idiot was kinda heavy on me. One of my favorite endings and redeemed Dostoy's shitty ending in Crime and Punishment

>>18055728
No but if you want a documentary like that watch "Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father".
You will cry, it will fuck you up

>>18055754

>>18055753
Interesting how does that fuck you up? Is it Just spanking it to deranged filth and then realizing your a lowly coomer.

>>18055728
Patriotism by Mishima was beautiful and fucked me up, I had physical reactions to it.

>>18055728
The ending of A Farewell to Arms felt like a punch in the gut

Stoner.

>>18055728
Norwegian Wood was a gut punch because I was close to what happened at the end

>>18056645
No, I'm a coomer and I don't feel bad about that. It's just some of the fetishy stuff I've seen is more than just boner-killing, it's actually quite depressing/gruesome. I suppose in the end it's a good thing, because it pretty much purged me of most BDSM-type fetishes/interests.

The Idiot, Hero of our Time, Wittgenstein's Nephew, Stoner

>>18055728
The Elementary Particles
Was sober for like 84 days. Finished the novel while out of town. Got back in town, couldn't stop thinking about it, then 24hrs later I was drinking and didn't stop for four months.

>>18057049
This, that book put me in a funk for a while.

>>18055728
Death of Ivan Illyich, one of the first things I read getting into literature. After I finished it I just kind of stared at the wall for a while. In the long run it was good though because that story put into perspective how unhappy I was with the way my life was going.

>>18055748
why am I always late on this

>>18055728
Onani Master Kurosawa

>>18055728
I quit reading Brideshead Revisited 2/3 of the way through because it was too depressing

>>18055728
Gone with the Wind because it was heartbreaking seeing the Confederacy be destroyed

Dude like every fucking book that's supposed to be "good" makes me want to kys irl in minecraft ironically, i'm so fucking glad i dropped out and didn't read this shit back then or 16 year old me wouldn't have made it

>>18056669
man, fuck that book.

the girl next door. the real life story is even worse. anam anam doğmaz olaydım

>>18057522
>>18056669

>>18055728
No, fiction is a waste of time, energy and emotions. I use what I read from philosphy every day.

>>18057685
Countless philosophers also wrote novels. Checkmate homosexual

>>18055754
10/10

>>18055728
i shed a tear when i read Justine

>>18055728
some short story where an abusive husband locks his wife outside a cabin during the winter and she gets frostbite in her feet. pretty sure it ends with her being dragged to the hospital and having to get her feet amputated.

>>18055728
https://groups.google.com/g/alt.true-crime/c/k5N3gtHREjk?pli=1

Click on the second link down (it says Mr. Mike)

The first part messed me up for a couple of days.

Dostoevsky's white nights. A little too relatable.

>>18058118
>Justine
The expansion for Amnesia?

>>18055728
read upon the story of the woman who drilled a puppys anus for crush porn about 5 months ago

>>18059273
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_(de_Sade_novel)

>>18059310
no i no i joke

>>18055728
when I was younger I would constantly have to put books down to get up and walk off the emotions and thoughts while reading
now media doesn't affect me
kinda wish being an emotional child but we all get jaded and bored

dh lawrence and paul bowles write similarly bleak romance stories which I love-hated

taipei fucked me up a bit but thankfully the dude's tendency to humblebrag breaks the spell of hopelessness the book has.

>>18055728
I wrote down the story of my life, I read it, then I got depressed and killed myself.

Multiple manga and light novels have left me depressed to the point of suicidal ideation. It’s not because they profoundly impacted me or anything. It’s because I know they’re precisely just fantastical wish fulfillment even if kind of deep. Yeah, that girl is never going to fall from the sky, I’m never going to get isekai’d, there’s never going to be a call to action. No matter how much I can identify with the protagonist, I’ll always stay them in chapter 1.

>>18059413
Sons and Lovers is a great novel that gets few mentions here.I’ve been interested in Bowles for some time. I’m hoping to check him out within the next year

I read a book about a girl with a brother who commits suicide after he can’t kick his opium addiction...just a month after I resumed a benzodiazepine addiction after being clean for 3 years.

>>18055748
Seconded. I read anons diary, it made me cut myself. :^(

nah no books have done that to me.
some fucked up wikipedia pages have kept me up many nights though.

reading a canticle for leibowitz left me feeling pretty morose for like a week after reading it, took me a while before I moved on and picked up another book. especially this little simple but effective passage:

>“Listen, are we helpless? Are we doomed to do it again and again and again? Have we no choice but to play the Phoenix in an unending sequence of rise and fall? Assyria, Babylon, Egypt, Greece, Carthage, Rome, the Empires of Charlemagne and the Turk: Ground to dust and plowed with salt. Spain, France, Britain, America—burned into the oblivion of the centuries. And again and again and again. Are we doomed to it, Lord, chained to the pendulum of our own mad clockwork, helpless to halt its swing? This time, it will swing us clean to oblivion.”

>>18055760
I'll see your Dear Zachary and raise you 3h45m of kids dying from cancer (pic).

>>18059189
The Last Jew in Treblinka was much worse than that one. I had nightmares (the part where he describes trying to cut a mother's hair fast enough because she doesn't want to be separated from her daughter going into the gas chamber...and doesn't).

The doomed city by the brothers that did roadside picnic. The slow and methodical destruction of optimism got me.

>>18055728
Not depressing, but when I read In Watermelon Sugar by Richard Brautigan I was so creeped-out and disturbed afterwards I legit didn't read anything else for a year and a half. It's not horror, but it's a very unsettling and eerie book. I mean I had other things going on too, but I read that at just the wrong time in my life, i.e. mentally. It's a fucked up book.

The very hungry caterpillar

>>18056696
Yeah the ending to The Idiot is like all hope just got sucked out of the world. The ending to Demons by comparison is just cathartic like in a Greek tragedy