You ever read a book, finish it, and just want to sob? Just finished a book with the most gut wrenching ending and now I don’t know what to do except stare at a wall or sleep 😭
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I loved a book right up until the very last couple of paragraphs and the ending was just so tragic. I was heartbroken that the characters had a chance of happiness snatched away and that the author had seen fit to do it! I cried and was in a slough of despond for weeks!
A small snack that you actually enjoy to help with dopamine at least to level out the blues? Sometimes I hate finishing a book because well, thats it its done now.
I buy books in pairs. I read the intense book first. Then immediately start reading the "cleanse" book. For example; Dean koontz thriller is often followed by a John Grisham or James Patterson novel.
My book was a Bridge to the Other side,you know Schindler’s List well the book is set during the same time,and written by someone who was actually there,it doesn’t mention Schindler,but it’s horrifying to see the way that book was from insider’s perspective
It's pretty normal for me to be in a daze when I finish a really good book. Sometimes I get so far in that trying to exist IRL when I finish makes my head fuzzy.
“My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods: time will change it, I’m well aware, as winter changes the trees. My love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath: a source of little visible delight, but necessary.”
This book will take you to a place you have not been to. And the people; their habits, morals, actions are strange, disturbing, adrift from convention. I loved the book because I was given a peephole into this solitary and strange and disturbing world.
*Not me wanting to know which book you just finished* 😂 I could use something to 'move me' in such a way that isn't the messed up surreal timeline happening in our country right now.
I don't know if I wanted to sob at the end; the whole thing was engrossing & parts of it gut-wrenching. "I Know This Much Is True" by Wally Lamb. I wasn't even sure what to say about it when I finished other than "Wow."
The human experience can be quite sad sometimes. I like to follow one of those books with a regency romance. You know what to
expect and the twisted storylines that allows the characters to get it on are funny and inventive.
This! Most definitely. It’s why I enjoy reading series, to delay the inevitable. lol
I also tend to slow down as I’m closing in on the end of a book. I mean, these characters become “my friends” I am going to miss them. Hey, it’s nice to meet people who get it.✌🏽
Finished AS Byatt’s The Children’s Book on Sunday and tears came to my eyes. We can live with monstrous people around us, leading us, and adapt. Yet when we read the tragedies that monstrous people bring on, we weep.
This book wrecked me..and my granddaughter as well, who read it first, at 17 and recommended it to me. We both cried at several points during and also at the end.
Oh, I have a heart of stone, but the ending of 'A God in Ruins' by Kate Atkinson had me in bits. I don't think I've cried like that since I was a child and read Black Beauty.
Cried for 30 minutes after the death of a side character. My husband thought he'd done something. I explained the scene. Then we laughed so hard I cried again. Lol
So why would anyone want to read material that one lives in daily? Wouldn’t they want a bit of escapism? Albeit for a brief nanosecond. Asking for a friend 😀
Not often, but I haven't read for fun in quite some tad sadly...
I have watched some anime as of late and cried though. Not even just because it's sad necessarily -- but just because the journey is over; there's no more, that's it.
Wonder how much HRT is affecting that in me though tbh
When I got to the end of Captain Corelli's Mandolin, I actually said out loud "you bastard!" Why oh why did he end it like that?? Still bugs me nearly two decades later...
I have to always have my next book on hand before I finish the first. I don't need to start it until the next day, but I need the security of it being there. Then I can process the end on the first more easily.
I completely agree with everyone saying Song of Achilles, but I would also like to suggest Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro and Dubliners (but specifically "The Dead") by James Joyce. I reread those about once a year, and they break my heart every time. It hurts, but in the best way.
If I feel like a book is going to upset me I don’t finish it. I don’t want to be there when the bad things happen to the characters I love. It’s ridiculous and childish. I don’t do it with films, just books.
“But after I got them to leave and shut the door and turned off the light it wasn't any good. It was like saying good-bye to a statue. After a while, I went out and left the hospital and walked back to the hotel in the rain."
— Final lines of “A Farewell to Arms,” Ernest Hemingway
I discovered this original, now out of print, edition of The Jungle. I had not read the “unabridged” or abridged version. The forward and introduction to this book. I highly recommend it. I purchased mine through https://Abebooks.com
Yes. I've also watched movies and tv shows where the ending or last episode was so emotional for me that I literally could not do anything other than go outside and walk to calm down enough to go home and go to bed.
Many many years ago Exodus by Leon Uris had that effect on me. Now today my heart in breaking for the people of Palestine and Israel. What a world we live in.
To let loose a valve on emotion that you may have kept a tighter turn on.
To leave yourself more open to similar experiences again soon after.
To become less jaded.
It's an act I hope many creatives have at the forefront of their motivation. To touch the hearts of those who welcome it.
Human Acts by Han Kang, who won this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. A novel set within the 1980 student uprising in Gwangju, South Korea. Devastatingly beautiful and tragic. Her prose is like poetry, and beautifully translated. Have never sobbed so hard at the last few pages of a book 😭
Well they are just thoughts? Emotional content attached to sense of touch, smell, hear, smell whilst you were reading perhaps? Using your powerful imagination impressed upon your heart?
Kristin Hannah does this to me and yet I keep reading her books… of course with some palette cleansers in between because I’m not that much of a masochist.
I MAY have just purchased the deluxe edition with the sprayed edges on your recommendation (I saw your reply to someone else in the thread here!) 🥲 preparing for ALL the feels lol
Yes, and I was glad it wasn’t my gut wrenching end. 🙏🤞
Distracting you from that:
Have you read any C K McDonnell? Aka Caimh McDonnell. Prolifically brill, honest writer. Tackles serious with incredible humour. On Audible too. The guy he gets to read it, is superb.
I began with his Stranger Times.
😊
The Reading List by Sara Nisha Adams did this for me. There wasn't some big, tragic ending. It was calm and wholesome even. But the general vibe made me chokesob and phone my grandparents, who live a couple continents away. It made me yearn for my childhood years in a way I hadn't ever before🥲
That was me reading “The Inverted Forest” by John Dalton.
Managed to finish it just as my subway ride was ending.
I started legit bawling and STILL had to walk 3 more blocks home bawling my eyes out. And I’m one fugly crier.
me finishing blood over bright haven earlier this month, i love a book where there's just no conceivable ending better than the heartwrenching one you got 😭
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If this is love - I do not want it! :)
expect and the twisted storylines that allows the characters to get it on are funny and inventive.
I was not ok
Foolishly finished it on the train coming home to London from Amsterdam.
SOBBED.
Other passengers saw.
I had to compose myself in the toilet.
Also a couple of comics like Sex Criminals and The Wicked and the Divine.
I also tend to slow down as I’m closing in on the end of a book. I mean, these characters become “my friends” I am going to miss them. Hey, it’s nice to meet people who get it.✌🏽
What was the book?
So yes. Exactly that.
I have watched some anime as of late and cried though. Not even just because it's sad necessarily -- but just because the journey is over; there's no more, that's it.
Wonder how much HRT is affecting that in me though tbh
— Final lines of “A Farewell to Arms,” Ernest Hemingway
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41681
Art is amazing.
Sometimes it can leave one feeling empty, but it also feels human.
To leave yourself more open to similar experiences again soon after.
To become less jaded.
It's an act I hope many creatives have at the forefront of their motivation. To touch the hearts of those who welcome it.
Distracting you from that:
Have you read any C K McDonnell? Aka Caimh McDonnell. Prolifically brill, honest writer. Tackles serious with incredible humour. On Audible too. The guy he gets to read it, is superb.
I began with his Stranger Times.
😊
Managed to finish it just as my subway ride was ending.
I started legit bawling and STILL had to walk 3 more blocks home bawling my eyes out. And I’m one fugly crier.