Most Depressing Book Ending.
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Where the Red Fern Grows was possibly one of the best worst ways to introduce the world of American fiction to a grade 3 class.
Not only do the protagonist's family have to give up their hard-earned family land because they are up to their eyeballs in debt durring the onset of what I am assuming is the great depression or something of similar magnitude because they can't support themselves and create a livelyhood in the long-dead American West, but the boy's dog is ripped appart by a cougar, and dies with his entrails seeping out of his body. Then his OTHER dog dies... OF A BROKEN HEART! WTF!
Animal Farm
Brave New World.
Actually, especially Brave New World. That was a sad, disturbing, but amazing book.
EDIT: 1984 didn't really make me as sad as these two. I don't know why, I guess it's because the main character at the end is (sort of) at peace.
Brave New World.
Actually, especially Brave New World. That was a sad, disturbing, but amazing book.
Nothing is accomplished by the sad, pathetic main character. He gets what he wants, which is recognition (albeit slight). The "savage" who he goes out to rescue cannot cope with the modern society, and also is unable to cope with his love for one of the other main characters. He kills himself, brutally, at the end when he realises that one night when he was on a frenzy he beat the girl he loved half to death.
EDIT: 1984 didn't really make me as sad as these two. I don't know why, I guess it's because the main character at the end is (sort of) at peace.
The Hounds of Avalon part of The Dark Age series one big ass battle set in fantsy would then right when it all looks like its going to get shit for the hero's and the big bad guy is about to arive and will distory realty and u just know some one is going to kick his ass wenh he gets there because thats what alsways happens in fantsy but no turns out he was the like a year ealyer and had got the govement that the heros were defending to betray them an the big bad guy had been in the celler the whole time and was just well toying wit them then he just walks out gose i win and changes realty back to normal (with out magic and dragons n stuff) and put all the heros in there own lightle hell also no one rembers the magic and stuff (e.g. the 2 that love each other work in the sam building but can not talk to each other) it kinda sad puc it tock 6 over 300 page books to get to this point so the righter turns realty back to normal
there are 3 more books now that still make it a sad ending but not as sad as they continy the story
there are 3 more books now that still make it a sad ending but not as sad as they continy the story
I was going to say that but hey how about 1984.That Guy Who Phails said:
Tell me about the rabbits...Magnalian said:
Yeah, to be honest I didn't really feel sorry for Lady or Lord Macbeth. She was power hungry and he was an idiot. The scene that really set off my sense of apathy for those two was when Macbeth had just barley came back from the war and his wife just only says "Hi honey welcome back. You gotta get ready for tonight because I want you to kill the king.", and his only response was "Uh..." (paraphrasing for the internet =P)tahrey said:
Damn, what a question! Let's see. Movie-wise...
Let's start from early on... "Citizen Kane". "Casablanca". "Quadrophenia". "The Poseidon Adventure". "Magnolia". "The Usual Suspects". (Yeah, think about it. What happens to Gabriel Byrne's character in that movie?) And talking of depressing off-screen deaths... "No Country for Old Men". Then you have the horror staples: "The Exorcist", "The Omen", et al. And the great granddaddy of them all, "Night of the Living Dead". Oh yeah, and more recently you got films like all three "Bourne" movies, "Quantum of Solace" (sorry detractors, but that final scene was the best thing of any of the last six Bond movies, no matter what you think of the rest of the movie), and I'm sure there's others.
But here's a completely off-the-wall suggestion: "Super-size me". The movie that finally taught me that I couldn't live on junk food for the rest of my life. And what could be more depressing than that?
Let's start from early on... "Citizen Kane". "Casablanca". "Quadrophenia". "The Poseidon Adventure". "Magnolia". "The Usual Suspects". (Yeah, think about it. What happens to Gabriel Byrne's character in that movie?) And talking of depressing off-screen deaths... "No Country for Old Men". Then you have the horror staples: "The Exorcist", "The Omen", et al. And the great granddaddy of them all, "Night of the Living Dead". Oh yeah, and more recently you got films like all three "Bourne" movies, "Quantum of Solace" (sorry detractors, but that final scene was the best thing of any of the last six Bond movies, no matter what you think of the rest of the movie), and I'm sure there's others.
But here's a completely off-the-wall suggestion: "Super-size me". The movie that finally taught me that I couldn't live on junk food for the rest of my life. And what could be more depressing than that?
The endings to Khaled Hosseini's The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns. Tiptoeing the line of bittersweet, they're both still damn depressing.
And the final book in the Hunger Games Trilogy: Mockingjay was also pretty much just straight up depressing.
And the final book in the Hunger Games Trilogy: Mockingjay was also pretty much just straight up depressing.
I'm gonna go with Brisingr. Oromis got slaughtered and Glaedr followed soon only to have his mind/soul retreat into the crystal thing and realize what happened. I was pretty sad.
I completely agree with you there. The ending never fails to make me cry. It's beautiful but so tragic, and it catches me every time.Koroviev said:
I once watched The Mist. While the film itself was a little "ehh", the ending made me wallow in sadness for a while.
A group of people, including a man and his son, escape from a supermarket after being trapped there by the mist, which hides horrible monsters. The car they're in runs out of petrol, so to spare themselves, they decide to shoot each other. There're four bullets to five people, the man shoots his son, then gets out of the car and begs the monsters to come for him, only to discover the military are there, clearing the mist. I was depressed for hours, it was horrible.
And book-wise, The Two Princesses of Bamarre made me cry when I was younger...
A princess goes on a huge quest to save her sister, but doesn't manage to save her in time. Her sister turns into a fairy and lives a wonderful life, but it's the questing sister's reaction when she discovers she won't be able to spend time with her sister again that upsets me.
Burmese Days was very depressing in the end, after building up to a nice happy ending it suddenly turns on you. Damn you Orwell!