Most Depressing Book Ending.

[AquaAscension]

Things Fall Apart.

I just finished it today for school, and I was bummed out.

I remember that book but vaguely. Had to read it for an intro to literature class with a teacher that *hated* the british imperialism. For the longest time I wanted to apologize to her, but I figured that would only justify her hatred.

OT: I thought the ending to Brave New World was sad, and that's the only one I can remember for the moment. For a book that's just plain sad to read from beginning to end... It's a book by Toni Morrison - ahh google saves the day - called Beloved. Sad, very powerful.

 

[LittleChone]

The end of the Pendragon series.

I'm not even going to talk about it...

 

[CrazyDave DC]

Easy: 1984 has the saddest, most depressing ending ever; hands down. I'm not going to spoil it (mainly because I'm too lazy to write it all out), but suffice it to say that its ending is beyond tears.

 

[CrazyDave DC]

Easy: 1984 has the saddest, most depressing ending ever; hands down. I'm not going to spoil it (mainly because I'm too lazy to write it all out), but suffice it to say that its ending is beyond tears.

 

[UberLemonBoy]

Old Yeller
don't know if anyone said it yet

 

[HT_Black]

I thought the ending to Brisingr (that's the third Eragon book, for those of you too busy enjoying your lives) was depressing because it ended on a cliffhanger--which means, of course, that we will be getting a fourth one, and that's just too much to bear; just the thought of it makes 1984 look like sunshine and lollipops in comparison.

 

[Boom129]

Narnia: last battle (YMMV big time)

 

[Zeromaeus]

Narnia: last battle (YMMV big time)

Well, yes and no.

Spoiler: THIS IS A SPOILER

Yes, everyone is dead, but they're all in Narnia-heaven. Paradise isn't really a bad ending

 

[TheGreatCoolEnergy]

1984.

Spoiler

"He loved Big Brother"

 

[The Great Gatsby]

The Great Gatsby
Certainly

 

[Nouw]

A while ago I read bridge to terribithia


<spoiler= DONT CLICK ME UNLESS YOU LIKE TO BE SPOILED> after reading it I just kinda sat there. Thinking to myself "How something like that happen to a girl as lively as her." The way it happened was even worse. Using their escape from the real world, she ultimately escaped it forever. Damn they should never make a movie of this.

But if they didn't, I wouldn't have cried like a little girl!

 

[Fajita]

Animal Farm and 1984 REALLY MESSED UP MY MIND. Freshman not the best time to read both of those. Also i read Anthem... now that wasn't as screwed but pretty high up their in my screwed story list.

Animal Farm had too much social/historical commentary to really depress me. I also don't really agree with Orwell's viewpoint on the importance of community, though the ending was quite interesting.

I saw 1984's end coming way to early for it to depress me, but it is still one of my favorite books of all time.

 

[runedeadthA]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassin%27s_Apprentice

Assassin's Apprentice series was a medium fantasy book all in all. the Hero had to struggle his entire life and at the end i was thinking he would be rewarded after it all, and get the life he wanted.

and let me say i have never been so gloom after Finishing reading a book. it made me cry and start drinking wiskey for the night

EDIT: it was at the end of 3´rd and last book

Fear not! There is a sequel trilogy that follows Fitz as he is older. The tone of the books doesn't really improve, but the final ending is....Better (I won't ruin anything). Let's just say that Fitzchivalry can be truly have said to have to work to earn his goddamn happy ending, and he goes through more shit than a sewage worker in New York.

BTW the name of the second series is the "Farseer Trilogy". Read it. (and the other books by Robin Hobb set in the same world)

 

[MakerOfRoads]

The Mist : Stephen King.

If that ending doesnt kick you in the jumblies, nothing will.

 

[cp2u]

The Mist : Stephen King.

If that ending doesnt kick you in the jumblies, nothing will.

I assume you're talking about the movie. The book ends one scene earlier than the movie does, leaving it more open for the reader to decide what happened.

 

[ALX-00]

Animal Farm

Brave New World.


Actually, especially Brave New World. That was a sad, disturbing, but amazing book.

Spoiler

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.

I little note on BNW:

Spoiler

Not only did he brutally beat Lenina, almost killing her, he also participated in the soma induced orgy that had happened as a result of the exciting events. I wouldn't really say he brutally killed himself, as all he did was hang himself, but I will agree that the ending is pretty depressing, especially since nothing in the world is really changed and that the World State will continue to live on as it did.

 

[the clockmaker]

An arsonists guide to writers homes in new england.

Spoiler

The main characters wife leaves him for his stalker. His father was having an affair. His father's mistress has framed him for several counts of arson and then immolates herself, framing him for that too. His mother burns his father to death and the main character is blamed for it. He spends the rest of his life in jail, knowing that everyone is happier without him and to cap it off, the only people who truely like him are using his influence to burn down even more houses.

Whenver I write something, I look at how it ends and so long as it isn't as soul crushing as that book, I continue.

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Animal Farm.

Just........Damn...

That was nothing compared to the ending of 1984.

 

[Gahars]

1984.

The resistance was a sham. Big Brother isn't going anywhere. The protagonist, after being tortured, is a broken man and will be murdered by the government in the very near future. Human freedom is dead.

That's the depressing conclusion to beat all other depressing conclusions.

 

[Gahars]

Also, the Catcher in the Rye, for some reason. I don't even know why. I hate that book.

I thought the ending of Catcher was extremely happy. Holden is in a mental institution and I no longer have to read any more of his incessant whining.

A win-win in my eyes.