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 Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2008 6:20 pm
The Coachman Rat, by David Henry Wilson.
I'm a rat-lover, so naturally this book kinda broke my heart. ;__;
Synopsis from Amazon.com:
The British author of the Jeremy James children's books puts a spin on the Cinderella and Pied Piper myths and turns "happily ever after" upside down. The eponymous narrator, fascinated by man's power over the world, lets himself be caught in a nonlethal trap and is transformed by a "woman of light" into human form. He is now Robert, the coachman who drives Amadea (former scullery maid) to the Prince's ball in a gold coach (formerly a pumpkin) pulled by six white horses (once mice). At midnight they all revert to their original forms, but our hero can no longer communicate with rats; he can talk with humans, however. Robert searches for the woman of light, who appears after Princess Amadea and the Prince are killed by a mob. Transformed to coachman again, Robert plots revenge on the town. Employing armies of rats, his vendetta turns out disastrously for everyone, including the tormented Robert. Comparisons between men and rodents are effective, and the story has the simple, propulsive feel of a real fairy tale. But not for children.
VERY sad. Don't be mislead by the diminishing synopsis, I had to keep myself from crying several times when reading this, and I do not cry easily, mark my words. The narrator has such a profound perspective on life and the way he describes things isn't common in most books.
This is one of those reads that gets you thinking long after you've finished the book.
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Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 3:44 am
saddest book? of course it´s Veljeni Leijonamieli (My Brother Lionmind).
by Astrid Lindgren.
It´s a story about brothers named Joonatan and Kaarle, "Korppu". At the beginning Joonatan dies in accident and Korppu dies too, ´cause his deathly sick. The brothers meet each other in land named Nangijala. There they start to fight against evil conquerors. In the end, the brothers die again.
That´s sad.
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Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 4:47 pm
The saddest book I can remember reading would be "My Sister's Keeper" by Jodi Picoult. I was sobbing by the end. Synopsis (from barnesandnoble.com): Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate -- a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister -- and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves. If I tried to explain the book, I would probably give away the ending. But I love the book and it is the saddest I have read.
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Posted: Sun Feb 24, 2008 2:08 am
I can't remember the title of the saddest book I've ever read... I can't find it either... I know it's somewhere in my room.
It's about a poor boy and a his dog. The boy befriended a girl from a wealthy family, but her father don't like it. When the boy entered an art contest (he's good in painting) and I think the father made he lose. He actually, can win the contest. So, the poor boy didn't have anywhere to live, coz his grandfather's dead and the house was taken away. One cold night, the dog ran to the girl's house and immediately the girl know something's not right and told her father about it. The father regretted what he had done and began searching for the boy. Unfortunately, though, the boy's died with his dog (who ran away back to the boy after he made it to the girl) after seeing a very famous painting in the cold of the night.
No one understand what I'm talking about huh? Sorry... I'm not good in narrating and I think the plot is a little bit different because I forgot some parts in the story.
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Posted: Sun Mar 09, 2008 7:26 pm
Night by Elie Wiesel. No other book has upset me so much. I've read Holocaust books before, some true, some not, but nothing comes close to this one. I didn't cry; it's sort of too awful to even cry about. It's a disturbing read, the only book I've ever had to stop reading halfway through because I was so unsettled. I still feel sick when I think about the part about the 'sad eyed angel' and how the soup tasted like corpses after he was killed. I can't read it again, once was more than enough.
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Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:16 am
Veljeni Leijonamieli was a good one. surprised But I think was a bit too old for it to actually affect my mental status in any way. biggrin
I read PS. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern, and that was lovely book. It's about a woman and her struggle to cope with the death if her husband, the love of her life.
It brought tears to my eyes more than once. So much actually, that I dreaded reading it in the subway on my way to work or wherever. :p
It does have those tingly comedic moments that just want to make you laugh out loud, and they will. biggrin So it's not all drama.
I haven't seen the movie they made, and I kinda.. don't want to. Because I liked the book so much that I don't want the movie to spoil it.
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Posted: Sun May 11, 2008 9:34 am
Deidret Veljeni Leijonamieli was a good one. surprised But I think was a bit too old for it to actually affect my mental status in any way. biggrin I read PS. I Love You by Cecelia Ahern, and that was lovely book. It's about a woman and her struggle to cope with the death if her husband, the love of her life. It brought tears to my eyes more than once. So much actually, that I dreaded reading it in the subway on my way to work or wherever. :p It does have those tingly comedic moments that just want to make you laugh out loud, and they will. biggrin So it's not all drama. I haven't seen the movie they made, and I kinda.. don't want to. Because I liked the book so much that I don't want the movie to spoil it.  -__- Now I want to read that. :]
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Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:53 pm
The saddest book i ever read was Go Ask Alice, Its about a girl who played a game at party that had to do with drugs, they put a drug in a Coke and whoever gets it wins.. she got it and then she gets addicted to drugs..its really sad sad the book is banned in libraries because of the mature content.. its for 13+..
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:55 am
Flowers for Algernon... crying
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Posted: Wed Oct 08, 2008 4:16 pm
Treehugger15 Flowers for Algernon... crying way sad book! crying
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Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:29 pm
Treehugger15 Flowers for Algernon... crying
LOVE that book! biggrin
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Posted: Tue Jun 16, 2009 3:46 pm
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Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 10:43 am
I think the saddest book I've ever read was Where the Red Fern Grows... It's about a boy and his two hunting dogs during the Great Depression. The ending made me bawl. crying I can't remember the author's name, though...
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:11 pm
the saddest book i have ever read was probably GO ASK ALICE.
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Posted: Thu Aug 13, 2009 12:38 pm
I have a few.
"Where the Red Fern Grows." I forget who it's by, all I know is I cried at the end.
Then the whole Dollaganger series by V.C Andrews, especially "Seeds of Yesterday.". I recommend this series. Surprisingly, the first book was in my old elementary school library. 0.o
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