I found Orwell's 1984 thoroughly depressing, but loved every minute of it.
Also, Ludmilla's Broken English by DBC Pierre...hated it...couldn't finish it, despite several attempts.
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I found Orwell's 1984 thoroughly depressing, but loved every minute of it.
Also, Ludmilla's Broken English by DBC Pierre...hated it...couldn't finish it, despite several attempts.
The Charterhouse of Parma, perhaps is one of the most depressing books I have read...
1984 by Orwell
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovitch by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn was pretty depressing from what I can remember.
and similar to Ivan Denisovitch, 'Grass Soup' by Zhang Xianliang.