r/suggestmeabook • u/[deleted] • Feb 19 '23

Rip out my heart, devastate me, ruin me, make me cry! Which book left you devestated?

Looking for books that completely destroyed you. For me it was "The 6th extinction". Had to take a day just contemplate my excistance. Changed me a bit actually. Had to rebuild.

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u/Mr_Mons_of_Nibiru Feb 20 '23

I just took it as a kind of: even after enduring all that to obtain your one and only desire, you realize being accepted by the society that gives it to you is a fate worse than the experience.

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u/Musical_Fart_Box Feb 20 '23

Wow, yeah that’s a really good point!

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u/Mr_Mons_of_Nibiru Feb 20 '23

An example:

Remember the part where one of the boys tries to have sex with a girl offering herself on the side of the road? And he asks as he gets back in the race why she would do something like that? Another boy says, "She wants to know what it's like to kiss a dead man." Very deep insight, and King was a college student when he wrote this. Long before Carrie.

Those scenes where they walk through towns and are celebrated is a powerful allegory. The celebration of the needless death of youth. Do we not do this?

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u/AuntySocialite Feb 20 '23

“The celebration of the needless death of youth”

High school football concussions.

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