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Kaylyn_Marie
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I hear this about it all the time! I haven't read it yet but I find it intimidating because I know how sad it is.
Jay Peter wrote: ↑22 Oct 2022, 02:57 A Thousand splendid suns by khaled hoseni. Depressing doesn't even begin to cover it. It was too much that I cried for 3days straight after I finished it.
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There's a book titled Frustrating Fascination. It had some explicit description of stuff I wasn't comfortable with.
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The Stand was very disturbing as was the end of Thriller, also by Stephen King. I also found American Psycho to be incredibly messed up and increasingly as the book went on.
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The Couple Next Door by shari Lapena. I should have read the summary a little closer, I was not in a good mental space for the content of that story.
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I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone mention A Little Life.
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