A book that has disturbed/depressed you too much
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I had such a hard time reading this book. I had to put it down several times because you know that her story is a reality for so many people. It was an extraordinary book for being so damn upsetting.salberson 10 wrote:The Glass Castle by Jeannette walls -horrifying - that being said its one of my favorites!
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Child Called It by Dave Pelzer is about a young boy severly abused and neglected by his mother. It has been ten years since I read this book and it still haunts me.
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That is the best part of writing something you learned from. You can use it as a teachable moment or as a humorous story about way back when. The important thing is you gained insight from writing the piece. It might be something you want to keep and look back on when you don't feel as emotionally raw about the experience.ALynnPowers wrote:Hahaha... I once tried to write a memoir about a certain event of my life. It depressed me too much, but only because I realized how much of an idiot I was when it was all happening. I couldn't finish it, because I didn't want it to be on record how stupid I acted back then.
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I find many war history books very disturbing because the reality of war is far more disturbing than anything that can be dreamed up in fiction. I particularly think of Kokoda by Paul Ham - the conditions those young men had to put up with, the atrocities committed by both sides, the senseless slaughter. I always ask myself how I would have coped!DATo wrote:The 900 Days: The Siege Of Leningrad, by Harrison E. Salisbury. A detailed summary of the 900 days of siege of the city of Leningrad during World War II. Almost physically painful to read but impossible to turn away from.
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