Kept seeing 3 books pop up on "must read" and favorites lists, so I bought them blindly without doing any research. The books?
Demon Copperhead
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Lonesome Dove
Ive finished the first 2. Demon Copperhead was so bleak that I almost didn't finish it. Took me a while to work through it. The writing was great but man talk about a hard read. Insanely depressing and had some relatable, really painful subject matter (spoiler alert: I recently had a parent die via OD on opioid pills)
Just finished A Thousand yesterday. Unlike Demon Copperhead, I blasted through it much faster than I read most books. But I don't think I've ever cried so hard or during so many parts of a book. The last 100 pages I think I cried the entire time. This might be one of my favorite books of all time despite it's terrible, terrible sadness.
Now Lonesome Dove is sitting on my shelf waiting to be read and I have a decision to make. Now, while I was reading DC, I happened to read a thread that made it clear Lonesome Dove is extremely sad, as well. Maybe the saddest. Wondering if I should take a break from my heart breaking, or if I should just power through this holy trinity of sadness and then read something light?
Either way, very open to suggestions on what to read before or after Lonesome Dove.
by Jaydeeem89
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