I guess it would have to be Veronika Decides to Die by Paulo Coelho. Although I didn't much care for the book. It is about a 24 year old woman who has everything in life, but doesn't appreciate it, so she decides to attempt suicide. She fails, and ends up in a mental hospital.Wikipedia says The gist of the message is that "collective madness is called sanity", which is a nice message, although I didn't get that when reading it.
However, this was a very sad book. The things that Veronika went through broke my heart. Coelho created a character one could have sympathy for.
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This does sound sad. Here is mine
Veronica Decides to Die was a sad one, I agree. Here is mine:
http://bibliophilebythesea.blogspot.com/2009/09/booking-through-thursday-saddest-reads.html
I am not a Coelho fan.
Booking through Sad Ones
I'm not a huge fan of Coelho either. But this does sound very sad indeed.
This one sounds like a difficult read.
That is a great book. And like you said, very sad.
Oh my goodness, that does sound sad! I think I'll steer clear...
The title of this book alone makes me think it could easily be an incredibly sad read!
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