The Town of Odyssey

I'm having trouble finding a really sad/scary book to do a dramatic interpretive speech from this year. So can you guys help me?

Oh, and if the main character is a teenage girl then it would be even better.

And if anyone mentions Twilight...


(And this is a Christian homeschool speech and debate league that I'm competing with...just keep that in mind. )

Any story by Edgar Allan Poe?

Um... Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy... Set back... Oh, early. When there were czars still, but later in that period. It deals with an affair and stuff like that. It's depressing, but well-written. Anna is a 30 year old beautiful women, soo...

Termite wrote:Um... Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy... Set back... Oh, early. When there were czars still, but later in that period. It deals with an affair and stuff like that. It's depressing, but well-written. Anna is a 30 year old beautiful women, soo...

Thanks, I'll check it out! And don't worry if the people are the wrong age or anything, last year my best piece was when I played a blind man, it'd just be convenient if I didn't have to act so much.

And my name is Anna, so that's cool.

The Road.

Yeah... Oh, and so you know, the book is 700+ pages. I probably shoudl've mentioned that.

Speaking of Edgar Allen Poe, The Tell-Tale Heart is good... As is The Pit and the Pendulum

oh the pit and the pendulum was one of his freakier ones!

The Left Behind series. Wow. I cried several times when the main characters died... I seriously would like to read them all over again. *gets shivers remembering*

I don't read a whole lot of emotional books, but that series really teared me up in places.

Edgar Allen Poe is very depressing, but he certainly could write.

Iron and Light wrote:Edgar Allen Poe is very depressing, but he certainly could write.

Depressing is one way of putting it.

Walkabout. I have no idea who wrote it, but I cannot think about the book without wanting to crawl into a corner and die.

Which might have something to do with the fact that I read it when I was like, eight. And have no actual recollection of its subject. Because I refuse to re-read it.

American Eagle wrote:The Left Behind series. Wow. I cried several times when the main characters died... I seriously would like to read them all over again. *gets shivers remembering*

I don't read a whole lot of emotional books, but that series really teared me up in places.

Thanks people, keep 'em coming!

I've read the Left Behind series, but the problem is that the story is stretched over so many books, and you really can't cut a story from just one book, everything ties together so much that it would be very confusing to cut one story out of one book.

All of Edgar Allen Poe's stories are short, yet intense.

I don't read many "sad" books, but I guess the ones that I think are kind of tragic are The Goodness Gene, The Cure, Animal Farm, and Ender's Game. In the first two a bunch of the main characters die (which I hate), Animal Farm has this sense of hopelessness to it, and Ender's Game makes me feel sad because Ender's life is so messed up.

Catacombs by Paul McCusker!

Pretty much every book I've read by Lurlene McDaniel had me in tears. They are short and amazing. Although, I would suggest "Prey"... At all. She's a "Christian" author, too.

Danae wrote:Pretty much every book I've read by Lurlene McDaniel had me in tears. They are short and amazing. Although, I would suggest "Prey"... At all. She's a "Christian" author, too.

Woah, thanks so much for that lead! I'm reading about her books and they look positively amazing. *Checks out dozens of books from library*

The Diary of Anne Frank? I only read the beginning, but it was pretty ominous and sad.

Kairi wrote:The Diary of Anne Frank? I only read the beginning, but it was pretty ominous and sad.

Yes, that one is rather depressing in many forms.

InHisArms wrote:

Danae wrote:Pretty much every book I've read by Lurlene McDaniel had me in tears. They are short and amazing. Although, I would suggest "Prey"... At all. She's a "Christian" author, too.

Woah, thanks so much for that lead! I'm reading about her books and they look positively amazing. *Checks out dozens of books from library*

They are! You'll be crying...

American Eagle wrote:The Left Behind series. Wow. I cried several times when the main characters died... I seriously would like to read them all over again. *gets shivers remembering*

I don't read a whole lot of emotional books, but that series really teared me up in places.

The Left Behind series had that effect on me as well in places... as did the radio drama version. I certainly got quite attached to those characters for awhile.

Other books that I specifically remember making me cry are A Tale of Two Cities, Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Francine Rivers' An Echo in the Darkness, the first two were excellent books that I haven't read since high school, but would like to read again - they're definitely worth reading all the way through.