Combined with the characters' narcissism and casual cynicism, such writing makes for a shallow and, ultimately, depressing book.

I find you sitting here, reading the most depressing book in the Bible, nothing but death and funerals.

"It's a most depressing book no matter how young or old, how high or low, one is, and that goes for all of Dostoievsky."

That wasn't half a depressing book.

"Porno" is ultimately a pretty depressing book, with something of the awful grandeur of watching someone fall off the wagon.

This is a depressing and unpleasant book.

Teachers seem to think that only the darkest, most depressing books offer a realistic view of life.

Nor is "The Fatal Shore" a depressing book, painful though much of it is.

This is, surprisingly, not a depressing book at all, in part because its descriptions of Evan's slide into despair are so simple and lucid and particular.

It was a depressing book to write.