What would you name as the most disturbing books you've read..
For me it'd have to : Anything by Peter Sotos, De Sade, American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
What about you ?
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Anonymous2006-01-25 12:43
Methods of Mathematical Physics, vol 4.: Analysis of Operators.
I still have nightmares.
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Anonymous2006-01-25 15:50
American Psycho I would certainly agree with.
De Sade I struggle to take seriously, cant help but feel he was offensive purely for the sake of being offensive. Not an enjoyable read at all, but hardly "disturbing".
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Anonymous2006-01-27 22:43
This is gonna make me sound like a total pussy, but the last paragraph of "The Long Walk" by Richard Bachman(Stephen King) shook me up more than anything else i can remember (in a book anyway).
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Anonymous2006-01-30 23:31
Money by Martin Amos
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Anonymous2006-02-09 17:47
>>3
If De Sade was offensive purely for the sake of being offensive, then it was a bad move. Don't think in 21st century terms. De Sade spent several years in jails because of his books. Which doesn't mean that they are so great... but at least he wasn't just playing around.
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Anonymous2006-02-19 9:57
I like to read passages of American Psycho to my girlfriend. This usually ends in her kicking me while covering her ears. Its fun.
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Anonymous2006-02-22 17:10
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Actualy he first went to jail for sodomy and because he poisend some partygoers with hemlock while trying to date rape them. It was Napoleon who sent him to the loony bin for his writing. A radical leftist, bisexual, atheist in 18th century europe. Funny guy.
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Anonymous2006-02-22 18:37
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. The bit where you find out exactly what turned Eric from an honour student into a psychopath who sets fire to dogs gave me nightmares for the next two nights. It also had me more or less breaking out in a cold sweat while reading it. Can't recommend this book enough.
Ljubko Deresch - Kult.
You think you're in a nice, funny highschool novel and all of a sudden EVERYTHING gets very scary and disturbing...
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Anonymous2006-03-01 0:51
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The difference between the Divine Marquis and other lecherous nobles of the time is that he got caught. And didn't see any point in trying to deny any of it, which of course convinced his contemporaries that he was a monster.
One thing that has always amused me is when people go on about his wife (you know: "That poor woman, etc.") when letters and records show that they shared the same tastes and she helped him pick out women.
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Anonymous2006-03-02 5:39
Salo 120 days of sodom is quite disturbing.. (yes, it's a book too)
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Anonymous2006-03-02 9:29
120 Days of Sodom is De Sade, who has already been mentioned up there >>1->>8
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Anonymous2006-03-29 19:06
120 Days of Sodom is De Sade, who has already been mentioned up there >>1->>8
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Anonymous2006-03-31 1:36
Anything Lovecraft & Cthulhu, obviously. Things don't scare me, typically... but reading one of those stories was enough to make me a little wary of reading another.
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Anonymous2006-04-22 6:00
"The Way Things Ought to Be" by Rush Limbaugh.
A waste if time, and a waste of money, it's passages will haunt me for the rest of my life.
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Anonymous2006-04-23 15:39
Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
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Anonymous2006-05-02 2:50
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Anything lenord Cohen has written!
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Anonymous2006-05-05 12:38
the necromocon
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Anonymous2006-05-07 11:35
Secret Rendezvous by Kobo Abe. Super fucked up.
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Anonymous2006-05-07 16:25
The Bible. And 1984. Without forgetting the Qur'an.
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Anonymous2006-05-10 14:56
the wasp factory
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Anonymous2006-05-13 11:42
Hee hee, definitely American psycho. I laughed, I cried... at the same time.
De Sade's Justine & Juliette. I read those book when I was 16. They introduced me to bestiality, scat and wound-fucking.
PS: I'm a 23 year old virgin..I really hope it's not because of those books or I shall curse them for all eternity. :/
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Anonymous2006-05-22 22:59
Just read American Psycho. Must say that it was deliciously disturbing.
I would say that The Name of the Rose is als oquite disturbing in its own way. It gets quite creepy at times, and the hallucinations, THE HALLUCINATIONS.
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Anonymous2006-05-22 23:31
Alice in Wonderland. gb2/l/, Lewis Carrol.
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Anonymous2007-11-05 0:23
Ian M. Banks, can't recommend him highly enough. same for Selby, the man makes you physically hurt, his pathos is so poignant. I wouldn't call him so much disturbing as tragic. Probably the most disturbing book I've read is Bataille's Story of the Eye or Jim Thompson's Savage Night. Palahniuk is pretty amazing. Flanery O'Connor's novel Wiseblood is excellent. The Monk, Gregory something. Should
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Anonymous2007-11-05 16:07
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Agreed here. 32 years of his life in various prisons and insane asylums. Some of them might have been needed. Also, he was VERY radical, and supported extreme freedom, which is freedom unrestrained by law, religion and moral, which might have a good deal to do with his writing. I'm not "defending" him, I'm just saying that he didn't just do it for the lulz.