American Psycho...I had to put the book down at some points...very difficult read in that aspect
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Anonymous2006-06-11 10:08
I never knew it was that powerful of a book. I love the movie, so I guess I'll check it out then. Thanks.
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Anonymous2006-06-11 13:35
Spoiler: The rat gets the cheese
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Anonymous2006-06-11 20:59
Hubert Selbys Last Exit to Brooklyn was pretty disturbing when I first rea it. Not in the scary way though, but it contains lots of very detailed violence, rape, drugs, fucked up characters etc. It´s distubing ´cause it´s real.
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Anonymous2006-06-21 11:15
The Consumer
M. Gira
Either that or something by that fat imprisoned fuck, De Sade.
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Anonymous2006-06-21 11:26
Why didn't anybody mention Burrough's Naked Lunch yet? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_Lunch
Really gross scenes, but far to irreal to really disturbing as American Psycho was to me.
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Anonymous2006-06-21 12:54
"House of Leaves" Mark Danielwesky.
It's about a haunted house in VA and... I live in VA. And some of the descriptions reminded me of the house I was living in at the time. I could only read the book in public, while I was out of the house. I never did finish it. T_T
I DID.
Patrick Bateman always wins. He could throw a severed head to the moon just by using his penis muscles. He makes me so hot.
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Anonymous2006-06-22 18:20
I find 1984 to be pretty disturbing...
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Anonymous2006-06-22 18:28
>>11 Don't say that one - I live in the UK at the moment, and it feels like it's happening here.
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Anonymous2006-06-22 18:30
Crash, by J.G. Ballard. This is the book thatcan make you want to be in a car accident. Throne of Bones by Brian McNaughton is also pretty disturbing. And Gulag Archipel by Solzjenitsyn. But that's non-fiction.
Beware the night.
It was this weird occult thriller that was set so it seemed real (a police detective dealing w/ occult stuff, think x-files). It was really freaky, I couldn't sleep with it in my room.
In the white-supremacist white-mans-burden pile. Conrad is overrated.
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Anonymous2006-07-07 17:42
What are you?
Your name, your quality? and why you answer...
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Anonymous2006-07-08 3:22
4 of the gayest questions you've asked all night, huh?
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Anonymous2006-07-09 13:49
"The End of Alice" by A. M. Homes
Basically a pedo in prison gets letters from a 19 year old girl saying how she's having feelings for this 12 year old kid. Everything told from his point of view. Really fucking creepy.
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Anonymous2008-09-15 20:27
"Story of the Eye" by Geogres Batallie wins gold for me.
"Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk gets silver.
"American Psycho" gets the bronze.
Honorable mention: "Inferno" by Dante duh...
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Anonymous2008-09-16 14:23
The Bible
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Anonymous2008-09-16 16:39
Speaking of disturbing books, have a look at this.
read johnny got his gun. read it in highschool. i was surprised the school actually set me up with a good book. bout a guy who cant communicate and move after the war. seriously depressing
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Anonymous2008-09-29 17:16
>>26
Side note: Read "My Brother Sam is Dead" in school. Probably the best book I've ever read in school. Granted it was back in elementary school, it was the first book that said "books can be awesome too!"
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Anonymous2008-10-09 22:50
>>26
same here. my teacher mr francis gave it to us and told us we would like it. it really made me realize (and not in a pussy liberal way) that war is fucked up and some lives arent worth living. one of my favorite books. a must for any true reader
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Anonymous2008-10-10 4:34
>>26
"Seriously depressing" and "a good book" never, ever mix. Because of you faggots shitty authors with teary stories often prevail. Faggots.
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Anonymous2008-10-10 16:41
>>29
You obviously haven't read it and therefore have no say. NEXT!
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Anonymous2008-11-10 17:19
At the time I read it Neuromancer gave me a couple nightmares. Good book though.
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Anonymous2008-11-10 17:25
>>8
If by "finish" you mean pore over the descent into meaningless text that is the last 100 pages or so before the appendices, then yes I did. Worth it, but not that disturbing once you get what he's doing.
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Anonymous2008-11-12 9:58
'This Symbiotic Fascination' by Charlee Jacob. I thought I was hardcore until I read that. These other books didn't even phase me -- American Psycho, all those. Reading 'This Symbiotic Fasc' was like having my brain fucking bludgeoned by brain rapists. I couldn't believe it. I could only read a chapter a night. Small doses. Every night, as I reached the end of a chapter, I felt exhausted and kind of twisted up. I had nightmares every night while reading it. Most fucked up book ever written, maybe. Makes 120 Days of Sodom (I saw the movie) feel like Curious George.
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Anonymous2008-11-13 20:38
>>34
The movie for 120 Days of Sodom really doesn't do it justice, though I've never read This Symbiotic Fascination and so cannot compare the two books.
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Anonymous2008-11-14 20:05
a clockwork orange made me stop for a moment but probably the most disturbing book would be johnny got his gun. verrrrry good. sad and some parts. movie should be remade
Do you think House of Leaves would make a good christmas present for a person who likes to pretend they are all 'alternative', but are in reality pretty much a normalfag, or is it likely to be the sort of book that would make them curl up in a ball and start crying?
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Anonymous2008-12-03 12:35
>>47
well if you give it to someone who actually has good taste then they probably won't much care for it
The most disturbing portraits of sadism I've ever endured. It even gives you a horrendously painful scene of a dog trainer's torture techniques. Truly churned my stomach. And this is coming from a guy who's seen 1guy1jar without a flinch. No literature is quite as haunting.
This comes from the guy who gave us Last Exit To Brooklyn so if you're into that Beat style, you'll definitely dig it.
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Anonymous2009-01-03 7:17
Story of the Eye a pornographic-horror-gore book from 1928
A book that was hands-down the most disturbing thing I’ve ever read and that I haven’t been able to find back in North America is Intangible by Arturo Vicenté. Little girls delivering innocent naive rape dialogue to their babydolls, sensual euthanasia-type cannibalism in a nursing home, a mother having orgasms while breastfeeding her daughter….among other things I have blocked from my mind. I think the blatant horror of it came from the absolute vulnerabily of these monstrous characters. You were forced to empathize with them and that was the hardest part to accept while reading, that you might actually be like those people.
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Anonymous2009-07-17 1:41
anything by marquis de sade
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Anonymous2009-07-17 10:18
>>54
uh, I'd say he's more sexy than disturbing, tbqh, much more
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Anonymous2009-07-28 17:28
The Fall by Camus hit me like a punch in the gut.
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Anonymous2009-07-29 6:20
A bok tht ws hands-dwn th mst disturbng thng I’v evr red nd tht I havn’t ben abl t fnd bck n Nrth Americ s Intangble b Artur Vicent. Littl grls deliverng innocnt naiv rap dialogu t ther babydlls, sensul euthanasi-typ cannibalsm n a nursng hom, a mothr havng orgsms whil breastfeedng hr daughtr….amng othr thngs I hav blockd frm m mnd. I thnk th blatnt horrr f t cam frm th absolut vulnerabil f thes monstros charactrs. Yo wer forcd t empathiz wth thm nd tht ws th hardst prt t accpt whle readng, tht yo mght actuall b lik thos peopl.
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Anonymous2009-08-05 20:05
American Psycho and Haunted.
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Anonymous2009-08-05 21:03
57's paragraph right there.
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Anonymous2009-08-05 21:58
Blood Meridian - Cormac McCarthy
Such a violent book. I have no idea how they plan to film it because the violence is such an integral part of the book, it would have an X rating upon release.
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Anonymous2009-08-06 9:45
I wrote a paragraph on my penis. I sucked my loins to shit.
I actually found Symbiotic Fascination not quite so disturbing, but then I'd been sucked in by the ype and my brain made up all sorts of scenarios before I actually read it.
Jacob's Dread in the Beast...now that book is disturbing. Hippie parents feed their three year old all sorts of drugs to keep him quiet and out of their hair. Kid develops a death fetish when he sees his parents murdered in front of him. Meanwhile, a young woman discovers she's the latest incarnation of the Shit Goddess.