Perhaps those are the wrong words, but I'm looking for books that are odd, taboo, etc., dealing with incest, gore, pedophilia, or anything of the sort.
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Anonymous2009-09-26 15:43
Lolita, perhaps?
It's about the obsession/relation of a teacher towards his 12-year old student.
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Anonymous2009-09-26 16:12
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I've already read Lolita, although anything like it would be nice. I'm currently working on Ada, or Ardor by Nabokov as well.
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Anonymous2009-09-26 17:21
anything by necro publications
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Anonymous2009-09-26 18:10
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I was hoping for something a bit less immature.
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Anonymous2009-09-26 18:42
Dangerous Liaisons
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Anonymous2009-09-26 18:50
The End of Alice is similar to Lolita.
It's about the correspondence between a convicted child molester/murderer and a young woman who is trying to seduce a neighborhood boy. Said child molester/murderer reminded me a lot of Humbert Humbert.
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I myself don't think any books are really taboo or illegal unless they teach you how to build bombs or cook drugs. Becuase this aint the middle ages and the church isnt coming to burn your books.
Sade is a good choice (in more ways than one) - the fullest selection of works is in the three large volumes from Grove Press in the US, and Arena and Arrow Books in the UK:
- Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse, Marquis de Sade: Justine, Philosophy in the Bedroom and Other Writings (1965)
- Austryn Wainhouse and Richard Seaver, The Marquis de Sade: The 120 Days of Sodom and Other Writings (1966)
- Austryn Wainhouse, The Marquis de Sade: Juliette (1968)
The versions of selections and shorter works by Margaret Crosland (The Passionate Philosopher: A Marquis de Sade Reader, The Crimes of Love, The Mystified Magistrate, The Gothic Tales of the Marquis de Sade) are also worth finding, as is David Coward's The Marquis de Sade: The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (Oxford U. Press 1992).
In all of these you are getting versions of the original texts, whereas many other so-called editions are actually pastiches or otherwise unrepresentative.
You might also want to find The Story of O by Pauline Reage - there's a 1965 translation, again from Grove Press, but also reprinted and widely available on-line (Google the title on angelfire.com, for instance). Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs is in Penguin. An older forbidden book would be John Cleland's Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure - that's 18th century and in English, so easily available on-line.
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Anonymous2009-09-30 2:46
Oh, and add some of Anais Nin's work - Delta of Venus is the best known.
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Anonymous2009-10-01 13:30
Crowly's banned version of Magic In Theory And Practise.
I've seen the legal version and the illegal one.
The illegal one is funnier.
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Anonymous2009-10-03 18:36
There's a list on Wikipedia entitled banned, forbidden books, take a gander at it.
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Anonymous2009-10-07 8:58
For some perspective of different standards of "forbidden", you might also want to have a look at the American Library Association's list of the hundred most frequently "challenged" (i. e., somebody or some group in the USA tried to have them restricted or removed at some institution) classics: