Most disturbing book

[MiracleOfSound]

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The title says it all.

Name a book that warped your fragile little mind, and tell us why.

I shall start us off:

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis

The only book I've ever had to stop reading because it was just too much.

I honestly almost threw up during one sequence involving necrophilia. Even gory movies like Braindead have never caused this reaction for me.

It wasn't the violence but the way it was described... the callous and almost surgical descriptions of what is being done to people...

It felt real, it was unapologetic in its depravity.


And The Ass Saw the Angel - Nick Cave

An amazing story of an ostracised loner and his revenge on the world.

The scenes with the dying animals and the self made Kingdom of Doghead were hard to take.

Share your repressed memories!

 

[effilctar]

I've read a true crime book, more of a biography of a serial killer. I had trouble sleeping.

 

[FactualSquirrel]

well, there was this one book in year three.

Oh, the horror!

 

[Cherry Cola]

Fight Club.

It is written horribly, but by god is it good

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Tweak by Nic Sheff

 

[Daystar Clarion]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King... man those books were freakin' random, awesome, but random as hell.

 

[Sir Prize]

Clarence principle.
It's a graphic novel that had a rather disturbing story about someone who is dead and his travels through the realm of the dead.

 

[Sneaklemming]

Franz Kafka's "Metamorphosis" - it was fine when I read it; but then it got to me.

 

[TheGreenManalishi]

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter. Not only was it twisted and disturbed, it was mind-bendingly shit.

 

[ribonuge]

"Junky" by William S Burroughs. That guy is completely mad. Not exactly disturbing though, you'd want "Lolita" for that.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

I didn't really find any book I have read disturbing...
But I suppose that is just me. I can read through pretty much anything...
It is all just data to be cogitated...
I'll need to search for some of the books mentioned on this thread.

 

[Parallel Streaks]

Mine is also my favourite, Iain Banks, The Wasp Factory.

Just a chilling look into a diseased mind.

And Nick Caves new book is strange too.

That book was amazing. Although the scenes where the protagonist was just randomly talking to their midget friend kind of disrupted the flow.

I have to go with The Wasp Factory as well.

Why?

Spoiler: Do not read lest you face the spoiler-y consequences

The titular wasp factory is a mechanism which randomly kills captured wasps in a Shamanistic sense, one of the executions being drowning them in stale piss

 

[Death on Trapezoids]

the end of ALIEN Ressurection (By A.C. Crispin)
I almost barfed

 

[Skuffyshootster]

Tweak by Nic Sheff

Hey, someone else read that too!

The only part that seemed disturbing to me was when he has a gay orgy with a fat guy and his friends, for some reason.

 

[Nmil-ek]

Malleus Maleficarum: Or, The Hammer of Witches

 

[kasperTFG]

The Story of The Eye. Can't remember the author's name, but that book was more disturbing than deSade's stuff, and that takes some doing. Seriously.

 

[Lukeje]

I have to go with The Wasp Factory as well.

Why?

Spoiler: Do not read lest you face the spoiler-y consequences

The titular wasp factory is a mechanism which randomly kills captured wasps in a Shamanistic sense, one of the executions being drowning them in stale piss

Really? The bit that got to me was the description of what happened to the brain-dead child...

..anyway, my vote also goes to American Psycho. ``Fucked up'' is the only way to describe it. How in the hell does anyone in their right mind come up with that stuff?!

 

[BlumiereBleck]

Tweak by Nic Sheff

Hey, someone else read that too!

The only part that seemed disturbing to me was when he has a gay orgy with a fat guy and his friends, for some reason.

yes it was quite disturbing how much detail he would put into those parts

 

[SextusMaximus]

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King... man those books were freakin' random, awesome, but random as hell.

I read part of the gunslinger, but only part of it because I didn't have time to read the rest. I remember someone who died in his... in fact, I wont go there.