Most disturbing book

[Dok Zombie]

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

I was going for that one, actually. Its rather unforgettable, once you think about what you just read...

Actually, after reading the wiki summary for that one, I wasn't all too 'disturbed'. It's kinda..creepy..and at the same time incredibly juvenile..and creepy...Oh God.

EDIT: But seriously though, it wasn't all too bad even thinking about it after I read it. Am I missing something?

Not to be a dick or anything, but why don't you just read the book instead of wiki summaries or asking people what happens? I could PM you with the freaky bit from the Wasp Factory, but it would totally lose its impact if you haven't read all the build up.

 

[Purple Shrimp]

1984. Not a, "oh a monster!" sort of scary, but intellectually scary.

This and Animal Farm, screwed with my head in a way that only George Orwells novels can

I actually didn't like Animal Farm at all. ):

neither did I(come to think of it I hated 1984 too) both books by the end were extremely depressing even if they were very intelllectually engaging

Not because it was depressing, I just thought it was very blunt and obvious in its satire.

 

[Trendkill6]

Crispin: The Cross of Lead
I read this when I was ten, and for a children's book it's pretty fucked up.
It's about a peasant boy in 14th century England, and throughout the entire book
he just gets the shit kicked out of him reapeatedly.
It actually made me realise how messed up things in history were and how messed up things still are.

 

[The Shade]

The Necronomicon, I suppose.

-_-

 

[dalek sec]

The Colour Out of Space [http://www.dagonbytes.com/thelibrary/lovecraft/thecolouroutofspace.htm], a short story by H.P. Lovecraft. I read it very late at night, and it had me feeling unsettled all the next day.

Or at least I thought it did - when the most riotous bout of vomiting I've ever had in my life so far to date happened later that day I realized I was probably just feeling nauseous from my undetected case of the flu. The story is still really creepy though!

Yeah, that one is a good mind screw for me because it's not a standard monster from outer space.

 

[Gamegeneral]

The Illusionist.
You'd think a book about a sex cult would be a little more entertaining.
The best part?
School approved reading.
Yes.
At least I liked the ending.

 

[historybuff]

I really liked House of Leaves. It was always the suggestion of what had happened in the house and the hallway there and how the people went crazy.

 

[fgdfgdgd]

A Brave New World...if you've read it, you know why.

 

[DownpourLiar]

Well, it's actually more of a short story, but Poe's 'Hop-Frog' is one of my favorites. He is such a creep but everytime you read it you see a new angle to it and it sends shivers down my spine everytime.

 

[Prized Cup]

the cellist of sarajevo by steven galloway. it disturbed me because it concerned a war of which i knew of next to nothing except for the care packages i assembled and sent in primary. we sent these starving desperate people jelly tots! damn sad book

 

[arsenicCatnip]

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.

Spoiler

Told from the point of a schizophrenic Native American, it covers abuse in an insane asylum, attempted mutiny, electroshock therapy, and the lobotomizing of a problem patient.

I was 11 when I read it the first time, and I have never forgotten the nausea from reading the descriptions of the ward.

 

[Issac Death]

The Holy Bible.

It's that book all the Christian churches recommend. Total rubbish but disturbing when you realize what influence it has on humanity.

Ooh, edgy.

And what horrific things did it make people do that weren't perverted and taken out of context?

Nothing was edgy about my contribution. But look: the Bible made you say something silly. Now, what did I say about influence?

 

[Emilie Diabolica]

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.

This. Although it was disturbing, i found it fascinating. Watching his decline into pure insanity was awful, but the first person just made me fascinated by it...

Oh god, and that short story by the guy from Mars Volta... Following this guy's failed attempt at suicide by injecting rat poison into himself.

gah, whats it called again?
*googles*

here it is: De-Loused in the Comatorium
holy fuck. i swear, just TRY to make sense of this book. it makes understanding A Clockwork Orange seem easy.

EDIT: fucking troll. >.<

 

[blindthrall]

Naked Lunch by William Burroughs. It was designed to test obscenity laws.

Haunted by Chuck Palhniuk. The first chapter is a terrible taste of things to come, but it's such a good story you have to keep reading. And the payoff is worth it. It involves voluntary human extinction.

And there's a book simply called Stalingrad that's compiled from firsthand accounts. Man, the cold can do sick things to flesh.

 

[lapan]

The girl next door by Jack Ketchum is about the most disturbing book i ever read. It made me feel real anger against the main characters, who not only didn't help the girls, but participated in their torture....

 

[MiracleOfSound]

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.

This. Although it was disturbing, i found it fascinating. Watching his decline into pure insanity was awful, but the first person just made me fascinated by it...

Oh god, and that short story by the guy from Mars Volta... Following this guy's failed attempt at suicide by injecting rat poison into himself.

gah, whats it called again?
*googles*

here it is: De-Loused in the Comatorium
holy fuck. i swear, just TRY to make sense of this book. it makes understanding A Clockwork Orange seem easy.

EDIT: fucking troll. >.<

??

I hope you're not referring to me...

The album of the same name was rather impenetrable as well. I like my prog but man did some of those songs meander off into pretentious waffle. I've never wanted to hear One Armed Scissor so bad...

As for And the Ass Saw the Angel, yeah I found the character utterly fascinating too. First book in a long time that I just couldn't put down.

 

[Vrex360]

I remember hearing about American Psycho actually, my sister's then boyfriend (he's now her husband) read it and was so disgusted and disturbed by it that he just kind of hung around and couldn't really do anything... he was just scared.
All I can say is they obviously cut back in the movie.

For me though, I haven't read this book so I must pick the one that disturbed me the most:
Pet Sematary

For a while it was a tie between Pet Sematary and The Shining but when the zombie kid showed up, I knew that both book and movie would be the things that would haunt my memories for the rest of my life.