Most disturbing/fvcked up book you've ever read?

[zoiks]

Bridges of Madison County -- Robert James Waller.

I wasn't able to sleep for nights after that one. Shudder!!!

 

[James3shin]

Sesame Street - How to Count? Crazy sh!t, had a vampire, 6' bird, people living out of trashcans and what not just repeating number.

 

[chuckywang]

Originally posted by: Deadtrees
How come nobody mentioned "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk???

http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html

Give it a try!

Uh....I mentioned it.

 

[frank84]

textbooks in high schools..

 

[DaWhim]

lady chatterley's lover, once a banned book. 😉

 

[OffTopic1]

"Dang Can Lao" was one of the most disturbing book that I have ever read. It is a book that written about the Vietnamese dictator Ngo Dinh Diem and his brother Nhu private death troop Can Lao militia. It also shown how twisted the American government are, and how the US administration would make deals with the devil & kill for money.

 

[DivideBYZero]

The Dice Man - Luke Rheinhart.

In the first couple of chapters he decides to rape his friends wife based on the roll of the dice. It's just goes downhill from there.

Stunning book.

 

[aidanjm]

i found american psycho to be very funny as well as rather disturbing

 

[iamwiz82]

A lot of Harold Schecter's books of real life serial killers are fairly disturbing.

 

[aidanjm]

no book is more fvcked up than "Frisk", by Dennis Cooper. About a sexual sadist who fantasizes about sexually assaulting, raping, cutting up and mutiltating, teenage boys.

 

[makesense]

Guide to Investing by Robert T. Kiyosaki .. it's sickening to see that anyone can make millions with brainwashing tactics and complete bull.

 

[edro]

Originally posted by: HN
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
It's why you now have an FDA

 

[Kenazo]

Most fvcked up: Trainspotting. Man was that a ah heck to read. It's all written in "hackney"

 

[ShadowBlade]

Originally posted by: HN
Upton Sinclair - The Jungle
It's why you now have an FDA

that book is teh sux0rz

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: Proletariat

Originally posted by: hungfarover
I need to read 1984. It's been on my list forever.

Fair warning about American Psycho - it's not for the squeemish. Rape, torture, ghastly murder...it makes pretty much anything else I've read or seen seem like Sesame Street.

There is some humor in there though. Or maybe I'm just a sick twisted fvck.

Funny...? You found that book funny? Did you really get it?

It certainly is the complete opposite of Ayn Rand, I can tell you that.

did you really get the book?
have you read his other stuff?
AP is absolute satire. if you don't laugh, you're missing the point.
the movie makes it more blatantly obvious but everything about that book is pretty hilarious. sad...but not sad in the all quiet on the western front "i can't tell my mother i love her and i know im going to die" sort of way...sad in a kafka "power = absurd" sort of way.

id have to agree that heart of darkness still bothers me from time to time. as does catch-22, in almost the same way.
edit: to that end, coppola's film version of darkness (that integrates the hollow men and, i think, some aspects of the spirit of catch-22 - the surfing, for example) really stayed with me

 

[cchen]

Lolita

 

[PatboyX]

Originally posted by: cchen
Lolita

i think the problem with lolita, like american psycho, is that comedy is a big part of it. the absurd is used as a buffer to really make the disturbing moments less painful for the reader. especially with lolita, where (i think) we really have no reason to like the narrator at all. in both cases we dont really trust what they are telling us.

on a side note: bret easton ellis is coming out with a new novel this month, i think.
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