My latest disturbing book is "Down by the River" by Edna O'Brien, it deals with incest and abortion.
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My latest disturbing book is "Down by the River" by Edna O'Brien, it deals with incest and abortion.
The eating of the food with nail disturbed me more than anything..Quote:
Originally Posted by OrphanPip
For some reason, people praise that movie as great art.
The same director made an X-rated adaptation of some of the Canterbury Tales, but I haven't been able to get a hold of it.
It's certainly part of the porno-chic movement of the 70s, but it's not the best out of that period. I think the French film, Le Bete/The Beast, is a bit better, playing on themes of incest, bestiality, and human animalistic sexuality, without all of the sadism.
Edit: http://www.dvdtown.com/review/beast-the/dvd/2656
None of the works mentioned here are nowhere as disturbing as the things I've read. Even the story of the eye pales to the things I've seen.
Give us some titles then slick.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mr.lucifer
Shinji's Nightmare CataclysmQuote:
Originally Posted by Patrick_Bateman
Boys will be boys
Chibi usa's 7th birthday
The works of a chap by the name of comicsnix
If I was your nazi
Kanashii no Imi(te story is actually written in english)
Rectified Anonymity
You can find all those on the internet for free. They're all written on the internet in fact. Just look them up. All of them are disturbing and horribly written. Some of them involve child rape descrobed on horrible written graphic detail, nearly of them are written rape fetishists(I'm serious, most of them are meant to be erotic), and nearly of them contain disturbing sexual acts meant to erouse but come off as severly depraved. The works by comicsnix are the only ones on that list that were not the author's sexual fantasies and were meant to shock the reader.
If they're horribly written and the authors' are just putting their disgusting thoughts down in words then what is the purpose of reading them?
I personally found The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I found the cannibalistic scenes in the novel terrifying especially with the juxtapostioning of the kind humanity which also permeates the piece.
I find novels which dont just go with purely violence but show flickers of humanity or goodness far far far more disturbing as it brings you out of the disgusting level to make it even worse when you get back to it.
Bile facisination.Quote:
Originally Posted by Patrick_Bateman
Aliss by Patrick Sénécal is a modern retelling of the story of Alice in Wonderland with Montreal as the setting. A lot of disturbing scenes in there, all either sexual or violent. The girl wants to go on live on her own and she rapidly learns life isn't that pretty.
I do not know if the translation from French is available yet or will.
Don't know if someone has already mentioned this one, but 'Purfume' is a pretty strange read.
Although it's probably not quite as disturbing as A Clockwork Orange (yikes!) or American Psycho (:eek6:), just for sheer volume of gore Catch 22 by Joseph Heller is, IMVHO, pretty disturbing. Makes Saving Private Ryan seem like Star Wars.
some Irvine Welsh is pretty dark. 'Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs' is a rework on Dorian Gray and 'Maribou Stork Nightmares' and 'the Acid House' contain filth. But the supreme award has to go to Palahniuk's 'Haunted' (cool mash-up of Chaucer and the Lake District druggies), with a nod of best player to Saint Guts Free.
a black comedy, but a comedy none the less. Not disturbing to me at all.
I tried to breeze though "The 120 Days of Sodom" once...Quote:
Originally Posted by Charles Darnay
Felt the same way I felt about "Hogg" (by Samuel R. Delany)... severe discomfort and nightmares for days before I could even get to the story. Especially Hogg.
Irvine Welsh - studied him as part of short Scottish Fiction - VERY weird and disturbing for my taste
'The Acid House' in particular
Okay, this book is a children's book, but it's still one of the creepiest books I've ever read (in a good way). It's called The Trouble With Jacob and is about a little boy whose grave was disturbed. His bones were moved and now he appears to these kids saying, "I want my bed, where's my bed?" All he wants is for his bones to be put back in his rightful grave. Seriously, this book made me scared of the dark while I was reading it.
And also, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is frightening in a completely different way, because it's disturbing to think of the possibility of our world becoming like the world Huxley imagined in the book.
100% agree with OP re: palahniuk
The road- cormac mccarthy
After dark - murakami is also weird as ****
A clockwork orange, although it has been mentioned.
I found 1984 quite disturbing, but mostly because I read it while I was in China last year and well...
Really? I thought Catch-22 was one of the funniest book I've ever read.Quote:
Originally Posted by Transmodernism
topic:
The Purpose Driven Life by I-don't-give-a-fvck-who-wrote-it. lol, I'm kidding.
Seriously:
The Room by Hubert Selby Jr.
Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Disturbing but nevertheless good reads, the both of them.