Page 11 of 23 FirstFirst ... 67891011121314151621 ... LastLast
Results 151 to 165 of 341

Thread: Disturbing books.

  1. #151
    Drunk as a hoot owl... Dharmabeat's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    United Kingdom
    Posts
    39
    Quote Originally Posted by John Goodman View Post
    Naked Lunch. I read it recently and it was the most disgusting book I have ever read. I noticed the point that Borroughs was trying to make in some of the chapters (such as the one about the 'Island', the 'Sender', which stick out in my mind) but the rest of it just felt like rampant pedophelia, homosexuality and mutilation.
    I completely agree there. It really confused me, as I first picked up 'Junky' and thought it was quite a nice easy read albeit a tad on the gruesome side. So I picked up 'Naked Lunch', and it just seems so different - and about ten times more morbid than anything else I've ever read.

  2. #152
    Registered User kelby_lake's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2008
    Posts
    3,620
    The Trial
    Les Enfants Terribles. Mad is Cocteau but very good!

  3. #153
    has no windows monad's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Posts
    5
    Don Quixote by Kathy Acker

  4. #154
    Tu le connais, lecteur... Kafka's Crow's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    ...the timekept City
    Posts
    847
    Blog Entries
    2
    Quote Originally Posted by monad View Post
    Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
    Kathy was mad, absolutely mad. A punk in every sense of the word. I have a copy of The Empire of the Nonsense upstairs. I read some of it, weird writing indeed. I have a copy of Blood and Guts in High School as well. If you could find it anywhere, listen to Pussy, King of the Pirates, very,very different stuff:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pussy-King-P...8159653&sr=8-4
    "The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
    -- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett

  5. #155
    The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

  6. #156
    Tu le connais, lecteur... Kafka's Crow's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    ...the timekept City
    Posts
    847
    Blog Entries
    2
    Quote Originally Posted by integrity View Post
    As I was reading through everyone's posts I was wondering if someone would mention A Confederacy of Dunces. It was the first book to come to mind. It was weird in a very disturbing way.

    Same with She's Come Undone.

    Actually, both books were weird in a BAD way. A Fool on The Hill was an odd book, too.

    Others have mentioned Fear and Loathing; that was weird in a GOOD way. So was Alice in Wonderland.

    The Master and Margarita (which I am reading now) is a bit weird, too, but it's a good read so far.
    I love A Confederacy of Dunces. It is dark, it is hilarious, it is sad but weired it is not. John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailer is weired with two plots running parallel. A huge book and a weired one on top of that!

    http://www.amazon.com/Last-Voyage-So.../dp/0385422202
    "The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
    -- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett

  7. #157
    has no windows monad's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Posts
    5
    Quote Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow View Post
    Kathy was mad, absolutely mad. A punk in every sense of the word. I have a copy of The Empire of the Nonsense upstairs. I read some of it, weird writing indeed. I have a copy of Blood and Guts in High School as well. If you could find it anywhere, listen to Pussy, King of the Pirates, very,very different stuff:

    http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pussy-King-P...8159653&sr=8-4
    Nice to see someone that recognizes her name, she's certainly got a unique style and refreshingly twisted perspective.

    Funny, it seems like this hard-edged lesbian punk writer is mostly digested in the comfortable ivory towers of university postmodernist / lit theory courses (this is where I first encountered her work).

  8. #158
    Tu le connais, lecteur... Kafka's Crow's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2008
    Location
    ...the timekept City
    Posts
    847
    Blog Entries
    2
    Quote Originally Posted by monad View Post
    Nice to see someone that recognizes her name, she's certainly got a unique style and refreshingly twisted perspective.

    Funny, it seems like this hard-edged lesbian punk writer is mostly digested in the comfortable ivory towers of university postmodernist / lit theory courses (this is where I first encountered her work).
    Well, that's where I discovered her back in 2000-2001. I first came across her name in Nicholas Zurbrugg's book The Parameters of Postmodernism. A rubbish book but still I managed to extract two good things out of it: Kathy Acker and John Cage.
    "The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
    -- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett

  9. #159
    trying fiction again
    Join Date
    Jul 2008
    Location
    in a crap country
    Posts
    33
    Quote Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow View Post
    I love A Confederacy of Dunces. It is dark, it is hilarious, it is sad but weired it is not.
    Perhaps it wasn't the writing itself that was strange, but the main character was entirely offbeat and subhuman-ly bizarre. (And, if I may add, loathsome.)

  10. #160
    Registered User
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Posts
    7
    The five people you meet in heaven by Mitch Albom.
    A friend of mine recommended it for me, but I just didn't get it!

  11. #161
    Registered User
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Location
    Maine
    Posts
    222
    "The 120 Days of Sodom" by Marquis de Sade
    "A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness." -- Jean Genet

  12. #162
    Camilla DecemberSun's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    Denmark
    Posts
    20
    Weirdest book?

    I don't know if I'd call it weird, but 'The five people you meet in heaven' was very diferent as to what I had expected. I had read that some people thought of it as a future classic, but that I really can't see.

  13. #163
    Reading 50+ Books Seabird111's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2008
    Location
    A place
    Posts
    216
    Blog Entries
    29
    The Book's of Blood Volume One by Clive Barker is probably the strangest thing I've read.

    I mean, bodies of citizens from two different towns in Yugoslavia forming two giant monsters!?!? Seriously...
    Deus ex Machina

    My Stephen King Fansite

  14. #164
    Registered User book_jones's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2008
    Location
    Arkansas
    Posts
    82
    Hands down The Robber Bridegroom by Eudora Welty. Most strange books don't really surprise me. I wasn't surprised when Ulysses turned out to be weird. However, this one really surprised me. She wrote many strange stories, but none quite so much as this one.

    I sure am dissapointed that everyone associates weirdness with drug use. It seems that a book written by someone on drugs or about someone on drugs usually isn't very weird because you expect unusual things to happen. I have much more respect for writers who pull their strange ideas from the real world. That makes a book much more interesting for me.

  15. #165
    Registered User cipherdecoy's Avatar
    Join Date
    May 2008
    Posts
    200
    A Clockwork Orange maybe?
    Despite the snow,
    Despite the falling snow.

Similar Threads

  1. Harry Potter
    By jessw in forum General Literature
    Replies: 550
    Last Post: 12-03-2011, 12:12 PM
  2. Favorite Books
    By Admin in forum General Literature
    Replies: 112
    Last Post: 05-29-2010, 05:15 PM
  3. Books About Vampires
    By samah in forum General Literature
    Replies: 110
    Last Post: 07-21-2009, 08:41 AM
  4. Books about books.
    By Nightshade in forum General Literature
    Replies: 25
    Last Post: 05-23-2007, 01:22 AM
  5. Disturbing books, good or bad?
    By diceman81 in forum General Literature
    Replies: 29
    Last Post: 07-13-2006, 09:13 PM

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •