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    I second Naked Lunch.
    God I still can't take out of my mind some of its sickest images.

    And as for 120 Days of Sodomy I haven't read it but i'd like to. Thing is I still can't gather enough strength to see Pasolini's film version (i've had it for months), I don't know when I will gather the willpower to read it.

    One of the most disturbing things I read is Grant Morrison's short story The Braille Encyclopoedia. Yeah, I know, Morrison's comics Invisibles and The Filth are quite disturbing, but nothing comes close in his work to that little prose story.
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    1984
    A Clockwork Orange
    Lolita
    The Handmaids tale
    Parts of "Let the right one in" (but i still loved it)
    All of these disturbed me a little
    What is a ghost?
    A tragedy condemned to repeat itself time and again?
    A moment of pain perhaps.
    Something dead which still seems to be alive.
    An emotion suspended in time.
    Like a blurred photograph.
    Like an insect trapped in amber.
    A ghost.
    That's what I am.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ImaginaryFriend View Post
    The Handmaids tale
    Quite intriguing...I'll be reading this next moth!

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    Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy to me was very disturbing, especially one very key scene.
    "It's so mysterious, the land of tears."

    Chapter 7, The Little Prince ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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    Quote Originally Posted by stlukesguild View Post
    Gunter Grass- The Tin Drum
    Hermann Hesse- Steppenwolf
    Mikhail Bulgakov- The Master and Margarita
    Franz Kafaka- The Trial, The Castle
    Bataille- The Story of the Eye
    Andre Breton- Nadja
    Georges Perec- A Void
    Alain Robbe-Grillet- The Erasers
    Julio Cortazar- Hopscotch
    Mario Vargas Llosa- In Praise of the Stepmother
    Cormac McCarthy- Blood Meridian, Suttree, Child of God
    Camus- The Stranger
    John Fowles- The Collector
    Nabokov- Lolita
    Robert Coover- Spanking the Maid
    Celine- Death on the Installment Plan

    Just a few suggestions.
    Quote Originally Posted by blp View Post
    Hmmm... Master and Margarita, stlukesguild? It's unusual, but disturbing?
    I don't see it either....But The Tin Drum is an excellent choice.
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    Quote Originally Posted by blp View Post
    Hmmm... Master and Margarita, stlukesguild? It's unusual, but disturbing? I second Story of the Eye, though. In fact, it should be number one with a bullet in any disturbing books list.
    The Master and Margarita is one of my favorite books. I never found it creepy, but rather surreal, like a Dali painting.
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    Quote Originally Posted by limajean View Post
    Is there an english translation?
    "The Kindly" ones i believe is the title in English, The author, Jonathan Littel, writes both in French and English. it is the story od the Holocaust seen from the point of view of a gay nazi.

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    Not sure if it has been mentioned, but Child of God by Cormac McCarthy was very disturbing.

    Set in mountainous Sevier County, Tennessee, Child of God tells the story of Lester Ballard, a dispossessed, violent man whom the narrator describes as "a child of God much like yourself perhaps." Ballard's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends literally and figuratively to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and degradation.
    "Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
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    william s burroughs, nuff said

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    Ballard's Crash, God i forgot CRASH!!!

    excellent novel

    And Heinrich Hoffmann's Shockheaded Peter. Those poems were meant for kids, can you believe that?
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    R. Scott Bakker's 'Prince of Nothing' series

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    Pretty much anything by Cormac McCarthy
    I like poetry,long walks on the beach and poking dead things with a stick.

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    The short stories of Paul Bowles

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    'Apt Pupil' Stephen King Short Story I have readed it twice so far I quite actual enjoy reading. I found fascinating now King does it with such believable way and language is great.
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