If I remember Catcher in the Rye had dome bad language in it. Everyone in my english class was happy because they got to swear in class without getting into trouble :]
If I remember Catcher in the Rye had dome bad language in it. Everyone in my english class was happy because they got to swear in class without getting into trouble :]
however it was, Flask, alas! was a butterless man!- Moby Dick, Herman Melville
remember- Pilliage, then burn!
The gran'daddy of all scatological books ....
Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller.
William S. Burroughs The Naked Lunch.
thak u all guyz! you're great!
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
How about Little Women?
I'm confused, did I read the edited version of "Little Women"? I don't think I saw any "bad words"
Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth
Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas.
Yo sé quién soy, y sé que puedo ser no sólo los que he dicho. - Don Quixote
'Once Were Warriors' by Alan Duff. And probably a few others by him.
It was a joke I think.
Any of Kathy Acker's or Irvine Welsh's novels:
[Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a ****ing big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of ****ing fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing ****ing junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, ****ed-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?Irvine Welsh Trainspotting
(I am always surprised by the Kathy Acker books I find in my shelf unexpectedly. Never thought I had Don Quixote!)The receptionist, knowing that all women who're about to have abortions're crazy, assured the woman her abortion'ld be over by nighttime. 'I, myself,' the receptionist confided, 'used to be mad. I refused to be a woman the way I was supposed to be. I travelled all over the world, looking for trouble. I prostituted myself, ran a few drugs- nothing hard-, exposed my genitalia to strange men while picking their pockets, broke and entered, lied to the only men I loved, told the men I didn't love the truth that I could never love them, ****ed one man after another while telling each man I was being faithful to him alone, ****ed men over, for, by ****ing me over, they had taught me how to **** them over. Generally, I was a *****.Kathy Acker Don Quixote
"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
Well,Philip Roth and especially Jean Genet's novels and plays could be useful
While you live your life, you are in some way an organic whole with all life. But once you start the mental life you pluck the apple.You've severed the connexion between,the apple and the tree:the organic connexion. And if you've got nothing in your life but the mental life, then you yourself are a plucked apple...
You've fallen off the tree.
Tropic of Cancer has already been said, but it seems to be your best bet.
It's also a pretty good book.
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