Books that may have scarred you for life.

[MSB]

Have you ever read a book and thought 'what the hell did I just read', and get that disturbed feeling? Whether it be because of extreme grossness, or just plain sadness, telling us what books we should be warned about.

Please remember to use spoiler tags if you're talking about a particular part of a book.



Back when I was about 14 years old, I read some trashy romance novel (the name escapes me, but if I think of it I'll edit my post). It was a really really good book, but towards the middle, the girl finds out that she's actually sleeping with her biological father. I tried to finish through the book, but I just couldn't do it.

Haunted, by Chuck Palahniuk, was probably the grossest book I've ever read. Anyone that has read it can most likely agree with me. I'm not easily grossed out, but that book almost made me lose my lunch a couple of times. Especially the part with the guy in the pool, and the explicit detail of how his insides were ripped out. Just thinking of it makes me nauseous.

[Oofie]

Eugh, yeah, Haunted was disgusting. Amusing though.

The descriptions of some of the sex/murder scenes in American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis) are disgustingly graphic too.

And in The Secret History by Donna Tartt when you find out Camilla is sleeping with her twin, Charles, that's pretty gross. Also when they describe what they remember about the night they killed the guy, they talk about ripping out his stomach. Eww.

[redbayredneck]

Part of the Book Kite Runner were pretty bad especially when the servant kid gets raped

I had to read it for English Comp 2 and the whole class was grossed out by it.

[abbey]

I almost read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. Now I'm glad I quit after the intro where he talks about people throwing up while reading it. I faint in gory movies. I expect books to be the same.

[MSB]

I almost read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. Now I'm glad I quit after the intro where he talks about people throwing up while reading it. I faint in gory movies. I expect books to be the same.

Yeah, if you faint from gore, definitely pass over this one. I was gagging while reading. Not very pleasant, but still a good read. I couldn't put it down because in some sick twisted way I wanted to know what would happen next.

[Pie_Dee]

Perfume by Patrick Süskind was pretty freaky for me. It was basically the perversion of his character and the ease with which he worked that made me uneasy for days afterwards. I found it pretty good though, because the book would have just been kinda silly to read without the detailed descriptions of his little "hobby" and would have probably just gotten on my nerves.

[Pieman]

Chuck Palahniuk is a sick bastard. I read 'Guts' online a few days ago. The pool part really got me. Would it be illegal/against the rules to post it here? This and a few fanfics that I read because they were disgusting are the only ones that really fit here. Mpreg anyone?

[Oofie]

Perfume by Patrick Süskind was pretty freaky for me. It was basically the perversion of his character and the ease with which he worked that made me uneasy for days afterwards.

I found the description of the smells worse than his character! The description of his birth in the fish market made me feel ill.

[Pie_Dee]

I found the description of the smells worse than his character! The description of his birth in the fish market made me feel ill.

Yeah, I found that sickening too, but it was completely overpowered by that first girl, which was a bit of a shock. And the mass orgy at the end .

[misc]

When I was in school we had to read 'The Bloody Chamber' by Angela Carter, which was a load of short stories which were based on fairy tales. Anyway, in this one story a woman is forced into marrying some weird bloke whose hobbies include sadistic pornography and murder. It wasn't particularly creepy other than the scene in which she discovers his stash of porn, there's something about her description of it that made me very uncomfortable:
"a girl with tears hanging on her cheeks like stuck pearls, her cunt a split fig below the great globes of her buttocks on which the knotted tails of the cat were about to descend, while a man in a black mask fingered with his free hand his prick"

Ewwwww.

[abbey]

Required reading for my 12U English Class:
Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley.
It's a parody of Noah's Ark. There was a lovely scene where the most innocent girl on the boat gets raped by Noah using a unicorn's horn. It was really graphic. I felt a bit light-headed. Plus the unicorn dies. :frown:

It's a good read, just beware of pages 260-262.

[John Travolta]

I don't understand how reading can make a person grossed out.

What is the What really opened my eyes, and I guess it was pretty graphic considering that it described a small child being ripped apart by a lion and things of that nature. What was worse is that it actually happened so it's pretty leveling.

[Caroline]

i read "the night walkers" i read it all thorigh the night. it was so creepy, i couldnt sleep for 2 months

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[Pieman]

I don't understand how reading can make a person grossed out.

What is the What really opened my eyes, and I guess it was pretty graphic considering that it described a small child being ripped apart by a lion and things of that nature. What was worse is that it actually happened so it's pretty leveling.

If I get permission to post 'Guts", or at least not get told not to, I'll show you how you can be physically sick from reading

[MSB]

If I get permission to post 'Guts", or at least not get told not to, I'll show you how you can be physically sick from reading

I don't think Abbey would mind if you posted a link to it, just don't copy/paste it here. Make sure you write a warning about the story link (ie: Story is disgustingly graphic).

Oh and I totally agree. John Travolta, if you don't get grossed out by 'Guts', then you're not human, or a very sick individual.

[abbey]

Mark it NSFW.

[Dauntasa]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. It's very short and not particularly graphic, but it's still a little disturbing. You can read it here (http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm).

[Pieman]

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[abbey]

It seems you have to be a member of that forum to read it.

[Pieman]

Hm, does anyone know where I could upload it?

[abbey]

http://nopaste.com/

Back on topic now.

[MSB]

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I don't know why I read that again, but it's still as gross as the first time I read it.

[John Travolta]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. It's very short and not particularly graphic, but it's still a little disturbing. You can read it here (http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm).

That's not NSFW at all or disturbing. It's a satirical piece meant to poke fun at the radicalism of the world during the 1700s.

Also I read the excerpt from that book and I wasn't grossed out in the least, I actually found it pretty entertaining. You guys are just major pussies.

[Soul]

I remember a couple of years ago I read Flowers for Algernon and I was pretty sad for a while after I read it.

[MangaFreak]

I remember a couple of years ago I read Flowers for Algernon and I was pretty sad for a while after I read it.

Ah. Oh my god. Flowers for Algernon, we read that in English class a few months back. Worst book ever. Period. The End. I even used SPARKNOTES and it bored the hell out of me.

[BKS]

Back when I read It, I was like, 13 or 14, and I just couldn't believe it. I was fucked over for weeks afterwards.


Ah. Oh my god. Flowers for Algernon, we read that in English class a few months back. Worst book ever. Period. The End. I even used SPARKNOTES and it bored the hell out of me.



I actually enjoyed reading that book..

[Pie_Dee]

Back when I read It, I was like, 13 or 14, and I just couldn't believe it. I was fucked over for weeks afterwards.

I read that, and the others about when he was older, and found it pretty disturbing too, until my English teacher ruined it for me and a couple of others in my class by telling us about some guy who wrote a similar story and turned out to have been lying about the entire thing and that Dave Pelzer was probably doing the same. She then apologised for ruining the books for us.

[MSB]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. It's very short and not particularly graphic, but it's still a little disturbing. You can read it here (http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm).

That's not NSFW at all or disturbing. It's a satirical piece meant to poke fun at the radicalism of the world during the 1700s.


That story didn't gross me out, or disturb me. We actually read it in my high school history class. My teacher read it out loud, in a very animated way, and we all giggled.

[Oodge]

Flowers for Algernon was a good read, but I'm glad it was kept a short one. Can you imagine a Bryce Courtney version of it? Now that'd scar you.

What scarred me was The Sailor Who Fell from Grace With The Sea. There's a little mutilation towards the middle, but it's not til you hit the last couple of pages that you just get completely weirded out, not by gory detail, but by your own imagination anticipating what's about to happen

[Barista]

Anne Rice- The Mayfair witches: Incest Galore.

Gets pretty creepy in some parts.

And if I new how to do that black highlighting I'd talk about Blackwood farm, another Anne Rice book, with some more incest.

[Pieman]

Spoiler tags are [ spoiler ] OH SHIT XXXX DIES!! [/ spoiler ]

[timbot]

I think I got more nauseated scrolling back and forth to read 'Guts' than I did by the content. It wasn't a lot worse than around the end of of Where the Red Fern Grows. I did think it was pretty interesting, though. I love the whole "invisible carrot" idea.

[stupidpuppet]

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Okay, that might have scarred me a little bit. Sea monsters take on a whole new meaning now!

I do have one book that didn't scar me, but it left me with a disturbing phrase that gives me goosebumps. I read Animal Farm in 9th grade and the one thing that's always stuck with me was "Thou shalt not kill, except..." I wish I knew why it bothers me?

[timbot]

I read Animal Farm in 9th grade and the one thing that's always stuck with me was "Thou shalt not kill, except..." I wish I knew why it bothers me?

It probably bothers you because you realize the implications of it? It's pretty creepy, really. And an excellent book.

[MaxAlcolo]

Aliss by Patrick Senécal.
Well it's a french canadian book, so I doubt anyone here read it.
It's the story of Alice, 18 years old, who decides to suddenly move out without letting know her parents, boyfriend, friends, etc. She ends up in a weird, unknown district of Montreal. It seems to be in the middle of nowhere, but she got there using the metro (subway). Pretty soon she realises that people are fucked up over there, and that they all seem to worship a "queen".
From there, everything just gets worse and worse. Basically everyone has orgies with pretty much everyone over there. Strippers don't actually just strip, they masturbate on stage and/or have sex. The use of condoms is considered llame and the term "gay" doesn't even exist. You don't have a sexual orientation there, you're just open to everything, it's like that. Alice gets suck into that whole thing very quickly.

I used spoiler tags, even though I doubt anyone will read it. The book didn't scare me, but it sure disturbed me a lot. I still couldn't stop reading it.
It's probably my favorite book, too.

[Jiggz]

A local serial killer profiler, Miki Pistorius, has written several books about the cases she worked on. And trust me, she has enough material, SA has the second highest rate of serial homicide in the world - the first being America.

The following is pretty graphic, be warned.

In one of her books, she chronicles the case of Stewart Wilken, a serial killer operating in Port Elizebeth. His MO was to lure young boys into parks, where he'd rape them while he strangled them. His favourite part was what he called the "jelly baby face", which was the face made by his victims as they were dying, and "their eyes bulged out of their skulls".

It gets worse. He would stash the bodies of his victims in bushes, and revisit them for more sex. When caught, he took police to an undiscovered body. They found a rolled up news paper inserted in the boys anus. This, said Wilken, was to keep the maggots out, because the body was so badly decomposed, yet he still enjoyed having sex with it.

There's more. During his interrogation, while recounting his murders, he would begin masturbating uncontrollably. Miki Pistorius took it as a sign of respect when, during her interviews with him, he would ask to be excused to go masturbate, rather than doing it in front of her.

He also strangled his 12 year old daughter to death. Saying he believed he saved her from this harsh life. He kept her body until nothing but bones and clothing remained.

[Spiffy13]

A local serial killer profiler, Miki Pistorius, has written several books about the cases she worked on. And trust me, she has enough material, SA has the second highest rate of serial homicide in the world - the first being America.

The following is pretty graphic, be warned.

In one of her books, she chronicles the case of Stewart Wilken, a serial killer operating in Port Elizebeth. His MO was to lure young boys into parks, where he'd rape them while he strangled them. His favourite part was what he called the "jelly baby face", which was the face made by his victims as they were dying, and "their eyes bulged out of their skulls".

It gets worse. He would stash the bodies of his victims in bushes, and revisit them for more sex. When caught, he took police to an undiscovered body. They found a rolled up news paper inserted in the boys anus. This, said Wilken, was to keep the maggots out, because the body was so badly decomposed, yet he still enjoyed having sex with it.

There's more. During his interrogation, while recounting his murders, he would begin masturbating uncontrollably. Miki Pistorius took it as a sign of respect when, during her interviews with him, he would ask to be excused to go masturbate, rather than doing it in front of her.

He also strangled his 12 year old daughter to death. Saying he believed he saved her from this harsh life. He kept her body until nothing but bones and clothing remained.
...Wow, I regret reading that. That's fucking sick.

[Krabby]

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Didn't really feel sick reading it, but it was somewhat dirty.

However, for some reason I was imagining how painful it must be to insert that piece of wax/the metal thing :x How the hell can that feel good eventually.

Same for what's in post above - all in all it's just text, doesn't really bother me.

[Dauntasa]

That's not NSFW at all or disturbing. It's a satirical piece meant to poke fun at the radicalism of the world during the 1700s.

Also I read the excerpt from that book and I wasn't grossed out in the least, I actually found it pretty entertaining. You guys are just major pussies.

Well I thought it was funny, but when I showed it to one of my friends, she freaked out. She found it disturbing because, even though it was written in a satirical way, it was still about eating babies.

[GnR]

One of the stories of Haunted by Chuck Palanhiuk. Just that story about masturbation and how it screwed up people's lives. The kid who had the wax in his pisshole and the guy who had it anus sucked out of the pool. It hurt while I was reading. I just started it too. Afraid there'll be more stuff like that later on.

[Barista]

Spoiler tags are [ spoiler ] OH SHIT XXXX DIES!! [/ spoiler ]

Ah thank you :D

SO Blackwood farm, about a guy who has doppleganger, a complete spitting image of himself that follows him about and talks to him through I think It's sign language, I forgot, but it's irelevant to it's creepiness. the most scarring scene would be where this ghost, who is actually the ghost of his twin brother, jacks him off in the shower :O And it's so descriptive and nasty and WRONG. I think it's also in that book that the girl he falls in love with, also in the mayfair witches, makes a point to sleep with all of her cousins and family members. Anne Rice has some WEIRD fetishes.

[Dabamash]

I'm a complete atheist, but my aunt is a bit of a God fanatic, she gave me this small yellow book on my birthday called "the shock of your life", I was a bit apprehensive as I knew it was religious. So I put off reading it for a few weeks. Eventually I got so bored that I read the first chapter. Turns out it's about how if you are not a christian you will spend eternity burning in hell (it's quite graphic). Well, thanks aunt, real kind of you. Proper birthday treat.

(not really scarred for life, more OMG U S.O.B)

[Chocoholic]

Ahhh... Guts. So disgusting Chuck Palahniuk stopped reading it at his events because people kept passing out. I think he got to like 71 people before deciding to stop. When he came to my town he asked anyone if this one guy was ok. I guess he started leaving because he felt faint, passed out on the stairs, and fell down all of them.

[Pie_Dee]

It's a little strange, but I'm actually getting tempted to read Haunted just to see if I can handle it.

[Halz]

It's a little strange, but I'm actually getting tempted to read Haunted just to see if I can handle it.

So am I where can i get it from?

[Profane Methane]

When I was younger I read the Thomas Covenant chronicles and that had a part where a young women gets raped by the main leper character and that disturbed me at the time, how ever now I'm not a pussy it doesn't bother me anymore. I also read this crime book called Mermaid Song and that had a psycho killer who tortured people and one of the torturing devices was this thing that partially disemboweled this guy with a spike wrapped with barbed wire that was inserted anally.

[legolas]

I have to agree with Perfume, i saw the movie and that was alittle freaky, i thought it had a good storyline but the mass orgy at the end was just.... freaky....

I have read a book called Fierce People by Dirk Wittenborn, good book but also graphic in parts.

[TheHighwaySong]

Good to hear that more people have read the beginning of Haunted than I would've thought. That shit definitely turns your stomach upside down. There are other stories that were rather odd like the guy giving orgasm-inducing footjobs? but Guts was definitely unforgettable.

[Not RobD]

Good to hear that more people have read the beginning of Haunted than I would've thought. That shit definitely turns your stomach upside down. There are other stories that were rather odd like the guy giving orgasm-inducing footjobs? but Guts was definitely unforgettable.

Absolutely agree. By the way Cell by Stephen King was pretty scary too.
And Guts was pretty disgusting. I wish I didn't have read it.
By the way, shoudn't the title of the thread be "Books that may have scared you for life".

[timbot]

Absolutely agree. By the way Cell by Stephen King was pretty scary too.
And Guts was pretty disgusting. I wish I didn't have read it.
By the way, shoudn't the title of the thread be "Books that may have scared you for life".

How is one scared for life? Are you just forever walking around in a state of fear because of the book you read? Most of these aren't even scary.
Did I mention The Jungle already? I suppose that's as close as I've ever come to being scarred by a book...I'm the type of person who is more affected by a story of lost love than of lost intestines...

P.S. Scarred is the past tense of scar. Scared is the past tense of scare.

[Oodge]

By the way, shoudn't the title of the thread be "Books that may have scared you for life".

No.

I find that you can remove yourself from a Stephen King. I've never read one that's stuck on me.

[Nightshayde]

Ages ago I was reading Larry's Party by Carol Shields.xD This was back when I wasn't used to sex in novels, and there was an entire chapter dedicated to the main character's penis. It was strange.

And I read a Wiki article the other day about a german murderer who got some guy off the internet to visit him, and he cut off the dude's penis and they both ate it. Not a book, but it disturbed me.

[Oodge]

The guy whose penis had just been taken off ate it as well!?

Oh well, it's Wiki. Probably bullshit

[Carcinoma]

The Mr. Men.

I just have so much pent-up rage, and emotional scarring from reading those books.

http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee96/jiji_the_cat/Animation/mr_men_main.gif

See? What's funny about excruciating agony, caused by a nurse - someone who helps you. And the pun is that Mr Man is a chronic self-harmer.

http://i175.photobucket.com/albums/w136/inthemiddle45/mr-grumpy.gif

Anger issues, should we not be helping him? No, just laugh at the chap's plight, despite all his pent-up rage!

These books are for children, might I add (my level of reading).

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[thatswhatyourmomsaid]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. It's very short and not particularly graphic, but it's still a little disturbing. You can read it here (http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm).

EWWWWWWWWWWW THAT'S SO NASTY!

THE GUY SPEAKING IS GIVING REASONS TO WHY, WHEN FOOD IS LOW, AND POVERTY FOR CHILDREN IS HIGH (this must be like medieval London or something), WE SHOULD EAT CHILDREN!

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[Peetz]

The short story 1408 by Stephen King. Not the movie. The movie was suspenseful but the story itself is just creepy and disturbing beyond imagination. It makes being alone and sitting in silence the most uncomfortable thing you can do.

[kellykawaii]

No book has actually ever scarred me..but I've flicked through my friends copy of Haunted and I few of the stories weren't too pleasent. I really want to buy it myself though and read it all. I didn't feel sick reading it which is strange as I'm usually pretty weak-stomached. I'd like to see if I could handle it all.

[SomethingWitty]

A Child Called It fucked me up pretty badly, but that might have been because I was eight when I read it. Apart from that, nothing much disturbs me. You see far worse on the news in most cases.

[FallenMorgan]

I read the wikipedia article for the alternate history book "The Ultimate Solution." It freaked me out. It's basically where the Nazis take over most of the world, black people are forced to fight in gladiator-like battles in Madison Square Garden, Slavs are slaves, body parts of Jews are sold as souveniers, etc.

It's incredibly "out there," but it's incredibly morbid. It freaked the hell out of me just reading the wikipedia article.

[Fixxxer]

Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice is a life changing book. It tells the whole story of creation from the devil's point of view. Very good read if you have the time, it is kinda long.

[abbey]

Memnoch The Devil by Anne Rice is a life changing book. It tells the whole story of creation from the devil's point of view. Very good read if you have the time, it is kinda long.
That scarred you for life?

[Fixxxer]

It changed my theological beliefs and my life. I personally didnt find it as a scar so much as an enlightenment. My family, however, may disagree with me on that.

I did think of a vampire drinking menstural blood as pretty scarring though.

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[yellersamick23]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift. It's very short and not particularly graphic, but it's still a little disturbing. You can read it here (http://emotionalliteracyeducation.com/classic_books_online/mdprp10.htm).
Jesus Fuck that was a trip!!

[grungymingo]

book:'Perfume: story of a murderer'
Author: Patrick Suskind
Pages:272 pages

Syn:
(stolen from wikipedia)
"Set in 18th century France, Perfume relates the story of Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, "one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages".

Born lacking a personal odour (a fact other people find disquieting) but endowed with an incomparable sense of smell, he apprentices himself to a perfumer and becomes obsessed with procuring the perfect scent that will make him fully human. In the process, he creates perfumes—presumably based on pheromones—that powerfully manipulate human emotions, murdering 25 girls to take their scent."

my favorite book.

[Tastychainsaws]

What about Stephen King writing as Richard Bach? That book the Long Walk still makes me stop and think from time to time.

[Gubzmanna08]

...Wow, I regret reading that. That's fucking sick.

You think thats sick?
try living in The Rainbow Nation!
Rape and murder are such common occurences that hearing about Robberies where people are raped, shot in front of thier loved ones, being tortured with irons or intentionally infecting people with HIV (and many, many other atrocities) hardly makes me raise an eyebrow.

and thats the sad part.

In SA people are thankful if someone just hijacked/robbed them.

It's very sad and I wish it wasn't that way but It is, tragically.

I got scarred for life by 2 books, the ones name I can't recall and was about Hitlers father and family... So much incest and rape.. *shudder* The other one is called The Seventh Sacrement and follows the story of a disappearance of a young boy, who in the end was kidnapped by his Abusive fathers disgruntled lover who raised the boy then took him for a lover, add to that the fact that the dad was bisexual and violently raped a man and you've got one heck of a emotional scar.

[faintestofhearts]

Haunted was an awesome book. I tend to go towards the gross books because they're different.

Oh and if you want wierd and gross: try bizarro books. (just google it)

Those books are different/nasty/creative. One of the books is Razor Wire Pubic Hair...yea. I shit you not.
You MUST have an open mind to read them.

[AnOddRant]

I read my dad's book titled "The Book", which was funny for the first 1200 pages, but when i finished it (1800 pages) it really sunk in and I noticed how messed up it was.

[TuckerLOL]

Animal Farm, by George Orwell. I read it when I was about 8 and didn't understand it. I didn't even realise Clover was actually killed.
I read it as one of the dumber animals would have, if they could read.
Reading it again, a few weeks back, really disturbed me, because it was so different. A lot darker. And this time, I actually noticed that the commandments changed.
Really freaked me out.

[Akvod]

"Night", and "First They Killed My Father", all those genocide memoirs school forces you to read always bring you down.

[Ramirez23]

And I read a Wiki article the other day about a german murderer who got some guy off the internet to visit him, and he cut off the dude's penis and they both ate it. Not a book, but it disturbed me.

The song "Mein Teil" by Rammstein is actually about that. Anyway, we had to read a book in school called Ellen Foster. It was about a little girl who had to go through some pretty messed up shit, including being raped by her father and constantly abused by her grandmother, who blamed her for he mothers death. More sad than disgusting really. And this Haunted book sonds good, I'll have to check it out.

[stanley]

Eugh, yeah, Haunted was disgusting. Amusing though.

The descriptions of some of the sex/murder scenes in American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis) are disgustingly graphic too.

And in The Secret History by Donna Tartt when you find out Camilla is sleeping with her twin, Charles, that's pretty gross. Also when they describe what they remember about the night they killed the guy, they talk about ripping out his stomach. Eww.

HA, i just read the title of this thread and thought to myself, I'll mention American Psycho. You've beaten me to the punch Aoife! (probably by quite some time, i didn't actually check when you posted that one...)

[Ivan]

In year 11 at school we were made to read My Forbidden Face, it's actually an expository text about the Taliban's invasion of Afghanistan. Indeed it is very sad that this sort of thing is happening in the world, but I was still deeply disturbed at the author's detailed description of how girls were being mutilated with barbed wire, and how one was nailed to a door and then cut in half. I ended up actually asking the teacher if I could stop reading it, it made me very uncomfortable.

[Flippy]

I'd have to say the only book that "disturbed" me would have to beA Clockwork Orange but not in a bad way. Its actually really good and even better if you have the Glossary of what the Main character is saying.

[AnOddRant]

I don't care what anyone says, but any Ayn Rand book really fucks my mind over (not in a bad way), I still like a lot of the books, but one really screwed me up. I forgot what book it was.

Edit: I just read your post Flippy, and i love the clockwork orange, probably my favorite book of all time/offtopic

[Ivan]

Animal Farm, by George Orwell. I read it when I was about 8 and didn't understand it. I didn't even realise Clover was actually killed.
I read it as one of the dumber animals would have, if they could read.
Reading it again, a few weeks back, really disturbed me, because it was so different. A lot darker. And this time, I actually noticed that the commandments changed.
Really freaked me out.

I just finished reading this, and I have to agree. Once I got to the part where the commandments changed I realised what was going to end up happening, the part where Napoleon allows the death of the four pigs as well as several other animals was just horrible.

[Alzo]

Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl. When I was done I thought, what the hell??

[Mr_Beast]

I read The Wind Singer when I was about eleven. Even then I knew that replacing expletives with words like "pongo" and "bubbacack" was horribly lame. However, foolishly, I persevered and by the end I was a gibbering wreck, sort of like when you make yourself watch an entire episode of Hollyoaks (or alternatively Days Of Our Lives, if you're a yank) and get a hernia.
Also, Watership Down is fairly fucked up.

[TuckerLOL]

Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl. When I was done I thought, what the hell??

Have you read the Uncle Oswald books?
I've got to admit, they... disturbed me. Until I read that, the only Dahl books I'd read were the childrens ones. Completely altered my perception.
Also reminded me of Tucker Max, for obvious reasons, if anyone's read it.

[Alzo]

Have you read the Uncle Oswald books?
I've got to admit, they... disturbed me. Until I read that, the only Dahl books I'd read were the childrens ones. Completely altered my perception.
Also reminded me of Tucker Max, for obvious reasons, if anyone's read it.

No I haven't read it. Kiss Kiss really messed up my image of Dahl. :wail:

[Gina--]

The most disturbing book I have ever read was called "Let The Right One In" by John Ajvide Lindqvist. The books stars off with this guy murdering some guy and hanging him upside down from a tree, cutting his throat and collecting his blood . And it get worse. This man seems to have a liking for young boys and at one point pays some teen to get a 12 year old kid to meet him in a bathroom and give him head but the kid has no teeth so that he can do it better . And they've made a movie based on the book too, I don't know how anyone could be so sick.

[Dodger]

I think a lot of you just need to suck it up and look past the superficial gore of it. I'm sure some book are just trashy like MSB's first post since it was some stupid romance novel, but I bet a lot of the books you guys are mentioning have a deeper meaning to them that just GUTS AND BLOOD.

That's like saying the Fight Club was horrible because one guy was beaten to a pulp.

[GCBC]

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[tunacake]

Wait, That's not a book! I bet he isn't even an author. :mad:

[Alcoholic]

Wait, That's not a book! I bet he isn't even an author. :mad:

I'm pretty sure that's the author of Atlas Shrugged.

[Chrono]

Ayn Rand?

[Alcoholic]

Yes, Chrono. I thought the joke would be funnier with the exclusion of the name, as it forced the reader to think of the name and say, "Hey, that's not woman!"

[hoopymo]

Way to ruin the joke.

[Chrono]

Elites ruin all jokes

[hoopymo]

Well next time, ruin it faster.

[Tastychainsaws]

This wasn't a book but I still think it counts.

I recently read a story online that was technically an erotic fiction but the plot was incredible. Well it takes place sometime in the future and people are discriminated by hair color.

Gingers to precise. So anyone with red/orange hair is treated less than a person. They are sold as slaves/pets/sex objects or trained like dogs to fight so there masters can bet and win money.

I can't look at gingers the same now.

[tesssss]

"American Gods" by Neil Gaiman. More specifically when a guy is having sex with a hooker, who then swallows him whole through her 'sexual organs'

[tunacake]

Gingers to precise. So anyone with red/orange hair is treated less than a person. the same now.

How is that fiction?

[Tastychainsaws]

How is that fiction?

Because in real life you don't keep 3-5 gingers in your house as sex slaves. Well at least not in america...well at least not legally.

[tunacake]

You're absolutely right. 5 is way too many to feed.

[Tastychainsaws]

You're absolutely right. 5 is way too many to feed.

Plus when you leave them home alone they fight from time and littlest one always ends up eating last and then you have to give it special attention and then the older ones get mad...

Theres no way to make them all happy! Plus with 5 the litter box has to be changed like 10 times a day or the pee on the carpet/

[Roxi]

I'll have to agree that Haunted pretty much messed me up extremely, but while Guts was gross, I thought the most disturbing was when they try force Miss America to eat soup made of her stillborn baby.

[Haggis McSpud]

When I was a child my mum bought me a book which I can't remember the title of, however the opening chapter was about these two siblings who were always fighting. One day their mother bought them a kitten for them both to look after, but the siblings started fighting over who got to hold it and ended up stepping on the kittens head and crushing it. I never read past that chapter, I love kittens too much.

Also the book "The Rats" by James Herbert is both one of my favorite and most hated novels, my favorite because it did such a thorough job of scaring the shit out of me, and my most hated because it has made me terrified of rats ever since.

[Tastychainsaws]

When I was a child my mum bought me a book which I can't remember the title of, however the opening chapter was about these two siblings who were always fighting. One day their mother bought them a kitten for them both to look after, but the siblings started fighting over who got to hold it and ended up stepping on the kittens head and crushing it. I never read past that chapter, I love kittens too much.

Also the book "The Rats" by James Herbert is both one of my favorite and most hated novels, my favorite because it did such a thorough job of scaring the shit out of me, and my most hated because it has made me terrified of rats ever since.

Did they make a movie of "The Rats" because that sounds really familiar. I remember they had a movie that had to do with rats at one point, and one night it was TV and like all my friends saw it and it scared us shitless.

[BooN]

Both books by George Orwell that I've read. 1984 and Animal Farm.

Hey, Mr. Blair, why not write a book that makes me smile at the end? Or, sell your books with a Walther P22 and two bullets. Why two? I wanna take someone else with me after reading something that ends so depressingly.

[Haggis McSpud]

Did they make a movie of "The Rats" because that sounds really familiar. I remember they had a movie that had to do with rats at one point, and one night it was TV and like all my friends saw it and it scared us shitless.

Indeed they did;
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0282418/

But personally I think that the book was much worst, I'm a big fan of James Herbert, mostly because he has no limits, if he wants to scare you he'll use every shocking, sickening and horrifying scenario or idea he can think of, and will write about them in the most natural of settings so that it seems that it could actually happen.
One of the worst parts of "The Rats" is when the mother walked into the kitchen only to see her baby and it's young puppy being eaten alive by rats, the only thing she can see is her baby's severed arm waving grotesquely above the sea of rats.. *shudders*

[cootieman]

Just went through some of the posts mentioning incest. Has anyone read Moors last sigh by Salman Rushdie? Now that fellow is what i call sick. How can they give him a Booker Prize?

[MaffeMike]

Its a dutch book and I really doubt if anyone knows it here. het verotte leven van floortje bloem That going about a girl that's going on drugs and going into prostitution. It's a really sick part about her puking out everything she ate, and perfectly described what was in it, or when she used heroin and saw her sisters face falling apart. Sick, sick book really.

[timbot]

Just went through some of the posts mentioning incest. Has anyone read Moors last sigh by Salman Rushdie? Now that fellow is what i call sick. How can they give him a Booker Prize?

Have you read anything else by Rushdie? Just because someone has written a book with a creepy/fucked up character or plot doesn't mean that the author is disturbed. And, just because something was scary or creepy, that doesn't make it bad.

[shoryukentoface]

There's probably much worse things that have been written. A billion times worse than any popular "gore" or horror books, beyond the realms of our comprehension of disgust. Unless you happen to have read Winnie the Pooh.

[paine]

Well..it is not with drugs or prostitution or rape but it was kind of creepy.But maybe that was because i read it when i was like 13.The Neverending Story by Michael Ende.The guy was probably tripping balls

[timbot]

I loved that movie when I was a kid. I tried to read the book once, but couldn't get through it. It is pretty weird and out there.