The Most Disturbing Book You've ever Read

[ADqtPiMel]

Originally posted by DGqueen17
Gerald's Game by Stephen King is WEIRD. I chose it to do a book report my freshman year of high school. Needless to say my mother insisted I find a new book.

Blecccccch. I hate that book, and I usually love Stephen King.

[AXiD Sweetie]

Originally posted by DGqueen17
Gerald's Game by Stephen King is WEIRD. I chose it to do a book report my freshman year of high school. Needless to say my mother insisted I find a new book.

Funny Story: My dad has that book, and I've just usually kept all books like that in my room (I was a big John Grisham and Stephen King fan) So I just grabbed that book (In the FOURTH GRADE!) I read like 2 chapters, maybe, and I haven't touched it since!

[abaici]

I thought Johnny Got His Gun was a great book. I cried throughout the book.

As for American Psycho...I cannot IMAGINE the book being more disturbing than the film. I still have nightmares about that film.

[angelove]

Pledged by Alexandra Robbins.

[_Q_]

I found the excerpts of hate literature I've seen to be the most disturbing things I've ever read. Sure, there are a lot of scary and graphic novels out there, but people recognize them as fiction. However, there are too many people that take books like "Mein Kampf" and "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" seriously. *shudder*

[Rudey]

Originally posted by abaici
As for American Psycho...I cannot IMAGINE the book being more disturbing than the film. I still have nightmares about that film.

The book was disturbing and it was also funnier if you liked the movie.

-Rudey

[breathesgelatin]

I've not read American Psycho, but Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama is pretty disturbing, too. Despite that it's one of my all-time favorite books.

[Rudey]

Originally posted by breathesgelatin
I've not read American Psycho, but Bret Easton Ellis's Glamorama is pretty disturbing, too. Despite that it's one of my all-time favorite books.

That one isn't about investment bankers who argue over who has the better business card though

-Rudey

[breathesgelatin]

Originally posted by Rudey
That one isn't about investment bankers who argue over who has the better business card though

-Rudey

I know but the male model/terrorist thing is hot. And the Xanax!!!! WOOO!

Other supposedly disturbing books that I want to read: Crash, House of Leaves...

[AGDee]

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

It doesn't help that I read it right before 9/11, so when 9/11 happened, my thoughts went to that book.. scarrrrrry.

[_Q_]

Originally posted by AGDee
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

It doesn't help that I read it right before 9/11, so when 9/11 happened, my thoughts went to that book.. scarrrrrry.

Yeah, Margaret Atwood is great. For some reason, John Ashcroft has reminded me of "The Handmaid's Tale."

On the lighter side, she had a poem "Let Us Now Praise Stupid Women" at http://website.lineone.net/~bianca_bird/270699.htm .

[honeychile]

Does anyone else think that a LOT of the books on "Oprah's Book List" are rather disturbing? Well written and insightful, yes, but disturbing none the less?

[CutiePie2000]

Originally posted by honeychile
The other was Let's All Play At the Adam's or something quite similar.

I have a doozy for you all.
After reading "Let Go Play at the Adams", I then read "The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum. It is well written, but so disturbing that I know that I will never forget it. It is based on this murder here:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/notoriou.../likens/1.html

[ms_gwyn]

Originally posted by AGDee
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood.

It doesn't help that I read it right before 9/11, so when 9/11 happened, my thoughts went to that book.. scarrrrrry.

That is my favorite book by her, I first discovered her by reading her short story Happy Endings (and if you really think about it, very distrubing in a surreal way)...my great american novel is sort of based on this book along with a combination of other things and ironic with all the stuff going on.

I have to totally agree on Brett Easton Ellis, whom I love American Psycho is completely fucked up, the rat scene I had to put the book down and frankly kept me from watching the movie.

Wally Lamb's She's Coming Undone I didn't find that distrubing, just kinda sad.

of course I read all of these books in my late teens/early 20s, I would have to read them again today now that I have a completely different state of mind.

I must pick up some of these other books.

[Lady Pi Phi]

Originally posted by ms_gwyn
..Wally Lamb's She's Coming Undone I didn't find that distrubing, just kinda sad...

Yes, I also read that book. It was very sad.