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I'm a big fan of Ellen Hopkins both her young adult and adult books, I also really enjoyed Wasteland by Francesca Lia Block and Bringing up the Bones by Zeises, however I don't know what I want to read next Block's other books don't interest me as much and the same with Zeises. It's like I want to read the same books I already read but without re reading them.

Hylia.:

Have you read Snuff by Chuck Palahniuk?
It is VERY explicit and the story's plot does not solely rely on the sex scenes. Here's a book description:

Wikipedia:

Cassie Wright, porn priestess, intends to cap her legendary career by breaking the world record for serial fornication porn movies, on camera, with six hundred men. Snuff unfolds through the perspectives of Mr. 600, Mr. 72, Mr. 137, and Wright's personal assistant, Sheila. With his satirical narrative and thorough research, Chuck Palahniuk reveals through these four characters the little-known facts and histories of not only pornography and sexual deviance, but also acting and life in and out of the spotlight, and throughout the novel shows the rarely acknowledged presence of pornography in modern America.

It is a very good book, but it takes time to get used to Palahniuk's type of narrative.

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@ sushis
By the way, House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski is a not really considered a horror story, but I heavily recommend it as one. I could not sleep for several days. A short summary:

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House of Leaves begins with a first-person narrative by Johnny Truant, a Los Angeles tattoo parlor employee and professed unreliable narrator. Truant is searching for a new apartment when his friend Lude tells him about the apartment of the recently deceased Zampanò, a blind, elderly man who lived in Lude's building.
In Zampanò's apartment, Truant discovers a manuscript written by Zampanò that turns out to be an academic study of a documentary film called The Navidson Record, though Truant says he can find no evidence that the film ever existed.

The story goes on as Truant reads from Zampano's annotations about a house in Ash Tree Lane, which appears to be haunted.

It has been described as horror story, love story, and a satire. The author, Danielewski, explains that genre placement is all but a marketing tool.

10/10 would recommend

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I'm basically looking for fiction books. Any kind, just not books which main plot is a love story. Romance is good as long as it's not the center of the narrative.

If it is of any help, my favorite authors are: Chuck Palahniuk and Mark Z. Danielewski. Thank you.

@ sobre mi cadaver
Charles Bukowski and Irvine Welsh are somewhat similar in style and content. I haven't read the entirety of eithers works, but for Bukowski I'd recommend either Pulp (short so serves as a good introduction) or Ham on Rye (which seems to be everyone's favourite). Welsh might prove more difficult if you are planning on reading in English, because he writes in Scottish dialect which is hard to understand at first. Trainspotting is a good book to start with, especially if you know the film.

And a couple by assorted authors:
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan. It's a bit soft compared to Palahniuk, but still disturbing. It's about siblings who commit incest, I think saying any more would give too much away as it's very short.
Geek Love by Katharine Dunn. Again, not as blatant as Palahniuk but very original and strange. The novel concerns a couple who decide to produce children fit for a freak show, which is achieved through various interferences which hinder the development of the fetuses. It gets weirder and sicker as the children grown up, one starts a cult and convinces others to mutilate themselves, which causes a lot of conflict. Again, I won't give the whole plot away.

I haven't read much of Chuck Palahniuk and I've never read Danielewski, so these recommendations are just gritty and unsettling novels which I think are similar to the former's work. There's also a few YA novels I can think of, but I don't think you'd be interested. I feel like I've missed something huge out though

Hylia.:

Anyone know any good smut books that have literary value?
I mean, not flowery and vague, but in which a lexicon beyond 5th grade is used, and the characters aren't idealized and typically "sexy" in the sense of muscles and popularity?
Also, hopefully not a cliche version of the fantasy/sci-fi genre, but well-written ones are perfectly fine.
I just want... 50 Shades of Grey's writing style doppelganger.

Walt Whitman can be pretty smutty.

Hiya! I'm looking for a really funny book, it can be any genre as long as its funny. I tend to like the books that give me second hand embarassment. ^^

I'm looking for something that's going to scare the pants off of me, like so scary I stay up way too late thinking about what I just read.

@ Darlig Ulv
i don't know if you're still looking for some funny books, but books I thought were pretty funny were:
Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (the whole series has 4 books).
The Princess Bride by William Goldman.
The Vesuvius Club by Mark Gatiss (which also has multiple books in the series, last I checked was 3 or 4?)
Sh*t my Dad Says by Justin Halpern.

consulting detective:

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (the whole series has 4 books).

five. figured i'd better correct you seeing as it's my favourite series in existence.

i'm looking for stuff like mentioned above; blunt, satirical humour amidst a sci-fi backdrop. i read "the shadow thieves" a while ago, which sort of fits this category, but aside from that and hg2g i haven't come across much. anyone?

@ arthur dent
oh bless. thank you. it's been a while since I've read through them so I must've miscounted.

And I don't know if this will interest you either, but I read a Star Trek TOS novel that I thought was quite funny and written in a similar style to h2g2 called How Much for Just the Planet? by John M. Ford.
Also, I found this list on GoodReads and while I can't personally vouch for most of the books there maybe it will help you find something??

@ consulting detective
I'd read that. Sounds good and I like the title a hell of a lot.

I have a craving for some romance novels. Specifically slow burn, but I'm not picky. I do like a bit of fantasy thrown in but I doesn't have to be. My excuse here being I need to work on my romance writing, *coughs* anyway, pretty please? Any rating, but adult novels obviously haha.

Anyone?