The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

  • rosewater tide.

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    When Rabbit Howls: The Troops for Trudi Chase.

    The way the troop members describe how Trudi was raped countless times made me have to put it down every once in a while. It really got to me.
    August 25th, 2012 at 02:30am
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    This is my new favourite thread because I just love sick, twisted, disturbing things. Hehe.

    The problem is, I'm never terribly disturbed by them. I'm reading Haunted right now, and I'm in love with it. It's clever, disgusting, witty... I just love it. Chuck Palahniuk is a genius. So far, I haven't been terribly disturbed by the graphic scenes. I cringed a bit at Guts the first time I read it, but then it just amused me. I'm sick, heh.

    A few days ago I also started reading 120 Days of Sodom, but stopped because it bored me. I didn't find it particularly disgusting, really. When I stopped reading, I skipped through the the disturbing parts, and only got a few shivers. I have no idea why, but I'm just so unaffected by these things. Probably due to my exposure to horror from such a young age. I started writing graphic murder scenes at the age of eleven. Meh. -shrugs-

    The only books I've ever been really disturbed by are not disturbing in the least. I couldn't finish It's Kind Of A Funny Story because it literally made me sick to my stomach. I can't read any books about depression/anxiety/cutting because I relate to my younger self too well and it's absolutely terrifying. Even if they have a positive outcome, I can't get through the parts where the character is going through a bad time. I just can't stomach it.

    I'm strange, I dunno. Hahah.
    August 26th, 2012 at 10:05am
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    Pygmy by Chuck Palahniuk; it's mostly in broken English and what disturbed me was the wal-mart scene. I couldn't finish it, and nothing usually bothers me; except that book
    October 10th, 2012 at 04:48am
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    It, by Stephen King.

    I realize fear of clowns is ridiculous, and that's actually why I read the book--in hopes of getting the frick over it. HA. It goes so much deeper than that. It isn't actually clown--that's just one of it's forms--and It's gotten into the main characters' heads, and the things it makes them do? HOLY F*CK.
    November 24th, 2012 at 04:26am
  • Brand New

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    Mr. Benson by John Preston.

    Oh man, I still have mixed emotions for that book. I was never really a fan of S/M fiction; I only bought it for the thrills. It was mostly a mess, especially when I got to the Arabs plot twist. idk it was just really, really weird.
    November 24th, 2012 at 02:23pm
  • ThatFreakInTheCorner

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    Hmm... I'd have to say Circle of Blood by Alane Ferguson. It didn't so much disturb me as spark my love of all things grotesque. I still remember wanting to become a coroner after reading it.
    December 1st, 2012 at 04:51am
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    Mysterious skin - the molestation was the main part that just got to me.
    GirlChild, Speak- the rape, the ostracizing, and the fact that the book was basically my life in middle school and high school minus the rape part.
    Wintergirls and Awe- the part where Boris drink's Rex's pee and then he gives his dead body oral sex.... I mean not that was REALLY disturbing. Scott Heim is a genius. And any book by Chuck Palahniuck.
    December 2nd, 2012 at 05:01am
  • Uninhibited

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    50 Shades of Grey.
    I may never recover.
    December 3rd, 2012 at 06:19am
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    @ Uninhibited
    I'm with you there.

    I know that some people think that book is 'tame' but I don't read these types of books in the first place and oh God, what did I get myself into.
    December 4th, 2012 at 02:49pm
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    @ Uninhibited
    Yea I totally agree, that book was awful everything was so dry and not entertaining as I thought it would be.
    December 27th, 2012 at 01:57am
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    Thirteen Reasons Way by Jay Asher

    I just felt so hurt and sad inside that Hannah Baker went through all that. The story stuck with me for a couple of weeks till I sorta got over it. Now, I don't have the guts to read through that book again because it's so sad. It's a really good book though!
    December 29th, 2012 at 09:54pm
  • Jordypye

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    Desperation by Stephen King... actually any of his books are disturbing Sp Ike
    December 30th, 2012 at 04:07am
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    I would say Frederico Andahazi - The Merciful Women. A friend gave me the book a couple of years ago to read. Said it was awesome, when really I read the book with dumbfounded face for the whole time. I re-read it a week ago and still don't get it.
    Strongly disturbing content even for me, two sisters taking care for the third one with men's juice (?) and I can tell I read almost everything and nothing leaves me surprised, but this book. It is truly something.
    December 31st, 2012 at 09:38pm
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    I really don't read many disturbing books because I get really depressed afterwards, but I went through this faze where all I read was dystopian novels. I have to say the one I was the most creeped out at was gone, by Micheal grant and mostly that entire series was just.... Weird.
    February 26th, 2013 at 07:03pm
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    Dystopian literature is my favorite genre to read, but I am a bit paranoid at times after reading some of those novels.
    ^I've read Gone too and I'm actually currently waiting for the final book in the series to come out. Some parts in that series were disturbing, but not the most disturbing I've ever read.
    A Clockwork Orange was one of the most unsettling that I've read- another dystopian novel that I wrote my AP English paper on my senior year of high school. Also, The Inferno by Dante Aligheri is disturbing too- the grotesque depictions of the sinners in Hell and their punishments are disturbing. It really makes you think about if there is a Hell and if you're going to be condemned to it for all eternity- scary thought that is.
    I don't remember much of A Child Called It which I read when I was in 5th grade.
    There are others I've read too, but I wasn't too disturbed by more than certain lines in them.
    March 2nd, 2013 at 12:39am
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    The Freakshow by Bryan Smith.
    It was about this traveling freakshow from another dimension and every town they went to people were mind-controlled into going to the show, where they were all tortured and some of them eaten. Some of the freaks went around town looking for anyone who escaped the mind control and this girl was kidnapped by an evil two-headed woman and...well I don't know if anyone wants the details but what made me sick about it was all the incredibly perverse sexual torture. It took me a long time to finish it because I kept shutting it and stuffing it in a drawer so I wouldn't see it while I was laying in bed. It was...a very depraved story.
    March 11th, 2013 at 07:45pm
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    The Midwife's Apprentice

    I read it in the third grade, so I don't remember if it would e a good book or not I read it today. All I remember is that the girl was nicknamed dung-beetle because she slept in dung because it was soft.
    March 12th, 2013 at 04:50am
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    I read the novel version of that movie, The House at the End of the Street and it was the most disturbing thing I have ever read. Mind you, I adore horror/thriller movies and sick, twisted novels... Maybe it was because I read it at 3 AM, in the dark, in the middle of a thunderstorm... I have no idea. All I can say is that I didn't sleep for three days afterwards.
    March 13th, 2013 at 02:28am
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    Guts, a short story by Chuck Palahniuk. It'a all about people harming themselves while masturbating, and they are all true stories.
    March 16th, 2013 at 05:35am
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    Fifty Shades of Grey.
    March 16th, 2013 at 07:52am