The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

^Haha, I grew up on the theory of that book. The end of the world, Big Brother, it was always looming just around the corner. So said my parents. And the movie that was loosely based on it, The Apple, man I've watched that about a million times. It's a great little cult film...

I actually didn't find 1984 that upsetting. The part with the rats really bothered me, but other than that it was kind of... meh. I don't know. Animal Farm had more of an effect on me.

American Psycho. I still like it, but I had never read a book that graphic prior to that book.

Night, Dawn and Day by Elie Wiesel were all pretty disturbing. I loved them, despite how sad and somber I felt after reading them.

The Inferno was also a little disturbing. :coffee:

Helter Skelter - it was a book all about Charles Manson and the Manson Family. As interesting as I find the Manson Family, that book scared the life out of me.

Night. I had to read it for my English class last year, and just, I've got nothing to say that describes how I feel about it.
Also, 1984. The whole book was okay but the part with rats bothered me because I had a fear of rodents at the time.

The Lost Boy disturbed me, for the mere descriptions of his mothers abuse towards him. Also Don't Hurt Laurie. That book was disturbing in so many ways.

I've read a lot of generally disturbing books in my day, and rarely anything actually gets to me badly, but something from the book Black Sunday, by Thomas Harris really stands out for me. The crazy main character gets crazy mad and takes a kitten, and innocent little baby thing only months old, and sticks it down the garbage disposal in the sink and turns it on, killing it! I can stomach most things done to humans, but to read about somebody doing that to an innocent cat really got to me, since I love the little beasts to death and have two of my own, and couldn't help picturing that happening to them!

Aileen in Horrorland:

120 days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade

It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate in orgies. To do this, they seal themselves away for four months in an inaccessible castle with a harem of 46 victims, mostly young male and female teenagers, and engage four women brothel keepers to tell the stories of their lives and adventures. The women's narratives form an inspiration for the sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually mounts in intensity and ends in their slaughter.

I couldn't get pass chapter 1... I closed it and am not intending to read it again.

Try watching Salo, the film version :shock:

My Mum is reading Pet Semetary. XOMG :shock: I read the plot on wiki. Shit scared, shit scared. But I really want to read it. Stephen King in general really, Cell as well. Scary bat-shit! :crazy:

The Yellow Wallpaper. It's not scary, or gorey, just real disturbing.

Horrorland's child:

120 days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade

It tells the story of four wealthy male libertines who resolve to experience the ultimate in orgies. To do this, they seal themselves away for four months in an inaccessible castle with a harem of 46 victims, mostly young male and female teenagers, and engage four women brothel keepers to tell the stories of their lives and adventures. The women's narratives form an inspiration for the sexual abuse and torture of the victims, which gradually mounts in intensity and ends in their slaughter.

I couldn't get pass chapter 1... I closed it and am not intending to read it again.

I actually tried to read that a couple of months ago. I got to 3rd chapter. But I threw up during the course of it.

As much as I love Darren Shan, the Demonata did freak me out a bit to start with :file:

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.

I couldn't even finish it. i read the first few chapters about the kid that gets his intestines prolapsed in the swimming pool and had to chew through them to get out. It was really detailed and scared me for a little while.

Definitely Bag of Bones by Stephen King. :shock:

^ I tried to read Misery and had to stop once the bed-confined character had to pee into his own hands and lick them for sustenance.

:omfg:

James Patterson's Cross Country. There are a couple of others that would be close, but I can't remember their titles because I read so much and it's been a Looooong time. =]

Ugly by Constance Briscoe .. This book just made me cry and the abuse was just disturbing I felt sorry for the little girl when she was left to fend for herself

I've read a lot of them, but the most recent one "The Colour Purple" by Alice Walker springs to mind.

The last time I can remember being disturbed by a book was when I was about nine, and I tried to read Face by Benjamin Zephaniah - it came in a bag of books sent by someone my family knows. Basically, it's about a guy who has his face burnt off. At the beginning of chapter two he wakes up in hospital and he doesn't have a face. He's eyeballs in a fucking charred, scabbed skull. I think it was first person. I didn't get past the description of him seeing himself for the first time. I hid it under my mum's bed - I didn't want it in the same room as me. Nowadays I could cope, probably with worse - but then, probably only because I had that prevailing subconcious image for so long that it stopped scaring me so much.

Then there was Bed Gellert, the folk tale, when I was a kid, but that wasn't so much scary as devestatingly tragic - it was the saddest thing I'd heard up until then. Even now I don't like that story. Basically, a guy lives in a lonely castle with his baby son and his dog, Bed Gellert, who is his best and only friend int he whole wide world in that very Dark Ages way yada yada yada. He goes out hunting and wolves come and eat the kid. Bed Gellert tries to fight them off, fails, the wolves eat the kid and get away. Guy comes home, finds kid eaten, blood around Bed Gellert's mouth, so he runs his beloved dog through with his sword, believing him to have killed his son. Then realisation somehow dawns. That haunted me for a long time. It was in a book of children's stories about animals, for chrissakes.

Tears Of A Tiger by Sharon M. Draper that book made me sick to my stomach at times. It was so sad and it was written so well even though it was a short book it just made you speechless.

I still can't even look at the cover of that book - let alone read the rest of the series.