The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

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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.
    Ugh, worst thing ever. I cringed and felt sick to my stomach for days after reading that.

    Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews. It's so messed up how the mom just forgets about the kids. What disturbed me is how the oldest brother offered his blood for the little ones to drink. The incest is not pretty either.
    March 20th, 2013 at 04:03am
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    I really need to start reading more books -____-
    Currently reading the walking dead compendium (second one).
    The scenes with the Govenor and Michonne are quite disturbing. It didn't really affect me all that bad but it's just a little bit messed up.
    March 26th, 2013 at 12:41pm
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    Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
    March 30th, 2013 at 04:09am
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    IT by Stephen King. His movies and my sister have made me terrified of clowns, I was pinned down and had to watch every single one of them, and I was 9 : ( I'm traumatized! I tried reading the book a few months ago and well, I made the second chapter and then had to set it down.
    March 31st, 2013 at 04:48am
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    I would not say this was the most disturbing but in 8th grade I read "Running with Scissors" by Augusten Burroughs. I was shifting through life figuring out everything when I read this and kept it hidden in my old bike bag. It was eye opening to me in the sense it showed me the dark side to professions and how someone can corrupt another so easily.
    May 9th, 2013 at 01:17am
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    I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale right now and it's like hands-down the most fucked up thing I've ever read. I can't even deal with it. It's so fucking weird.
    July 8th, 2013 at 06:28am
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    I forget the name of the book (I read it years ago) and it was disturbing. It was by Tory Haden (I think) but the part that really creeped me out was when they mentioned someone getting a cat, holding the cat's head in one hand and the back of the cat in the other hand and ripped it apart.
    July 9th, 2013 at 07:11pm
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    Native Son by Richard Wright. I had to read it for my American Lit class my sophomore year of high school and it's stuck with me ever since. Some parts are definitely disturbing, but what's more disturbing is the racism and racial divide present throughout the book. It's definitely worth reading, though.
    July 10th, 2013 at 12:49am
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    What's it about?
    July 10th, 2013 at 05:38pm
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    It's set in the South Side of Chicago in the 1930s and is about a black youth named Bigger Thomas. He's very, very poor and gets a job working for the Daltons—a very wealthy white family—and it all goes downhill from there.

    There's a part in the first portion of the book in which he's chauffeuring the Dalton's daughter Mary and her boyfriend, who wind up getting drunk and having sex in the backseat of the car. When Bigger drives her back to the house, she's so drunk she can't walk inside and he has to carry her. Mrs. Dalton, who's blind, comes into Mary's room and Bigger panics so he shoves a pillow over her face. When Mrs. Dalton leaves, Bigger realizes he suffocated Mary and killed her. He then tries to dispose of her body by burning it in the home's furnace, but it doesn't fit so he decapitates her with a hatchet. It's so fucked up and keeps getting worse.

    You can read the plot on Wikipedia but it really doesn't do it justice.
    July 10th, 2013 at 05:51pm
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    It sounds interesting. I want to read it. :)
    July 10th, 2013 at 06:14pm
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    The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks. OMFG
    July 10th, 2013 at 10:29pm
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    July 13th, 2013 at 04:27pm
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    loverfayce.:
    I'm reading The Handmaid's Tale right now and it's like hands-down the most fucked up thing I've ever read. I can't even deal with it. It's so fucking weird.
    This book has definitely got to be in the top ten for me. It's so intense, even the small mentions of things that might be happening got to me.

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    Most of the books I find disturbing are of the dystopian genre. Some that I've read are really shallow and haven't affected me at all, but the classics like Nineteen Eighty-Four and Fahrenheit 451 are unbearably creepy.

    I think the singular most disturbing book I've read so far has got to be The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. It's not even that disturbing, I think I just read into it too much.
    July 15th, 2013 at 11:35pm
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    I read that too sophomore year! It was awful. Like, I understand that racism during the time was really really bad and it encompassed all aspects of society, but the underlying theme of the book, that Bigger didn't have any control over is actions, is bullshit. Like, he had choices, albeit not great ones, but society doesn't control people as completely as Richard Wright makes it out to be.

    Definitely disturbing though.
    July 16th, 2013 at 01:44am
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    Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay about a Jewish girl who locked her brother in a closet to hide him during the holocaust, meaning to unlock it soon after when it was safe, but instead she is taken away and unable to let him out. Sometime later she escapes where she is held and goes back to let her brother out of the closet but he was already dead. This pretty much messed her up the rest of her life. Very disturbing book.
    July 20th, 2013 at 06:42am
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    The Knife of Never Letting Go really hit me, which is weird because nothing really gets me like that. Nothing.
    [spoilers] The sick way Manchee died, the things Todd did to survive (stabbing people, mate, and the alligators) and the blood and the betrayal it was just so disturbing to me.
    February 5th, 2014 at 07:00am
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    White Horse by Alex Adams. It was a 2/5-star book to me, but the plotline and the actions were just so... vile. Like how they're in the barn and the mutant-things are living in their own excrement and raping each other and random girls... oh my god.
    February 5th, 2014 at 07:19am
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    "Native Son" is quite disturbing but it is a must read book. "It" and "Pet Cemetery" scare the crap out of me. I love them but they scare me. however the book that was the most disturbing for me was "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair. I had to read it for school one year and I rarely ate meat for months after. I just couldn't stomach it, and I'm quite a carnivorous person.
    February 7th, 2014 at 11:20pm
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    I posted here once before I owned it and tried reading it but Slugs. I read the prologue and the first chapter and couldn't read anymore I just wanted to cry and when I think about it I struggle not to throw up.

    There's a bit where this man is in the house with the man eating slugs and he's asleep and wakes up and peels one off his head and it tears his scalp away and then he feels one go in his mouth and tries to stop it and bites it and he feels it wriggling down his throat and I want to burn the book and forget it.

    They adapted it and the film is on Netflix and I keep wanting to watch it but I know I will never ever ever sleep again if I do. But I'm going to. One day. Soon.
    March 4th, 2014 at 01:38am