The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

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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.

Forged by Fire was on the 2007-2008 Battle of the Books reading list... I never bothered to read the sequel, but isn't it about how everyone treats the guy that was driving in the wreck that killed Rob? I might read it this summer :)

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The Demonata series is probably the most disturbing series I've ever read. But it's not that disturbing, it's sick, but in a cool sort of way. Meh, I don't really read many disturbing books... But this thread's got me intrigued :D

shotgun_symphony:

The Hot Zone scares the shit out of me because it's about Ebola. *shiver*

We were just reading that in science class! But by the second to last day of school, we still didn't finish, so we just read a summary of the last two parts. I thought it was really, really cool. It's kind of scary that that sort of thing exists in real life, and The Hot Zone was a true story, but, it's an awe-inspiring virus. Richard Preston? I've read one of his books, it wasn't scary at all o.O

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I haven't really read that many disturbing books, I've sheltered myself.
I have a list of books to read in preperation for my uni course, and some of them people have mentioned here are on it. Anyway, I finished Animal Farm yesterday, and I found that a little disturbing. I think if you don't look deeply into it, then the thought of the animals taking over is a little creepy. Even then, the deeper meaning is also disturbing. But I liked it, nonetheless.

wyliecoyotesfriend:

shotgun_symphony:

The Hot Zone scares the shit out of me because it's about Ebola. *shiver*

We were just reading that in science class! But by the second to last day of school, we still didn't finish, so we just read a summary of the last two parts. I thought it was really, really cool. It's kind of scary that that sort of thing exists in real life, and The Hot Zone was a true story, but, it's an awe-inspiring virus. Richard Preston? I've read one of his books, it wasn't scary at all o.O

I officially love this thread
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well, the two that i've read scared me. he has other ones out that i haven't read.

I read America by E.R Frank in 8th grade, and have one vivid memory of reading it during a study hall at one point. I remember sitting there at my desk, reading it casually, engrossed in it, actually, because of how vulgar and real it was. And I remember reading it and then the main character is suddenly raped at the end of a chapter.

The entire scene caught me off guard. After that, the whole book disturbed me. It was just the saddest story I'd ever read. Child molestation, suicide, children drinking, masturbation, all these explicit sexual fantasies and questions about sexuality--that book had everything.

It was hard to read at times, because it just had the most awful stuff in it. Yet, I still reread it sometimes, because I think it's one of the most moving, tear-worthy stories I've ever read.

There's a few things in Stephen King books I find disturbing.
Like pretty much the whole book of Desperation

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk was pretty disturbing... but it was amazing at the same time.

mercury summer.:

I haven't really read that many disturbing books, I've sheltered myself.
I have a list of books to read in preperation for my uni course, and some of them people have mentioned here are on it. Anyway, I finished Animal Farm yesterday, and I found that a little disturbing. I think if you don't look deeply into it, then the thought of the animals taking over is a little creepy. Even then, the deeper meaning is also disturbing. But I liked it, nonetheless.

I was reading that yesterday morning the last sentence always creeps me out a little. I dunno why :tehe:

I think Benjamin and Clover were my favorite animals. They were the only ones with some sense. They were the only ones that realized that Napoleon's way of ruling was corrupted and went against the original seven Animal Farm commandments.

When the pigs started walking, that was a bit creepy :shock: actually, that entire last chapter was a bit creepy.

mercury summer.:

I haven't really read that many disturbing books, I've sheltered myself.
I have a list of books to read in preperation for my uni course, and some of them people have mentioned here are on it. Anyway, I finished Animal Farm yesterday, and I found that a little disturbing. I think if you don't look deeply into it, then the thought of the animals taking over is a little creepy. Even then, the deeper meaning is also disturbing. But I liked it, nonetheless.

I read it about two years ago, outside of school. The images I got from the book were pretty chilling, yeah.

I think it's supposed to be sort of a spoof on Aesop's Fables, that tell morals through the use of lovely animal characters. But Animal Farm was detailed and corrupt and terrifying. Especially that part with poor Boxer. My heart bled for him.

That one last line I found most chilling, though. The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.

The Devouring by Simon Holt. But I don't even care because it was so good and I couldn't put it down.

I'd say Breaking dawn disgusted me...
EVERYTHING has sex or babies in nowadays , it makes Me sick,

I hate that book >.>
Don't even like he series anymore though, TBH

My brother's friend is watching this documentary on serial killers, and it was said that there was this one cannibalistic dude who killed his mother and skinned her, decapitated her, and also killed several women and mounted their faces on the wall like deer heads and used their skin as upholstery for furniture. They said that he was the inspiration for American Psycho.

fool's paradise: My exact thoughts. I don't know why I find that so disturbing :shock:

By the way, I was at the library Friday. I was trying to find 1984, but all there was, was like, eight copies of Animal Farm.

It was soooo gay :grr:

1984 and the Stephen King's "The Shining."
But to tell you the truth, its not all that disturbing.

I very much enjoy reading 1984 from time to time and the movie version is excellent

terby doll.:

I don't think anything can top that. After American Psycho, I am unshockable. It's great. :]]]

Ummm, most of Bret Easton Ellis's other books. The Informers, in particular, and Less Than Zero had a few moments.

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk was pretty weird too. Lol, understatement much. The part with the dead body. & Saint Gut-Free. Chyeah. xDD

Ahh Bret Easton Ellis, how he muddled up my 15 year old brain (:
Less Than Zero, the last hundred pages or so left me emotionally numb. I got to the point where I was reading and couldn't stop because I couldn't believe what was on the page.

The Rules of Attraction also messed me up, but because I reread two years later, put it down and thought "Holy mother of God, I am actually Lauren."

Oh and it's not a book, but it is a play and that's Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. Not the musical version, but the original play. It's difficult to follow but when you get in depth and read underneath the layers of the characters, it's disturbing that Wedekind's intention was to create Melchior as the only "normal" person in the play. Disturbing since he takes advantage of his knowledge and believes he can rape Wendla.

Blood-shot-Smile:

I'd say Breaking dawn disgusted me...
EVERYTHING has sex or babies in nowadays , it makes Me sick,

I hate that book >.>
Don't even like he series anymore though, TBH

Do you mean how her stomach was swollen, bruised, and broken-ribbed due to the devil spawn lurching around inside her, when she willingly lapped down sippy-cups of blood, when her eyes rolled back into her head and she vomited blood, or when her dearest loving glampire ripped her uterus open with his teeth so she could finally get that beast out of her?

Stephenie Meyer is a hack. :coffee:

Probably the Blood Confession by Alisa M. Libby because the kinds of things that happened in the book (royalty bleeding thier servants and bathing in the blood) actually happened.

Disgrace by JM Coetzee.

It's not horror but it's screwy.

my junk.:

Oh and it's not a book, but it is a play and that's Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. Not the musical version, but the original play. It's difficult to follow but when you get in depth and read underneath the layers of the characters, it's disturbing that Wedekind's intention was to create Melchior as the only "normal" person in the play. Disturbing since he takes advantage of his knowledge and believes he can rape Wendla.

Spring Awakening is pretty effed up, especially seeing that it was written in the late 1800's, when sex was all taboo and everyone was super-frigid.

Off topic, but I'm not much of a fan of the musical. I like some songs okay, but it's too jeez modern talkin for me to bother taking seriously. The music just doesn't fit much either.

fool's paradise:

my junk.:

Oh and it's not a book, but it is a play and that's Spring Awakening by Frank Wedekind. Not the musical version, but the original play. It's difficult to follow but when you get in depth and read underneath the layers of the characters, it's disturbing that Wedekind's intention was to create Melchior as the only "normal" person in the play. Disturbing since he takes advantage of his knowledge and believes he can rape Wendla.

Spring Awakening is pretty effed up, especially seeing that it was written in the late 1800's, when sex was all taboo and everyone was super-frigid.

Off topic, but I'm not much of a fan of the musical. I like some songs okay, but it's too jeez modern talkin for me to bother taking seriously. The music just doesn't fit much either.

I know right, and it's trying to display how the taboo's make 15 year old boys rape 14 year old girls and rather than the shame of a pregnant daughter, the mother arranges for a back alley abortion. Ohhh my days.

And I love the musical, I do, but I take it seperately. Cause I studied the play before seeing the musical, it's my preference and it's also soo much darker. Where as the musical is all "ohhh Wendla" "ohhh Melchior" it completely took off the edge for me.

Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.

By the time I finished I was like, :twitch:

The rest of Haunted is okay..ish. I'm shuddering just thinking of it.