The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

The Doctor.:

Disgrace by JM Coetzee.

It's not horror but it's screwy.

I didn't find it disturbing, but it was rather...I don't know the word. :think: Odd? I dunno. It was amazing (not in a good way) how Lucy didn't do anything about it. I didn't understand. At all.

shotgun_symphony:

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 Silent Witnesses. A mystery murder case.

jay!:

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

Yea, how King comes up with it every time. Freaky.

Stephen King's The Stand. :shifty

One of my friends books.
I'm sorry, but I don't know the title.
It was very dark and everything...and people were having a three-some...
I read it, and it freaked me out.

Wetlands - Charlotte Roche.

It wasn't disturbing in a horror sense it was just really gross.

"Mary, Mary" by James Patterson because her letters were just so spine-tingling.

I read the original Frankeinstein when i was like 11 and it scared the hell out of me when the monster threw the girl into the lake...X.X it freaked me out! I dont think i could ever be past it. Childhood trama!

I read that this past fall/winter in English class.

He never threw a girl into the lake... He saved a little girl from falling into the creek... It was Victor who threw the creation's partner-to-be into the sea while he was still building her... Is that what you're talking about?

Hmm... I sound like a smartass know-it-all in this post :shifty

My bad :XD

Pet Sematary by Stephen King.
It left me breathless at some points.

wyliecoyotesfriend:

I read that this past fall/winter in English class.

He never threw a girl into the lake... He saved a little girl from falling into the creek... It was Victor who threw the creation's partner-to-be into the sea while he was still building her... Is that what you're talking about?

Hmm... I sound like a smartass know-it-all in this post :shifty

My bad :XD

The monster killed Elizabeth after she and Frankenstein crossed a lake (I don't remember which lake, it was after they were married). I don't remember her actually being thrown in the lake, though, I think he strangled her. Confusing. xD

The Lovely Bones.
It wasn't disturbing as in horror, just as in, "How the hell can someone do that?"

And also Go Ask Alice and A Million Little Pieces.
They're both just so raw and true.

The Black Dahlia still freaks me out, even though it's been three years since I read it.
... Gahd, the description of the way her body was found o_o

budgie:

The Doctor.:

Disgrace by JM Coetzee.

It's not horror but it's screwy.

I didn't find it disturbing, but it was rather...I don't know the word. :think: Odd? I dunno. It was amazing (not in a good way) how Lucy didn't do anything about it. I didn't understand. At all.

No, no.. it was screwy, it made my head spin and turned my stomach inside out. I had to stop listening at times (I listened to the audiobook).
It was the tension in the book, the writing style was so tense and, dunno, you probably haven't seen Four Months, Three Weeks and Two Days, but it's the equivalent of this book. Cold gray steady shots that seem to go on forever and no soundtrack, you feel like something bad's going to happen, but you just don't know what so you're waiting and you're slowly choking at the edge of your seat. But I have a low tolerance to stories/books about rape in general.

Eagle:

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. =]

I don't think it was as disturbing, so much as the way he described it, and the topic he wrote about in general. It gave you the idea of what it was really like there.

A Child Called It was one of those books where after I read it, I had this wave of depression that just hit me for a majority of the week. It's just, child abuse to that extent is...just wrong and shouldn't exist.
I also read bits and parts of Go Ask Alice, and thought that once she got into her drug addiction, things got pretty disturbing. How she was describing the feeling of having bugs crawl under her skin and clawing at herself to try to get rid of them. :shock:

And I'm seeing all these people that say that 1984 freaked them out, but I thought it was a pretty good book. :shifty Maybe it's just my taste of books. XD

The ending of The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

Like, really? The teenaged girl lets a random bum she meets in a barn suck her nipple for milk right at the end of the novel. She is smiling. I was disturbed. I know Steinbeck was trying to be symbolic, of course, but that was too far!

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Not in a "Oh dear lord, I have to stop reading this or else I'll puke" way, it was more like a horrified fascination that kept me reading right to the end.

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
It's a collection of short stories, and "Guts" is pretty disturbing.
But then again, so are most of his books.

I'm not complaining. :tehe:

Identical -- Ellen Hopkins. It hurt my head.

Sara:

Identical -- Ellen Hopkins. It hurt my head.

Dude I totally agree. That book actually scared me.
I was like :shock:

Philophobia;;:

And also Go Ask Alice and A Million Little Pieces.
They're both just so raw and true.

There was a huge controversy with James Frey over how quite a bit of A Million Little Pieces was utterly fabricated, so I wouldn't exactly call it true.

As for Go Ask Alice, I'm pretty sure that one's fiction as well.