The Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read.

There was a torture scene in 'Knowledge of Angels' by Jill Paton-Walsh or something which I had to skip. And um, 'The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. It's an amazing book but the description is all distorted and the bit with the Orangedrinklemondrink man made me want to throw up.
My sister shouted at me for recommending it to her cause it gave her weird dreams.

I read the start of 'A Boy Called It' when I was ten or eleven and it gave me nightmares for weeks.

Edit: The Bluest Eye, I think it was called. I didn't read much of it, as I just found it lying round the house but it was weird and it had three whole pages of the same sentence over and over again, except one page didn't have spaces. I was young so it confused me. And the bit with the whores, who were whores because they liked it or something.

I've read a CHild called It too and it was completely disturbing. The nappy thing wass horrific!

the messanger was pretty r-rated. i cringed everytime he talked about orgasms, eh :|

I'm reading Histories by Herodotus right now for my Greek History class.
It's pretty disturbing in parts...even more so considering it's based in fact.

American Psycho and Less Than Zero hands down :shock:

Esctasy by Irvine Welsh
the first story Lorraine Goes To Livingston...I have never read anything as disturbing as that, it has necrophelia and all sorts in, the book itself is good but me and mum found the first story just gross in every measure

I can't read 1984 any more because it make me totally paranoid. Which is bad because I'm already paranoid.

A Child Called It had some parts that disturbed me.

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins was kinda depressing because of the sucicide.
But it was a really good book other than that.

Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite.
Oh man, this book is so freaky, but in a way that attracts me. Oddly. Basically, it's about a fictional necrophiliac who is based on a real person who committed similar crimes quite a few years ago. This character basically gets caught and fakes his own death, flees to America where he find his soul mate and along the way there is a lot of murdering, mutilation, sex, violence, drug abuse and raping (not only dead people, but alive people too) - to name a few of the events.
Other than the disturbing events of this novel, the language and the style of writing; the way Brite has managed to capture the pure horror and humiliation of being a necrophiliac, is nothing short of a master piece.

But that's just my opinion. :shifty

Breaking Dawn...

Wish I had never read the series.

Morpheus_James:

Breaking Dawn...

Wish I had never read the series.

:lmfao

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Running With Scissors was great, but some parts I just wasn't ready for. I had read it without knowing what would be inside. :shock:

fool's paradise:

I've been wanting to read Johnny Get Your Gun, about the man whose limbs were removed and whose face was mutilated from the war.

The idea of not being able to communicate, drifting in and out of thoughts, not knowing the difference between sleep and reality, and all the while trying to stay sane... it sounds very upsetting, but I've heard the book is a masterpiece.

I've read that. It's absolutely brilliant, but horrible at the same time. The thought of that book has never left me since I was eight (saw clips of the movie) and I've never found anything as disturbing as that. I just can't comprehend what it must be like. It's very upsetting but it's worth the read. :con:
The movie is very good too, I recommend it.
The book is an absolute masterpiece and should recieve more attention.
I love it, it's one of the best I've read.

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120 Days of Sodom.
I just looked up the plot on Wikipedia.
Oh, and American Psycho.
:shock:

The Story of O (vast majority of it), Gerald's Game (vast majority), whichever one of the Anne Rice books that had Lestat eating out a girl on her period through her sanitary towel... :shock:

There's a story that's been floating around the internet called Raping Little Suzy that made me squick really badly. Enough that I actually whimped "Please no more" and felt really ill. I warn you, don't read it. Please. What has been read cannot be unread.

Also in agreement with the person a few spots above me.
The Twilight books in general are disturbing, if you skim under the surface.

And if your brains can handle it then try reading My Immortal- it too is floating around the internet-it's a Harry Potter fanfiction that made my mind want to die.

American Psycho.
I Loved it (:

So far, it has been One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. So disturbing and creepy and uncomfortable to read, yet I loved how every character had a very distinct voice and I thought it was so interesting how they interpreted the world. You find yourself actually caring for these characters, and no matter how obnoxious or ludicrous McMurphy became, you discover what a great character he truly was--it was incredible. Now that I think about it, I guess the only disturbing parts of the book were the descriptions of what would go on in the asylum, really.

Nightwood by Patricia Windsor. Good book, but some parts are just...disturbing.

Aphina:

I've read a CHild called It too and it was completely disturbing. The nappy thing wass horrific!

Is that by Dave Pelzer?

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The Moth Diaries. I can't remember the author. I think I was a bit too young for it, I can remember literally feeling like :twitch: while reading some of it.

A Child Called It and it's sequal The Lost Boy.
I went through this thing where I was scared my mother would be like his. Of course it was silly of me to think. It was so sad.

Teenage Dirtbag.:

Aphina:

I've read a CHild called It too and it was completely disturbing. The nappy thing wass horrific!

Is that by Dave Pelzer?

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The Moth Diaries. I can't remember the author. I think I was a bit too young for it, I can remember literally feeling like :twitch: while reading some of it.

Yep, it's by Dave Pelzer,

DanielleNicolee:

Impulse by Ellen Hopkins was kinda depressing because of the sucicide.
But it was a really good book other than that.

Ah, but that was a darn good one.
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I can't recall reading a book that was truly disturbing, but I've read some pretty odd ones. :think: