f*cked up books you’d be too embarrassed to recommend irl?
i’m looking for book suggestions that are really disturbing/wild/insane… something that you enjoyed but might not wanna tell the world about for fear of judgement.
I made the mistake of recommending “Beautiful You” to someone I didn’t know well enough after I finished it lmao
glaz5 on
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Both really well written and amazing books in their own ways, but alot of descriptive violence and gore that makes it hard to recommend to anyone.
ohdearitsrichardiii on
I don’t often recommend *Fanny Hill* to people irl
manmeatfreak on
I love pretty much everything by Dennis Cooper, but I also just don’t recommend him to people with in real life. *The Sluts* is one of his most popular works because it has more of a proximity to horror and it’s among the more seriously fucked up. He generally writes transgressive experimental fiction, though, not horror.
LoneWolfette on
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Cows by Matthew Stokoe
Betweenthelines19 on
You. Which is funny because it is a very popular netflix show. Lol
ardent_hellion on
Anything by the Marquis de Sade
Vivid-Cat-1987 on
My Dark Vanessa
JarjarstinksJr on
Story of the eye
jimisen on
Les Bienveillantes (The Well-Meaning Ones), by Jonathan Littell, is the first-person story of an SS mass murderer who recalls, without emotion, his activities in Nazi execution squads and death camps. The novel, written in a four-month frenzy after five years of research, has been compared by French critics to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert and Stendhal.
(I copped this description from a review on Amazon. It does a better job than I could of summarizing a 1400 page book. This was a very difficult read, a frank and brutal look at unnatural human nature.)
This book by an American won the Prix Goncourt.
BadToTheTrombone on
A Little Life
snoozles9 on
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
breanmayer16 on
Lolita lol what a beautifully written fucked up book.
CatoTheBarner on
Really anything by Chuck Palahniuk, but Haunted really stands out
thimk3r on
Tender is the flesh
GoldenNerd1 on
Adult children of emotionally immature parents
PreviousFlight7733 on
Morning glory milking farm
TaraMayFlan on
Idaho, by Emily Ruskovich. I still stand by what I said about it in 2017:
Yes, it’s a difficult subject. Yes, the words will haunt you and conjure up images you can’t unsee. But this book is as human as it gets, in every heartbreaking and tragic detail. Love, violence, memory, madness, obsession, imagination, hope, forgiveness, pain… Idaho demands that you look full in the face at every piece of us that makes us human.
EveningAd6434 on
Dead Inside
davidsuxelrod on
The house of dolls, by ka Zetnick and the totally unrelated novel “valley of the dolls.”
RedBird19884 on
Flowers in the Attic, by V.C. Andrews. A junior camp counselor gave me a copy when I was like 14, and I was thrilled/ literally thought reading it was wrong 😅
davidsuxelrod on
The carpetbaggers, by Harold robbins
davidsuxelrod on
The autobiography of a flea
TheBobbySocksBandit on
Forked by Ruth Cardello. It’s a “lighthearted utensil romance” wherein a woman falls in love with a fork
davidsuxelrod on
Guests of the sheik
davidsuxelrod on
The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
Spyrunner1 on
The Game by Neil Strauss. I’m married, so I shouldn’t be reading a book about a pick up artist.
Sperm Are From Men, Eggs are From Women by Joe Quirk. A uneducated guy has plenty of theories about evolution, and he has some good arguments. He’s in your face and funny. It was republished with the more publicly acceptable title “It’s Not You, It’s Biology”.
A$$hole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too. This book is actually about a guy learning to stand up for himself. I later found out that my brother also read it, and enjoyed it.
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I made the mistake of recommending “Beautiful You” to someone I didn’t know well enough after I finished it lmao
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis and Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy.
Both really well written and amazing books in their own ways, but alot of descriptive violence and gore that makes it hard to recommend to anyone.
I don’t often recommend *Fanny Hill* to people irl
I love pretty much everything by Dennis Cooper, but I also just don’t recommend him to people with in real life. *The Sluts* is one of his most popular works because it has more of a proximity to horror and it’s among the more seriously fucked up. He generally writes transgressive experimental fiction, though, not horror.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
Cows by Matthew Stokoe
You. Which is funny because it is a very popular netflix show. Lol
Anything by the Marquis de Sade
My Dark Vanessa
Story of the eye
Les Bienveillantes (The Well-Meaning Ones), by Jonathan Littell, is the first-person story of an SS mass murderer who recalls, without emotion, his activities in Nazi execution squads and death camps. The novel, written in a four-month frenzy after five years of research, has been compared by French critics to Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Flaubert and Stendhal.
(I copped this description from a review on Amazon. It does a better job than I could of summarizing a 1400 page book. This was a very difficult read, a frank and brutal look at unnatural human nature.)
This book by an American won the Prix Goncourt.
A Little Life
Tampa by Alissa Nutting
Lolita lol what a beautifully written fucked up book.
Really anything by Chuck Palahniuk, but Haunted really stands out
Tender is the flesh
Adult children of emotionally immature parents
Morning glory milking farm
Idaho, by Emily Ruskovich. I still stand by what I said about it in 2017:
Yes, it’s a difficult subject. Yes, the words will haunt you and conjure up images you can’t unsee. But this book is as human as it gets, in every heartbreaking and tragic detail. Love, violence, memory, madness, obsession, imagination, hope, forgiveness, pain… Idaho demands that you look full in the face at every piece of us that makes us human.
Dead Inside
The house of dolls, by ka Zetnick and the totally unrelated novel “valley of the dolls.”
Flowers in the Attic, by V.C. Andrews. A junior camp counselor gave me a copy when I was like 14, and I was thrilled/ literally thought reading it was wrong 😅
The carpetbaggers, by Harold robbins
The autobiography of a flea
Forked by Ruth Cardello. It’s a “lighthearted utensil romance” wherein a woman falls in love with a fork
Guests of the sheik
The grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck
The Game by Neil Strauss. I’m married, so I shouldn’t be reading a book about a pick up artist.
Sperm Are From Men, Eggs are From Women by Joe Quirk. A uneducated guy has plenty of theories about evolution, and he has some good arguments. He’s in your face and funny. It was republished with the more publicly acceptable title “It’s Not You, It’s Biology”.
A$$hole: How I Got Rich & Happy by Not Giving a Damn About Anyone & How You Can, Too. This book is actually about a guy learning to stand up for himself. I later found out that my brother also read it, and enjoyed it.
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