Fiction or nonfiction. from deranged minds. I don't mean books about disturbing topics that handle them with tact I mean books about crazy stuff by crazy people. as disturbed as you can imagine, especially violence or psychological stuff. I am sort of transfixed on one such book and I want more like it and there appears to be nothing.
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Diary of an oxygen thief
Earthlings. Didn’t particularly enjoy it tbh
What book? These come to mind.
wasp factory
American predator
i suppose everyone is desensitized now though.
Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov
Uhhh anything by Cormac McCarthy I guess, The Road and Blood Meridian. You’re not really gonna find disturbing books with no message unless it’s torture porn or random fanfictions. If you never read Cormac then give him a try, he doesn’t dance around the violence in his books or handle them with tact, they are used in the philosophy of the books tho. Blood Meridian, No country for old men, the road. Very bloody and fucked up depictions of violence and gore, no censoring of anything or tactfulness, Cormac style is to tell it how it is
Invisible monsters by chuck palahniuk
‘Last Exit to Brooklyn’ was so much more fucked up than I was prepared for. Can see why it was banned when it first came out. I thoroughly enjoyed it
SCUM Manifesto by Valerie Solanas
She was a radical feminist. It’s her argument for eliminating men.
She also tried to assassinate Andy Warhol.
Woom was super weird.
Cows by Matthew Stokoe
The Circus of Dr. Lao (1935) by Charles G. Finney is widely reviewed as a short, surreal, and darkly comic fantasy that feels more like a philosophical sideshow than a conventional novel.
Tropic of Cancer (1934) by Henry Miller
A Little Life. Tragedy porn
House of Leaves felt fucked up in a unique sort of way
Hogg
Anything by V.C. Andrews. Not too violent though.
Kaiju Battlefield Surgeon by Matt Dinnimon.
The girl next door by jack ketchum
As well as “hide and seek” by jack ketchum not sure if this one is the second book or if off-season is the second book.
Cipher by Katje Kotha left me feeling greasy
A Little Life. Fucked up treatment of characters by a fucked up author with seriously, *seriously* fucked up beliefs. I’d never recommend this book to another soul unless all they wanted was fucked up in the worst possible way. There are no redeeming qualities here, if that’s what you’re after…
Edit: spelling
Lolita
Panzram: A Journal of Murder. Carl Panzram’s memoir, with editorial notes by Thomas E Gaddis and James O Long
Geek Love?
“The Troop” by Nick Cutter
“The Eyes are the Best Part” by Monika Kim
“Bloom” by Delilah S Dawson
“Youthjuice” by EK Sathue
“What Moves the Dead” by T Kingfisher (first in a series)
“Maeve Fly” by CJ Leede
“The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty. It’s…a lot.
Perdido Street Station by China Mieville. Did not finish it. Body horror, all but one character is despicable. Incredibly violent dystopian society. Just awful all around.
The Jungle – Upton Sinclair
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
Read some Stephen King…