Looking for something thats like a ‘Jesus christ this is crazy’ kind of violence. Can be fiction or non and any genre really. Something that isn’t sugar coated.
Black Leopard, Red Wolf – the subtitle should be Bad People Doing Horrible Things to Other People.
The Poppy War. This is a fantasy retelling of the second Sino-Japanese War. The aftermath of the Rape of Nanking was hard to read
Bechimo on
Ghost by John Ringo.
Right wing misogynists gun bunny porn.
Also hella fun.
Murderyoga on
Blood Meridian
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Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
Bourbon_bonanza on
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Objective-Being-8597 on
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack
SoCalDogBeachGuy on
I liked “rage of dragons”
bullwinklemoose91 on
Tender is the flesh
LurkerFailsLurking on
History is more violent and intense than any novel.
**Barefoot Gen** is an autobiographical graphic novel about a young boy who survived the bombing of Hiroshima.
**King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa** is historical about the genocide of Congolese by Belgian colonizers.
**A Language Older than Words** draws parallels between the author’s sexual abuse at the hands of his father, the psychology of abuse, and industrial civilization’s relationship with the natural world. “Beautiful and horrifying” is what it says on the back and I agree.
Lookimawave on
Clockwork orange
Basbriz on
The Wasp Factory
FoghornLegday on
Night Angel trilogy
milky__surf on
In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami.
Although his other book Almost Transparent Blue is far more wtf and gratuitous in its violence “in the miso soup” is a better story, and more enjoyable as a thriller.
jefrye on
{{The Iliad by Homer}}
trishyco on
Anything written by Karen Slaughter
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
thesafiredragon10 on
The Great Zoo of China – Dragons are big and very dangerous, with sharp teeth, and puncturing claws.
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Gone to See the River Man, extremely intense, I love disturbing books and media and this one made me a tiny bit nauseous, it has brutal murder and assault, dismemberment, abuse, obsession, and more, it’s written super well, and the characters are very compelling.
If you haven’t, you should also check out Aron Beauregard, The Slob, The Playground, The yellow room, he specializes in splatterpunk so it might be to your liking
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Once Were Warriers and its sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Alan Duff.
Dazzling-Ad4701 on
cheap ticket to heaven by charlie smith.
soaring-fire on
The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells: It’s sarcastic, funny, and bloody.
“The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells, is a series concerning a violent, self-hacking cyborg searching for the meaning of life. All Systems Red, the first book in the series, received the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. It was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.”
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Selfish, Little
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American Psycho is beyond disturbing, and I can handle quite a bit of violence.
CarlHvass on
Chris Carter’s books might do the trick. The Crucifix Killer is a good place to start
Miffu on
Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy.
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Andrew Vachss’ books. Huge content warning, though. He has a hardboiled crime series about Burke, a private investigator and avenger who hunts pedophiles, sex traffickers, child abusers/murderers, etc. Outside of writing, Vachss was a social worker and an attorney who exclusively represented children, so his books are probably more realistic than most crime novels and more disturbing for it.
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Black Leopard, Red Wolf – the subtitle should be Bad People Doing Horrible Things to Other People.
The Poppy War. This is a fantasy retelling of the second Sino-Japanese War. The aftermath of the Rape of Nanking was hard to read
Ghost by John Ringo.
Right wing misogynists gun bunny porn.
Also hella fun.
Blood Meridian
Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollack
I liked “rage of dragons”
Tender is the flesh
History is more violent and intense than any novel.
**Barefoot Gen** is an autobiographical graphic novel about a young boy who survived the bombing of Hiroshima.
**King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa** is historical about the genocide of Congolese by Belgian colonizers.
**A Language Older than Words** draws parallels between the author’s sexual abuse at the hands of his father, the psychology of abuse, and industrial civilization’s relationship with the natural world. “Beautiful and horrifying” is what it says on the back and I agree.
Clockwork orange
The Wasp Factory
Night Angel trilogy
In the Miso Soup – Ryu Murakami.
Although his other book Almost Transparent Blue is far more wtf and gratuitous in its violence “in the miso soup” is a better story, and more enjoyable as a thriller.
{{The Iliad by Homer}}
Anything written by Karen Slaughter
Hairpin Bridge by Taylor Adams
The Great Zoo of China – Dragons are big and very dangerous, with sharp teeth, and puncturing claws.
Gone to See the River Man, extremely intense, I love disturbing books and media and this one made me a tiny bit nauseous, it has brutal murder and assault, dismemberment, abuse, obsession, and more, it’s written super well, and the characters are very compelling.
If you haven’t, you should also check out Aron Beauregard, The Slob, The Playground, The yellow room, he specializes in splatterpunk so it might be to your liking
Once Were Warriers and its sequel, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? by Alan Duff.
cheap ticket to heaven by charlie smith.
The Murderbot Diaries series by Martha Wells: It’s sarcastic, funny, and bloody.
“The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells, is a series concerning a violent, self-hacking cyborg searching for the meaning of life. All Systems Red, the first book in the series, received the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Awards. It was a New York Times and USA Today bestseller.”
Selfish, Little
American Psycho is beyond disturbing, and I can handle quite a bit of violence.
Chris Carter’s books might do the trick. The Crucifix Killer is a good place to start
Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy.
Andrew Vachss’ books. Huge content warning, though. He has a hardboiled crime series about Burke, a private investigator and avenger who hunts pedophiles, sex traffickers, child abusers/murderers, etc. Outside of writing, Vachss was a social worker and an attorney who exclusively represented children, so his books are probably more realistic than most crime novels and more disturbing for it.