Suggest me a book that you believe to be the most scandalous ever written
However you interpret it. Wanna hear what you think some of the most twisted, shocking, sickening fucked up shit ever written is. Since I expect they’ll be in here I’m discluding 120 days of sodom and Lola.
Hogg by Sam Delaney. (Though personally I though Lolita was even worse. Hogg is absolutely disgusting and violent but also very abstract. Lolita is a more realistic scenario.)
neilc723 on
Slob by Rex Miller
mttpgn on
_Naked Lunch_ by William S. Burroughs
clampion12 on
American Psycho
QuillAndQuip on
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade was very hard to take.
QuillAndQuip on
Haunted by Chuck Pahlaniuk. I had to DNF. I just couldn’t.
Practical-General833 on
Girl with the dragon tattoo. Reread as an adult and it was worse than I remembered. Well written but too graphic.
LarkScarlett on
The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) by Heinrich Kramer outlined how to find, hunt, and execute witches, and was a foundation of widespread witch-hunting in the western world. It inspired and perpetuated a lot of cruelty and horror … and capitalized on the newly-invented printing press to distribute it widely. It created real scandals and whipped up fears where none had existed.
I find the books that inspired cruelty and horror to be the most sickening and fucked up. (Including the infamous memoirs of a certain WWII German dictator. Read that as a high school student because I wanted to know why. The whole dehumanization and racism and extermination plan was in there—should not have been surprising by folks who’d read it.)
iiiamash01i0 on
h{{Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk}}
John_A_Arkansawyer on
My vote goes to *Blue Movie*, by Terry Southern…though I haven’t read Samuel Delany’s *Hogg*.
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Hogg by Sam Delaney. (Though personally I though Lolita was even worse. Hogg is absolutely disgusting and violent but also very abstract. Lolita is a more realistic scenario.)
Slob by Rex Miller
_Naked Lunch_ by William S. Burroughs
American Psycho
The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade was very hard to take.
Haunted by Chuck Pahlaniuk. I had to DNF. I just couldn’t.
Girl with the dragon tattoo. Reread as an adult and it was worse than I remembered. Well written but too graphic.
The Malleus Maleficarum (Hammer of Witches) by Heinrich Kramer outlined how to find, hunt, and execute witches, and was a foundation of widespread witch-hunting in the western world. It inspired and perpetuated a lot of cruelty and horror … and capitalized on the newly-invented printing press to distribute it widely. It created real scandals and whipped up fears where none had existed.
I find the books that inspired cruelty and horror to be the most sickening and fucked up. (Including the infamous memoirs of a certain WWII German dictator. Read that as a high school student because I wanted to know why. The whole dehumanization and racism and extermination plan was in there—should not have been surprising by folks who’d read it.)
h{{Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk}}
My vote goes to *Blue Movie*, by Terry Southern…though I haven’t read Samuel Delany’s *Hogg*.
Last Exit to Brooklyn is pretty bleak and dirty