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Scariest or Most Disturbing Book You've Ever Read?
Posted on 4/15/22 at 12:25 pm
Posted on 4/15/22 at 12:25 pm
The only book I've ever read that I found scary was The Exorcist. (I didn't find the movie scary at all. Maybe if I'd seen it when it was new.) It wasn't that I thought it plausible. It was just something about the writing.
I'm probably too desensitized these days for any book to have an effect like that, but every so often I go looking for something that might.
I also look out for disturbing books sometimes. Like when I read that people fainted when they heard that one story by Chuck Palahniuk ("Guts") read aloud, I had to track down the story. And yes, it was gross.
Not too long ago, I read Cows by Matthew Stokoe. I don't think it's his best book, and it's so over the top that it kind of goes beyond being disturbing into just being a kind of novelty.
I'm probably too desensitized these days for any book to have an effect like that, but every so often I go looking for something that might.
I also look out for disturbing books sometimes. Like when I read that people fainted when they heard that one story by Chuck Palahniuk ("Guts") read aloud, I had to track down the story. And yes, it was gross.
Not too long ago, I read Cows by Matthew Stokoe. I don't think it's his best book, and it's so over the top that it kind of goes beyond being disturbing into just being a kind of novelty.
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Posted on 4/15/22 at 6:59 pm to slough
There’s some disturbing sections in Lonesome Dove that caught me off guard.
Posted on 4/15/22 at 8:11 pm to slough
Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes deals with the Einsatzgruppen and how they refined the Nazi killing machine during the final solution.
Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky goes into the gory details of the methods and madness of serial killers much more than a Netflix serial killer documentary.
Serial Killers by Peter Vronsky goes into the gory details of the methods and madness of serial killers much more than a Netflix serial killer documentary.
Posted on 4/16/22 at 9:06 am to slough
I read Blood Meridian when I was fairly young. I found parts of it very disturbing.
Maybe if I’d read when older it wouldn’t have been as bad though.
Maybe if I’d read when older it wouldn’t have been as bad though.
Posted on 4/17/22 at 8:15 am to slough
Not scary but the scene from the wind up bird chronicle where the soldier gets skinned alive was pretty wild
Posted on 4/17/22 at 8:37 pm to slough
I listened to the audible adaptation of Neil Gaiman's The Sandman and the chapter where the dude controls a diner for 24 hours was absolutely disturbing to listen to at work when you weren't expecting it.
Posted on 4/17/22 at 11:19 pm to slough
Not scary - but I really hated how the Casual Vacancy by JK Rowling ends
I hate how the little brother drowns while his sister, who is a teenager, is having sex, after her mom’s boyfriend rapes her, so she can get pregnant on purpose and take custody of her little brother. But when she finds her dead brother she kills herself with uncooked heroin
Not sure why it bothered me so much, but it did. Too much, and I get how some people’s lives are like that. Then the funeral is goofy. I get black comedy but ick - I was a little depressed after that ending. The deaths were not really needed.
I hate how the little brother drowns while his sister, who is a teenager, is having sex, after her mom’s boyfriend rapes her, so she can get pregnant on purpose and take custody of her little brother. But when she finds her dead brother she kills herself with uncooked heroin
Not sure why it bothered me so much, but it did. Too much, and I get how some people’s lives are like that. Then the funeral is goofy. I get black comedy but ick - I was a little depressed after that ending. The deaths were not really needed.
Posted on 4/18/22 at 9:55 am to slough
Beloved by Toni Morrison. Very very haunting and disturbing.
Posted on 4/18/22 at 10:00 am to slough
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I also look out for disturbing books sometimes. Like when I read that people fainted when they heard that one story by Chuck Palahniuk ("Guts") read aloud, I had to track down the story. And yes, it was gross.
Why would someone put themselves through that
Yeesh.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 10:43 am to slough
The book I'm currently reading is fairly disturbing - Operation Paperclip by Annie Jacobsen.
Posted on 4/20/22 at 7:49 pm to slough
Scariest probably Salem’s Lot
Most Disturbing- Gulag Archipelago
Most Disturbing- Gulag Archipelago
Posted on 4/21/22 at 12:32 pm to slough
It is pretty disturbing thinking about how close we are to a world similar to One Second After.
It wouldn't even need to be an EMP attack from another country like in the book. If another Carrington Event were to happen it could be chaos.
It wouldn't even need to be an EMP attack from another country like in the book. If another Carrington Event were to happen it could be chaos.
Posted on 4/22/22 at 1:38 am to slough
The Demonologist
Posted on 4/22/22 at 1:08 pm to slough
Gulag Archipelago. I needed an hour to decompress after finishing that book.
Posted on 4/22/22 at 9:35 pm to BallsEleven
This was a scary book
Posted on 4/23/22 at 1:46 am to slough
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Gulag Archipelago
I've been meaning to read this for years. I guess now is as good a time as any.
Posted on 4/25/22 at 1:09 pm to slough
Gulag Archipelago, both volumes.
Posted on 4/25/22 at 7:02 pm to slough
The Amityville Horror when I was in middle school. Jacked with me for sure.
Posted on 4/26/22 at 1:49 pm to Lsudx256
Most disturbing: The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
Posted on 4/26/22 at 7:26 pm to slough
Smonk
That book is crazy.
That book is crazy.
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