Disturbing Books

[Smilla]

You want disturbing? Try this scary ass shit. Those with weak stomachs need not apply.

[MrsCatHead]

I like to read nonfiction and fictional books on history. So I read a lot of disturbing stuff but one book I read about concentration camps, Lovely Green Eyes just left me hollow inside. I felt raw and walking in the world was a like a surreal experience afterwards. It still bothers me when I let myself think of it.

[canuckcutie]

pellacan said:

I thought I read (this was a few years ago) that her daughter was in a wrong-place wrong-time situation and that's how she was murdered. I didn't know Lois Duncan wrote a book about it.

I read the book she wrote - I did an amazon check and it is called "who killed my daughter". She was shot in the head/face while driving if I remember it right.

It was very sad. From what I remember there was something shady about the daughter's bf - I think Lois thought maybe he was into illegal stuff and somehow he daughter got targeted. She thought maybe the bf was in some ring that was involved in car wreck insurance scams.

Her books really creeped me out when I was younger.

[Smilla]

one book I read about concentration camps, Lovely Green Eyes just left me hollow inside.

Most Holocaust literature does a real number on me. Elie Wiesel's Night still haunts me seven years after first reading it.

[wilbert]

Coming late to the discussion about the book The girl Next Door. That book is about a real life torture/murder of a 13 or 15 year girl. Kate Millet wrote a book about it called "The basement: Meditations on a human scarifice. I wish I had not read this threat because I recalled that book. 20 years ago I read it and I still can visualize the torture. Gertrude, that was the name of the mother who led to torture...horrifying

[Deleted]

I've started reading Octavia Butler's Fledgling and there is a relationship and pretty graphic sex scenes between a grown man and a child. The child is really a 53 year old vampire but still, the image of characters in my head is freaking me out to the point where I'm not sure I can continue reading. Plenty of people found Jacob and Renesmee creepy; imagine if Meyer had actually written about them getting it on.

[Deleted]

Note -- I haven't read it myself, but we have a poster at the Straight Dope boards who is obsessed with the Samuel Delany book, Hogg, a pornographic tale featuring "murder, homosexuality, child molestation, incest, coprophilia, coprophagia, urolagnia, anal-oral contact, necrophilia and rape."

HERE is the wiki description -- WARNING: really, REALLY disturbing.

Just reading the description was enough to give me nightmares.


The same poster also reccomended it to another poster -- a thirteen year old kid with Aspergers. (Said kid is a very pompous fundamentalist, but still just a kid)

[Deleted]

Geez, I had to look up some of those words and now I'm sorry I did.

[sumire]

Yeah, I don't know what "urolagnia" means, but I do know what "coprophagia," "coprophilia," and "necrophilia" mean. *

Thanks for including the link to the SDMB kerfluffle. That was interesting enough to mostly purge the Wiki entry from my mind. (And man, what a stupid, jerk-ass thing to do.)

* They mean "you don't want to know what urolagnia means."

[Deleted]

Who would want to read Hogg? I'm no prude or shrinking violet. I read de Sade and other sexually graphic writers for a lit crit class in college (called Sex in Theory), and those texts contained many of the fetishes mentioned. However, I'll draw the line at Hogg. No thank you.