03-07-2003, 02:22 AM | #21 |
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i would have to say anne rice's the sleeping beauty series. disturbing and weird...
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03-08-2003, 11:57 AM | #22 |
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Harry Potter is disturbing.
And there is a series of books which they call the Lord of the Rings of the new millenium. How can they dare?
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03-09-2003, 01:21 AM | #23 |
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A lot of Michael Crichton's books could be called disturbing at one point or another, although they're great. Just never read The Andromeda Strain right before bedtime. *shudder*
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03-10-2003, 08:01 PM | #24 |
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clockwork orange didnt disturb me too much. johnny got his gun did. that was freaky... OMG! i just remembered.the BFG...*shudder*.....i mean, just look at the names of the giants... ew...that disturbed me to no end. all of roald dahl does to tell the truth.
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03-11-2003, 05:27 AM | #25 |
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I loved BFG! Granted I read it when I was still in primary school, but I thought it was great.
I think the most disturbing book I've ever read was H - The Autobiography of a Child Prostitute & Heroine Addict (Christiane F) "twas a harrowing tale of a 13 year old girl in Berlyn who became addicted to drugs, first Mary Jane, then hash and it eventually progressed to H. In order to sustain her addiction she turned to prostitution. Her boyfriend also became a prostitute to pay for his habit. I thought it was quite scary as the book was written by 2 child psychologists after interviewing Christiane at a police station after she had been arrested again. This book also rates as one of my favourite books, even though it was so disturbing.
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Answered an unasked question did I?
Iron Parrot - Mein Kampf was terribly disturbing I agree, but you should read some of the books about the Anglo-Boer wars in SA and what happened to the boer women and children in the British concentration camps, not to mention what they did to the Zulu & Xhosa people (among other things they would give the women in the concentration camps flour to make bread, but they'd add ground pices of glass to it, so their intestine would be cut to bits or they'd kill babies by smashing their heads against wagon wheels). I think ALL books about war & the way people seem to regress to an almost animal like state are disturbing. Also the tales from the Vietnam war, American Civil War etc.
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Have any of you ever read The Butcher Boy by Patrick McCabe or seen the film (directed by Neil Jordan)? Very disturbing indeed *shudders at recollection*
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03-12-2003, 11:35 PM | #31 |
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Ooh, you know what's disturbing and yet very intriguing? Kafka's Metamorphoses. Whoo-ee.....
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I don't know maybe I have some sort of problem, but I don't very many books disturbing. I have read Clockwork Orange and Lord of The Flies and I thought they were quite good and not very disturbing. Right now I am reading Filth by Irvine Welsh; it's good, and I guess it could be considered disturbing.
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sorry to be off topic but i just watched Taxi Driver and reading bout that Child prostitute stuff just clicked coz that is one disturbing movie for me... i think it is mainly the actors coz i dont see Harvey Keitel being in the pedephial ring and i definatly dont see Jodie Foster as the 14 year old prostitute. gotta love De Niro though always such a good actor..
ummm anyway disturbing books for some reason i find a lot of short stories are disturbing and open a lot of uncomfortable questions but maybe thats just me
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'The Others' by James Herbert completely freaked me out, as do most of his books.
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Maribou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
Crash by J.G Ballard The Bluest Eye/Beloved by Toni Morrison If This is a Man by Primo Levi Watership Down by Richard Adams (read it when I was twelve and never recovered!) Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown Go ask Alice Nineteen Eighty Three (Red Riding Quartet) by David Peace Stupid White Men by Michael Moore (worring stuff)
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watership down? i don't remember that being very disturbing. but then again i did stop reading it when i was little because it was scary...something about fiver and blood and fields or something. ok i guess it was a little disturbing.......
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I love watership down and yes i can see how it could be seen as quite disturbing from Coneys point of view...
hmmm if rabbits are that advanced and can take on a dog who says humans are safe while were talking bout WD it doesnt actually say if General Woundwart died after taking on the dog does it? OMG that is disturbing the general may still be alive
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