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03-22-2003, 04:00 AM | #42 |
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I might be the only one
But doesn't Hans Christian Andersson freak you out a little bit?
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03-24-2003, 05:53 PM | #43 |
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I think he's more depressing than disturbing, but disturbingness factors into it. Stories like "The Little Matchgirl" leave you both sad and horrified.
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03-24-2003, 09:37 PM | #44 |
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Re: Disturbing Books
The worst one I've read is the Black Pearl
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04-20-2003, 02:03 AM | #45 |
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Oh.... Disturbing books... Quite a few fairy tales would go under that catagorie, and so would just about anything by Edgar Allen Poe. But Two of my favorite books which are rather disturbing if you think about them are "The Things They Carried", which is a collection of short stories written by a Vietnam war veteran. He really develops the characters so that you grow attached to them and then the best ones die in really nasty ways, my favorite character in the book ended up drowning in a field of manure. But when I was little, the most disturbing story I knew was was the Hobbit, sounds strange but what happened is I had seen the movie first and being nine years old at the time remembered only the spiders and gollum, after that I refused to even consider reading anything by Tolkien for years. I've made up for the delay in this last year though.
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04-27-2003, 04:30 PM | #46 |
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The only ones I could think of disturbing would be Fahrenheit 451, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, and The Long Walk by Stephen King.
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05-01-2003, 05:44 PM | #47 |
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Has anyone here ever read Shade's Children by Garth Nixon? It's a futuristic sci-fi and while it isn't totally shocking and terrifying there are some very disturbing parts. I loved it though. It's set on an earth that has been taking over by overlords who breed children to use their brains in creatures of war. See? Now you're disturbed, right?
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05-01-2003, 06:57 PM | #48 |
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Oh, wait! I think its Garth Nix , not Nixon. Oops
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05-03-2003, 12:36 PM | #49 |
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I need to add another to my list that I have just read:
The Wars by Timothy Findley
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05-05-2003, 03:12 PM | #50 |
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"On the Beach" by Neville Shute. It was about the lives of poeple experiencing the slow destruction of mankind in the aftermath of a global nuclear war. As a cold-war child, the background of the story tapped into one of my biggest fears... at one point I actually believed I wouldn't live to see 17.
"The Hot Zone" the true story of the Ebola virus "It" -- Stephen King. "The Silmarillion" I read it as an adult, and it actually gave me nightmares.
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05-05-2003, 06:23 PM | #51 |
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I've got some more:
"Underground to Canada"--It's a book about the slavery of Negros a while back. It's at a young slave girl's point of view who's taken from her mother and is forced to live in a cotton plantation where everyone is treated like crap. Then she and her friend run away to Canada but her master's trying to chase after them and sic his dogs on her. Not as disturbing as some, but still a bit creepy, with all the discriptions on how they tortured them and stuff. "Bridge to Terabithia"--I don't know why, it just got really, really ugly at the end. "Holes"--This wasn't as disturbing, but some parts tended to get a bit spooky, but it's still one of my favourites. "Your Body is Changing" pamphlet--Need I say more?
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05-05-2003, 07:47 PM | #52 |
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I don't remember Holes being that disturbing, although I guess it did get a little dark at times.
The story I've read that really takes the cake is a plot summary of one of the very early Sleeping Beauty stories. Apparently, in the pre-Grimm version, Prince Charming impregnates her while she is sleeping. She is woken up by her infant child wanting to be nursed. Creepy.
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06-14-2003, 06:24 PM | #54 |
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Welsh
Some of you mentioned Irvine Welsh... I never really saw his books as very disturbing, more like funny, in a weird way, apart from Marabou Stork... until I read Porno a few months back. Trainspotting's got nothing on that one in terms of creepiness. It's also probably the best thing he's ever written.
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06-27-2003, 11:27 AM | #56 |
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's pretty intense, but I really like it.
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08-19-2005, 09:51 PM | #57 |
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There was this Anne Rice book I read a few years ago, a friend of mine in Seattle lent it to me and it was so profoundly disturbing, but so impossible to put down. I'll never forget the images I got in my mind's eye from reading it, but go figure! I forgot the book's name. It was sort of like a Marquis de Sade kind of story - Anduril, you out there? That book was right up your alley.
Oh -and the Book of Revelations - creepy, disturbing stuff some of it.
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Pytt, was that you're 1,000th post? Congrats, man!
"The Hot Zone" was uber-creepy, since it was talking about a very real new virus, oh man that book was disturbing...
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I don't think anything I've ever read was disturbing.
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