I thought the book "A Clockwork Orange" was pretty disturbing, and I have yet to see the movie since I hear its even more so.

The movie is extremely disturbing - I haven't read the book, so I can't make a comparison. I will say it's a movie that stays with you for a while.

revelations

I guess it is all about what you mean by "disturbing"...as in like sad or gross/wierd.

My List (yes it is mainly redudant..lol)
These are the books I really didnt like:
She's come undone
Clockwork Orange
Lord of the Flies (I had to stop watching the movie after what they did to Piggie, :( )
A Child Called "It"


These are the books I really liked:
Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice (i dont know..just wierded me out)

The Virgin Suicides

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden(This is about a real woman who when she was around 10 was sold to a man...along with her sister...and she became a Geisha and her sister was taken to a brothel)

The Stranger by Albert Camus (I really liked this story, but it was rather wierd)

I read Go Ask Alice when I was 11 or 12, and I found it really disturbing. Naked Lunch was also disturbing.

I think so far the weirdest/ most disturbing book I've read is Eating the Cheshire Cat

My Mother/Myself by Nancy Friday

"Through candid self-disclosure and hundreds of interviews, Friday investigates a generational legacy and reveals the conflicting feelings of anger, hate, and love that daughters hold for their mothers -- and why they so often "become" that mother themselves."

SCARY BOOK!

Not the whole book, but the one chapter of The Hour Game. It told about how a serial killer identified 3 potential families as future victims.

The Poisonwood Bible was on her list and boy was it bad - it was def disturbing to me!

Insomnia (I think that's the name) by Dean Koontz also freaked me out.

I had to read a lot of disturbing books (psych major) in college, and since counseling parents who lost children was my plan for life, they were really hard books to get through. But - in the end I somehow got a masters in event planning, and other than VERY DISTURBING bride-zilla stories, I don't have to deal with that much now!

I loved this book!
Silver

I recently finished White Oleander (haven't seen the movie) and it was just soooo depressing. It was well written but sad.

I started reading John Grisham in the 5th grade, and I started off with "The Chamber" and followed by "A Time to Kill." I haven't been able to go near either of those books again.

Recently, the most disturbing book I've read was James Dobson's "The Strong-Willed Child." I read it and then let my mom read it. She told me she would rather put up with me than have a drone for a child. His son also wrote one on how not to be religiously tolerant. I only skimmed it, but the general gist was "Oh, you're not Christian. Please go stand against that wall while I tell you how you're not right. Oh, and BTW, you have to like it." I find it so hard to believe people actually think that way.

i think my top two so far are 'fastfood nation' and 'stiff' - and neither of those are freaky scary. they're more just the truth, and sometimes the truth is freaky scary...

oh yah - and 'the rape of nanking' by iris chang

marissa

I don't know about stiff but fastfood nation isn't exactly the truth. It sold well though.

-Rudey