The Most Disturbing Book You've ever Read - Page 5

Private I · #61 04-06-2005, 10:20 AM

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.

KSigkid · #62 04-06-2005, 10:25 AM

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Originally posted by Private I
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.

Optimist Prime · #63 04-07-2005, 09:59 PM

revelations

epchick · #64 04-07-2005, 10:14 PM

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)

Peaches-n-Cream · #65 04-07-2005, 11:58 PM

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

texas*princess · #66 04-08-2005, 12:14 AM

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

NutBrnHair · #67 04-08-2005, 12:09 PM

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!

honeychile · #68 04-08-2005, 12:31 PM

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.

AXO Alum · #69 04-09-2005, 09:25 AM

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Does anyone else think that a LOT of the books on "Oprah's Book List" are rather disturbing? Well written and insightful, yes, but disturbing none the less?

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!

AOIIsilver · #70 04-09-2005, 09:38 AM

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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)

I loved this book!
Silver

PM_Mama00 · #71 04-09-2005, 10:51 AM

He's Just Not That Into You

Why? Cuz it's disturbingly true.

TheEpitome1920 · #72 04-09-2005, 04:20 PM

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

KatieKate1244 · #73 04-09-2005, 04:59 PM

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.

squirrely girl · #74 04-09-2005, 07:13 PM

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

Rudey · #75 04-09-2005, 07:18 PM

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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...

marissa

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

-Rudey