Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted October 9, 2004 Well, it's October, and I just was wondering-what is, in your opinion, the most disturbed/disgusting book ever written? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
algrim 0 Report post Posted October 9, 2004 The most disturbing book that stands out in my head is Batman:Killing Joke. The fact that Joker phtographed a naked, crippled Barbara Gordon gives me chills to this day. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Salacious Crumb Report post Posted October 10, 2004 Some of the stuff in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth books get highly disturbing. Any and all female characters have a nasty habit of getting graphically raped in those books. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Youth N Asia 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2004 Book books? or comic books? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2004 Theodore Sturgeon's "Some of Your Blood". An very innovative and interesting horror novel, and a modern classic. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2004 Book books? or comic books? Book books As for mine: Anything by Marquis de Sade (especially "120 Days of Sodom") Edward Lee "The Bighead" (You will puke after this one. Hell, It will make you puke almost any time) Edward Lee and Wrath James White "Teratologist" (This is sick. Contains severely deformed people in grotesque sexual acts) Edward Lee and John Pelan "Goon" (A great read for horror and wrestling fans) Wrath James White and Monica J. O'Rourke "Poisonig Eros (A catalog of sexual,violent, and physical grotesquries) T.Winter Damon and Randy Chandler "Duet for the Devil" (Serial Killers, Satanists, teenage prostitustes,rapists,drugs,and other such things) Jack Ketchum "Off Season" and "The Girl Next Door" ("Girl" is a disturbing tale of horror right out of the local news stations,"Off Season" is "Hills Have Eyes" on steroids) Edward Lee "Of Pigs and Spiders" (You will never look at lime jello the same way again) "Excitable Boys" (An anthology of hardcore, gross out splatter.) Bret Easton Ellis "American Psycho" (List wouldn't be complete without it) Matthew Stokoe "Cows" (A truly nihlistic grossout. Full of shit,self mutilation, and things I even grow quesy mentioning) "Sick: An Anthology of Illness" (Wanna grow sick? Read this) Samuel R. Delany "Hogg" (Yep, this is from the sci-fi author. You'll want to take a shower for months after your done with it) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
B. Brian Brunzell 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2004 Anything by Marquis de Sade (especially "120 Days of Sodom") Seconded. The 120 Days of Sodom is EASILY the most disturbing piece of literature I have ever read. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted October 11, 2004 Anything by Marquis de Sade (especially "120 Days of Sodom") Seconded. The 120 Days of Sodom is EASILY the most disturbing piece of literature I have ever read. dude, you should read some of the other books I mentioned ("Bighead","Hogg","Poisoning Eros","Cows")) They make "120 Days of Sodom" look like "Hamtaro"(Not to speak down on the Ham-Ham bunch, I love 'em) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted October 12, 2004 Many of the books that you've mentioned, however, seem - to me at least - to be a little more obscure and harder to find. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted October 12, 2004 Many of the books that you've mentioned, however, seem - to me at least - to be a little more obscure and harder to find. They are (Hell,good luck finding them. If you do, you'd better have a.)nerves of pure steel, and b.)an iron cast stomach) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted October 12, 2004 I think you're alright, because I will read some of those books you mentioned, and your other thread gave me some albums to listen to. I'd disagree with 120 Days of Sodom though. He tries way too hard and it comes off funnier than anything else (excpet tedious, some would say, but I don't think so). I still love it, though it's my least favorite of Sade's full lengths. The Blue Yonder, by William Vollman and appearing in The Rainbow Stories is rather... well, it definitely deserves mention here, we'll leave it at that, Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Special K 0 Report post Posted October 12, 2004 You can find most of those books on Amazon, don't think you'll be finding many in your local used bookstore. Don't really think I'll be picking them up, though. If American Psycho is the light reading on the list, that's a bit crazy. American Psycho didn't make me puke, but It made me feel depressed. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Ravenbomb 0 Report post Posted October 12, 2004 yeah, I've found most, if not all, of the books lovecraft listed on Amazon.com already Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skywarp! 0 Report post Posted October 18, 2004 I can't finish this story because it makes me want to puke. Seriously, it churns my stomach. Guts Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Vyce 0 Report post Posted October 19, 2004 I can't finish this story because it makes me want to puke. Seriously, it churns my stomach. Guts I can totally picture Palahniuk reading that in his monotonious voice. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest MaskedDanger Report post Posted October 19, 2004 That story didn't really do it for me, for some reason. It seemed kind of like a gross out story someone would write in high school, only not believable enough to be gross. At first as I was reading it, I thought it was written by some guy on the net, until I looked and saw it was Palahniuk. One decently creepy line (not a whole story) is from Goat: A Memoir by Brad Land. It's from the start of the book, where Land is describing being beaten up by a group of guys during a robbery. "...and there's so much blood I'm drinking it..." Not terribly disgusting, but the line stuck with me for some reason. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted October 20, 2004 "Guts" suffers from the same problem that plagued the Marquis. He was trying way too hard. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Giuseppe Zangara 0 Report post Posted October 20, 2004 The Blue Yonder, by William Vollman and appearing in The Rainbow Stories is rather... well, it definitely deserves mention here, we'll leave it at that, I was going to mention that. I agree with everything you've said in this thread, too. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gary Floyd 0 Report post Posted October 20, 2004 My thoughts on "Guts": Yawn Tried too hard to gross you out. In most of the stories I mentioned, they at least had characters and storylines to keep you interested in case the gross out stuff gets out of hand or boring. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Use Your Illusion 0 Report post Posted October 23, 2004 I can't finish this story because it makes me want to puke. Seriously, it churns my stomach. Guts That was absolutely ridiculous. I want my five minutes returned to me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Skywarp! 0 Report post Posted October 28, 2004 I can't finish this story because it makes me want to puke. Seriously, it churns my stomach. Guts That was absolutely ridiculous. I want my five minutes returned to me. Ridiculous because you didn't like the story or because you found it unbelievable? Because it's a fact that pool filters have done that to people. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted October 31, 2004 Are you sure? Chuckie presents things as fact that are absolute bullshit all the time. I wouldn't believe until I saw a picture, just like I didn't believe in that fish that swims up your dick. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Banders Kennany Report post Posted October 31, 2004 Yea I don't think pool filters can do that. There's all kinds of connective tissue up there weaved with your organs that it would be hard to pull it out in one long string. About the story itself I thought yea, he was trying hard to gross you out but it was because that was the point. You weren't supposed to see the charactes as 3-d people or some sort of shit. You weren't supposed to feel for him, he wasn't the point. And if you did feel for him, it was just based on the horror of what he was going through. Plus even though it's not fact that it can happen to you, that just makes it more a creative thing. If he just heard it could happen or just read about the incident that would be like introducing a copy and paste job to a new audience. Here he created the horrible siutuation from scractg. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted October 31, 2004 Do you become horrified watching Roadrunner cartoons? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Banders Kennany Report post Posted November 4, 2004 Well it was presented as fact, and that is something I am willing to bet most people would believe. You're exaggerating how unrealistic it was. Just because you read DeSade doesn't make you the big boy around here. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted November 4, 2004 No, but the fact that you don't makes you the little boy. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
haws bah gawd 0 Report post Posted November 17, 2004 I'll go with Batman: The Killing Joke. That was, and is still to this day, one of the most disturbing stories I've read in a comic. What Joker did to Barbara Gordon was horrible enough, but what he did to the Commissioner was just as disgusting. He Kidnapped him to an abandoned carnival, took away his clothes, then forced him to look at pictures of his naked, shot daughter, (he did this trying to drive the Commissioner insane) was brutal. But to add to the character of the Commissioner, he makes Batman promise not to kill the Joker, because he wants him brought in "by the book". Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nighthawk 0 Report post Posted November 18, 2004 Yeah... but it was a comic book. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Toshiaki Koala 0 Report post Posted November 24, 2004 Some of the stuff in Terry Goodkind's Sword of Truth books get highly disturbing. Any and all female characters have a nasty habit of getting graphically raped in those books. Agreed, especially the testicle-severing-and-eating incident from the first book. And the scene where the main villain is eating the dead boy's body and is described as having an erection. Uuuggggh. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Shutterspeed Report post Posted November 24, 2004 'Guts' is a fictitious story, and I enjoyed it because of how well-written it is, but if it's the most disturbing or disgusting thing you've ever read, you need to broaden your literary horizons. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
