Best fucked up books

[Jimmy Olsen]

It's a pretty mainstream book, but Brave New World. Jesus Christ.

 

[eternal dog mongler]

Reynard The Fox. It's a Frankish beast fable that's quite violent and explicit. I just thought it was going to be something like
Fantastic Mr. Fox.

This shit was almost certainly the most popular fable in Europe for almost five centuries.

 

[Orange Rhymer]

It's a pretty mainstream book, but Brave New World. Jesus Christ.

Everybody says they read it. Some were assigned to read it.
But I look around and realize,
No one really paid attention.

 

[BrunoMattei]

A Hangman's Diary by Franz Schmidt. The diary kept by an executioner in Germany during the middle ages.

 

[LinkinParkxNaruto[AMV]]

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Tomas Ligotti is pretty edgy but kinda interesting,

 

[BrunoMattei]

None of his other work is very like Naked Lunch. The "Nova trilogy" that follows it is more textually experimental and non-narrative, like a 500-page modernist sci-fi poem. His "final trilogy" (Cities of the Red Night, etc.) is formally similar to NL but instead of being over-the-top satirical it's sad and nostalgic. His early work is normal fiction about drugs and faggotry, his late work is diaristic, and his essays and manifestoes are only interesting to Burroughs maniacs.

Nobody ever recommends his most NL-like thing, because it falls in a crack between his major works: The Wild Boys. You'd probably like that one, maybe also its quasi-sequels Port Of Saints and Ah Pook Is Here, and probably his shorts collections (Tornado Alley, Exterminator!, Interzone, etc.).

The original publication of Soft Machine is closer to Naked Lunch. Mostly because it uses the last bit of pages (referred to as The Word Horde) he wrote during his trips in Tangiers that made up Naked Lunch. Not long after the first publication of Soft Machine he received a lot of critical feedback from the usual assholes and radically changed the book. That original version has never been re-published and is worth several hundred dollars.

Trivia: the term "heavy metal" comes from The Soft Machine. The more you know.

I've never read anything bad by Burroughs. I strongly recommend Junky and Queer. These are both early novels, with Junky's first publication being in one of those weird and largely forgotten "double novel" formats, where you had two short novels in the same paperback, and would flip it over to read the other book.

In other words, it was printed in the literary equivalent of a urinal. Those originals are priceless now.

What I like about both of these is they are actually written straight (lmao). Burroughs demonstrates incredible competence at normal narrative while focusing on the deviant lifestyle material that was his bread and butter later. Despite this, the characters are identifiable as human beings with actual personalities, and Burroughs' own charm shines through.

With a lot of alternative types, like artists who do non-representative art and writers who do stream-of-consciousness that resembles gibberish, you realize fairly quickly that they do this shit because they are completely incapable of doing anything competent, so they mask their incompetence in a sheen of supposedly avant-garde bullshit.

If you read Burroughs' early work, you realize he had a very solid grasp of narrative and conventional writing. When he deviated from the "rules" of literature, much as he deviated from the rules of normal society, he actually knew those rules, and what he was trying to accomplish by flouting them.

Also they're just really good reads.

Burroughs was a huge influence on me. I would be a different person today had I not read Naked Lunch when I was a teenager. That said, it's important to separate the man from the artist because he was a pedo too like Ginsberg and Kourac. It's albeit easier to perform mental gymnastics because he didn't celebrate it like the others and certainly wasn't a NAMBLA spokesman like Ginsberg. Something something "never meet your heroes" and all that.

Books of Blood is pretty gory, but I don't think they're really all that hard-hitting. "In the Hills, the Cities" in particular is very strong in "the minds eye" so to speak, but they're more fascinating than truly making you feel uncomfortable I think.

I believe "In the Hills, the Cities" to be Clive's masterpiece. Easily the best thing he ever wrote. We never got a film adaptation of that one which is probably a good thing.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

Forgot if I mentioned this, but The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbert. Which is a picturesque novel which follows two messed up graverobbers are the stumble through life in the early Middle Ages. Along the way they encounter demons, weirdos, and their own sins.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

The Breast by Philip Roth.

A man gets transformed into a sentient boob and must deal with the consequence.

 

[Solid Rasky]

Heliogabalus or The Anarchist Crowned By Antonin Artaud is some of the most wicked shit ever. I don't consider myself an aficionado of Classical Rome by any means but even I couldn't help getting mesmerized by the story of Heliogabalus.
This novelized interpretation of the life of this Mad Emperor can only be described as a river of blood and semen.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Go Down, Moses by William Faulkner is really good and has incest, sexual predation, and how that has affected various sides of a family at the forefront.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Heliogabalus or The Anarchist Crowned By Antonin Artaud is some of the most wicked shit ever. I don't consider myself an aficionado of Classical Rome by any means but even I couldn't help getting mesmerized by the story of Heliogabalus.
This novelized interpretation of the life of this Mad Emperor can only be described as a river of blood and semen.
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I linked it a couple of pages ago. The PDF is on archive.org.

Antonin Artaud - Heliogabalus: Or, the Crowned Anarchist : Antonin Artaud : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Translated into English for the first time, this novelized biography of the 3rd-century Roman Emperor Heliogabalus is simultaneously Arauds most accessible and...

archive.org

 

[BrunoMattei]

I forgot to mention this:

Vitiators

Vitiators - Elytron Frass & Charles N. - ExPat Press

Reality and manga meld as one under the influence of a grinding meta-feud between a once beloved mangaka and his outraged fanbase. Expat Press presents Vitiators by Elytron Frass and Charles N.: a satiric metafictional atrocity in graphic novel form. Vitiators openly invites its readers to...

expatpress.com

The plot is hard to describe because it runs at a mile a minute but essentially it is it's own kind of twisted meta parody of manga and Ero-Guro work. A god without balls creates evil, an author disintegrating as they write out this story, extreme gore and madness abound.

Spoiler

 

[Saint Agustin]

Ass Goblins of Auswitz

Is about a race of creatures who resemble kids age 5-10 who one day get invaded by creatures who resemble sentient bipedal nazi asses and they torture and kill the race of kids probing them up the ass, killing them with things up their asses, feeding them shit with a tube up their asses and mostly ass stuff and nazy iconography.

Is really fucked up on the description and the idea.

I believe the author is low-key a pedophile with nazi tendencies, cause of the way he described some scenes which are somewhat erotic and disturbing about how they insert stuff up asses.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Ass Goblins of Auswitz

Is about a race of creatures who resemble kids age 5-10 who one day get invaded by creatures who resemble sentient bipedal nazi asses and they torture and kill the race of kids probing them up the ass, killing them with things up their asses, feeding them shit with a tube up their asses and mostly ass stuff and nazy iconography.

Is really fucked up on the description and the idea.

I believe the author is low-key a pedophile with nazi tendencies, cause of the way he described some scenes which are somewhat erotic and disturbing about how they insert stuff up asses.

Oh, of course this is from Eraserhead Press during the brief Bizarro movement.

 

[cowboytakeshi]

I read a book called Shuggy Bain recently. It's also incredibly endearing. It follows the life of Shuggy, an Irish kid living off the dole with an alcoholic mother. These stories have been told time and time again, but it really captures the life of growing up with an addict and the ups and downs of it in a realistic and heartbreaking way. Highly recommend. It's disturbing in how personal it feels even if you've never experienced similar things. It also doesn't go complete misery porn, there is some hope there and the characters are great.

 

[Saint Agustin]

Oh, of course this is from Eraserhead Press during the brief Bizarro movement.

Is funny to me that the Bizarro movement never caught on in mainstream, considering how many normies like to read weird abstract outright crazy shit just for some clout on the internet.

Some of those stories are incredibly fucked up but really entertained and I was a real fan of some authors that could blend social commentary in a fucked up and distorted setting of reality or situations... However other authors were just writing their fetishes and making them pass as serious work.

For example I read one novellla about a society who lives in plastic balls because the air is toxic, so is about isolation and the new perspective mankind had about society. It was really well constructed the plot and how the characters evolved.... And in the other hand I read a novella about a girl with superpowers, and the only superpower she had was giving orgasms to people and how she, a 12 years old, became the most sought after prostitute in the world.

Bizarro Genre is weird and really fucking obscure.

 

[Fromtheblackdepths]

I forgot to mention this:

Vitiators

Vitiators - Elytron Frass & Charles N. - ExPat Press

Reality and manga meld as one under the influence of a grinding meta-feud between a once beloved mangaka and his outraged fanbase. Expat Press presents Vitiators by Elytron Frass and Charles N.: a satiric metafictional atrocity in graphic novel form. Vitiators openly invites its readers to...

expatpress.com

The plot is hard to describe because it runs at a mile a minute but essentially it is it's own kind of twisted meta parody of manga and Ero-Guro work. A god without balls creates evil, an author disintegrating as they write out this story, extreme gore and madness abound.

Spoiler

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Got any other books?

 

[Rembrandt]

This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski. Survivor of Auschwitz and Dachau, he wrote a list of short stories that are based on his experience. The most gut wrenching one was about him cleaning up the train wagons of newest captives, working alongside a group of other prisoners from the camp. They would remove corpses of suffocated infants scattered on the floors of the wagons, then five minutes later eat lunch. It would also focus on specific people that exited the wagons, like a mother who tried to abandon her crying child or a young girl that went to her death with dignity. The story went on to talk about the searing heat, violence was brutal and didn't skimp out on any details. It was a jarring thing to imagine to me now and it still is to this day.

 

[Lonely Grave]

HMS Ulysses by Alistair Maclean. (yes, that Maclean, the one who wrote The Guns of Navarone and a bunch of other military thrillers)

It's the story of a fictional RN cruiser doing the rounds on the Murmansk convoy route during WW2. What makes it stand out is that there is absolutely no hope for the main and supporting characters, it begins on a bitter note and keeps going downhill from there as characters are killed off by the chapter (Maclean himself said that his initial draft had too many deaths early on so he drew up a table of characters versus chapters and evened out the rate of killed characters). What few successes the ship and crew have are almost immediately turned into nothing as the convoy comes under attack from all sides. By the end of it, only five of the crew are left alive.

Personally it was one of the most difficult books to read... I put it down several times, disbelieving of the sheer cruelty inflicted on the characters. I couldn't root for any of them to stay alive because the next chapter would simply shit all over that hope. And what made worse is that... it all most likely actually happened for real, perhaps scattered among a series of Northern convoy ships.

 

[Jimjamflimflam]

Everybody says they read it. Some were assigned to read it.
But I look around and realize,
No one really paid attention.

It's the same as 1984. Everyone read it but everyone misses the point (me included on my first reading). Too focused on the tangible action such as authoritative spying by BB and the eugenics caste destination in BNW that they don't see the psychological/social conditioning that's the real horror that was trying to be conveyed.