Best fucked up books

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S.C. Gwynne

I had forgotten just how brutal the Plains Indians were. This book really illustrated just what they could, and would, do to captives, including those they kept around as labor and those they eventually adopted into the tribe and married, and just how the captives sometimes ended up with what we now know as Stockholm Syndrome. Breaking the Indians and forcing them to adopt Western morals was the right thing to do.
 
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I like Eric Garcia's Repossesion Mambo. Two movies were inspired by the book: Repo Men and Repo! The Genetic Opera (filmed musical).

The name of the book refers to how after not meeting payments on synthetic organs, the repo men show up and cut you open to repossess the organ. And then as you lay there twitching on the ground, that is called the reposession mambo. An electric final dance.

The movie is better than the book, but the book is good too.

The movie also has a really fucked up scene at the end, where two heavily modded humans cut each other open to scan and pretend to repossess all the synthetic organs they have, and it's played like a bloody love scene.


The youtube version is a cut version though that leaves out most of the gore.
 
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I finished Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman in a day and holy shit, fuck it was good.

While I did feel the rape stuff at the beginning was a bit much and almost put me off (just felt like it was trying to be edgy) it was very much worth it to keep reading.

The whole setting just made me feel like I was reading a novelised version of Fear & Hunger except the religious aspects were very pro-Catholic despite all the bleak horror that it takes place in. I'm not sure how much detail I can into without sperging out and spoiling the whole story but I was crying at the last two chapters for how much I ended up falling in love with Thomas and Dahpine an their relationship.

Also I very much enjoyed the demon transformations and how they ranged from very subtle (like a picture on soldiers armour changing) to something like the person turning into a giant abomination that bursts out from its human host like a disease. (Which I mean the book premise is the black death being a plague sent by Hell to cull humanity so lol makes sense)
 
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Back around 2010 someone on /a/ randomly shared a zip of The Drill Hole in My Brain by Otaro Majio. I can't say I enjoyed it but its fucked-up-ness stayed with me after all these years. It's a short story from the perspective of a boy who has just had a Phillips screwdriver jammed into his brain by his mother's murderous boyfriend. A sample is attached for your viewing pleasure.
 

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"The painted bird" by Jerzy Kosiński. It's a story of a kid whose parents are partisans during WWII and sent him to live with a distant relative in Eastern Europe. It's a fictional story but feels like it could be true. Peasant areas of the world are still very fucked up places to this day.
 
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Anyone have any opinion on Donaldson's Thomas Covenant stuff? It was also super-edgy (and amazingly involved rape as a central event in the series) but one thing I liked about it was Donaldson had a plotting method where he'd start the writing process from the conclusion and work backwards before starting actually writing, so he'd know what the plot was.
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I thought it was boring and not edgy at all. I wanted a book about a guy who does fucked up shit in a fantasy world, on account of it being fictional (so why* not). Instead, the protagonist compulsively rapes some random npc while moping about it (no, it's not a central event), mopes about it some more, then spends the rest of the book just walking around in a shit ass boring setting. It gave the impression of having been written by a sexually mature low-functioning autist, whose tard minder encouraged him to write a fantasy novel and briefly described Lord of the Rings, but the tard only ever listened to Gulliver's Travels part 4 on Alexa and really liked the talking horsies.

(*Which reminds me, since No Longer Human has been mentioned in the thread, there's a mango about Dazai Osamu getting isekai'd to a fantasy world and fighting isekai nihilists who do fucked up shit. It is not fucked up by itself, but it is a mango for children who are familiar with No Longer Human, and is meta-fucked-up by dint of that.)

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thread tax: I've been casually recommending KJ Parker here and there. Most of his books are some measure of fucked up because they have massive amounts of death and despair; unfortunately, most of his books are also dangerously boring for that very reason. Has uppercase-Issues with women. Also, he's a lib; if you're interested in a book, I highly recommend not paying.
  • Colours in the Steel, The Belly of the Bow, The Proof House: there's a fun murder at the end of book 2. Otherwise, fucking boring, everyone dies. Good if you want to feel miserable through 3 volumes. Women are stupid in this and suffer for it.
  • Shadow, Pattern, Memory: a plot artificially made more interesting by making the reader piece it together from disjointed scenes, A for effort; the usual rape and murder, accidental incest, and a fun twist in the end. Thoroughly miserable but worth reading for the twist. Women are evil in this (except the awesome and adorable basket lady) and suffer for it.
  • Devices and Desires, Evil for Evil, The Escapement: less fucked up than usual, has a fucked up scene in which a man who got accidentally locked up with criminals and forgotten is waiting to get executed. Doesn't stick the landing. Women are both evil and stupid in this and suffer for it.
  • Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City: very good tragicomedy, but not fucked up, the worst thing in it is some descriptions of wounds. The "sequels" are a dumb, boring mess that rape the original book. In a radical change, women are nice, attractive and intelligent in this, and nothing much happens to them.
  • Two of Swords: fucked up in a sense that it's an unironic, deepthroated endorsement of the Great Replacement; gets established setting facts so wrong toward the end I would say it was ghostwritten except it's too easy an excuse for this atrocity of a book. Women in this are both horrifically malicious and horrifically retarded, and triumph through it. Do not read this.
 
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My college had the massive, two-volume ‘The Pathology of Homicide’ by Lester M. Adelson (1974). I borrowed it and kept it on extension for about two months as part of my pre-med.
The sheer brutality was extraordinary. One image that stuck with me was a young black woman whose throat had been cut from her left collarbone to the right hand corner of her jaw with a straight razor. It was two or three inches deep and the diagonal nature made for a grotesque but fascinating insight into neck anatomy.
Apart from that there were people beaten to death with bricks and hammers, one guy who tried suicide with a .22 to the temple and took a couple of tries, a shattered heart hit with a high-velocity round while in systole, a guys whose wife had poured boiling lye on his face as he slept, and more. It was basically a gore site in hardcover form, although black and white only. Around a year later the internet got HTML and I found rotten.com and Dan’s gallery of the grotesque to be suitable replacements.
Nothing, and I mean NOTHING in fiction compares to real life in the ‘fucked up’ stakes.
AnOminous said:
Anyone have any opinion on Donaldson's Thomas Covenant stuff?
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Unlikable protagonist wanders isekai world muttering “hellfire and brimstone” while wearing a magical ring that does fuck-all to conjure up an interesting story. I read Auel’s ‘Clan of the Cave Bear’ about the same time as a kid and found it wayyyyy more fucked up and interesting.
 
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Clan of the Cave Bear beings up a lot of nostalgia. I read the series in 5th grade, but dropped it in book 3 during the race mixing relationship drama arc. I picked it back up later out of curiostity. While in comparison to most of the books in this thread it's pretty tame, it definitely has a lot of fucked up content and disturbing themes that continue in the later books. I'm glad I dropped where I did as a kid, as it's largely personal drama from there out. All I wanted to read about was the animals and world building.
 
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Ok I haven't seen this ones mentioned so... they are not as fucked as the shit some people have posted but they are interesting readings.

The philosophy of redemption by Phillip Mainlander:
At the beginning there was only god, it ocupied everything, everything was within god, god was omnibenevolent, omniscient and all-powerful so he decides to do the smartest and noblest thing everybody should do: Commit suicide.
Then there was light.
-What is time?: The measure we use to quantify the progressive descomposition of god's body
-What is space?: All that once was ocupied by god
-What is life?: The dying cells of god's body and parasites killing each other of the last scraps of food.
-What is the purpose?: To die, everything is fated to die and at some point all that there is will be filled with the holy silence of eternal rest that is called: THE WILL TO DIE!!! :unholy::unholy::unholy:
-What should we do??: Promote the advancement of science no matter the cost so we can create a utopia where mankind live lifes full of hedonistic pleasure until they stop reproducing, each generation becoming smaller until the earth is barren of life.
-Brother that is the worst thing I have ever heard, destroying all life on earth so the last generations of people die in the most decadent hedonism, Kill yourself!!!
-OK
There it is, the most depressing system of philosophy ever created, unsurprisingly it was created by a german guy who lived a really shitty life he also hang himself using copies of his book.
It's interesting from the perspective of seeing an obviously insane person creating a "more or less" coherent system of philosophy that wouldn't be out of place from the mouth of a shonen manga villain.

Danzig Baldaev (all of his books)
Gulag archipielago, a day in the life of ivan denisovich and kolyma tales but illustrated with some of the most horrific art I have ever seen. Seriously, the NKVD were doing things like killing old people with public beatings while forcing people to clap their hands (like china's cultural revolution) or gulag camps for kids (slave sweatshops in all but name and with even more beatings). There is also a book detailing the intricacies (and believe me russian mafia and adjacents loves their complexity even more than alcohol) of russian mafia culture how it was born out of the gulags and what those weird tattoos they wear really mean.
Fun fact, at some point some russian gangsters trapped in concentration camps decided to ally themselves with the regime in order to keep tabs on normal prisioners (some of them were trapped for saying too loud that they were starving) and serving on the soviet army (that was the origin of dedvoschina or brutal ritual abuse that has been carried on since then). Their partners saw that as treason (unbelievable a criminal having no honor) and there was a brutal war between two factions of the russian mafia: The bitch war (suka war).

Foucault's pendulum (umberto eco)
I don't really know if I should put it here. I finished it alongside name of the rose six months ago and believe me brother if I tell you that it manages to surpass even the /x/ section on 4chan.
A team of three /lit/ /his/ posters are bored, frustrated by their autism and forced to work in a shitty publisher house editing grammar errors (like this post) in books written by retards that believe themselves to have talent and pay for their "masterpieces" to be shown to the world. (like amazon publishing but before the internet or something)
The most popular genre of retarded books are conspiracy theories, our guys decide to create the best conspiracy theory book ever written by mixing things based on their knoledge of ancient history, weird philosophical/theological systems, other conspiracies and their god guided reddit reasoning abilities of searching logical inconsistencies in a fictional tale.
They end up creating a cult and the three of them die.
Why is it here??
- For starters our guys are: a turbo neet autist obsessed with jewish culture, a failed history phd and a cuck who is a failed writer. All of their interactions are pathetic, they also spends days discussing how to make their conspiracy theory more believable, at some point they say Ford was a jewish-mason in disguise because the ford-t is designed according to kabbalistic designs (i am not making this up).
It is not a fucked up book in the sense of having lots of sex, blood or a really depressing tale, it is just weird (for me at least), there is also the theme of how people can see patterns even in the stupidest things you can imagine and create tales in order to give some sense to their lifes and how that is one of the most human things to do.
 
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