Best fucked up books

[Gordon Cole]

Does a fucked-up magazine count? Cause ANSWER Me! is some of the most compellingly fucked-up stuff I've ever read (And Jim Goad is now one of my favorite terrible people).

Also, really anything by Peter Sotos of Whitehouse infamy can fit here.

 

[Cool kitties club]

Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. It starts off with a girl being raped and vomited along with other descriptions of sex and suicide but it is very good. Probably one of the funniest satires of liberal arts colleges I've read. It also features a brief cameo of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Does a fucked-up magazine count? Cause ANSWER Me! is some of the most compellingly fucked-up stuff I've ever read (And Jim Goad is now one of my favorite terrible people).

Also, really anything by Peter Sotos of Whitehouse infamy can fit here.

The 4th issue of Answer Me! is some amazing shit to behold. It takes the contrarian stance that rape is good.

Rules of Attraction by Bret Easton Ellis. It starts off with a girl being raped and vomited along with other descriptions of sex and suicide but it is very good. Probably one of the funniest satires of liberal arts colleges I've read. It also features a brief cameo of Patrick Bateman from American Psycho.

I've been meaning to read Rules of Attraction. I love the film adaptation but in my opinion, Ellis isn't a particularly great writer. I read Glamaroma and Imperial Bedrooms and they were godawful. American Psycho is his masterpiece and Less Than Zer0 is okay.

 

[💗Freddie Freaker💗]

I don't know if this was ever published but apparently it was 22% nigger.

 

[Cool kitties club]

The 4th issue of Answer Me! is some amazing shit to behold. It takes the contrarian stance that rape is good.



I've been meaning to read Rules of Attraction. I love the film adaptation but in my opinion, Ellis isn't a particularly great writer. I read Glamaroma and Imperial Bedrooms and they were godawful. American Psycho is his masterpiece and Less Than Zer0 is okay.

I thought rules of attraction was well written but The Informers was boring as sin

 

[BrunoMattei]

I thought rules of attraction was well written but The Informers was boring as sin

I'm not surprised. Definitely avoid Imperial Bedrooms.

 

[MadDamon]

It's not well-written. But...

Spoiler: 2spoopy4me

Harry potter. Solely for the fact how many brainless zombies it gives birth to.

 

[Linako 2.0]

A Confederacy of Dunces is the wonderful story about local lolcow, Ignatius Jacques Reilly. Who must venture from the comfinments of his basement, into the real world and fuck everything up.

 

[Dolphin Lundgren]

Lolita was already mentioned, so I'll have to include Anne Rice's novel, Belinda which was written under her second name.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Belinda_(Rice_novel)

Considering the subject matter which was a 44 year old children's book author having a sexual relationship with a 16 year old fan, I'd say this qualifies in the fucked up category. This book sneaked under the radar as well.

 

[Ahffline]

The Tin Drum (Die Blechtrommel) by Günther Grass. The protag decides to stop physically growing at three years old. Against the backdrop of WW II and postwar Germany, there's the jarring juxtaposition of a character that is physically a child, but has an adult's thoughts, etc. There was a movie based on it as well.

 

[Tesshollidaysflupaknees]

Meathouse Man: It has corpse brothels, the comic shows everything. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18894027-meathouse-man
We need to talk about Kevin: A book about a boy who murdered his school mates. It will make you never want to have kids. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/80660.We_Need_to_Talk_About_Kevin
Never let me go: A sad love story. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6334.Never_Let_Me_Go
Push: The book the movie Precious was based off of. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/71332.Push

 

[AnOminous]

If we're going to include comics, the first couple volumes of Crossed would have to qualify, before it became just repetitive edginess for the sake of edginess (and it was teetering on the edge of that from the beginning).

 

[King Buzzo]

If we're going to include comics, the first couple volumes of Crossed would have to qualify, before it became just repetitive edginess for the sake of edginess (and it was teetering on the edge of that from the beginning).

The Sandman and Spawn series of comics should get a mention too.

 

[BrunoMattei]

The Sandman and Spawn series of comics should get a mention too.

Spawn isn't that bad especially during the 90's at its peak. It was around the 00's when the comic really went for the gore and subsequently got worse when Mcfarlane ran out of ideas.

It's not really "fucked up" but the only issue I can think of as being emotionally devastating would be the one-off where Spawn is de-powered and is brought into a kid's house E.T. style. Turns out the brothers have an extremely abusive father that Spawn decides to teach him a lesson by tattooing the words "I beat my kids" all over the guy's body and leaves. After he's gone, the father goes on a rampage and almost kills the smallest while the older brother takes the father's gun and kills the father.

If we're going to include comics, the first couple volumes of Crossed would have to qualify, before it became just repetitive edginess for the sake of edginess (and it was teetering on the edge of that from the beginning).

I would rather keep this to books instead of the funny pages because we'll be going down a slippery slope and dude's will post their Suehiro Marou, Hiroaki Samura, Uzigawa Waita and Jun Hayami shit. Don't ask me how I know about those authors.

 

[King Buzzo]

Spawn isn't that bad especially during the 90's at its peak. It was around the 00's when the comic really went for the gore and subsequently got worse when Mcfarlane ran out of ideas.

It's not really "fucked up" but the only issue I can think of as being emotionally devastating would be the one-off where Spawn is de-powered and is brought into a kid's house E.T. style. Turns out the brothers have an extremely abusive father that Spawn decides to teach him a lesson by tattooing the words "I beat my kids" all over the guy's body and leaves. After he's gone, the father goes on a rampage and almost kills the smallest while the older brother takes the father's gun and kills the father.

I never really got into Spawn as much I would have liked, I just remember the first volume of the series being gritty. I was more for the Sandman comics.

Anyways back to books, H.G. Wells' "The Island of Dr. Moreau" had a interesting premise for a book just before the beginning of the 20th century. Doctor Moreau, a mad scientist creates human-like hybrid beings from animals via vivisection and the protagonist, a shipwrecked man rescued by a passing boat who is left on the island, witnesses the events and the creations.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I never really got into Spawn as much I would have liked, I just remember the first volume of the series being gritty. I was more for the Sandman comics.

The first 100 issues are very good and you can honestly stop when you get to 100 because the quality is all over the place after that. The HBO cartoon is amazing and filters out all the shit from the comics (like Tremor and Cy Gor).

 

[King Buzzo]

The HBO cartoon is amazing

When I tried the Amazon Prime trial, they have the whole HBO cartoon for free on their Prime Video. Unfortunately, I never finished it due to being busy during the trial and stopped after the first season. It was great, though.

 

[BrunoMattei]

When I tried the Amazon Prime trial, they have the whole HBO cartoon for free on their Prime Video. Unfortunately, I never finished it due to being busy during the trial and stopped after the first season. It was great, though.

The series is on Youtube for free.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6v64kfBBm4&list=PLHo8h4cUDWvpzLRSXEykbT3QNRjeh26my

 

[rocknrollmartian]

Pornografia by Witold Gombrowicz

Also a lot of extremely popular books aimed toward women are fucked up. White Oleander was an Oprah's Book Club pick, ffs, and is dark and disturbing; the main character is repeatedly abused by her own mother and nearly everyone else she meets. And a popular release from 2016, All the Ugly and Wonderful Things, features a "tender" and sympathetic portrayal of the relationship between a young girl and her caretaker-turned-predator.

I don't even think American Psycho is worth a read unless you can tolerate lists of '80s designer brands (Oliver Peoples glasses) mixed with torture porn. I love the movie, though.

 

[BrunoMattei]

I don't even think American Psycho is worth a read unless you can tolerate lists of '80s designer brands (Oliver Peoples glasses) mixed with torture porn. I love the movie, though.

The only aspect of American Psycho I didn't enjoy were the music review chapters. After a few pages I was like "Yeah, I get it." The movie distilled that element in a brilliant way. The violence in the book is 10 million times more vicious than in the movie.

In the book, Bateman gouges out the guy's eyes, cuts off his dick and guts him. Then goes to Mcdonalds and drinks three milkshakes.