Best fucked up books

[Overly Serious]

The end to Blindside is flimsy and a letdown.

Would help if you got the name of the novella right.

And the end is the scariest thing about it. (Please don't spoil it for people).

 

[Crunchy Chick]

Would help if you got the name of the novella right.

And the end is the scariest thing about it. (Please don't spoil it for people).

The name was auto-corrected without my noticing and I wouldn't spoil it publicly. The topics title touch upon make it well worth the read even if aspects disappoint. It is one of the finer science fiction novels published in the aughts. It's not a book I'd expect in thread with this theme as the way I remember it was pretty tame.

Only books I've read fucked up enough to fuck me up are all historical accountings of which I'd not recommend reading for pleasure.

 

[Bravefart]

Have you read Starfish, as well? I've started it and it's atmospheric and imaginative.

I have read it, I don't know if it's just me but the story seemed to take a back seat to the ideas. I feel his later stuff integrates the concepts, characters and stories together better.

It's not a book I'd expect in thread with this theme as the way I remember it was pretty tame.

No spoilers but I found the ending, and the lead up to it, very disturbing.

 

[Knojkamarangasan_#4]

The book "Nothing" by Janne Telle is a childrens book technically but it messed me up pretty bad when I read it as a kid and even today it really disturbing when you look into it. Like if Lord of the flies was actually good. And it's a classic that I'm sure others have mentioned, but "Lolita" is one messed up book too.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Just discovered this one, the New Order of Barbarians. It's a pretty bone chilling prediction made by a pediatrician in the 60's during a conference that predicted many of the circumstances we happen to see ourselves in today. Albeit some of the more disturbing ideas expressed in the material haven't come to fruition, such as the elderly committing suicide with a pill and having death-day parties as personal send-offs to the old and infirm. The surprising part about all of this is that it alleges that our history, starting as early as the World Wars, have been subtly directed toward an outcome where the weak are allowed to die off through poor health as a form of light eugenics as a means of ushering in the genetically supreme through various daily pressures that are designed to slowly kill you.

Yep, this is a pants-shittingly terrifying book.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

Anything by Irvine Welsh, but especially Filth and Maribou Stork Nightmares. Horrifying.

Also Survivor Type by Stephen King is fucked up. A med student gets stranded on a desert island with all the heroin he's smuggling. He anaesthetises himself and amputates and eats his own parts to avoid starvation. Until he can't anymore.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Just discovered this one, the New Order of Barbarians. It's a pretty bone chilling prediction made by a pediatrician in the 60's during a conference that predicted many of the circumstances we happen to see ourselves in today. Albeit some of the more disturbing ideas expressed in the material haven't come to fruition, such as the elderly committing suicide with a pill and having death-day parties as personal send-offs to the old and infirm. The surprising part about all of this is that it alleges that our history, starting as early as the World Wars, have been subtly directed toward an outcome where the weak are allowed to die off through poor health as a form of light eugenics as a means of ushering in the genetically supreme through various daily pressures that are designed to slowly kill you.

Yep, this is a pants-shittingly terrifying book.

Looks like crappy pasta.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

Looks like crappy pasta.

Because of the thumbnail?

 

[BrunoMattei]

Because of the thumbnail?

No, because I have a brain and did some basic research.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

No, because I have a brain and did some basic research.

Out of hand dismissal isn't enough to convince me, do you have receipts? The closest thing I could find calling it a hoax is a downed website that doesn't load. Everything else is either the material itself for sale or audiobooks.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Out of hand dismissal isn't enough to convince me, do you have receipts? The closest thing I could find calling it a hoax is a downed website that doesn't load. Everything else is either the material itself for sale or audiobooks.

The book has a publication date of 2013. Unless it was a reissue it puts everything in doubt. Plus it reiterates point that have been made God knows how many time by other theorists.

I have my own sources that were behind the curtain and AIDS wasn't manufactured to thin out the population it was something that spread from Africa and eating green monkeys. It made it's way to America and elsewhere because of gay pedophiles who would go to Africa and Haiti for boys.

 

[Wanston]

The last wtf book I read was Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, I think it was popular in the 70s. It's an (allegedly) true story about a girl with dissociative identity disorder due to abuse she received as a kid. The whole switching personality thing is pretty loony and I'm a bit skeptical about whether or not she really had DID or if it was embellished to sell more books. Either way, the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her mom is nauseating to read about.

Also Survivor Type by Stephen King is fucked up. A med student gets stranded on a desert island with all the heroin he's smuggling. He anaesthetises himself and amputates and eats his own parts to avoid starvation. Until he can't anymore.

Stephen King always has the best story ideas but they tend to fall apart towards the end for me. The tropes tend to merge together, like once you've read a few of his novels, you've read them all. This one sounds good though, I'll have to check it out.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

The book has a publication date of 2013. Unless it was a reissue it puts everything works in doubt. Plus it reiterates point that have been made God knows how many time by other theorists.

The original publication was in 2007 on the internet, possibly even before that. Seeing how the website itself appears, it could easily be a 90's era website.

New Order of Barbarians

The 2013 print is from when it was formatted into a book for official publication.

I have my own sources that were behind the curtain and AIDS wasn't manufactured to thin out the population it was something that spread from Africa and eating green monkeys. It made it's way to America and elsewhere because of gay pedophiles who would go to Africa and Haiti for boys.

Was Gaëtan Dugas one of those pedos or was he not the first? It's too bad that they got the AIDS thing wrong though since that causes a discrepancy that hurts the whole thing.

 

[Rafal Gan Ganowicz]

The last wtf book I read was Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, I think it was popular in the 70s. It's an (allegedly) true story about a girl with dissociative identity disorder due to abuse she received as a kid. The whole switching personality thing is pretty loony and I'm a bit skeptical about whether or not she really had DID or if it was embellished to sell more books. Either way, the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her mom is nauseating to read about.


Stephen King always has the best story ideas but they tend to fall apart towards the end for me. The tropes tend to merge together, like once you've read a few of his novels, you've read them all. This one sounds good though, I'll have to check it out.

Yeah, agree .Survivor type is a short story, so Steve manages to keep it together, thankfully. It's in Skeleton Crew.

 

[MarvinTheParanoidAndroid]

The last wtf book I read was Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber, I think it was popular in the 70s. It's an (allegedly) true story about a girl with dissociative identity disorder due to abuse she received as a kid. The whole switching personality thing is pretty loony and I'm a bit skeptical about whether or not she really had DID or if it was embellished to sell more books. Either way, the child abuse she suffered at the hands of her mom is nauseating to read about.

That whole thing was a hoax.

Real 'Sybil' Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976 TV movie. Mason later admitted to her psychiatrist that she'd made the whole thing up — but not before the story manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon.

www.npr.org

 

[Wanston]

That whole thing was a hoax.

Real 'Sybil' Admits Multiple Personalities Were Fake

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976 TV movie. Mason later admitted to her psychiatrist that she'd made the whole thing up — but not before the story manufactured a psychiatric phenomenon.

www.npr.org

Hah, no kidding? Seems to be common among people claiming to have DID. Wonder how much of the child abuse was embellished too.

 

[Cosmos]

Excuse me, how am I only now finding this thread? I fucking love disturbing stuff that gets under your skin. I'll have to read through this entire thread for suggestions, but in the meantime I have my own suggestions to offer up:

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott: The book follows a girl called "Alice" (not her real name) who has been kidnapped by a pedophile named Ray. The story takes place five years after "Alice's" abduction. She is now 15, and is still living with her abductor. However, he is losing interest in her because, as a pedophile, he has no interest in a maturing girl (this is despite his attempts to keep her small by starving her). So he tasks her with "New Alice" for him. Alice hopes that if she does, he will free her, or at least finally put her out of her misery. Despite the incredibly dark subject matter, the book is not gratuitous at all. The prose is very sparse yet damning, and most of the disturbing parts of the book rely on your mind filling in the gaps about the unimaginable horrors Alice repeatedly experiences. I've seen people mention Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov in this thread, and if you liked that you'll probably like Living Dead Girl. It's horrifying (especially considering how things like this do happen in real life), but it's still a worthy read.

Survivor Type by Stephen King: A short story rather than a novel, it follows a disgraced surgeon who is caught in a shipwreck while smuggling heroin and winds up on a tiny deserted island. He slowly loses his mind due to starvation, isolation, and drug use. In his desperation he begins amputating his own limbs to eat, using the heroin as a crude anesthetic. The story ends with him being batshit insane, having amputated and eaten everything below his waist, and drools uncontrollably as he ponders which body part to eat next. I read this for the first time in 8th grade it it fucked me up for a couple of days. It still gets under my skin.

Blindsight by Peter Watts: This hard sci-fi book is about humanity's first contact with aliens after an certain event notifies humanity that we are being watched by extraterrestrial life. After a signal is picked up at the edge of the solar system, a spaceship carrying a crew of five cutting-edge transhuman hyper-specialists (including a vampire; long story) is sent to explore it and try to make contact. They come across a massive, alien vessel calling itself Rorschach and things snowball from there. This book disturbed me for a number of reasons, the biggest one being the implications about intelligence and consciousness. The aliens the humans meet are extremely intelligent yet have no consciousness or sense of self. In fact, it turns out that humanity is the aberration. The things we take for granted like emotion, art, and communication are so alien to extraterrestrials that they determine that our mere existence to be a threat to them. Blindsight is kind of dry and can be hard to understand at points, but it's extremely thought-provoking.

When the Wind Blows by Raymond Briggs: A graphic novel that shows a nuclear attack on Britain by the Soviet Union from the viewpoint of a sweet retired couple. It was created during the Cold War, when fears about nuclear war were high, and it really shows. The book showcases the horror of war and how it affects ordinary people. We follow the sweet elderly couple as they wait for a rescue that will never come, slowly succumbing to radiation poisoning. It's like watching your grandparents die. When the Wind Blows was turned into a movie that's equally disturbing and heart-wrenching.


I've already written a text wall but I may come back with more suggestions.

 

[Based Department]

IDK if this is what you're looking for (or if it's been mentioned before), but one of the best books about war is With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge. It's a really in depth and thoughtful account of the war in the pacific.

 

[AnOminous]

Surprised À Rebours hasn't got a mention. Maybe it's just too basic bitch. Huysmans himself has a mention earlier in the thread.

Also in terms of general French faggotry, there's obviously everything Francois Villon wrote that we know of, Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud, Jean Genet, and the absolute god Baudelaire. All of them wrote some pretty fucked up stuff.

 

[BrunoMattei]

Surprised À Rebours hasn't got a mention. Maybe it's just too basic bitch. Huysmans himself has a mention earlier in the thread.

Also in terms of general French faggotry, there's obviously everything Francois Villon wrote that we know of, Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud, Jean Genet, and the absolute god Baudelaire. All of them wrote some pretty fucked up stuff.

I have a book of poetry by Villon and I found it kind of mediocre. Although, that could have been the fault of the translation. The story of Villon the man (a vagrant poet and thief who murdered a priest in self defense) is much more interesting. Verlaine is lame. Rimbaud is just edgy but there is some good prose in Season in Hell. Baudelaire was genius but I wouldn't call Flowers Of Evil "fucked up." It is fucked up that some manga and anime took the name Flowers of Evil and weebs know that instead of the book.