Jammy Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 Most any book depicting animal cruelty.........l Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Virginia Posted August 26, 2015 Share Posted August 26, 2015 I need to change my choice. I stated earlier that it was The Cuckoo Calling, when in actuality it was Silkworm by the same author. There were moments that I had to seriously question the mental state of J K Rowling/Robert Galbraith. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jammy Posted August 31, 2015 Share Posted August 31, 2015 Charles Platt - The Gas. Previously banned a couple of times and in various country's. But Fun....!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timebug Posted November 20, 2015 Share Posted November 20, 2015 A nasty little book I read once called 'Let's Go Play At The Adams' by Mendal Johnson. That one stayed with me ever since. I looked the author up online,and apparently he was a very disturbed sort of individual anyway,so no wonder the book gave me the creeps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookShelfy91 Posted February 6, 2016 Share Posted February 6, 2016 (edited) Recently read The Auschwitz - Can't remember the author..a very very strong handed book. Incredibly confronting. A very informing read, but also very very disturbing! What's more disturbing is, everything that is described in the book is true? They don't tell you this kind of stuff in school.. Shelfy Edited February 6, 2016 by BookShelfy91 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss-Nightlife Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 The Last 7 Days of Peter Crumb - basically Peter decides he's going to end his life and he's taking everyone else down with him. It's superb but really hard to read in places. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miss-Nightlife Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 A nasty little book I read once called 'Let's Go Play At The Adams' by Mendal Johnson. That one stayed with me ever since. I looked the author up online,and apparently he was a very disturbed sort of individual anyway,so no wonder the book gave me the creeps. I really want to read this but it seems to be out of print everywhere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted March 23, 2016 Share Posted March 23, 2016 The Treatment by Mo Hayder. That was very disturbing in parts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookmonkey Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 The Treatment by Mo Hayder. That was very disturbing in parts. A good read though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollaig Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 A good read though. A fantastic read, I felt awful for thoroughly enjoying it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BookShelfy91 Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 Not sure whether I have mentioned this or not...I read not so recently "Aushwitz" (I think that's how it's spelt) a very informative and amazing read while also being incredibly disturbing, horrifying and just very very sad. Shelfy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Psalmist Posted June 1, 2016 Share Posted June 1, 2016 (edited) Reading Edgar Allen Poe really disturbed me and so did Lovecraft. EAP's Metzengerstein disturbed me even though it was gothic satire. The Fall of the House of Usher and others. Glad I dont read stuff like that anymore. Some Philip K. Dick stuff really was sad. A Scanner Darkly and VALIS really messed with me. Especially what I had been going through when I read it Edited June 1, 2016 by Psalmist Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tracy18 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 (edited) I had to abandon A Clockwork Orange when I read it years and years ago aged 19 - I found the violence too upsetting (unbearable in fact). I haven't read 1984 mainly because I've always suspected that I would find it depressing and worrying. I didn't even know the movie A Clockwork Orange was based on a book. I loved that movie....maybe its time I give the book a try Edited June 9, 2016 by Michelle Link removed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leedschap Posted September 24, 2017 Share Posted September 24, 2017 I always found a lot of James Herbert novels quite disturbing, not entirely sure exactly why, but he could be very explicit, and seemed able to create very convincing scenarios, the same could be said of Clive Barker, in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litwitlou Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 On 3/15/2009 at 11:54 AM, Genevieve said: William Golding and Claudia Durst Johnson wrote each a book that still disturbs me, much, very much. Golding wrote Lord of the Flies, we had to do a paper on it, and I felt like I was having a breaking down of my nerves as I read it. Truly upsetting. We had also to read To Kill A Mockingbird by Johnson and that too made me churn in my stomach.Who gives the right to decide that any person or race must be treated less than animals? I shivered and shook when I read it and so many of the characters just upset me. Perhaps I am misunderstanding your post, but Harper Lee wrote To Kill a Mockingbird. Literary scholar Claudia Durst Johnson wrote what is widely considered the best critique of that book in: To Kill a Mocking Bird: Threatening Boundaries (1992). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Litwitlou Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 The book I've found most disturbing may actually be a novella. I'm not going to research which because I still get a little freaked by it. The Stranger by Mark Twain. Ladies and gentlemen, this is not your childhood Mark Twain. I read it once, it freaked me out and I want nothing to do with it ever again. I read it decades ago when I wasn't nearly as jaded as I am now; nevertheless, that's one book I'd go a long way to avoid. Right now, I'm a little frightened around the edges just thinking about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sasireader21 Posted June 7, 2018 Share Posted June 7, 2018 The most disturbing book I've read was Animal Farm by George Orwell. His satire of Russia and the European countries in his novel struck hard - especially because of the absurdity of the pigs and the humans. However, the most disturbing story I have ever read was the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. She proved the point that humanity will follow traditions without remembering nor caring why these traditions were created in the first place. It also showed how quickly one can turn on a neighbor. Both stories make you say, "that's ridiculous!" before looking up and realizing "wait, they're making a legitimate point..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echo Posted July 6, 2018 Share Posted July 6, 2018 The book that disturbed me the most, and affected me more than any other, was And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts. However, it's non-fiction....it's an account of how the AIDS epidemic spread across America and how the government did nothing to stop it because it didn't care about the people who were dying. The descriptions of the deaths and the truth that is revealed (basically the homicidal indifference of the American government) has stayed with me since I first read it 20 years ago. For fiction, I guess I was disturbed the most by Monster by Jonathan Kellerman, due to the description of one of the villain's most horrible crimes. Other than that, I read a lot of horror and psychological thrillers, and I'm not really disturbed by them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lau_Lou Posted July 25, 2018 Share Posted July 25, 2018 On 08/06/2018 at 2:22 AM, sasireader21 said: The most disturbing book I've read was Animal Farm by George Orwell. His satire of Russia and the European countries in his novel struck hard - especially because of the absurdity of the pigs and the humans. However, the most disturbing story I have ever read was the short story "The Lottery" by Shirley Jackson. She proved the point that humanity will follow traditions without remembering nor caring why these traditions were created in the first place. It also showed how quickly one can turn on a neighbor. Both stories make you say, "that's ridiculous!" before looking up and realizing "wait, they're making a legitimate point..." I agree with The Lottery its been months since I read it and it still gives me the creeps when I think about it. I would also say Ten Thousand Sorrows by Elizabeth Kim. The fact this is non fiction makes it much worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alexander the Great Posted August 7, 2018 Share Posted August 7, 2018 Birdman by Mo Hayder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bookmonkey Posted August 8, 2018 Share Posted August 8, 2018 8 hours ago, Alexander the Great said: Birdman by Mo Hayder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 The Daily Mail. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
poppy Posted August 9, 2018 Share Posted August 9, 2018 1 hour ago, Raven said: The Daily Mail. Breitbart News would top that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raven Posted August 10, 2018 Share Posted August 10, 2018 16 hours ago, poppy said: Breitbart News would top that. I don't go looking for the Dark Side! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruth Posted November 17, 2018 Share Posted November 17, 2018 (edited) I think I'd say American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis. I actually thought it was an amazingly well written book, but it disturbed me a lot. It was the one and only time that I actually read another book at the same time (well, not at the exact same time obviously, but I never normally have more than one book on the go at once), because I lived on my own back then, and often used to read in bed. There was no way I was going to read American Psycho in bed though! I would like to reread it sometime, because it was also a very clever and funny book. Also, Dead Man Walking by Sister Helen Prejean, and Schindlers Ark by Thomas Keneally - but both very disturbing for entirely different reasons to any fiction novel. Edited November 17, 2018 by Ruth Wanted to add another sentence Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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