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Dear, community users. I hope, you're having a great day. I'm new here and I live in Russia, so I realy would like to ask you not to give me a hard time about my English. I've always thought that fiction was boring and preferred scientific, philosophical etc. books to it. I was wrong. Really really wrong. I discovered fiction about 3 months ago and since then can't help spending at least half of my day reading. But after several great books I'd read (which all were dark, dystopian kind of novels: 1984, American Psycho, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange etc.), I faced a problem. I dropped about 5 books after reading first 30-40 pages, because "happy/normal stories" turned out to disgust me. I just can't enjoy them. Can you recommend something that a normal English teacher or a conventional parent would call outrageous, offensive, sick, abnormal etc.? I especially want to find something like Fight Club. The book and the movie recevied very mixed reviews but it was a life-changing experience for me. Thanks in advance for your help!

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Hello and welcome to the forums. If you want dystopian lit. check out Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. Not really depraved but an excellent novel from the genre. As for your other mentions, I have not read all of them but they are all high praised so might be worth checking into: 

 

Beloved by Toni Morrison

The Road by Cormac McArthy

Blood Meridian by Cormac McArthy

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

 

Oh and I am so happy to see someone else enjoyed A Clockwork Orange. 

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Fight Club is one of my favorite books and movies :)

 

Some books that you might like (but to have that level of violence is unique)

 

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

 

American Psycho by Brent Easton Ellis

 

Man In the High Castle by Philip K Dick

 

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

 

Thinner by Stephen King

 

I like most of Chuck Palahniuk's books, they are always twisted.

 

It's not violent, but The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Attwood is a good one

 

Wool by Hugh Howey

 

The Long Walk by Stephen King

 

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

 

Good luck, happy reading! :)

 

By the way, we'd never make fun of your English :)

 

Edited to add: World War Z by Max Brooks

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Fight Club is one of my favorite books and movies :)

 

Some books that you might like (but to have that level of violence is unique)

 

The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

 

American Psycho by Brent Easton Ellis

 

Man In the High Castle by Philip K Dick

 

A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick

 

Thinner by Stephen King

 

I like most of Chuck Palahniuk's books, they are always twisted.

 

It's not violent, but The Handmaids Tale by Margaret Attwood is a good one

 

Wool by Hugh Howey

 

The Long Walk by Stephen King

 

The Lottery by Shirley Jackson

 

Good luck, happy reading! :)

 

By the way, we'd never make fun of your English :)

 

Edited to add: World War Z by Max Brooks

(I'm Jack's infectious feeling of happiness) I guess, I have enough books to read for the next couple of months. Thank you very much!

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