Jack's Tumor Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Budgie Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 I'd recommend Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Also one of the funniest books I ever read, as well as being outrageous, offensive, etc. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrCat Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Tumor Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 Onion Budgie, MrCat. Thank you very much. I'd like to correct myself. I didn't mean to say that I think literature without violence or murder is bad. It's just not for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anna Begins Posted October 4, 2016 Share Posted October 4, 2016 (edited) 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 Edited October 4, 2016 by Anna Begins Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack's Tumor Posted October 4, 2016 Author Share Posted October 4, 2016 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! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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