Edgy, disturbing, disgusting and original books
What are some of your favorite ''edgier'' books? The kind of book that has content that would DEFINATELY offend many readers, or just books that have a unique and non-pc theme or message?
The main purpose of thie thread is for me to find books along the lines of Bret Easton Ellis or Palahniuk. Just that twisted kind of stuff.
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Also - I'd recommend this thread [URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=14772]here[/URL].
And the book "Let's Go Play at the Adams" by Mendal Johnson as a somewhat disturbing book which you may not have read.
[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]You just fit right in here, don't you
Also - I'd recommend this thread [URL=http://www.chuckpalahniuk.net/community/showthread.php?t=14772]here[/URL].
And the book "Let's Go Play at the Adams" by Mendal Johnson as a somewhat disturbing book which you may not have read.[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=Riddlegimp]You just fit right in here, don't you
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i think she's in early contention for Rookie of the Year honors
[QUOTE=nathaniel parker]i think she's in early contention for Rookie of the Year honors[/QUOTE]
Damn straight.
Jack Ketchum - Pretty much any but The Girl Next Door especially
[QUOTE=britrocker]Jack Ketchum - Pretty much any but The Girl Next Door especially[/QUOTE]
Yeh, this is a pretty vicious book, but I'd say "Let's Go Play at the Adams" (which has a very similar storyline, Mr. Ketchum) is a far more accomplished and disturbing novel.
[QUOTE=thunderchunky]"Filth" is particularly, well, filthy.[/QUOTE]
I ordered this book last week.
While I do love Irvine Welsh, I believe Filth is his weakest book; however, it does include the ill factor to quite a high degree.
I reccomend PZB's [I]Exquisite Corpse[/I]. Two gay serial killers who enjoy "playing" with their deceased victims reluctantly join up to kill a Vietnamese-American boy who also happens to have an insane radio host ex-boyfriend with full blown AIDS coming after him.
[QUOTE=embaixo de]
I reccomend PZB's [I]Exquisite Corpse[/I]. Two gay serial killers who enjoy "playing" with their deceased victims reluctantly join up to kill a Vietnamese-American boy who also happens to have an insane radio host ex-boyfriend with full blown AIDS coming after him.[/QUOTE]
wow what the hell. regardless of how predictable it is for someone to suggest it: American psycho is a standard when it comes to disturbing books.
[QUOTE=embaixo de]While I do love Irvine Welsh, I believe Filth is his weakest book; however, it does include the ill factor to quite a high degree.
I reccomend PZB's [I]Exquisite Corpse[/I]. Two gay serial killers who enjoy "playing" with their deceased victims reluctantly join up to kill a Vietnamese-American boy who also happens to have an insane radio host ex-boyfriend with full blown AIDS coming after him.[/QUOTE]
I have a love hate relationship with this book. I found the subject matter repugnant, I mean who wouldn't? But it was just so goshdarn readable. It's easy to dimiss Poppy Z. Brite's books as self-indulgent goth-fodder but if you just relax and read, her books and short stories are an enjoyable way to spend a few hours.
Someone before mentioned a couple of books by Patrick McGrath, whose books are original, somewhat disturbing and occasionally disgusting, but I doubt that someone who's looking for something along the vein of Chuck Palahniuk/Bret Easton Ellis will find McGrath's melodramatic style very appealing.
Maybe check out Klaus Kinski's autobiography. It's something that would DEFINITELY offend most readers and is "non pc" to the extreme. I looked it up a bit after I read it and found out that most of it is fabricated or exaggerated but it's still great and you get a real feel for Kinski's character.
[QUOTE=Wolhay][B]The Dice Man[/B], Luke Rhinehart
[B]Geek Love[/B], Katherine Dunn
[B]The Grotesque[/B], Patrick McGrath
[B]The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things[/B], J.T. LeRoy
[B]Perfume : The Story of a Murderer[/B] ([I]Das Parfum[/I]), Patrick Süskind
[B]Sarah[/B], J.T. LeRoy
[B]Spider[/B], Patrick McGrath
[B]Tik-Tok[/B], John Sladek
[B]The Tin Drum[/B] ([I]Die Blechtrommel[/I]), Günter Grass
[B]Troll: A Love Story[/B] / [B]Not Before Sundown[/B] ([I]Ennen päivänlaskua ei voi[/I]), Johanna Sinisalo
[B]Under the Skin[/B], Michel Faber
[B]The Wasp Factory[/B], Iain Banks[/QUOTE]
Solid List, both J.T Leroy books are very well done and I like the mention of [U]The Tin Drum[/U].
it's only after you have lost everything that your free to do anything
[QUOTE=tyler branson]Solid List, both J.T Leroy books are very well done and I like the mention of [U]The Tin Drum[/U].[/QUOTE]
Are you going to explain why or are you just going to make blanket statements?
Yukio Mishima - The sailor who fell from grace with the sea
Not disturbing in an American Psycho way but more psychologically disturbing. The kind where you're just reading and think "Oh no... No please." It's about a group of 13 yr-old Japanese kids that disregards society's "weak" values and does some crazy shit.
On an unrelated note what is your avatar Mirka? Looks very familiar....
[QUOTE=thunderchunky]dont know if your just into fiction but Unit 731 Testimony by Hal Gold, is real life sick. i read it for a horror film class. its about the japanese torturing chinese prisoners during WWII in the name of science. they tested people in pressure chambers, effects of frostbite, etc.[/QUOTE]
Was that related to the film, people of the sun? people on the sun? something like that anyway. That was truly horrific.
Wouldnt say I ever find much in the written word disturbing per se.
Dont get me wrong people, I think American Psycho is the greatest, most stylish novel I've ever read, but am I the only one who finds it laugh out loud funny?
SPOILER!!! IF YOU HAVENT READ IT LOOK AWAY.
It was obvious he lived in a fanatsy world to ease his passing through his painful materialistic life. The sequence where he goes to the beach with his 'girlfriend' and involves himself in a 'normal' life before breaking down (the eating sand and jellyfish and killing the dog) is IMHO the funniest sequence ever committed to print.
Oh and The Dice Man, disturbing? This is the second funniest novel ever (read by me)
Selby gets out there though. The way he builds the tension for the gang bang / tra la la death scene in the apartment with the music the drugs the bozoe and the people coming in and out and then he breaks your heart by having tra la la die in the last scene of the chapter. Mesmerizing stuff.
[QUOTE=dannymc]Wouldnt say I ever find much in the written word disturbing per se.
Dont get me wrong people, I think American Psycho is the greatest, most stylish novel I've ever read, but am I the only one who finds it laugh out loud funny?
SPOILER!!! IF YOU HAVENT READ IT LOOK AWAY.
It was obvious he lived in a fanatsy world to ease his passing through his painful materialistic life. The sequence where he goes to the beach with his 'girlfriend' and involves himself in a 'normal' life before breaking down (the eating sand and jellyfish and killing the dog) is IMHO the funniest sequence ever committed to print.
Oh and The Dice Man, disturbing? This is the second funniest novel ever (read by me)
Selby gets out there though. The way he builds the tension for the gang bang / tra la la death scene in the apartment with the music the drugs the bozoe and the people coming in and out and then he breaks your heart by having tra la la die in the last scene of the chapter. Mesmerizing stuff.[/QUOTE]
Of course people find it funny, the novel is dark comedy ( my personal favorite book). However, if you say that the scene with the cheese, the glass, the rat, the ex and the chainsaw is not disturbing is not disturbing or disgusting, well, then you have a few problems.
[QUOTE=benjamin_anderson]Of course people find it funny, the novel is dark comedy ( my personal favorite book). However, if you say that the scene with the cheese, the glass, the rat, the ex and the chainsaw is not disturbing is not disturbing or disgusting, well, then you have a few problems.[/QUOTE]
Seconded.
my my, what a pair of sensitive little drama queens we have here.
Anyone read anything by Christopher Brookmyre? I read a book of his about a tsunami hitting the west coast of America but I think it was actually written before the big SE Asia tsunami. It has some anti-religious themes but it's actually quite light reading.
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I've read Boiling a Frog and Not the End of the World (the one with the tidal wave).
I think he's a fairly funny and crisp writer. A little like a Scottish Carl Hiassen. But like you say - pretty light reading with his exaggerated characters and kinda sarcastic approach.
[QUOTE=dannymc]my my, what a pair of sensitive little drama queens we have here.[/QUOTE]
I'd take the time to explain how my comment was calm in nature, but right now I have to return some videotapes.
revolt of the cockroach people by oscar zeta acosta
great fucking book. for those not in the know, the 300 pound samoan attorney from fear and loathing in las vegas was based on acosta. this book features plenty of drugs, sex with minors, political violence etc.... one of my favourites.
I'm reading 'Into The Miso Soup' by Ryu Murakami and it's pretty awesome and pretty gross. Highly reccommended for anyone who hasn't read it already...
some stories from Roland Topor's [I]Four roses for Lucienne[/I] are quite strange
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[QUOTE=Wolhay][B]The Dice Man[/B], Luke Rhinehart
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i love this book so much. when i was 14 i tried to live by the dice, although i never really put any serious decisions on it.
does a clock work orange count as edgy?
Some of my favorite books are probalby 'edgy' in some way. 'Survivor' seems an obviously edgy one.
But sometimes going there for the sake of being outrageous backfires. I tried to read Robert Lasner's 'For Fucks Sake' and I just couldn't hang with it. Pointless 'edge' is boring.
Also, I don't see anyone mentioning authors like Cormac McCarthy or Toni Morrison. 'Blood Meridian' and 'Beloved' are both pretty outre in their way.
When we call soccer 'football' the terrorists have won.
[QUOTE=embaixo de]While I do love Irvine Welsh, I believe Filth is his weakest book; however, it does include the ill factor to quite a high degree.
I reccomend PZB's [I]Exquisite Corpse[/I]. Two gay serial killers who enjoy "playing" with their deceased victims reluctantly join up to kill a Vietnamese-American boy who also happens to have an insane radio host ex-boyfriend with full blown AIDS coming after him.[/QUOTE]
I agree about Exquisite Corpse.
Fucked. Up.
Irvine Welsh?