Disturbing Books - Page 3

katya · 03-21-2003, 10:47 PM

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Originally posted by Millane
I love watership down and yes i can see how it could be seen as quite disturbing from Coneys point of view...
hmmm if rabbits are that advanced and can take on a dog who says humans are safe while were talking bout WD it doesnt actually say if General Woundwart died after taking on the dog does it?
OMG that is disturbing the general may still be alive

yeah...pretty scary. just don't start having nightmares about it though ok?

Aeryn · 03-22-2003, 04:00 AM

I might be the only one

But doesn't Hans Christian Andersson freak you out a little bit?

galadriel · 03-24-2003, 05:53 PM

I think he's more depressing than disturbing, but disturbingness factors into it. Stories like "The Little Matchgirl" leave you both sad and horrified.

Legoles · 03-24-2003, 09:37 PM

The worst one I've read is the Black Pearl

Willow Oran · 04-20-2003, 02:03 AM

Oh.... Disturbing books... Quite a few fairy tales would go under that catagorie, and so would just about anything by Edgar Allen Poe. But Two of my favorite books which are rather disturbing if you think about them are "The Things They Carried", which is a collection of short stories written by a Vietnam war veteran. He really develops the characters so that you grow attached to them and then the best ones die in really nasty ways, my favorite character in the book ended up drowning in a field of manure. But when I was little, the most disturbing story I knew was was the Hobbit, sounds strange but what happened is I had seen the movie first and being nine years old at the time remembered only the spiders and gollum, after that I refused to even consider reading anything by Tolkien for years. I've made up for the delay in this last year though.

gandalfstormcrow · 04-27-2003, 04:30 PM

The only ones I could think of disturbing would be Fahrenheit 451, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, and The Long Walk by Stephen King.

Dreran the Green · 05-01-2003, 05:44 PM

Has anyone here ever read Shade's Children by Garth Nixon? It's a futuristic sci-fi and while it isn't totally shocking and terrifying there are some very disturbing parts. I loved it though. It's set on an earth that has been taking over by overlords who breed children to use their brains in creatures of war. See? Now you're disturbed, right?

Dreran the Green · 05-01-2003, 06:57 PM

Oh, wait! I think its Garth Nix , not Nixon. Oops

claudia silver · 05-03-2003, 12:36 PM

I need to add another to my list that I have just read:

The Wars by Timothy Findley

barrelrider110 · 05-05-2003, 03:12 PM

"On the Beach" by Neville Shute. It was about the lives of poeple experiencing the slow destruction of mankind in the aftermath of a global nuclear war. As a cold-war child, the background of the story tapped into one of my biggest fears... at one point I actually believed I wouldn't live to see 17.

"The Hot Zone" the true story of the Ebola virus

"It" -- Stephen King.

"The Silmarillion" I read it as an adult, and it actually gave me nightmares.

durin's bane · 05-05-2003, 06:23 PM

I've got some more:

"Underground to Canada"--It's a book about the slavery of Negros a while back. It's at a young slave girl's point of view who's taken from her mother and is forced to live in a cotton plantation where everyone is treated like crap. Then she and her friend run away to Canada but her master's trying to chase after them and sic his dogs on her. Not as disturbing as some, but still a bit creepy, with all the discriptions on how they tortured them and stuff.

"Bridge to Terabithia"--I don't know why, it just got really, really ugly at the end.

"Holes"--This wasn't as disturbing, but some parts tended to get a bit spooky, but it's still one of my favourites.

"Your Body is Changing" pamphlet--Need I say more?

galadriel · 05-05-2003, 07:47 PM

I don't remember Holes being that disturbing, although I guess it did get a little dark at times.

The story I've read that really takes the cake is a plot summary of one of the very early Sleeping Beauty stories. Apparently, in the pre-Grimm version, Prince Charming impregnates her while she is sleeping. She is woken up by her infant child wanting to be nursed. Creepy.

sun-star · 05-06-2003, 06:57 AM

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Originally posted by galadriel
The story I've read that really takes the cake is a plot summary of one of the very early Sleeping Beauty stories. Apparently, in the pre-Grimm version, Prince Charming impregnates her while she is sleeping. She is woken up by her infant child wanting to be nursed. Creepy.

Yes, many original versions of fairy tales can be very disturbing.

Blue Scout · 06-14-2003, 06:24 PM

Some of you mentioned Irvine Welsh... I never really saw his books as very disturbing, more like funny, in a weird way, apart from Marabou Stork... until I read Porno a few months back. Trainspotting's got nothing on that one in terms of creepiness. It's also probably the best thing he's ever written.

Coney · 06-15-2003, 06:17 PM

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Originally posted by Blue Scout
Some of you mentioned Irvine Welsh... I never really saw his books as very disturbing, more like funny, in a weird way, apart from Marabou Stork... until I read Porno a few months back. Trainspotting's got nothing on that one in terms of creepiness. It's also probably the best thing he's ever written.

Hmmmm........

*Heads over to Kazza*

Shadowfax · 06-27-2003, 11:27 AM

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's pretty intense, but I really like it.

Lotesse · 08-19-2005, 09:51 PM

There was this Anne Rice book I read a few years ago, a friend of mine in Seattle lent it to me and it was so profoundly disturbing, but so impossible to put down. I'll never forget the images I got in my mind's eye from reading it, but go figure! I forgot the book's name. It was sort of like a Marquis de Sade kind of story - Anduril, you out there? That book was right up your alley.

Oh -and the Book of Revelations - creepy, disturbing stuff some of it.

Pytt · 08-20-2005, 09:22 AM

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Originally Posted by barrelrider110

"The Hot Zone" the true story of the Ebola virus

"

Yeah I know. Really scary. What things like that can do to humans..

Lotesse · 08-20-2005, 11:06 AM

Pytt, was that you're 1,000th post? Congrats, man!

"The Hot Zone" was uber-creepy, since it was talking about a very real new virus, oh man that book was disturbing...

Andúril · 08-20-2005, 11:15 AM

I don't think anything I've ever read was disturbing.

03-22-2003, 04:00 AM	#42
Aeryn Bank'ress of Sith Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: In a hot-hot place, heh Posts: 913	I might be the only one But doesn't Hans Christian Andersson freak you out a little bit? __________________ my new account name feigndeath. This one is deactivated, I think.

03-24-2003, 05:53 PM	#43
galadriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: a castle made of clouds Posts: 459	I think he's more depressing than disturbing, but disturbingness factors into it. Stories like "The Little Matchgirl" leave you both sad and horrified. __________________ Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel

03-24-2003, 09:37 PM	#44
Legoles Goddess of the evil smilies Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Somewhere where it's hot, and icky Posts: 1,587	Re: Disturbing Books The worst one I've read is the Black Pearl __________________ BTW PADFOOT LIVES!

04-20-2003, 02:03 AM	#45
Willow Oran Deus Ex Machina Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Seattle Posts: 1,951	Oh.... Disturbing books... Quite a few fairy tales would go under that catagorie, and so would just about anything by Edgar Allen Poe. But Two of my favorite books which are rather disturbing if you think about them are "The Things They Carried", which is a collection of short stories written by a Vietnam war veteran. He really develops the characters so that you grow attached to them and then the best ones die in really nasty ways, my favorite character in the book ended up drowning in a field of manure. But when I was little, the most disturbing story I knew was was the Hobbit, sounds strange but what happened is I had seen the movie first and being nine years old at the time remembered only the spiders and gollum, after that I refused to even consider reading anything by Tolkien for years. I've made up for the delay in this last year though. __________________ "5. Plain Rings with RUNES on the inside. Avoid these like the PLAGUE. -Diana Wynne Jones Tough Guide To FantasyLand ...it's not much of a show if somebody doesn't suffer, and preferably at length. Suffering is beautiful in any case, and so is anguish; but as for loathing, and bitterness... I don't think they belong on the stage at all. - Isabella, I Gelosi

05-01-2003, 05:44 PM	#47
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	Has anyone here ever read Shade's Children by Garth Nixon? It's a futuristic sci-fi and while it isn't totally shocking and terrifying there are some very disturbing parts. I loved it though. It's set on an earth that has been taking over by overlords who breed children to use their brains in creatures of war. See? Now you're disturbed, right? __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

04-27-2003, 04:30 PM	#46
gandalfstormcrow Enting Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Ridding Middle Earth of Sauron before bedtime. Posts: 58	The only ones I could think of disturbing would be Fahrenheit 451, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown, and The Long Walk by Stephen King.

05-01-2003, 06:57 PM	#48
Dreran the Green Lady of Legends Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Missing. Reward if found. Posts: 1,083	Oh, wait! I think its Garth Nix , not Nixon. Oops __________________ The end justifies the means, thought Aziraphale. And the road to Hell is paved with good intentions.* *This is not actually true. The road to Hell is paved with frozen door to door salesmen. On weekends many of the younger demons go ice-skating down it. ~Good Omens

05-03-2003, 12:36 PM	#49
claudia silver Enting Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: North West England Posts: 58	I need to add another to my list that I have just read: The Wars by Timothy Findley __________________ "The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears." Boromir

05-05-2003, 03:12 PM	#50
barrelrider110 Peer of the realm of Sanguine Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: The Hill, Marlton, NJ Posts: 798	"On the Beach" by Neville Shute. It was about the lives of poeple experiencing the slow destruction of mankind in the aftermath of a global nuclear war. As a cold-war child, the background of the story tapped into one of my biggest fears... at one point I actually believed I wouldn't live to see 17. "The Hot Zone" the true story of the Ebola virus "It" -- Stephen King. "The Silmarillion" I read it as an adult, and it actually gave me nightmares. __________________ “"I am the friend of bears and the guest of eagles. I am Ringwinner and Luckwearer; and I am Barrel-rider," Fear Complacency! ___________________ Something under the bed is drooling

05-05-2003, 06:23 PM	#51
durin's bane Lady of Westernesse Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Canada (Help! Our parliament building is melting!) Posts: 761	I've got some more: "Underground to Canada"--It's a book about the slavery of Negros a while back. It's at a young slave girl's point of view who's taken from her mother and is forced to live in a cotton plantation where everyone is treated like crap. Then she and her friend run away to Canada but her master's trying to chase after them and sic his dogs on her. Not as disturbing as some, but still a bit creepy, with all the discriptions on how they tortured them and stuff. "Bridge to Terabithia"--I don't know why, it just got really, really ugly at the end. "Holes"--This wasn't as disturbing, but some parts tended to get a bit spooky, but it's still one of my favourites. "Your Body is Changing" pamphlet--Need I say more? __________________ Yada, yada, yada

05-05-2003, 07:47 PM	#52
galadriel Elven Warrior Join Date: Aug 2001 Location: a castle made of clouds Posts: 459	I don't remember Holes being that disturbing, although I guess it did get a little dark at times. The story I've read that really takes the cake is a plot summary of one of the very early Sleeping Beauty stories. Apparently, in the pre-Grimm version, Prince Charming impregnates her while she is sleeping. She is woken up by her infant child wanting to be nursed. Creepy. __________________ Human kind cannot bear very much reality. dreamflower - for all things Lady Galadriel

06-14-2003, 06:24 PM	#54
Blue Scout Sapling Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Madly running through the fields Posts: 5	Welsh Some of you mentioned Irvine Welsh... I never really saw his books as very disturbing, more like funny, in a weird way, apart from Marabou Stork... until I read Porno a few months back. Trainspotting's got nothing on that one in terms of creepiness. It's also probably the best thing he's ever written.

06-27-2003, 11:27 AM	#56
Shadowfax The Fleet-Footed Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: British Columbia Posts: 913	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. It's pretty intense, but I really like it. __________________ Jesus saved me "To remain ignorant of things that happened before you were born is to remain a child" (Cicero, 106-43 B.C.) "Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth" (Picasso)

08-19-2005, 09:51 PM	#57
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	There was this Anne Rice book I read a few years ago, a friend of mine in Seattle lent it to me and it was so profoundly disturbing, but so impossible to put down. I'll never forget the images I got in my mind's eye from reading it, but go figure! I forgot the book's name. It was sort of like a Marquis de Sade kind of story - Anduril, you out there? That book was right up your alley. Oh -and the Book of Revelations - creepy, disturbing stuff some of it. __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Last edited by Lotesse : 08-19-2005 at 09:58 PM.

08-20-2005, 11:06 AM	#59
Lotesse of the House of Fëanor Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 6,150	Pytt, was that you're 1,000th post? Congrats, man! "The Hot Zone" was uber-creepy, since it was talking about a very real new virus, oh man that book was disturbing... __________________ Few people have the imagination for reality. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

08-20-2005, 11:15 AM	#60
Andúril The Original Corruptor Join Date: Feb 2002 Posts: 2,881	I don't think anything I've ever read was disturbing.

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