Disturbing Books

[tolkienfan]

I've read a few books that disturbed me, but I don't know if they were really all that disturbing. Several books by Steven King, especially The Shining. My dad told me not to read it at night but did I listen? No. The Dante Club disturbed me a bit. VERY gruesome murders.

[Falagar]

Originally Posted by Lotesse

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.

One of her Vampire-books? Interview with the Vampire?

One of the most disturbing books I've read is probably Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand. Her worldview is...well, one of the most extreme cases of black/white-views I've ever come by.
A few scenes in Deadhouse Gates by Steven Erikson were pretty shocking. I'm not very easily shocked by literature, though.

[Lotesse]

Originally Posted by Falagar

One of her Vampire-books? Interview with the Vampire?

No, not that. It's not one of the huge bestsellers, probably because of the relentless hard-core sexual stuff, although for that reason one would think it'd be the other way around because of that, anyway...