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What are some of the most disturbing books you've ever read?

>> No.17468164

PS i'm trans so no bigot shit

>> No.17468167

>>17468164
kys

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17468169

>>17468131

>> No.17468177

There was this really sick feminist lgbt book that I don't want to advertise for but it was a bunch of nauseating perverted stories about children (preteens) having sex and how this is great and liberating.

>> No.17468178

Last Exit to Brooklyn is up there.

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>>17468131
>>17468164

>> No.17468233

>>17468131
My diary desu
>>17468164
Jump off a hotel roof in Athens tranny

>> No.17468239
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>> No.17468274

the girl next door easily

>> No.17468291

>>17468131
The Magic Mountain. It’ll disturb the very foundations of your belief about belief.

>> No.17468294

>>17468239
What does ritual in this case mean?

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>>17468164

>> No.17468312

Call of the Crocodile.

>> No.17468319

>>17468164
my man sticking it to the bigots! Good on you dude! Keep at it bro!

>> No.17468336

>>17468178
The Room is supposed to be very disturbing as well

>> No.17468342

>>17468304
>hnnnng colonel, I'm trying to sneak past the guards, but the clap of my boibewbs keeps giving me away. What should I do!?

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>>17468131

>> No.17468364

>>17468294
Any sort of cult rituals, Satanic, weirdo christian, whatever kind of cults do this stuff.

>> No.17468372

>>17468343
How do apples poop?

>> No.17468377

>>17468372
read it and find out. You will never look at an apple the same way.

>> No.17468387
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>> No.17468416

>>17468131
my diary desu

>> No.17468446

programmed to kill

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>>17468342
>What should I do

>> No.17468503

>>17468446
Based.

I read it from a recommendation in an earlier edition of this thread and it was worth it. Even if I think the author doesn't quite manage to satisfyingly wrap it all up in one whole theory or narrative there are so many Emperor's new clothes moments and mini-conspiracies laid bare in that book.

Does anyone have a recommendation on a book in that vein that specializes on the Manson case?

>> No.17468576

>>17468503
The Family by Ed Sanders influenced Programmed to Kill.

>> No.17468749

>>17468503
Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties came out recently and i've heard it talked up a lot, maybe too much. could be disinfo but i haven't read it yet to find out.

>> No.17468790

>>17468178
How bad we talking?

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It’s about a kid that gets eaten alive by a crocodile. The writer goes into extreme detail and the family starts to go insane and haunted by an anthropomorphic crocodile. I’m not making this up. This is the basic premise and it gets much weirder. Book is balls to the wall batshit insane.

>> No.17468908

>>17468859
Ok, you have my interest piqued (not OP).

>> No.17468945

>>17468364
why do people get into this stuff? they're mostly well-off too. has to be about initiation and in-group reinforcement of richoids, surely? there's way too much cult shit.

>> No.17468951

>>17468945
Because they're sick fucks? A lot of them are born into it too.

>> No.17468959

>>17468951
i wish magic really existed so we could fight them with our good magic :))

>> No.17468986

>>17468945
money, sex, power

>> No.17468990

>>17468959
You wouldn't want to sell your soul for all worldly delights?

>> No.17469000

>>17468945
Some of them are done for political/military reasons.
See >>17468446

>> No.17469003

>>17468859
This probably get my vote, too. I can't think of a weirder horror story.

>> No.17469012

>>17468239
How much of this is based on “recovered” memories?

>> No.17469029

>>17468990
i don't believe in worldly or otherworldly delights. really makes you realise they don't know what they're doing and are as much a herd-follower as the lowest peon.

>>17469012
>“recovered” memories?
isn't this disinfo to delegitimise victims of pedo networks?

>> No.17469034

>>17468859
Have you read Call of the Cradle? It starts off with the same kid, except as a baby watching his mother get burned alive by a leprechaun.

>> No.17469040

>>17469012
At the beginning of the book there's a warning that if anything suspicious happens to the authors they'll release names.

>> No.17469043

>>17468859
>>17469034
why does this keep getting spammed? someone here wrote it, right? it's bad, right?

>> No.17469056

>>17469029
>isn't this disinfo to delegitimise victims of pedo networks?
Yes

>> No.17469059

>>1746904
Yeah. They’re by some anon from here. His books have a lot of grammar errors. Mostly unnecessary commas. It’s so jammed jack with imaginative scenes that I don’t really mind them.
It’s kind of like The Room. Poorly made in the technical sense. But holy shit is it entertaining.

>> No.17469071

>>17468164
Faggit

And the one about Jewish people and their disgusting plan to take over the world.

>> No.17469075

>>17469059
Whoops. Meant to quote >>17469043

>> No.17469088

>>17469043
No. They’re fucking amazing.

>> No.17469119

>>17469040
i think info is controlled/centralised enough these days that it wouldn't be a problem to kill them and suppress the affair altogether.

which means they didn't give any info that's particularly dangerous, such as the names and places, or the book isn't popular/credible enough for it matter.

odd that the psychological techniques for controlling someone and stripping them down are evidently quite mature and well-practiced, at least applied to children, and have been for decades yet we get none of it in common knowledge. instead it's more like a myth.

>> No.17469135

>>17468859
>>17469034
>>17469088
epub links? Who's got them?

>> No.17469156

>>17469135
I read them on Unlimited.

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>>17468164

>> No.17469209

>>17469119
>which means they didn't give any info that's particularly dangerous, such as the names and places, or the book isn't popular/credible enough for it matter.
The author writes books for therapists who are working with ritual abuse survivors, it's more focused on that than the perpetrators themselves.

>> No.17469223

>>17468859
this has my vote. it's also by a resident /lit/izen who has the smile and dimples of a cherub.

>> No.17469295

>>17468387
just looked this one up. this looks really interesting, adding it to my list.

>> No.17469313

>>17468790
Has short stories dealing with rape, addiction, domestic violence. Just a collection of scummy dirty scenarios that are absolutely bleak.

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>> No.17469504

>>17469135
They're free if you have kindle unlimited.

>> No.17469574

>>17469313
That sounds tame as hell.

>> No.17469593

>>17468859
>>17469034

Holy kek. This sounds incredible.

>> No.17469603

>>17469574
These threads are always disappointing. Someone trolled me into reading Ligotti's CAHR and it turned out to be pretty tame as well.

>> No.17470085

>>17468446
This this this

>> No.17470122

>>17469029
>isn't this disinfo to delegitimise victims of pedo networks?
Fuck no, people have false memories even without psychologists asking leading questions while the patient is in a suggestive state, look at the Mandela effect.

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Read it and tell me you're honestly not shaken to your core

>> No.17470194

>>17468164
good job baiting all these chuds anon, trans rights forever

>> No.17470491

>>17470191
Link to a PDF of it please?

>> No.17470501
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>>17470491
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8
Just don't say you weren't warned

>> No.17470515

>>17470501
Thank you!

>> No.17470635
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Made me really anxious; was really "scared" about what could happen to the girl

>> No.17470661

>>17468959
>>17468990
If you go down the rabbit hole, there is. Before you know it good magic is just dremeling the old style Papal Cross, Keone Greek, and Alchemical Sun symbols into the bolt carrier group of an FN FAL.

>> No.17470705

>>17470515
Spoilers: it's not actually disturbing, he's just shilling his book.
It's pretty good, though.

>> No.17470785

>>17469029
No, it’s a real phenomena that happens with memory, started with alien abductions (and ironically Scientology uses this to a huge effect with their past abuse ) but spread to to cult and sexual abuse.

There is very good reason to be highly sceptical of any claims whose only or best evidence consists in recovered memories.

>> No.17470791

>>17469040
That doesn’t really answer my question, are they mainly relying on recovered memories or not ?

>> No.17470819

>>17468131
Buddhist scriptures. They're not bad in themselves, but I read them at a time I was becoming mentally unstable and misunderstanding the notion of emptiness almost drove me insane. Yes, I was later diagnosed with mild schizophrenia.

>> No.17470821

>>17468131
Hogg, easily.

>> No.17470961

>>17470515
>>17470705
I read it too, and I for one was disturbed.
Spoiler: the dezzy

>> No.17471090

>>17470819
Story time? We must know.

>> No.17471134

>>17471090
Another anon here- id like to hear more as well

>> No.17471515

>>17468131
when rabbit howls. couldn't finish it

>> No.17471799

>>17470191
> Doesn't mention he wrote the book
Way to advertise your shit faggot

>> No.17471877

>>17468859
>>17468908
>>17469003
>>17469034
>>17469043
>>17469088
>>17469135
>>17469156
>>17469504
>>17469593
>>17469223
Good job Gardner, you sure got them

>> No.17471903

>>17468164
Wouldn't that make it more disturbing?

>> No.17471932

>>17471799
What if he didn't write the book?
I'm gonna recommend The Hound of the Baskervillies. Am I actually really Arthur Conan Doyle?

>> No.17472142

>>17468343
The Horror

>> No.17472233

>>17470785
but it is easy to verify memories by comparing them to other information, which these cases always do. someone knows something they couldn't know without experiencing it. pushing this point is literally a tactic to delegitimise victims of abuse, whether or not memories are fickle. high stress memories are certainly not fickle anyway.

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>>17471877
>Surely they are all F. Gardner

>> No.17473999

>>17472949
Yes, they're all F. Gardner

>> No.17474062

>>17473999
You need a new script, schizo. Another anon on here was suggesting that they're all his friends and family. That's at least semi-believable. Guy has been running 4chan ads for months. The notion that advertising works is much more believable than a conspiracy where 1 man is behind everything.

>> No.17474081
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The discomfort of evening. It’s fucking relentlessly miserable and perverted. It’s also incredible.

for contemporary fiction its outsider narrative absolutely works in its favour to make it not only bearable in it’s contemporaneousness but also a genuinely effective piece of lit.

>> No.17474737

>>17468177
story of the eye?

>> No.17475174

>>17474737
No not that one. Some book with a creepy doll on the cover.

>> No.17475190

>>17471903
Based

>> No.17475248

John W. DeCamp - The Franklin Cover-up Child Abuse, Satanism, and Murder in Nebraska

i see a lot attention seeking going on

>> No.17476219

>>17468164
>>17468131
fuck yes trans rights go brrrrr

>> No.17476241

>>17468164
"you will never pass"
author: God Himself
Laws of Nature editions.

>> No.17476435

>>17474737
>story of the eye
Georges Bataiile is neither feminist nor LGBT, get better reading comprehension.

>> No.17476480

>>17472233
Let’s not work backwards here anon you aren’t being a religious bigot when you question the validity of Scientology auditing as evidence of past life experiences and trauma and you arent delegitimising victims when you question the validity of recovered memories as proof of abuse.

Memory recovery despite its common use in fiction is not a reliable or verified concept - indeed your own point works against high stress memories aren’t fickle yet remain completely hidden until a person is put under semi hypnotic and suggestive conditions and prompting.

Secondly the issue is that it tends to fail in the verification part which is why it’s a bad sign when they form the best or only evidence. I mean take a look at the demonstrated examples of systemic sexual abuse - whether it is the Catholic Church, the jehovas wittnesses or children in state care compare the evidence in those compared to that in recovered memories

>> No.17476693

The argentinian Nunca más.

>> No.17476707

I still have not recovered from the
broomstick butt rape to death in 2666. Shattered my mental health. It's been over a decade

>> No.17476741

>>17476707
Bolaño sucks. Read Ernesto Sabato.

>> No.17476744

>>17475174
Tell me please.

>> No.17477647

>>17476741
Thanks for the rec

>> No.17477923

>>17470705
Can someone post it? im not paying for some anon's book but im willing to give it a read

>> No.17477933

>>17468164
So if you weren't trans bigot shit would be okay

>> No.17478399

>>17469034
Just spent the past few hours reading this. Liked it a lot. Thanks for the rec. Why doesn't this get talked about as much as Call of the Crocodile?

>> No.17478447

>>17468164
LMAO THAT BAIT, THEY REALLY CANT HELP THEMSELF, FUCKING WHITES :D

>> No.17479880

>>17468131
joker diary slash book of jokes

>> No.17479883

>>17468164
stop being trans

>> No.17479900

>>17468131
Dostoevsky's The Double

>> No.17479919

>>17468343
>>17468372
>>17468377
kek

>> No.17479969

>>17469043
Every positive post you'll see about this book is one guy spamming it.

>> No.17479994

>>17468164
based thread derailer

>> No.17479996

>>17479969
Not true I've never read it but I've shilled it before for fun

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>>17479996
>No guys, not true at all! It's not me, I've read it and it's good, believe me.

>> No.17481086

>>17480055
His books have like 100 total reviews, dude. You're really sticking to the story that it's all just him?

>> No.17481116 [DELETED] 

>>17468446
Based, although many of the author's claims could be seen as reaching

>> No.17481143

>>17468387
I tried reading this a few years ago and ended up getting sick (not because of the book itself) and had tons of fever dreams thanks to it, I had to throw it out after I vomited on it

>> No.17481316

>>17481116
some of it definitely is, imo the best and most concrete segment of the book was the one on organized child abuse. i really wish the author had lived to see the epstein stuff go down.

>> No.17481332

The Shock Doctrine fucked me up for weeks

>> No.17481336

>>17468131
my dairy desu moo

>> No.17481369

>>17468291
I started that a while ago but got distracted and only got a couple chapters in. I’ll definitely pick it up again now. Thanks, anon.

>> No.17481428

I’ve been on a sci-fi kick lately. Not through the whole books, but Clarke’s “Childhood’s end” and Watts’s “Blindsight” both really shook me at the end. Especially Watts painting the picture that sentience is an aberration that natural selection would or should eventually weed out and that not only would peace with a non sentient alien be impossible, the mere act of communication would be taken as an act of aggression.

>> No.17481463

>>17468131
Thanks For The Memories - Brice Taylor

>> No.17482432

>>17474062
gardner made the meme and now people repeat it. they don't like it and haven't read it, but it has currency as a meme so they go along with it.

>> No.17483198

>>17468131
Reparative therapy of male homosexuality, really made me furious as to how this shit is normalise when all of them have very fucked up childhoods

>> No.17483335
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>>17468131
It becomes disturbing near the middle of the book.

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>>17469043
it's horrible. the writing is worse than the average post here. I read the preview on amazon and got to pic related. I immediately killed myself. now I shitpost from the afterlife. there is an afterlife, by the way.

>> No.17483743

>>17470635
Are there translations to this, desu?

>> No.17483942

Unironically for me it's Jude the Obscure.

If you want to watch a hopeful, optimistic young man be slowly and painfully destroyed by a cold, callous world until not only everything he loves, but even his principles and his character lay crushed before him, give it a read.

By the time Sue finds the children dead in the wardrobe in the shitty inn they've managed to get for the night, it came as close as any piece of art ever has to breaking me emotionally.

>> No.17483983

>>17483942
Yeah, that novel is some real shit. Every young /lit/oid should read it to know the dangers out there

>> No.17483994

>>17483198
Based, this was mentioned on TDS recently

>> No.17484079

>>17468164
don't say that, you'll only make the hivemind seethe more and do the exact opposite of what you want

>> No.17484152

>>17474081
>Written by a women
Yeah, I'm gonna pass

>> No.17484158

>>17484079
you've just been double bluffed

>> No.17485597

>>17468169
Based

>> No.17485695
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The Fall of Jerusalem by Hermann Nitsch was uniquely disturbing. Its formatted for the most part as a list of descriptions of pageants happening in an ever expansive cave network, with thousands being slaughtered or pigs being herded and sucked off to the chorus of children and flutes, for hundreds of pages, interspersed with poetry and rambling stream-of-consciousness dialogues.

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HOGG
I can assure you won't ever read something as disgusting as this. All the descritions of rapings and beating women, eating shit and drinking piss and dick cheese, just over and over again. Putting a nail into your own penis then going on a shooting spree. Also all told from a 12 year old who constantly raped. It's also oddly enchanting and the author is excellent.
>>17474081
thanks anon added it to the list

>> No.17485868

>>17476707
https://youtu.be/fRLPDryStMo
Yay

>> No.17485959

>>17485868
rep

>> No.17486805

>>17483491
lmao

>> No.17486851

>>17483491
jesus lol

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Read this (free on Kindle, it's like 90 mins max) and tell me you're honestly not shaken to your core by the end.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08TGBGGF8

>> No.17486906

>>17468131
It's not THE most disturbing but Not Wanted on the Voyage was pretty fucked up in parts.

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He's just so fucking hungry. The mother fucker is insatiable. eats like 500% of his own body weight and still wants more. shits positively chilling.

>> No.17486918

>>17471134
>>17471090
Different anon but I also went down bad paths in life because in an effort to be open minded and well rounded or whatever, i tried embracing tenets of buddhism and got all hung up on backwards idiocy about live mummification, extreme self denial, ego death (durqs lol), detachment, retarded stuff really. Yeah maybe you'll say that's not real buddhism but that's what you find of it when you look into it from a western perspective and are also an under achieving twenty-teenage pseud.
Self abuse is never good, but it's especially toxic if you can convince yourself it's the path to true enlightenment.

>> No.17487003

>>17485820
the nail in the penis part was when I had to stop reading. that shit was just too fucked. i know the other shit in the novel is much worse morally speaking but goddamn anything to do with dick mutilation just fucks me up

>> No.17487029

>>17474081
I've been meaning to get around to reading this. Won the booker prize last year as well.

>> No.17487037
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this but on an existential level

>> No.17487916

>>17487003
There's a guy in real life who actually did that. He had an illness that gave him chronic pain and decided to push himself to the extremes of pain just to show that he was still the master of his life.

>> No.17487941

>>17470122
>people have false memories even without psychologists asking leading questions
You're correct that this can happen, but it's absolutely not the case that someone can convince you that you were raped. You can be suggestively brought to think that some events happened in reverse order and that someone was there who wasn't there, but you can't turn "oh well it was kinda creepy" into "they held me down and cut a pig open above me"

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>> No.17487992

>>17487037
Second this

kids are pretty fucked up

>> No.17488056

>>17483491
B a s e d

>> No.17488423

>>17468131
gorky my childhood where -spoiler- his uncle gets under the covers with his wife and beats her to death. had to kind of, stop and ponder that one for a moment.

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>>17468131
Maldoror, Tomb for 500.000 Soldiers and Eden, Eden, Eden are my top picks.
Guyotat is a master at writing disgusting shit.
Maldoror is just legendary.

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>>17486912
Hnnggnnggng every time I see that fucking curvy caterpillar I get a painful boner

>> No.17488646

The short story Sleep by Anton Chekhov.

>> No.17488655

>>17485820
Just finished reading this.
It got kinda stale after the first rape.

>> No.17488874

>>17470122
>>17470785
it is indeed a genome that happens however it's suspicious that your first instinct was to immediately defend the pedos.

>> No.17488910

>>17481428
kek your brain on brainlettist atheist philosophy.

>> No.17488918

>>17485820
litteraly the ridiculous fetishes of a ridiculous man if you want more like this literally read my diary desu

>> No.17488939

The White People by Arthur Machen

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>>17468164
KYS