Most disturbing book you've ever read?

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Feel free to list multiples...


The painted birds, by jerzy kosinsky
Exquisite corpse, by Poppy Z. Brite

[ip#1327363045]

While being my favorite book, Jose Saramago's Blindess is actually quite disturbing, especially the asylum part. It's dark and dirty. And he wrote it without punctuation (kinda annoying and disturbing) and names. :/

[salman_1]

101 Days :A Baghdad Journal, Norwegian journalist Asne Seirstad's account of the human suffering she witnessed during the 2003 Iraq war.

[Tumi-Natura]

Cut by Patricia McCormick

[angus1960]

animal farm and 1984 by George orwell

[Jane-blue]

"Gerald's Game" - Steven King

Although he's one of my favorite writers,
this book was disturbing to me.

[loony-moonchild]

Story of O - Anne Desclos.

[Regina_Kutuzova]

brave new world

[kilgarriffe]

Story of O - Anne Desclos.

What was so disturbing about it?

[autumntales]

Lord of the Flies, The Painted Bird, Animal Farm and so on are disturbing indeed, but to me, the most disturbing books are the ones containing memories of ordinary people who suffered a lot - so, for example, Voices from Chernobyl, War's Unwomanly Face or Beyond Human Endurance: The Ravensbrück Women Tell Their Stories.

[ip#503860941478522880]

Some story by Maupassant.

[hselcukozkan]

I Spit On Your Grave by Boris Vian. It was really disturbing in many aspects.

[Megazord]

it's not a book, it's a short story: 'guts' by chuck palahniuskjslgijiorjo;gigbo;ifhthbtdjglo/k

[DuffMan_]

Electronic Circuits & Devices by Anil K maini.It was disturbing cuz I found it very hard to pass the college exam due to its complexity :P.It had to be either this or Open heart surgery for dummies :P :P.

[blue1977]

In harms way I think the author was Doug Stanton. The book tells the true story of the men that sank in the US Indianapolis. Very sad indeed.