This. At first, it was all "Oh man, he's in the holocaust, that sucks for him." But then, the book started to turn in to Eliezer saying "We went to another camp, met a nice overseer, nice overseer went away, we went to a new camp, also not bad" I was all "What the hell man?" Just around the time I was losing interst in the "Mundane Life of a Well-Fed Holocaust Victim," the book was all "AND THEN THEY BURNED BABIES OH MY GOD AND MY BEST FRIEND IS DEAD OH MAN I'M SUFFOCATING IN A PILE OF BODIES" I was, again, asking "What the hell man?," although in a much different, freaked out tone. Book was fucked up, but certainly a good read.
"God's Own Country" by Ross Raisin. I'm not sure what makes me feel uncomfotable about it as I have read things like it before ("The Wasp Factory" etc.), but there's this sense that something truly awful's going to happen all the way through it. I read about half of it and really could not read any more. A book has never disturbed me like that before.
Misery by Stephen King -- I started to read it, but I found it so disturbing that I couldn't finish reading it. Hannibal by Thomas Harris -- Had to read it in my Science Fiction and Horror class in college some few years back, and some of the things that went on in the story literally grossed me out. That's it.
The Painted Bird. The part where a teenager got both of his eyes removed by a farmer after flirting with his wife and the much more disturbing scene - where a whole town got pillaged by a band of soldiers who killed the males and raped the females in graphic details. I still can't believe that book was recommended by my college english teacher.
Lolita- the clinical style of the narrative makes it uncomfortable Naked Lunch- try reading it sober, but for damn sure, don't while on 'shrooms. I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream- Epic tragedy and EMO Lit. A Good Man is Hard to Find- not a book, but uncomfortable, chillingly uncomfortable reading for 3 English classes
Some of what happens in that book is a little terrifying, I agree. However, I find the way that book's written and constructed oddly beautiful. I must emphasise the "oddly" part, though.
I was never much of a reader, but lately I haven't had computer access at work so I've been blowing through paperbacks like candy. I'm reading "Black Ops" by W.E.B. Griffin, and I think it's the most uncomfortable book I've read so far. There's nothing really bad in it, he's just so damn long-winded. Takes a page and a half to describe something that should take a sentence or two, and he insists on describing everything.
the dictionary, the only time i find skids and mudflap might be smarter than me! i wush ebonics wuz in thar, cuz than i'd be more smarter.
I read a book called "The Things They Carry". It's a book about squad in the Vietnam war, but it's not about the war itself, make sense? There's this part in book where the squad is ambushed while raining, unluckly for the squad they crossed through this part of a farm where all the waste is disposed to. One of the squad member's is shot and killed, and he is just sinking into the ground. One of his buddies couldnt pull him out, so the guy just kept sinking and sinking, they couldnt recover the body. I dont mean to include a pun, but it was a really shitty way to die. I don't know if it was a true story, and that wasnt the point of reading it, but the author made it feel real.
I was originally the other way around. Hated the film and loved the book. The film grew on me. Hannibal Rising, the prequel/sequel/whatever-the-hell-it-is, was an attrocious book and a mediocre film.
I read that in school twice. Once as part of a project, again to actually read it properly. It is slightly disturbing. Mostly because of when he has to leave his father.
Dude, you fuckin nailed it! Otherwise the only book that made me uncomfortable was the one my wife threw at me back on 99'
Yes, especially some of the things that happened towards the end of the book. I also watched the movie in the same Sci-Fi/Horror class, since we compared/contrasted the book and film. Quite surprisingly, I had no problem watching the movie; in fact, I was able to tolerate it.
