What is the most screwed up book you have ever read?

BOOKS?

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[The Infinitely Prolonged]

Nobody's mentioned Naked Lunch yet, eh? Interesting.

[sharkmeat]

Well, if you're going to say Naked Lunch, then I'd recommend Burrough's other books, like the Wild Boys and Junky.

Off thetop of my head, I'd say American Psycho and s**t Magnet. I know American Psycho can sound a bit cliche, but this book is way too insane not to be mentioned. It was more graphic and callous than anything I've ever read.

I say s**t Magnet, which is basically Jim Goad's book about himself and the years leading up to his incarceration. It's the most brutally honest thing I've read. Regardless of whether or not I agree with everything he says, anyone who can be that unflinchingly open is most unhuman.

[botticellis venus]

kamazoth

What Happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci. It's one of my favourite books ever, but it gets really out of hand towards the end; I remember that the last chapter had me in silent shock, wide eyed and lips slightly parted as the words engulfed me. It was so not cool....But I love the book for that, and I re-read it constantly.

i didnt see anything wrong with this book when i read it. i liked it, that i remember. but its been awhile since i read it.

[Viking ZX]

I personally did not read this one, a friend told me about it. She couldn't even remember the title, but it sounded whack.

It was a fantasy about a prince and the life he leads. She said it was pretty boring for about the first half, at which point, this prince just randomly changes into a woman, and then has to deal with it.

Apparently it was way weird.

[Robotic Dream Weaver]

Lord of the Flies O.O
All of these boys get stranded on an island and start killing each other.
WTF
I know, I know, it's a classic, but I swear, that book scarred me for life.

[Coheed Beast Kilgannon]

taylorashleigh

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski screwed me up for a while. I couldn't sleep at night and ended up putting a heavy padlock on my closet.

Second

[Azrael the Harbringer]

Breaking Dawn.
Just because the main character was ready for death.

Edit: Oh oh oh, and The Devil's Footsteps by...someone I can't remember.

[Amarie]

I don't enjoy reading the sort of modern literary fiction that essentially consists of the most screwed-up characters the author can invent, so I don't have a long list... most of them are books I didn't read by choice.

I had to read One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in high school and absolutely despised it. It's about really screwed-up people in a screwed-up place and... that's about it. Then there was the kids' book I was given as part of a little activity kit for children on a transatlantic flight ten years ago. It was about a girl in Australia, or somewhere, who ended up euthanizing her own grandmother. That's pretty screwed-up for a children's book, if you ask me.

[TheAbsoluteDestiny]

The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells. I can not describe it, it's it that crazy

[MlleArtemis]

The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy which is under one of Anne Rice's psuedonyms. This is the book/series that taught me that it is not always a good idea to read anything I can get my hands on.

[Stella Cullen]

Slut Cupcake

Breaking Dawn.
Just because the main character was ready for death.

Edit: Oh oh oh, and The Devil's Footsteps by...someone I can't remember.

I disagree.

[Azrael the Harbringer]

Little MrsEdwardCullen

Slut Cupcake

Breaking Dawn.
Just because the main character was ready for death.

Edit: Oh oh oh, and The Devil's Footsteps by...someone I can't remember.

I disagree.

You might disagree, but that's fine. For three books she was asking for him to off her human life.
You can't say that's normal.

[ryokomayuka]

Acorna because of the type of abuse was in the book.

[Hoot-nanny279]

Fickin

Duke Inglewood

For me, I would have to say Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Because it is about a beautiful super model that gets her jaw shot off.

OMGILOVETHATBOOK!!!

Sorry, I love Chuck Palahniuk's work. You see Twifans who see Meyer as the goddess of literature...well, That's how I am with Palahniuk.

And if you thought that was messed up, don't ever start his book Haunted. You won't get past page 21. I guarantee it.

Urgh. I got through chapter one and that surprised me.

Hrm. Yes. Haunted.

China Men by Maxine Hong Kingston. Or at least the prologue. I read that one a looong time ago. All I really remember was the man looking for women, getting injured, the women find him, tortue him and transform him into a woman. I don't actually think that the rest of the book was that bad.... hrm....

[soren_alenko]

The Stranger by some guy with a really French sounding name. It's so horrible, it's screwed up! Zing!