what is the most messed up book you have ever read??

Answer 1

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita. Not only did I see through the eyes of Herbert, but there were moments when I was sickeningly empathetic. The book made me feel slimy, but it was so d*** brilliant that I return to it over and over for inspiration anytime I'm writing in 1st person

Answer 2

My friend gave me the book Donnerjack by Zelazny and Lindskold a few years ago and told me to read it. That has to be the strangest, most twisted book I have ever read. And the thing is, I can't forget it! It's been about four years since I read it, and I still can't completely forget that book! It was pretty good though, for a messed up book.

Answer 3

My first instinct was to say Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs, but then I saw someone else put Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Yeah, I don't think there's much more messed up than that. A Clockwork Orange was not messed up, I'm sorry. If you want messed up, WSB has them all beat. Then again, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe was pretty weird too.

Answer 4

Two votes here, one for James Joyce's Finnegan's Wake. The other for a Nabokov novel whose name I can't thiink of and whose plot depends on the messed up order in which you are supposed to read the chapters. You can also read them in regular order. I think you finish the book in the middle! No wonder I don't remember the plot.Must have been in the late 60s! I could google it but I'm too lazy right now. Of course, I read it because it was so different.

Answer 5

I don't think this qualifies as messed up but the book Wicked The Life And Times of The Wicked Witch of The West by Gregory Maguire. There is a broadway but I didnt like it the book was ten times better."Wicked" is a richly woven tale that takes us to the other, darker side of the rainbow as novelist Gregory Maguire chronicles the Wicked Witch of the West' s odyssey through the complex world of Oz -- where people call you wicked if you tell the truth. Years before Dorothy and her dog crash-land, another little girl makes her presence known in Oz. This girl, Elphaba, is born with emerald-green skin -- no easy burden in a land as mean and poor as Oz, where superstition and magic are not strong enough to explain or to overcome the natural disasters of flood and famine. But Elphaba is smart, and by the time she enters the university in Shiz, she becomes a member of a charmed circle of Oz' most promising young citizens. Elphaba' s Oz is no utopia. The Wizard' s secret police are everywhere. Animals -- those creatures with voices, souls and minds -- are threatened with exile. Young Elphaba, green and wild and misunderstood, is determined to protect the Animals -- even it means combating the mysterious Wizard, even if it means risking her single chance at romance. Even wiser in guilt and sorrow, she can find herself grateful when the world declares her a witch. And she can even make herself glad for that young girl from Kansas. In "Wicked," Gregory Maguire has taken the largely unknown world of Oz and populated it with the power of his own imagination. Fast-paced, fantastically real and supremely entertaining, this is a novel of vision and re-vision. Oz never will be the same again.You can find preveiws of the chapters type in wicked on google book search. The follwup of that book is Son of A witch. Believe me this book is very twisted it will make you think.

Answer 6

I would say the book that messed me up was "Nineteen Eighty Four" by George Orwell. It is very scary and reads like freaking current events. I haven't looked at the world the same way since I read it. I would say it definitely took some of my innocence away and could be the root of my current nihilistic attitude. It is a good book though I dunno if I would recommend it to anyone.
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Answer 7

I don't know if I would call it messed up but "first one foot now the other" was pretty touching, enough so to make my coworkers cry when I was reading it to my 3 year olds. Also "I'll always love you" about the life and death of a dog and it was also geared for preschoolers. some sad stuff out there for our children to read

Answer 8

I'm currently reading "The Road" by Cormac McCarthy. A "postapocalyptic tour de force." It's bleak, sad and incredibly mind-numbing. This book contains no glimmer of hope.

Also, "Story of the Eye" by Georges Bataille "It is unashamedly surrealistic, both disgusting and fascinating, and packed with seemingly endless violations."

Answer 9

Jane Urquhart's The Stone Carvers
it's just
terrible.

Answer 10

I forget the author of the book, but the title of the book was "The Jewels of Tessa Kent" and that book was awful! My sister checked it out from the library and thought it was some great work of literature and i started to read it and it sucked so bad i only would flip through it, and it was horrible!