What was the most disturbing book you've ever read and did you finish it?

Question

Alphasia-I just ordered that book. Can't wait to read it.

Answer 1

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis.

That is one scarey book - not only because of the graphic descriptions of sex and violence, but the way they're described. The Psycho of the title only has one emotional tone. He talks about murdering and dismembering prostitutes, and then his record collection or the latest hip restaurant in the same flat, factual manner. ('I did X to her then she did Y to me and then we Z'ed and then I cut her head off.') Nothing really has any emotional meaning or impact for him. He's upper-middle class, well-educated, affluent, well-connected, good-looking - and completely empty inside.

Brett Easton Ellis is a very clever writer. It may be 'really' an attack on the shallowness and materialism of modern urban society, but he had me convinced that I know what it's like inside a psychopath's head.

Answer 2

the most disturbing was.. "Fatelessness" by Imre Kerstesz. It is fiction but based on real life. It is about the Holocaust and it is even worse than any of the fictional disturbing books one could read. I finished it because I always finish books, but it took me a week to get rid of the sadness...

Answer 3

I had to read this book for a detective fiction class called Birdman by Mo Hayder. It was really disturbing, about this guy who only likes to sleep with dead women, and you think he's the worst guy in the book, but then there's this other guy who likes to take the women after the first guy has killed them and put birds in their chests so they seem like they have heart beats again. It was rather gross. An interesting book though, and I did finish it.

Answer 4

It was the only book I can honestly say I never finished. In the Hand of Dante by Nick Tosches. It was an incredibly difficult read interspersed with very bizarre scenes and I could only make it halfway through. Maybe one day I will sit down and really put my mind to it and finish it. Pax - C

Answer 5

I cant remeber the title its Something Darkness,
Its the story of karla holomoka and paul bernardo told in its truest form the author got alot of trouble for publishing this book. The book goes from these two cops to the paul and karla raping and killing girls and @ the end of the book its has basically actual transcript from the trial. Its disturbing and yes i finished it.

Answer 6

HI DANIELLE,
The most disturbing book I have ever read is " THE STAND "
by Stephen King. No, I didn't finish it.......it was tooooooooo
SICK

Answer 7

120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade. I can't imagine a more disturbing book than that. I did finish it. La-Bas by Joris-Karl Huysmans is the runner up.

Answer 8

Eldest and yes, I did finish it sadly. But I cannot just not finish books.....it's a thing in my brain because I want to know all the things that happen next no matter HOW horrible it is.

Answer 9

Sara's Face. I finished it, but it was really disturbing. It was about this celebrity who had so much plastic surgery done that his face collapsed and he didnt have one anymore. So he tricked a girl into thinking he was going to make her famous, but then he actually stole her face. His crazy plastic surgeon cut it off and started sewing it on to the celebrity. Then the poilce showed up and they took the face off the man and sewed it back on the girl. I'm scarred for life!

Answer 10

The Bible Code
by Michael Drosnin

Yes, I finished it. It's disturbing to me that this flawed, biased piece of cr-- was a bestseller and people take it seriously.