/lit/ - Literature

Daved Hanlon (Doilin Mellar) trying to cut Elayne Trakand's babies out of her stomach then beheading Birgitte.

Mormons have issues.

Kafka's In the Penal Colony made me feel pretty uncomfortable.

Same with the guy being tortured in The Trial.

First time reading Sade was sort of "well, alright".

Tralala's gang-rape scene in Last Exit to Brooklyn was horrible. It was suffocating and really hard to get through, and the way it's written, that long-ass sentence running for like 3 pages, no commas or anything, fuck that was horrible.

The dream scene of the horse being beaten in Crime and Punishment stuck with me more than any other part of the book.

Dont laugh, but the mutilation stuff in Dearly Devoted Dexter.

The scene where the main character's brother gets his leg cut off by a train in the Motel Life.

Most of Child of God.

The descriptions of the homeless guy/girl's sometimes literally shitty surroundings in Infinite Jest.

And as hackneyed as it is the short story about the masturbating guy and the swimming pool in Chuck P's Haunted.

The part in American Psycho when Patrick cuts open the homeless guy's eyes.

>>3701311
>Kafka's In the Penal Colony made me feel pretty uncomfortable.
Yeah.

Blowfly Girl

Although strangely erotic, but rather disturbing.

All of The Consumer by Michael Gira

>>3701783
I didn't know Gira wrote. Is it any good?

That village rape in in R Scott Bakker's "The Warrior Prophet"

and Severian's lunch with Thecla in Book of the New Sun

>>3701804
Yeah, he's got two short story collections. In terms of content, they're pretty much exactly what you'd expect them to be. Quality wise, I don't know, it depends on how easily disgusted you are. If you can stomach it, it's pretty great. Also, if you like Swans, you'll probably like his writing too.

>>3701278
>humbert humbert jacking off while lolita sat on his lap

also

>the scene in wind-up bird chronicle where the guy gets skinned alive

>>3701820
I'm into guro so I can stomach pretty much anything I think. I hope.
Will check it out.

>>3701810
>gene wolfe

mahnigga.jpg

The Temple of Minos in the Egyptian is haunting.

The father in Pet Semetery digging up the body of his baby boy because he'd rather his son live with him as a zombie than live without him.

The rape scene in The Kite Runner and also many dark scenes from asoiaf, like one of the duels. You know which one

Gay high on junk necophilic pedophilic Moroccan/Interzone hanging in Naked Lunch

LET JESUS FUCK YOU

In the Swedish book "Ingen återvändo"(No Return,) there's a scene where this girl is getting raped by three guys, that was pretty fucked up.

Can't remember which novel it was, it was by Irvine Welsh who I don't really like, but it was when they used some diagonal pliers to cut the legs off of a watchdog. Not even that well written, maybe, but it was a pretty sick image.

At the end of "Brave New World" when John hangs himself because he cannot understand why people want to live in an artificial world!

"...By far the worst is the hamburger lady, and because of shortage right now
of 'qualified technicians', e.g. technicians who can work with her and keep
their last meal down, Screwloose Lauritzen and I have been alternating
nights with her, unrelievedly. If you put a 250-lb meatloaf in the oven
and then burned it and then followed that by propping it up on a potty-chair
to greet you at 11pm each night, you would have some description of these
past two weeks. Which is to say the worst I seen since viet napalms. When
somebody tells you that there is a level of pain beyond which the human mind
cannot retain consciousness, please tell them to write me. In point of fact
this lady has not slept more than 3-5 minutes at a stretch since she came to
us - that was over two weeks ago and, thanks to medical advances, there is
no end in sight; from the waist (waste?) up everything is burned off, ears,
nose etc - lower half is untouched and that, I guess, is what keeps her
alive. I took one guy in to help me change tubes and he did alright, that
is alright till he came out, then he spotted one of the burn nurses
(pleasant smiling zombies) eating a can of chile-mac at the desk, and that
did it: he flashed on the carpet. It is fucking insane is what it is."

half of blood meridian

The opening description of Robert-Francois Damiens' execution in Focault's Discipline and Punish.

>>3701278
The last scene in Philosophy in The Bedroom. If you can believe it I had to read it for a class.

I recall a book, I can't remember the name or author, the story was about a guy who started a porn magazine business... he meets a young girl... she has desires but her religious beliefs deny her to satisfy these desires...

so at her church one day she is called to the front... wearing a robe with nothing beneath and soon then disgarding said robe, she lays on the floor where the priest and acolytes take a glass dildo or something that is hooked up to an electrical current and then they go to town on her

at another part of the book a young gay man goes to a party with other gay men... the main character finds out and goes to rescue him as the party is a sadist party... he finds young man on drugs and all messed up with a 10" dildo or something...

I stopped reading after that

The entirety of John Dies at The End.

>The Kindly Ones
The chapter towards the end that consists of Aue's fantasies about raping his sister and eating her shit ... kinda fucked up.

Is from a book named El Inquilino (The Inquiline) from Guido Tamayo. I think the book is not translated.

Anyways, the main character is fail writer in Barcelone that is dying from lung cancer due to heavy smoking (two packages a day during 50 years). He lives in a very little apartment with almost none luxury. The apartment have a little kitchen and two rooms (but he only uses one). In that room (that is his bedroom/study room) he only have a mattress, a little desk and his writing maquine. Anyways, the room is called "The Yellow Room". Why? Apparently the walls have a yellowish shadow due to the nicotine that dye the wallpaper. And, of course, the mattress that I asume should smell like absynth.

The only think of the smell of The Yellow Room makes me sick.

All of the dog torture in Hubert Selby, Jr.'s "The Room," I had to put the book away for a while after reading that chapter.

I got a boner right at the part in American Psycho where he tells the girl to eat out the other one's ass, because that's my fetish. I masturbated to the thought of it, then felt really, really bad when I read what happened next.

Pretty much all of Naked Lunch

>>3703056
>Lesbian rimjob fetish

I know that feel, bro.

Battle Royale.

You know the scene I'm talking about.

Anything Alan Ginsberg ever wrote qualifies if I assume that you are saying "literature" in the /lit/ sense, that is, you are including all writing as a whole.

The chapter in American Psycho where Bateman has sex with the 2 prostitutes made me feel sick when I was reading it.
There were other chapters that made me feel squeamish, but that one definitely affected me the most.
Definitely one of the best novels I've ever read, just for that.

>>3701853
>>3703069

Seconding the kid getting fucked by a monster while getting his neck snapped. 3edgy

>>3701847
>The rape scene in The Kite Runner
wtf, isn't that a youth fiction book? i remember girls reading that in middle school. i thought piggie getting his head smashed in lord of the flies was taking it far for kids books.

>>3703310
You think all of Ginsberg's writing is unpleasant and disturbing?

>>3701571
this.

The incest semi rape scene from Flowers In The Attic when her brother attacks her.

too detailed for a 15 year old.

>>3703465
Let me just mention that I am no longer 15, I read that when I was 15. lol
I'm 21 now.

chuck palahniuk's haunted - the infamous short story, Guts.

Humbert Humbert killing the porn director in the slow, gruesome manner. It was just insane to be present in that room for so long. Also the murders by noël in 'The rumors' by Hugo Claus. This fucked up cunt stuck the corner of a butcher knife into someone's eye and crucified a poor fucker.

>>3703467
>lol
>I'm 21 now.
I weep for blah blah blah.

The infanticide & child murder in Pop Squad, along with general disregard of life.

There's a scene in The Wasp Factory which deeply unnerved me when I read it as a teenager.

It involves a child in a semi-vegetative state with Acalvaria, having maggots consuming his brain.

>>3703384
It has an 8 year old boy being raped by a 12 year old boy in it, and the narrator watching and doing nothing.

I think it's aimed at adults. Pleb adults, but adults all the same.

That horse being whipped in Crime And Punishment, which is also mentioned in The Brothers Karmazov but not in such detail.

Also, when those kids in TBK feed that dog with glass or whatever it was, I forget.

That scene from The Buddha of Suburbia where the protagonist and his girlfriend visit their boss from the theatre and swap partners with him and his wife and the boss buggers the protagonist as well if I recall correctly.

>>3702974
David Wong pls go

the part in madame bovary where the guy's leg gets fucked up because of homais's bullshit idea

i cringed so hard

Bit in bros. Karamazov where the kid shows up at the sick boys house with a dog, seemingly just to torment him.

But then...

The nemesis of the book went into a brothel and he hired a boy and a girl. The boy rimmed the nemesis and l can't remember what was the girls role, likely just blew his load on her.

Later in the same book the protagonist gets drugged by the nemesis and the nem' fucks the prog's girlfriend in front of her (she had faked the relationship all the way too). Then the nemesis fucks the prog' in the ass.

The bottle rape in The Painted Bird

The stoning the baby to death scene in Saved by Edward Bond

>>3703600
That was pretty shitty

The part in Steppenwolf, near the end, where he first describes wolfs acting like men and men acting like wolfs. Got pretty intense.

>>3703601
It looks like Bataille, sounds like Bataille.. but it's not Bataille.

The rape of the innkeeper's daughter, as told, in a clash of kings was pretty brutal.

>>3703601
what book was this?

Hemingway´s short story Natural History Of The Dead. Horrible.

i read prince of thorns pretty recently, it was ok, but the way that the main character would casually rape women, the same he would talk about hanging with his brothers, was kinda fucked up

>>3703826
by Eric Lustbader ---- book is The Ninja

They is Us

There's a scene where a guy who lost his penis fucks a girl in the ass with his big toe.

Well, the characters coming across the baby-eaters not long after seeing them with a pregnant woman in "The Road" was pretty disturbing.

Hogg by Delaney and Cows by Stokoe.

>>3701311
>Kafka's Penal Colony

It doesn't even have to go that gory in detail and it's still more disturbing than most of the brutal descriptions mentioned in this thread.

Subtlety is key.

>>3703384
Piggy's head being crushed and when the boys hunted the sow both really made me uncomfortable.
Maybe I read too far into it, but it almost sounded like they fucked the pig when they caught it.

history books

try some

>>3705742
In high school my class was reading aloud from a world history textbook about the Crusades. It went something like this:

"Thousands of Muslims and Jews were slaughtered in the First Crusade. The success of the First Crusade was... blah blah blah..."

Then I felt disgusted with myself when I thought the immense failure of the Children's Crusade was kind of funny.

I would cite it if I could, but it's been a while and there are too many textbooks called "World History."

The part in Against the Grain when Des Esseintes goes to a dentist to get a tooth removed. It's revolting.

>A snapping sound was heard, the molar had broken while being extracted. It seemed that his head was being shattered, that his skull was being smashed; he lost his senses, howled as loudly as he could, furiously defending himself from the man who rushed at him anew as if he wished to implant his whole arm in the depths of his bowels, brusquely recoiled a step and, lifting the tooth attached to the jaw, brutally let him fall back into the chair.

The dinner and the meeting with the prostitute at the Underground Man's house in Dostoyevsky's Notes from Underground

This thread is so typically liberal arts. You've all been convinced by feminazis that rape is so horrible and traumatic. Truth is it's not that bad. Stop falling for the sob stories of ugly women who were probably glad someone had finally taken notice of them.

>>3705783
there's rape and then there's RAPE. i don't think it's squeemish to be appalled by the latter.

>>3705822
Nope. All rape in consensual until the woman regrets it. Don't fall for conniving feminazis. They'll do anything for sympathy and special treatment.

>>3705753
>your ancestors are evil, you must repent!
You just summed up all of western public education in the past 40 years.

>>3705783
the rape happened to your mother, how do you feel now?
Don't be edgy like that, no one buys it.

>>3705844
I think I cut myself on your edge.

The fucking basement scene from The Road was rough.

>>3705844

>>3705871
>the rape happened to your mother, how do you feel now?
My dicks still a little sore but I think I'll be alright.

I've read most of the things mentioned in this thread, but the most.....sickening thing, if that's the word, is the scene in Graceland (Chris Abani) where Elvis walks in on his cousin being raped by her father. I've read plenty of rape scenes, but...ugh there's this line. She's lying there, with her father "grunting away between her legs" and she's biting her lip, and she whimpers when Elvis sees her. I nearly puked right there. I just left the book down, walked out of the library, and I haven't gone back to read anymore of it.

It's probably nothing particularly rough, but lip biting is something I've always associated with pleasure, as is the sound I hear in my head when I picture the scene. And that makes it worse, I can't tell if she's meant to be at that fucked up stage of child abuse where she "enjoys it" or whatever, or just.......argh i can't even talk about it /lit/

:(

>>3705899
I wish that someone would chain you to a toilet and shit into your edgy mouth until you died from ingesting human shit.

In most recent memory, the scene in No Longer Human where he sees his wife being raped/fucked in his house and just goes upstairs without doing or saying anything. Emphasized by the fact that Horiki just casually strolled in after being downstairs for like 10 minutes and said basically said, "Come see." And life was going so good for him too.

>>3705871
>>3705876
>>3705929
Anyone who uses the word "edgy", as abused as it has been over the past 2 years, is INFINITELY worse than any underage retard trying to look dark. At least they don't know any better. You think you're "above" them though, with your reserve of stock insults you repeat endlessly. Is your vocabulary seriously limited to what you see on 4chan? I expected better of /lit/.

>hurrr i cut myself on edge im clever
You guys are the same faggots that say "mah sides". Absolutely terrible.

>>3702936
When you think that it really happened. Ouch !

The torture scene and essentially the ending in 1984 (because it's like even his ability to internally protest has been erased, and I find that pretty terrifying).

Some scenes in Sade's Justine, particularly toward the end.

A few things in Stephen King (I remember in particular a heroin-dealing doctor being lost alone on an island and having to cut off and eat is own limbs to survive).

More than a few things were disturbing in Dante's Inferno, but somehow it felt too unreal to really affect me. It must have been really horrifying to read at the time, though.

One poem of Baudelaire, when you're not sure wether the narrator is pleading to rape or to maim his love interest (or both) but you're certain it is at least one of those two.

Some scenes in Shakepeare, most notably Titus Andronicus, though it does really crosses the line twice.

A short story from Barbey d'Aurevilly "Les Diaboliques" (The Devilish Ones) were a couple, mid-argument, start to beat one another with the heart of their dead child. An another one were a cheated-on husband has the heart of his wife's lover fed to his dogs before her (all the more so than the wife asked for the right to eat the heart).

Reading sure is fun.

>>3705950
yeah fuck the system bro. people who talk about rape are awesome and cool. using a succinct dismissive to marginalize psychopaths is fucking weak and overplayed. we should let them run free and shit up this board with the hormonal sludge of awkward puberty.

Call the inbreds on the posturing. Only retards enjoy it.

>Dead babies in trees
>Babies getting brains smashed out
>Corpses with their genitals cut out

>>3705968
And you believe the best way to do that is using a stock insult that had achieved status as an overused buzzword several years ago?

Go ahead and keep responding to retards and giving them attention. I'm sure you know how well that works on image boards.

>>3706031
I don't think edgy has lost its meaning. It's pretty clear the kind of personality someone is accusing another person of when they use the term. It's a little ironic that you're trying to undermine its meaning by declaring it a buzzword that has lost its meaning, a status much like "buzzword"'s.

courtesy of urban dictionary:
"why are you wearing that bandanna out of your pocket," says 9th grade homeroom teacher.

"because i'm effin edgy biotch," says asshole.
fagcore fake asshole douche gay
by btribe Jun 15, 2008 add a video

>>3706047
For a long time now it's been used to "silence" dissenting or controversial opinions. If you think feminism is stupid you're "edgy", if you're racist, you're "edgy", if you're atheist, you're "edgy". We all know what it refers to, but it's so overused and abused that there's no reason to use the term anymore. Let alone with entire phrases like "I cut myself on that edge". It just displays the weak vocabulary of the person using it.

story of the eye, the whole motherfucker, mostly sticking a bulls freshly removed eye in your vagina and fucking/pissing on the body of a recently killed catholic priest

Sybil, I read it when I was like thirteen and there's a scene where the mom ties her daughter's legs open with a wooden spoon and rapes her. Actually all of the abuse in that book made me /really/ uncomfortable but that made me put the book down, and I haven't read it since.

I dunno I am a huge fan of Peter Sotos so pretty much everything he has written about raping and killing kids can be fairly disturbing. After one or two of his books it gets kinda nowthatswhaticalledgy.png "Playground Sex" couldn't be published so I suppose it is one of the "roughest" pieces he has done, I can't remember being particularly shocked by any one thing. The part where he cuts the little boy up with scissors in "Tick" is talked about most.

De Sade never got to me other than one of the pieces in "...Murderous Passions" when he fucks a monster child seconds after it was born (from bestiality) and then snaps its neck.

>>3706260
>when he fucks a monster child seconds after it was born (from bestiality) and then snaps its neck.

I get a good cringe whenever I think about Cash getting his leg encased in cement as a makeshift cast and then getting gangrene inside of it in As I Lay Dying. Why did they think that was a good idea?

>>3701847
which duel? the red viper?

>>3703384
>>3705740
Piggy </3

>>3705822
Thank you Todd Akin

>>3705886
like fallout in book form

>>3706273
they be dumb

>>3702144
What is this from? Throbbing Gristle made a song of it...

The first appearance of the Apaches in Blood Meridian.

>>3706309
I think the Throbbing Gristle track was about Hindley and Brady (Moors Murders) if I remember correctly, and it didn't have anything to do with this actual quote anon posted above.

Any of the Dan Smooth stuff in Vollmann's The Royal Family

>>3706316
TG ALSO had a track about Brady and Hindley. But so did they make this...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzDvpT-MjYs

>>3701571
I knew I couldn't have been the only one that was hung up on that the whole book

>>3706349
Yea it's about a burn ward patient, nothing to do with Moors. The quote from above is from the sleeve of DOA, "part of a letter sent by Al Ackerman from Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. 1978"

The nosejob in V.

Almost all of J. G. Ballard's Crash. I cringed a lot reading that novel.

In the English Patient when Almasy has sex with Katherine Clifton's dead body after it had solidified in a desert cave for three years.
Also, when the first chapter ends with Almasy drinking a young boy's semen.
Overall I really liked the book, very good yes.

Every John Irving book freaks me out a little bit
i just keep going back though

weird sexual encounters all around

The piano teacher lesbian pedophilia scene in Norwegian Wood was pretty fucked up. But it gave the worlds biggest why boner. Feels strange, man.

The impaled ballerina in V.

The cockroaches in Infinite Jest.

The stair scene in Ubik.

The death of that kid in The Plague.

Also a lot in Steps: the caged woman, the woman who got fucked by a donkey, the dick tug-of-war game, etc.

Boxer's deportation in "Animal Farm"

>>3706548
Same here man. I just finished it today.

I also got a hard-on while reading Lolita

>>3706548
I still say it would have been better if Midori turned out to be the little nymphomaniac in the piano teacher's back story.

>>3701297
Ah shit, I still haven't read aMoL.

This didn't exactly disturb me, but I remember being extremely emotionally distraught while reading Elie Wiesel's Night, particularly the part in which his father is beaten in the face and Elie simply listens from his bunk, and hears his name almost as a death rattle.

That hit me hard.

The chapter in Let the Right One In where Eli shows Oskar how he became a vampire.

>>3706892
I know it's the remake but that (deleted) scene in the movie was bretty well done
http://youtu.be/t6KEzjgrbLE?t=2m52s<wbr>

>>3705956
can you remember what the baudelaire poem is at all?

>>3701734
Blowfly Girl is one of my favorite pieces of absolute trash erotica. It isn't erotic in any sense of the word but it is pretty effective and entertaining. I once told a guy to read the deer story aloud in a Tinychat and he started gagging about half way through.

"Dirty Deeds" and this one story about a big-titted Playboy model who gets raped by wasps and turns into a bloated hive of weaponized rape wasps rank pretty high too.

Forgot the name of the short story (it was in an anthology somewhere), but this guy kidnaps his bitch of an ex-girlfriend. He slices up her face, cutting from the corners of her mouth to the ears. Not straight, open cuts but rather little cuts spaced out. Think ---- instead of —. Then the guy turns her around and shoves his cock into her ass as hard and deep as he can. The pain makes her scream, and this makes all the little cuts open up and rupture, effectively opening her face from mouth to ears. She dies of shock not long afterwards while the guy experiences an explosive orgasm. Then he turns her around and says he's glad that now every time he sees her he'll see that big smile in her face, and know it was him who put it there.

>>3707651
Sounds fucking hot.

>>3702936
This!

>>3706753
You know when you're watching porn and you imagine you're the dick and it's not gay because the actor isn't too loud so you're not distracted?

Whenever I read it I got that feeling except Jeremy Irons kept intruding in my thoughts so it felt like I was trapped inside his body while he was giving her the D.
Fucking sweet.

>>3701831
and little Severian dying for not reason at all

>>3706093
Coolstorybro.jpeg

Follow the River

There's a scene in Hopscotch (Rayuela) where a character dies that just goes on for pages and pages and made me very uncomfortable.
The child rape/murder scene in Maldoror.
I second Naked Lunch, Lord of the Flies, In the Penal Colony.

This is the most disturbing book I have come across.
I urge you all to read it.

The almost rape in Confessions of a Mask and Stavrogin's confession from Demons.

http://pastebin.com/VMrC0niP

This

>>3707614
>baudelaire
>talks about rape/torture and all that jazz
http://fleursdumal.org/poem/151

This one, bro?

>>3709156
Maybe this one?
http://fleursdumal.org/poem/138

I dunno. Just two ones I could think of off the top of my head.

Tree of dead babies.

>>3701278
that scene in trainspotting's book, were renton fucks his dead brother's pregnant wife in his funeral, in the bathroom, and he enjoys it.
And another scene that is even more disturbing but it's pretty complex to explain in a few words, but from the same book.

>>3706273
Great, I'm reading that book at the moment and I haven't read that part yet.
But it's ok, it means it has some excitement. It started a little slow.

>>3703515
Seriously though, what unsanitary jackoff was even RUNNING that hospital

>>3701565
THIS.
and all of the coda.
the whole fucking book, actually.

Exodus in Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk.
Not a big fan of his, and this story was over the top, but god damn can that man make you uncomfortable.

>>3706492
Wait, really? I might need to re-read it but what's wrong with some good ole buggery?

Pygmy

A rape scene in shitty nork english is not good reading.

Captcha related

>>3709439
*gay rape scene

>>3701278
The camp fire scene at the end of Outer Dark was pretty fucked up

In Dostoevsky's "The House of the Dead' theres a scene where a fellow prisoner had beaten a horse to death and later his wife. In fact the whole book is full of such cruel stories.

Reading some of these I guess I'm not so jaded. The part where the little boy is locked in the room with Hakan after he'd been horribly disfigured and turned undead in Let Me In freaked me out the first time I read it.

Also, I was always disturbed by Greg Stillsons introduction in the Dead Zone where it narrates him mercilessly kicking a dog to death for the better part of an hour. I don't think I've found myself hating a villain faster then him.

Probably Harry Potter when Dumbledore was getting really sick from drinking that cursed water at the end of the 6th book

poor dumbledore

>>3705770
>>3705770
boy oh boy was that uncomfortable

pretty pleb but american gods when that one sex goddess unbirths some dude and then later on when the tv god turns her to pulp with a car.

american psycho was pretty bad too, especially near then end.

i think the only thing that could turn my stomach beyond those would be a detailed description of vore. that shit really fucks me up.

This book. This fucking book. It's nonfiction accounts of Chernobyl and the evacuation. Chernobyl fireman gives his son his helmet as a token of affection, three months later his brain has liquidated into a pile of tumors. He has to be buried in a lead casket under 10 feet of concrete. Fucking horrifying.

>>3706707
>the stair scene in Ubik
Yeah that one was pretty wicked. Not even that gory, but wicked.

>>3709156
>http://fleursdumal.org/poem/151
>This one, bro?
I'm the poster who first mentioned the poem. I wasn't thinking about that one, when you read it closely you realize that it is about self-harming/self-loathing. The "you" in the poem is the narrator himself (plus the title "heautontimoroumenos" literally means "the persecuter of himself" in ancient greek).

>http://fleursdumal.org/poem/138
Yeah, this one. Simply read the eight last verses, they tell it all. The contrast between the niceness of the begining and the resentful hate of the ending is really creepy.


>fucks his dead brother's pregnant wife in his funeral
It's funny because for one second I imagined that it was the funeral of the guy and not of his brother. Fucking someone at your own funeral ? Now that's what I call disturbing.

I don't remember in which book but Curzio Malaparte wrote about a time when he lost his dog and he found it in some kind of lab. The only thing he could do was asking the lab men to kill the dog to stop him from suffering. That shit was sad.

Or the time when the American army (it was WWII) arrived to some Italian town and a dude got crushed by the caterpillar of a tank and people carried him and he look kinda like a flag.

Malaparte has many moments like these, he was a war correspondent.

the painted bird

the scene with the woman and the bottle and the men

eden eden eden

I really enjoyed a vignette from Anthony Swafford's 'Jarhead', in which
Swafford sits and talks to a group of Iragi soldier's corpses.

They'd been bombed whilst eating by a camp-fire and Swafford just sits
amongst them and talks to them and gets all existential.

It was a harrowing moment for me. My dad was in the army and I've always
thought it was cool that he'd see dead people and stuff, but when I read that,
I realised that maybe my dad might be fucked up like Tony. Just a bit.

All quiet at the western front

When the guy goes insane because some horses are screaming from pain

I had a strong reaction to the climax of "The Flivver King" by Upton Sinclair.

Probably various parts of Naked Lunch.

Off the top of my head;

>Rape scene in the Kite Runner
>Less than Zero's protag allowing his friend to be turned into a gay prostitute
>Most of the prison section of "Siberian Education" (non-fiction)

Also all these mentions of Naked Lunch are putting me off reading it

>>3711869
How do you read this shit? It's like 300 pages of poor tony from infinite jest, completely wut

>>3703370
I forgot about that.

I need to read that again.

>>3711821
Don't forget about the harrowing, sinewy looking Kemmerich. And when Katscinsky is dead too.

>>3705844
Ah, just leave, man. Nobody wants to hear it, regardless of whether you're "trolling" or not.

>>3711875
I've just read Less Than Zero and really enjoyed it.

The style of writing and the personality of the protagonist left me not not really shocked by that scene. Since it appears late in the novel it seemed like an inevitability rather than some shocking thing,

Did you enjoy the novel?

>>3703515

oh god, this.
but I think I was way more disturbed about the girl and the balloons. wtf man.
it stuck with me for weeks afterward.

come to think of it, that entire book was one of the most fucked up things I've read.

>guillaumeapollinaire.jpg

>>3711937

I think it was more the protagonists acceptance and distance from it that got me more than anything. The ability to have a positive impact is there but totally squandered by the protags hopelessly selfish attitude. It's not so much what happened, but that it was entirely preventable

Also the subtle mention of the pedophile castration porn messed with me as well. The book was solid in general though, just some of the subject matter made me feel un-nerved

The Things They Carried-- the killing of the baby buffalo

When gregor smashes out oberyon's teeth or the floating baby in suttree or the roasting baby in the road.

>>3712911
Gregor smashes his face open

>>3701571
jesus christ this, for some reason.

>>3712921

"Clegane slammed his fist into the Dornishman's mouth making splinters of his teeth."

The scene in Infinite Jest where the guy suffocates on his own congested snot

>>3703302
Remind me, I only read the book once and it was long ago.

>>3712921
Fucking Gregor.

>>3712930
also basically everything involving Poor Tony

>>3709083
naw fuck cows they're vegetative imo.

>>3712971
Hey fuck you buddy.

>>3705844

>>3705956
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivor_Type

"I'm cold."
"There, there."