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Can someone recommend more really weird and fucked up books like The Wasp Factory, or In the Miso Soup?

>> No.8829861

>>8829849
vurt

>> No.8829903

>>8829849
the painted bird

>> No.8829935

>>8829849
Anything by Murakami Ryu. You've already read In the Miso Soup, so you know what's coming.

Naked Lunch.

120 Days of Sodom. Or really, any Sade.

Hogg.

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>>8829903
same author as The Painted Bird
more creepy, edgy stuff

>> No.8830549

Skin, by kath kozha

by the end of the book i couldn't work out who i wanted to punch in the face more, Bibi or her asshole boyfriend Michael.

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>>8830000
>Story of the Eye
>quad eggs

witnessed

>> No.8830581

haven't read the Wasp Factory, but a buddy lent me a Harry Crews novel once and it was uncomfortably fucked up. Can't remember the title but I think they're all like that.

>> No.8830686

>>8829861
dog fucking in vurt

>> No.8831611

Wasp Factory has been sitting on my shelf for ages, someone tell me what it's about so I feel motivated to read it. All I hear is ranting about the body horror.

>> No.8831752

American Psycho

>> No.8832893

>>8831611
disturbed scottish teenager has killed family members before, uses a wasp torture machine to make predictions about his day, has a brother who's in jail, had his penis bit off when he was a child and is best friends with a dwarf. giving any real plot elements feels like spoiling it, but knowing all that contextual information it's just a few days in that sort of life

>>8829849
I recommend the anthology First Love, Last Rites by McEwan, the cement garden too.