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What is the most CONTROVERSIAL book you have ever read, /lit/`?

>> No.15079246

>>15079243
Triggered by Donald Trump Jr.

>> No.15079248

Harry Potter

>> No.15079259

>>15079248
Harry Potter is pro slavery, pro eugenics and pro race realism.

>> No.15079305

>>15079243
The magic treehouse 16: 0lympic Challange!

>> No.15079314

>>15079243
What book

>> No.15079330

>>15079248
>>15079259
This is true. I've heard it's even compulsory reading for aspiring KKK members.

>> No.15079350

>>15079243
only women like King. DO you know why? because he writes about sex and murder and ''''''''''''''past traumas'''''''''''''''''''

>> No.15079393

The Bible

>> No.15079407

>>15079393
>The Bible
>The art of the Deal
>Submission by Houellebecq
>The Catcher in the Rye

>> No.15079436

>>15079243
Probably Haunted by Palahniuk, namely for 'Guts' in particular.

>> No.15079437

>>15079243
Idk, maybe The Kreutzer Sonata.

>> No.15079447

Treatise on the Question Do Women Have Souls and are They Human Beings?
someone send me the pdf if you can contrive to get your hands on it

>> No.15079477
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>>15079314
Rage, I think.
It was tied to a bunch of school shooting, and King said it was a pretty angst-y book that he regretted writing.

>> No.15079496

>>15079477
>>15079314
>Rage centers on Charlie Decker, a high school senior - in Maine of course - who gets in trouble one too many times, resulting in his expulsion. He then retrieves a gun from his locker, and proceeds to take his algebra class hostage, starting by shooting the teacher. Along the way through the story, other people die or get seriously injured, and some of the hostages end up siding with Charlie, apparently experiencing Stockholm Syndrome. While Rage's subject matter did raise eyebrows at the time of publication, the book became a source of outrage for many as the years went on, with no less than five separate real-life incidents of school shootings or classroom hostage takings that appeared to be directly inspired by the story.

>In all five cases, the perpetrator was found to have owned a copy of Rage, and aspects of their crimes bore a striking resemblance to Charlie's. The final incident, which took place in late 1997, saw three students shot to death by a classmate who had a copy of Rage in his locker. At that point, Stephen King grew so alarmed that he himself made the call to take Rage out of print, and it has remained unavailable to buy new ever since. Obviously, if someone wants a copy enough, Rage can be found used for a high price, but the chances of a random mentally disturbed teenager getting their hands on it are certainly much lower now. The fact that school shootings, and mass shootings in general, have increased by a tremendous amount in the U.S. since 1997 just further underlines that King made the right decision.

>> No.15079504

>>15079496
>stops printing school shooter book
>school shootings go up

really makes you think.

>> No.15079507

Everything on Totse back in the day

>> No.15079625

>>15079496
>>15079477
Pirat'd

>> No.15080101

>>15079496
>school shootings go up after school shooting book goes out of print
>and that's a good thing!
Someone explain this to me.

>> No.15080119

>>15080101
first: you’re never going to make it
second: it suggests that now that school shootings are more common, even more shootings would have occurred if the book was still in print

>> No.15080243

>>15079407
Catcher in the Rye is only "controversial" because it's a kids book featuring a prostitute

>> No.15080256

>>15079496
Reminds me of the Sorrows of Young Werther

>> No.15080300

Reign of Quantity and the Signs of the Times, so controversial and anti-modern that it would make any modern man shudder in terror at the realization that their ideals/zeitgeist are built much like a sand castle, but then again most people today don't believe in anything lol.

>> No.15080315

>>15079477
I never knew Stephen King wrote under a pseudonym

>> No.15080341

>>15080315
>tfw you shit out so many books you have to come up with a pseudonym so you can publish without oversaturating your name

>> No.15080359

>>15079477
>>15079496
Yep.
https://screenrant.com/stephen-king-rage-book-school-shooting-controversy-banned/

>> No.15080361

>>15080243
It was considered controversial at the moment

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>>15079243
Collected Works of the Marquis de Sade
Pic related is, coindidentally, a screenshot from the most controversial vidya I ever played which I was going to make a thread on.

>> No.15080401

>>15080119
Or it suggests that the changes in society resulting in the banning of the book also have laid a foundation facilitating more _actual_ shootings.

>> No.15080522

>>15079507
Before I was I here, I was there.

>> No.15080546

>>15079246
Just read the first chapter - absolute kino

>> No.15080647

>>15079477
unironically the only book I enjoyed reading from him
it was packed with action and tension

>> No.15080664

>>15080363
alright what game is this?

>> No.15080672

>>15080401
>the changes in society resulting in the banning of the book
If you had any comprehension of >>15079496 you'd realize that the "changes in society that resulted in the banning of the book" was the school shootings that made Stephen King decide to put it out of print.

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>>15079496
>>15079477
goddam lmao

>> No.15080688

>>15079496
Sounds keto

>> No.15080689

>>15080664
It is Demonophobia. Free on itch.io. Made with art assets from MS paint. It is like a shitty flash game. Obnoxiously difficult and nauseatingly gory. It's fucking great.

>> No.15080691

>>15079243
>>Child orgy
no problemo, let's make a movie and tv series
>>school shooting
out of print

why are americans so in love with pedophilia?

>> No.15080709

>>15080688
I believe you mean kino, broski

>> No.15080733

>>15080401
nobody banned the book you dimwit

>> No.15080765

>>15080709
I believe he's a fatty my friend

>> No.15081146

>>15079447
still have it? upload it please

>> No.15081211

>>15080119
>it suggests that now that school shootings are more common, even more shootings would have occurred if the book was still in print
100% speculation. Literally unfalsifiable.

>> No.15081220

>>15081146
He doesn't have a copy

>> No.15081303

>>15080689
kys faggot

>> No.15081361
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15081361

>>15079243
Crash by J.G. Ballard. I gagged a few times while reading it.

>> No.15081383

>>15081303
Why would you say that? He asked what it was and I told him. Why would this warrant suicide?

>> No.15081413

I'm surprised Cain Rose Up doesn't get mentioned a lot even though it covers similar subjects to Rage.

>> No.15081422

>>15081146
no i can't find it anywhere that's why i put my hope on some anon

>> No.15081469

>>15081361
This and Naked Lunch come to mind

>> No.15081479

>>15081361
The movie's pretty good tho.

>> No.15081630

200 years together

>> No.15081651

>>15079477
>>15079314
Honestly Rage was one of King's best novels. It was the Breakfast Club before the breakfast club (seeing how it came out in 77). You can see the seething from King from being bullied in high school. Honestly comes forward. Pretty tight, underrated little gem from him. You can either pirate it or get a used copy of the Bachman Books omnibuses if there's any left.

>> No.15081832

>>15079496
For all his graphic violence and sex and sometimes crude stories, King sure is a fucking loose lipped pussy when it comes to dealing with real life.

>> No.15082129

>>15079243
Gravity's Rainbow
Reminder it contains copraphilia, pedopholia and sodomy.

>> No.15082367

>>15082129
And incest

>> No.15083727

>>15079243
Bronze Age Mindset

>> No.15083799

>>15079243
Occasional Discourses on the N-Word Question

>> No.15083871

Culture of Critique

>> No.15083875
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Is this any good? I saw it shilled here a while back and assumed it was a meme, but now I'm seeing it pop up a lot in other places and I'm wondering if it's worth reading

>> No.15083892

Giles Goat-Boy by John Barth. Lots of rape and blatant racism.

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>>15079330
I was gonna spend my life sucking off niggers, but the first Harry Potter book turned me into a fully-fledged Neo-Nazi at the tender age of four.

>> No.15084724

>>15079243
The New Testament accounts of the Gospel, as well as the epistles and the book of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. As for how controversial, I think it's a tie between the Gospel books and Revelation, but the book of Revelation seems to attract much ire and irritability over its contents than other Biblical books.

>> No.15084990

>>15083875
It's pretty short so don't have much to lose if you're already interested.
It does give praise to ISIS and AlQaeda so there's that.

>> No.15085007

>>15079243
Hitlers war

>> No.15085011

>>15079305
What was wrong with that one?

>> No.15085960

>>15079246
Kek it's like an exercise in post-modern writing, and the fact that it is unuronic makes it so much better and funnier

>> No.15085979

>>15079504
>>15080101
Based retards

>> No.15086117

>>15081651
>You can see the seething from King from being bullied in high school.
Is the shooter his self-insert? lmao