/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.17297861]

What's the most disturbing books you've ever read? I'm looking for something so terrifying that by the time I finish it I'm happy with the life I have.

[Anonymous No.17297867]

>>17297861
BUILT

[Anonymous No.17297869]

[Anonymous No.17297887]

>>17297861
Call of the crocodile.

[Anonymous No.17297889]

>>17297869
KEK did you make this?

[Anonymous No.17297896]

>>17297869
I can't find this on amazon.

[Anonymous No.17297910]

>>17297896
They banned it

[Anonymous No.17297913]

>>17297861
When you say disturbing, what do you mean exactly? A book that produces fear? Or discomfort?

I liked Stephen Florida by Gabe Habash. I think it convincingly depicts paranoia and narcissism. Wouldn't say it strikes fear into your heart though.

Silent Cry by Kenzaburo Oe left me feeling numb afterwards. Demons by Dostoyevsky is kind of similar - the deleted At Tikhon's chapter comes to mind.

[Anonymous No.17297929]

>>17297913
>I'm looking for something so terrifying that by the time I finish it I'm happy with the life I have.

As long as it fits this it doesn't matter. Thanks anon.

[Anonymous No.17297949]

>>17297869

[Anonymous No.17297957]

>>17297861
No longer human. It has a bigger impact than a novel about a poor african child with an abusive father would have. You can't help but think: I am glad I am at least not this pathetic. And this is a problem most of us deal with, being pathetic, that is, so one can relate on a scale.

[Anonymous No.17297961]

>>17297929
Belladonna by Dasa Drndic

[Anonymous No.17297982]

>>17297861
“The whisperer in the darkness”

- lovecraft

[Anonymous No.17298061]

>>17297982
unfortunately I already went through most of Lovecraft. 10/10

[Anonymous No.17298154]

>>17297861
>I'm looking for something so terrifying that by the time I finish it I'm happy with the life I have.
Contentment is perhaps the single greatest vice on Earth - it makes man approve of his mediocrity. Happiness is not a matter of comparing yourself to the downtrodden and destitute, but of pursuing the greatest virtues and heights in your sight. Disturbance and acceptance is a contradiction - when man is disturbed, he is moved into action, not complacency. You want to accept your life simply as is? Then do not read, declare yourself to be the summit of humanity, then pose as a rock.

[Anonymous No.17298196]

How disturbing is the Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littel?

[Anonymous No.17298198]

>>17298154
I'm not trying to escape anything.....just chasing a feeling

[Anonymous No.17298245]

>>17297861
I'm little drunk and just wanted to post some asian titites for you guys too.

[Anonymous No.17298400]

[Anonymous No.17298405]

>>17297861
Babbitt

[Anonymous No.17298411]

>>17298400
It's so dark and disturbing, exploring many subversive themes which are only for mature readers. You shouldn't read these books ever unless you are sure that you can handle them because they are very intense, and frightening. Look out Steven King F Gardner is the new Steven King.

[Anonymous No.17298412]

>>17297861
obligatory

[Anonymous No.17298428]

>>17297957
Oh crap. What do you do then if you think "oh finally, someone as pathetic as me"
Fk

[Anonymous No.17298437]

[Anonymous No.17298474]

>>17298437
not bad but sorry for your ban anon.

[Anonymous No.17298507]

>>17298437
mods
MODS
MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODS!!!!

[Anonymous No.17298524]

>>17297861
I used to think Asian chicks were hot/cute.
Now I think they all kind of look the same, and I find that I'm less and less attracted to them. (Obviously, I would still fuck a hot/cute chick regardless of race, I'm not a total faggot lol.)

[Anonymous No.17298529]

>>17298437

[Anonymous No.17298558]

>>17297913
I read demons at the height of the riots and the chaz last year. It was too on the nose

[Anonymous No.17298563]

>>17298474
lol

[Anonymous No.17298569]

A Gentle Introduction to Unqualified Reservations

[Anonymous No.17298577]

The Color of Space and Brave New World both made my stomach churn when I was younger.

Of course, I was also suffering from an upset stomach at both separate and unrelated events that happened to coincide with my reading these books, so I cannot be sure how much was mere displeasure at what I was reading and how much was tummy aches.

[Anonymous No.17298601]

>>17298577
Yo I feel with you, stomache problems are one of the most unpleasant problems one can have. The quality of life immediately drops to 0. To rule out whether it is not a food intolerance or something similar, one should rather go to the doctor right away. Or especially if you are a sensitive person, you should rather strengthen yourself mentally instead of smoking or drinking. But nobody understands that lol.

(You can only strengthen yourself mentally if you keep yourself fit at the same time, just to mention that)

[Anonymous No.17298626]

>>17297861
Book of Disquiet

[Anonymous No.17298666]

>>17298474
>>17298507

Wtf. So this is why people don’t want us posting about F. Gardner’s books. That excerpt was fucking disturbing. Too far! Glad the mods took it down.

[Anonymous No.17298674]

>>17297861
>The Sound of Insects

[Anonymous No.17298784]

Pic related is the only book that has genuinely made me lose sleep.

[Anonymous No.17298813]

>>17297887
Available for free on Kindle

[Anonymous No.17298825]

>>17298784
Who cares if Piers Paul read it?

[Anonymous No.17298869]

>>17297861
There was a /pol/ thread about 6 months ago with the topic of the most horrific crimes ever. That one kept me up at night. A few specific cases include the one about the German guy that locked his daughter in a dungeon for 20 years and impregnated her several times, and this Japanese murder nicknamed the "50 days of hell" where these guys chained a woman up in their house and did about every horrible thing you can imagine to her then stuffed her corpse into a garbage can.

I also once read what I hope was a creepypasta about some guy on an internet forum who had bragged about amputating a woman's arms and legs and replacing them with steel rods that allowed her to be suspended from a chain and used as a live sex doll. It was probably some creepy fetish thing but it went into pretty graphic detail and freaked me plumb the fuck out.

[Anonymous No.17298881]

>>17298869
>50 days of hell
The Junko Furuta one right? Very depressing story. And yeah that doll pasta is obviously bullshit

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » No.17298914]

>>17298198
>>17298245
Mmmm

>>17298437
Took me a while to see Gojira

[Anonymous No.17298955]

>>17298428
Well... Let's hope no one tries to [rape your wife].

[Anonymous No.17298959]

>>17298813
I just finished Call of the Arcade, myself. So good.

[Anonymous No.17299225]

>>17297861
i remember being disturbed by the ending of 1984 but honestly i think its not that great of a book, and if you are specifically looking to be disturbed it wont be worth it!

[Anonymous No.17299244]

>>17297889
Lurk more connard

[Anonymous No.17299250]

The last cycle in the flowers of evil, La Mort, is genuinely one of the most "disturbing" pieces of lit I've ever read, and it haunted me for weeks the first time I read it

[Anonymous No.17299262]

Any non-fiction?

[Anonymous No.17299282]

Any good books about a world that seems normal and someone discovering and peeling back the facade hiding away a terrible supernatural underbelly?
Kinda like Darkwood's ending

[Anonymous No.17299291]

The Obscene Bird of Night

[Anonymous No.17299356]

>>17297896
No wonder, it was extreme

[Anonymous No.17299405]

>>17297861
American Psycho

[Anonymous No.17299427]

Nietzsche - A Philosophical Biography

[Anonymous No.17299437]

>>17298869
Just remember, when you wonder why kids are born with bone cancer, things like this are why.

[Anonymous No.17299446]

>>17299437
what did he mean by this

[Anonymous No.17299479]

>>17298869
>A few specific cases include the one about the German guy that locked his daughter in a dungeon for 20 years and impregnated her several times
Josef Fritzl, an Austrian. He's still alive, but his health is declining. He shows no remorse for his crimes, including murder. He's fucking evil as shit.

[Anonymous No.17299480]

>>17298198
Manchild mentality.

[Anonymous No.17299960]

>>17297861
When Rabbit Howls

[Anonymous No.17299977]

>>17297861
A Posthumous Confession is pretty fucked. It's Notes from the Underground but instead of being a total sniveling shithead, the narrator is just an actual sociopath who is recounting his life leading up to him murdering his wife.

The way he describes his brain and inability to take blame for anything feels so much like some of the people on this website.

[Anonymous No.17299989]

>>17298154
You need to be 18 to post here, I remember when I was 17 and idealistic like this too

[Anonymous No.17300006]

>>17299437
what

[Anonymous No.17300019]

>>17298869
Joseph Fritzl and Junko Furuta.
You should check out Unit 731

[Anonymous No.17300027]

>>17299479
Just found out he went to the same school as I did and lived not too far away from me either

[Anonymous No.17300066]

>>17297861
ubik

[Anonymous No.17300067]

>>17297861
(You)

[Anonymous No.17300168]

>>17299989
Entertain me: what event in your life made you lose your idealism?

[Anonymous No.17300312]

>>17297861
The Wasp Machine.

[Anonymous No.17300341]

This was horrific. More so because it's nonfiction.

[Anonymous No.17300350]

>>17300341
What's it about

[Anonymous No.17300355]

>>17300350
It's about gay men who have sex with their dads and post it on anonymous bugchasing forums.

[Anonymous No.17300707]

[Anonymous No.17300720]

[Anonymous No.17300727]

>>17297861
Jude the Obscure.

[Anonymous No.17300741]

>>17297861
You don't need books for that. Just open the daily news every morning, then close them down and take a deep breath.

[Anonymous No.17300825]

>>17298154
Ah, perfect. I was looking for this kind of opinion for a character in the story I'm writing. I couldn't articulate it myself, you see, because I'm no longer a self-important teenager.

[Anonymous No.17300827]

>>17298666 (666)
kek, the unholy trips.
Should I believe what this guy says?

[Anonymous No.17300851]

>>17297861
Thanks For The Memories

[Anonymous No.17300877]

>>17300727
This is a really good one.

[Anonymous No.17300983]

>>17300168
reading your posts

[Anonymous No.17301010]

>>17300983
Have you just turned 18? Otherwise, there wouldn't be any cause to imply I'm 17.

[Anonymous No.17301024]

>>17301010
yes reading your drivel has turned me into an old man

[Anonymous No.17301040]

>>17298869
>I also once read what I hope was a creepypasta about some guy on an internet forum who had bragged about amputating a woman's arms and legs and replacing them with steel rods that allowed her to be suspended from a chain and used as a live sex doll. It was probably some creepy fetish thing but it went into pretty graphic detail and freaked me plumb the fuck out.
I've read this and after all these years i get a knot in my stomach whenever i think about it. As i remember it it was in the form of an ad from the deep web for a guy who created these live sex dolls for sale. The level of detail was astounding and the horror lies in the possibility of it being real

[Anonymous No.17301062]

>>17301024
My apologies, I only written drivel because there has yet to be anything of value in this thread.

[Anonymous No.17301065]

>>17298869
>>17301040
Ah, kids. These are just individual cases, wait till you hear about things like cannibal island. Most of human history outside of your sheltered bubble is fucked like you wouldn't belive.

[Anonymous No.17301084]

>>17301065
Don't be obnoxious

[Anonymous No.17301140]

>>17300067

[Anonymous No.17301160]

>>17300825
>I'm mild and proud

[Anonymous No.17301225]

>>17299437
what

[Anonymous No.17301245]

>>17301225
according to some christian schizos human sin has a direct negative effect on the world, or rather we were expelled from paradise with adam and eve - and so the existence of murder makes immortality impossible to be selected for genetically or something

[Anonymous No.17301266]

>>17298412
Mouchette is super hopeful, idk what it's doing on that list.
afaik Frisk and Necrophiliac are very dark, sexual and disturbing. Inspired by libertines like Sade.
Pic related fucked me up, but it was more of an anxiety thing.

[Anonymous No.17301273]

>>17301225
>>17301245
>>17299446
>>17300006
I was referring to the simple concept of transmigration and karma nerds

[Anonymous No.17301277]

>>17301160
>I will die crippled and miserable by the idea that I did not achieve greatness

[Anonymous No.17301288]

>>17301273
so the children with bone cancer are reincarnated murderers?

you're even more retarded than I thought

[Anonymous No.17301307]

>>17301288
Not necessarily murderers. I fail to see how this line of thought is retarded at all. Our deal old Plato thought roughly the same.

[Anonymous No.17301312]

>>17297957
What? It's milquetoast. What kind of idiot are you?

[Anonymous No.17301318]

>>17297869
basé

[Anonymous No.17301321]

The Kindly Ones has some pretty unbelievably disturbing scenes in it
>shit we just killed this Ukrainian mother and realized she had an infant child
>as the narrator is speaking one of his fellow Nazi soldiers picks up the baby by the legs and bashes it open against a rock
>if I remember correctly our narrator responds by putting a bullet in the head of the soldier who just did this
>lots of diarrhea scenes
>fucks his ass with a tree

[Anonymous No.17301325]

>>17301307
Plato didn't believe in "karma" dude

[Anonymous No.17301342]

>>17301325
Go read Crito and Phaedo right now retard, and I think there's even a bit in Timaeus about it. He never used the word "karma" obviously, but the exact same concept is in his description of the afterlife. He even argues that planets are alive somehow, and are the superior realms of existence that philosophers (men who seek and achieve "the Good") move to after death.

[Anonymous No.17301354]

>>17297861
>I'm looking for something so terrifying that by the time I finish it I'm happy with the life I have.

Death on Credit should do the trick.

[Anonymous No.17301371]

>>17301342
that's not karma

[Anonymous No.17301387]

>>17301371
Yes, it is. Karma simply means action/doing, and is transposed to the metaphysical level. It's not actually that complicated in its most basic use.

[Anonymous No.17301410]

Is coffee alright?

[Anonymous No.17301413]

>>17297957
>You can't help but think: I am glad I am at least not this pathetic.
this
I wonder if it's intentional
reading NLH had me thinking that the guy must be a real freak
the same wasn't true for Underground

[Anonymous No.17301418]

>>17301387
One is a concept that you're automatically judged for everything that you do, another is a concept that you can reach enlightenment through philosophy. Karma is tied to the material world, while in Platonism the material is not some end-all-be-all right and just place. Completely different things which only seem similar if you posses a surface-level understanding.

[Anonymous No.17301425]

>>17298412
Bastard out of Carolina was cozy imo. 95% of the books was about how cozy and homey the south is, 5% was marginally uncomfortable content (but nothing that made me cringe even a little bit).

[Anonymous No.17301431]

>>17301418
>One is a concept that you're automatically judged for everything that you do, another is a concept that you can reach enlightenment through philosophy
No, I only gave you the most extreme positive example of Plato's, that of the philosopher. Plato also asserts that morally inferior persons are sent to infernal realms in the earth to live as wretched creatures in line with the nature of their human actions. You clearly have not even read the parts of Plato I'm referencing.

[Anonymous No.17301436]

>>17301325
tell plato he can believe in my cock faggot

[Anonymous No.17301604]

>>17298412
>Peter Sotos
The dude who made all of that shit about pedophilia?

Literally just listen to Buyer's Market, it's the most disturbing shit on the internet.
It's about victims of pedophiles and what happened to their lives, including the testimony of a mother whose son has his genitals mutilated.

[Anonymous No.17301622]

>>17300019
>Unit 731
I know this doesnt get as big of a marketing budget in the west as the holocaust but holy shit the experiments that came out of there make the angel of death seem like he wasnt even trying.

[Anonymous No.17301660]

>>17297887
>Not on libgen
>Not on zlibrary
fuck

[Anonymous No.17301734]

>>17301622
This and The Furuta case made me a racist towards the Japanese, and other "white" Asians. I don't want to be, and I know that everywhere has it's share of truly horrifying shit, but I can't help it. It's like a reflex.

[Anonymous No.17301743]

>>17301734
>This and The Furuta case made me a racist towards the Japanese, and other "white" Asians
This is because you're a teenage midwit.

[Anonymous No.17301747]

>>17298198
hhhhhhnnnnnnnnngggggggg her mouth

[Anonymous No.17301775]

>>17301743
No. I just don't trust their entire culture, and the more I read about it, the less I like it. It's a culture that cultivates callousness.

[Anonymous No.17301785]

>>17301775
>I just don't trust their entire culture
What an unfathomably retarded take.

[Anonymous No.17301795]

>>17301785
>NOOOO! ALL CULTURES ARE THE SAME AND VALID!!!

[Anonymous No.17301801]

>>17301795
All cultures have nuance, something you're unable to appreciate or even internalise. This is why I've been calling you a midwit.

[Anonymous No.17301807]

>>17297867
What? You really think that chick is built? Holy shit dude you really need to lift and eat more you sound like a little twink. I can't imagine looking at a random instathot and thinking she's "built" because you constantly get mogged by women.

[Anonymous No.17301861]

>>17301785
I'm not saying it's not a valid culture, or that I don't think it's interesting- there's a lot I like about it, love even. I just don't trust it. Like I said, it's like a reflex.

[Anonymous No.17301868]

>>17301743
I think there are very discrete cultural attitudes towards violence that differ between different groups, nothing wrong with recognizing patterns.

Asian cultures seem to lack the same shyness or embarassment towards violence that European cultures do. Not that they are more barbaric than Europeans, but they can be extremely cruel by European standards. Europeans have reduced killing down to simply pushing a button and inflicting pain and suffering at a distant location (guns, bombs) whereas Asians seem to have no qualms about dismembering living things and being totally unphased by their shrieks of agony. The fact that they are intelligent and have sophisticated technology makes it all the more horrifying to a westerner because they obviously have the ability to engage in violence in less cruel ways but it simply doesn't occur to them because apparently they see no utility in reducing suffering.

[Anonymous No.17301888]

>>17301807
FOR

[Anonymous No.17301894]

>>17297949
So many spelling mistakes in so few words, white piggu.

[Anonymous No.17301936]

"Blindness". Society going to literal shit because we all lose something so fundamental to us as it is our sense of sight is terrifying.

[Anonymous No.17301937]

>>17301894
I tried my best

[Anonymous No.17302027]

>>17300341
That’s about the cannibal gulag island right?

[Anonymous No.17302239]

>>17300827
I only read Call of the Arcade, but it's pretty fucked up.

[Anonymous No.17302262]

>>17300341
Just read the wikipedia summary
>mixes his own personal observations of life in the gulag with fiction and stories he'd heard from other people

I really wish people wouldn't do this. If an event was horrific enough, that should be self apparent after a presentation of the facts. Embellishments just give tankie antifaggots an excuse to say the gulags werent that bad, in fact they always hand wave Solzhenitsyn away for that very reason. Same with jews making up retarded shit about the holocaust that does nothing but give red meat to deniers.

[Sage No.17302289]

>>17297957

No Longer Human is the worst meme on /lit/

Navel gazing whining from someone leading a life of privilege while somehow still finding a way to play the victim at every moment

I just realized why /lit/ likes it so much

[Anonymous No.17302533]

Just finished reading The White People by Arthur Machen and it legit horrified me. If you like folk horror you should definitely read it.

[Anonymous No.17302654]

test

[Anonymous No.17303028]

>>17300168
divorce

[Anonymous No.17303042]

>>17302289
Agreed. The whole shtick of always feeling like an actor looking for external validation is interesting for like 5 pages. But it's hardly interesting enough to be the central topic of any decent novel.

[Anonymous No.17303079]

>>17298154
Reading this made me realize I don't miss being 17

[Anonymous No.17304097]

>>17301040
Link ?

[Anonymous No.17304206]

>>17297861
this way to the gas chambers ladies and gentlemen by Tadeusz Borowski is terrifying

[Anonymous No.17304304]

Any of F. Gardner's books.

[Anonymous No.17304320]

http://www.2arms1head.com/

[Sage No.17304646]

>>17304206

Second. That book hollowed me.

[Anonymous No.17305683]

>>17297861
The Consumer by Michael Gira or Cows by Stokoe

[Anonymous No.17305719]

Jhonny got his gun.

[Anonymous No.17305845]

>>17297861
Don't delete my coomer pics mods

[Anonymous No.17305911]

>>17305845
mods do your job

[Anonymous No.17306042]

>>17305845
What's her name?

[Anonymous No.17306073]

>>17306042
I gotchu OP

[Anonymous No.17306142]

>>17306073
Fuck off with your horrible novels.

[Anonymous No.17306143]

>>17301040
There was also another one about a guy in south east asia who kept orphaned girls as sex slaves, impregnated them, and then fucked the mouths of the babies they birthed until their jaws dislocated. Again, probably all just creepypasta deep web edgelord fanfiction but the fact that your mind can even entertain for a second that that's not outside the realm of possibility is fucked. There probably was someone somewhere at some point who did something atleast on the same level of evil as that shit.

[Anonymous No.17306168]

>>17306143
Any cruel thing you can think of that isn't just extremely bizarre or complex has probably been done. It only takes a handful of psychos

[Anonymous No.17306194]

>>17298411
>>17298400
Why is everyone shilling the hell out of these books? I'm convinced the author himself is botting this or some shit.

[Anonymous No.17306303]

>>17301937
It's ok anon.

[Anonymous No.17306414]

>>17306042
Tila Tequila

[Anonymous No.17306428]

Call of the Crocodile. Hands down the most disturbing book I've ever read.

[Anonymous No.17306441]

>>17306194
Because they have terrible covers and awful grammar. The books are somehow really fun to read, despite that (I read Arcade and Cherokee). Plus the author is advertising on 4chan, which has launched them to meme status.

[Anonymous No.17306666]

>>17302289
This. Fun fact: the author made suicide pact with a girlfriend and didn't follow through, but the girl did.
Eventually, he killed himself and then another author that looked up to him also killed himself at his gravestone because of that, too. lol
Mishima also hated his guts

[Anonymous No.17306669]

>>17306666
alos check em you stink niggers

[Anonymous No.17307508]

>>17301868
>they see no utility in reducing suffering
O_O
even ISIS gives you heroin before they behead you

[Anonymous No.17307557]

>>17297861

[Anonymous No.17308230]

>>17298412
Uh the Wasp Factory is one of my favorite books and it was really just an interesting, beautiful exploration of teenage identity, and how people deal with their issues.

>>17301425
Yeah I'm not impressed by this list. I'm confused by what people claim is "uncomfortable".