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helllo /lit/, i need some really bizarre, disgusting and disturbing reads to get me through the x mass holidays. any recommendations?

>> No.2236691

you sound like an angsty teenager.

try burroughs nova trilogy

>> No.2236694

>>2236691
angsty yes... teenager not quite haha. but ill check it out. keep em commin!

>> No.2236696

blood and guts in high school

>> No.2236700

>>2236691
burroughs' cut-ups really are fucking shit.

I'd go with some jg ballard, crash , atrocity exhibition etc

blood meridian if you want something thats well written

>> No.2236701

>>2236700
making sense is such a petit-burgeois thing to do

>> No.2236708

>>2236701
seriously.. they seem like a good idea for 100 pages or so.. then you realise they're a failed experiment being peddled by a junky fuck-up in exchange for writing advances.
burroughs early and later work can be pretty good

>> No.2236724

The Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski
The kindly ones by Jonathan Littell

you're welcome, op!!

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the cement garden by ian mcewan

>mfw It gave me a bonar

>> No.2236768

m A L d O r o R

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>> No.2236772

perfume by suskind

wasp factory by ian banks its a clitoris

>> No.2236818

>>2236771

I don't think OP is ready for Goosebumps.

>> No.2236823

Song of Khali by Dan Simmons

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Here you go OP.

>> No.2236845

>>2236708

>they seem like a good idea for 100 pages or so.. then you realise they're a failed experiment being peddled by a junky fuck-up in exchange for writing advances.

Burroughs failures, if the cut-ups are failures, are more worthwhile than the successes of the overwhelming majority of writers.

I went back to the cut ups (and Wild boys) this year and was astonished by their quality - interesting, beautiful, haunting, genuine, and intellectually vigorous. Burroughs is a writer whose work gets dismissed too lightly on account of his bohemian biography and public image. He's far and away the most important C20th American author, IMO.

>> No.2236850

OP, the most disturbing books I have read are:

American Psycho - BBE
120 Days of Sodom - Sade
Diary of a rapist - Evan Connell
Memoirs of my nervous illness - Schreber

>> No.2236851

>>2236845
this

burroughs is a force of nature, a movement by himself, the guy single handedly influenced a shitload more people than anyone else in the groups he gets pinned into

but i've only read junky so far

>> No.2236889

If you're new to depressing literature, try The Road.

It's a good downbeat book, but lays it on a little heavy sometimes. Doesn't deserve near the hype it has, but it's still solid.

Just don't think about it too terribly much.

>> No.2236912

>>2236850
Sade isn't disturbing, he is boner inducing.

>> No.2236951

>>2236912
You're a hard man than I. Getting aroused by descriptions of jailbait girls getting raped, tortured and force fed shit was quite distrubing for me.

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>>2236851
read Cities of the Red Night, then get back to us.

>> No.2236956

>>2236912
Umberto Eco wrote an article about editors who were rejecting the great works of history. one editor picked up De Sade's 120 Days and flicked through it. he kept finding extremely long philosophical arguments about the nature of power, etc. the editor decided "won't publish this. what the readers want is sex, sex and more sex."

>> No.2236970

>>2236956
I find intricate philosophical inquiries arousing.