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What’s the most disturbing book you’ve read?

What’s the most disturbing book you’ve read?

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Kortnee

For me it was A child called it. I am not easily disturbed at all, I have a horrid infatuation with anything horror or gore..ect. Still the child abuse in that book upset me to a point I couldn’t re-read it and didn’t read the other books.

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Jennifer

His brother has some books out too. Robert Pelzer. I read them. It’s pretty twisted

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Kortnee

I might have to look that up to see it from his point of view. I don’t if i can stomach it though.

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Jennifer

They were tough but I didn’t find them as graffic as David Pelzer

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Kristen

a Child called It. So sad that it’s true

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Annelies

A book called scarred by Sophie andrews.. Its her memoir from being abused as a child and moves in into her adult life.. Her abuse is quite graphic… Found it hard to read..

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Rosemary

No thinking necessary…..
American Psycho! I skipped over parts of it because it was so awful. I had a friend that actually brought it out to her bbq and burned it after she read it, couldn’t have it in her house.

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PaulaQuestion author

I couldn’t even finish this one

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Barbara

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

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Elizabeth

Kite runner.

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Charon

Misery by Stephen King the only book I’ve read that has made me feel sick.

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Natalie

Agreed!

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Rebecca

I’m interested in reading it…. What exactly made you feel sick? I’m kinda afraid to read it….lol.

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Toni

We Need To Talk About Kevin

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Samuel

“Hater” by David Moody.

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Tabatha

A child called it and watched the lovely bones

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PaulaQuestion author

Push by Sapphire

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Rebecka

The Color Purple by Alice Walker.

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Natalie

Misery by Stephen King. Gives me anxiety.

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PaulaQuestion author

One of my favorites!

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Jenna

Bentley Little-the academy, really sick ??

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PaulaQuestion author

I haven’t read any Bentley Little…I’m a bit afraid to lol

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Jenna

Resort is also very very disturbing:)

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Toni

most of Little’s books are disturbing. The Mailman kept me awake for four days straight.

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Toni

And it takes a whole lot to disturb me considering I read books about real life serial killers

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Samantha

Sleepers by Lorenzo carcaterra

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Zeena

The Nightingale! So much pain and suffering

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Diane

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

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Cami

Helter Skelter!!

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Judith

I just read that for the first, very disturbing. His control over his”family” and the lack of concern for victims unbelievable. Also of concern is fact that Manson begged not to be released from prison, before horrible murders were committed.

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Deb

A child call it the series

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Wendy

The Blonde Geisha. Found out after I started reading it that it was “erotica,” but the unnerving part is that all sexual organs were described using vegetables (think about his large mushroom – ??)

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Toni

Dear lord!

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PaulaQuestion author

I’ll pass lol

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Wendy

I had just finished Memoirs of a Geisha and this was on display by it. I grabbed it expecting something similar. Was I shocked!

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Jeff

A clockwork Orange.

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Joan

Exorcist.

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Christina

The child called it

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Deidre

This book shook me to the core… I got an insane hatred for some of the characters…

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Christina

light shining in the forest

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Jessica

Revelations the full book all chapters! !

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Angela

Alicia: My Story. Very hard book to get through… 🙁

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Raelyn

Unlovely By Carol Walsh Geer

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RyanLee

John Dies at the End by David Wong

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Cindy

“It” Very disturbing to me and very sad! 🙁

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Cindy

I should have said, “A Child Called It” Sorry about that!

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Vickie

I think it was called “The Great White”. It was about a young girl who was deaf because her father fed her antibiotics. After he died, her uncle takes her to Antarctica with a young man, thinking that there is a civilization under the ice cap. It was disturbing to think that your own father would make you deaf because of his own delusions!

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Robin

The Bible

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PaulaQuestion author

amen 😉

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Natalie

Oooooh good answer!

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Jasmine

:((

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Hf

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn

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Melody

IT

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Tana

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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Jay

Helter Skelter

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Jessica

Great book

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Jay

Yes it was

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Jennafay

Horror stories don’t really scare me. I think the most disturbing book I ever read was honestly Lord of the Flies. Everything with Piggy at the end, and thinking about those boys being barely children is much more DISTURBING to me.

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Lanette

I totally agree!! This was my choice, also. I hated it.

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Jamie

Iliked the story but it is a horrific book and was my choice as well.

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Sally

Consequences by Aleatha Romig

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Toni

Sounds intriguing and definitely disturbing. Added it to my list.

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Melissa

We need to talk about Kevin.

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Toni

The most disturbing book I’ve read. Chilling and memorable. I still think about it often…

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PaulaQuestion author

Have you seen the movie?

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Melissa

No.

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PaulaQuestion author

May be worth a watch if you get the opportunity

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Toni

I did see it. It was good, but I didn’t feel like the most disturbing aspects of the book translated as well onto screen. The book was just deeply unsettling for me.

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PaulaQuestion author

I completely agree

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Lee

The Painted Bird

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Elizabetta

Flowers in the Attic by V C Andrews. Still one of my all time favorite authors!

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Melissa

I have a child called It, but I don’t know if I want to read it now.

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PaulaQuestion author

I have it too, and I haven’t read it yet for pretty much the same reason!

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Rosemary

I could hardly stomach the reviews on kindle. Awful:(

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Molly

Its tough but worth it

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Kortnee

I’ve had the same copy for over a decade and I’ve only read I once. It is heartbreaking!

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Leanne

A child called it, definitely

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Kelly

I could not finish it

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Edie

the shining

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PaulaQuestion author

Another favorite of mine!

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Shelly

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.

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PaulaQuestion author

Seriously depressing book

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Melissa

I tried to read it and couldn’t.

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Kali

@Amy

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Linda

The Exorcist has to be up there. How about The Orphan Master/s Son?

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Jamie

Lord of the Flies

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Vicki

The Exorcist.

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Giulia

Rob Zombie’s The Lords of Salem

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PaulaQuestion author

I had no idea this was a book. Do you know if it was before or after the movie? I didn’t even know Rob Zombie was a writer :/

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Giulia

I think it was before the movie. In my opinion it’s a very disturbing book :/

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Maureen

OMG it was years ago . A child called it. by Dave Pelzer.

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Shelby

Lord of the Flies
We Were Liars by E. Lockhart – the ending was just a little disturbing to me…

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Maureen

I was going to Start, We Were Liars this evening.

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PaulaQuestion author

I really liked this book, though I can understand why you’d find it a bit disturbing

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Tiffany

Speak

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Carlene

Sleepers and Defending Jacob.

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Rosemary

Disturbing, but, two fantastic books!!!!

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Carlene

They really were.

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Dana

The Association by Bently Little.

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Luanne

Intensity by Dean Koontz

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PaulaQuestion author

I really liked it, and I remember feeling really nervous reading it

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Luanne

@Paula what got me was that all took place in the span of 24 hours. I read it in the span of 24 hours. ALL that happened in that time frame. Omg!

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Stacey

I don’t remember the title but it was a memoir of a man with multiple personality disorder. Fascinating but disturbing.

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Jordan

Misery by Stephen King.

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Shauna

Flowers in the Attic.

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Hf

Sybil

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Richard

Mark Z Danielewski’s House of Leaves

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PaulaQuestion author

I’m really looking forward to reading this one very soon

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Richard

It’s brilliant. It’s a bit like Nabokov’s Pale Fire in terms of experimentalism, but also not like anything else. Took him 10 years to write, I’ve heard!

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PaulaQuestion author

Hopefully won’t take me that long to read lol

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Richard

No, but it’ll stay with you for that long!

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Geraldine

stephen king books- I stop reading his books years ago-Koontz as well

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MackenZie

A Child Called It… There are multiple books. It’s a sort of autobiography… Also, Finding Fish and Who Will Cry for the Little Boy?

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Ellen

A child called it, the lost boy and a man named Dave..all accounts of child abuse very unsettling

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MackenZie

The other three books are of the same kind. Very unsettling as well…

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Ellen

@MackenZie i bet they are, i know those three were

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A'Lisa

We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver is one.

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Linda

One cannot leave out Trumbo’s chilling anti-war classic Johnny Got His Gun, the story of a horribly injured soldier–without arms, legs, eyes, face, tongue, essentially a mind and great sensibility deprived of all senses. Should be required reading for all heads of state.

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Lisa

Rosemary’s Baby

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Huriye

The quran and the bible.

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Natalie

Whispers by Dean Koontz and flowers in the attic by vc Andrew

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Davey

The quran

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Annette

Snuff

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Hari

Ayn rand’s books. Disturbs me a lot. Makes me think and have a new perspective of life and people around me

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Enrique

1984 was flippin scary!

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Linda

Just about anything by Kafka, especially The Trial

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Katie

I read alot of those books and i didn’t think they were disturbing

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Tiff

A clock work orange

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Melvin

It by Stephen King

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Deb

I have never read any Steven king books
Only ever watched his films

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Melvin

You’re missing out on a great read.

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Tris

A Child Called “It”.

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Melody

Earlier, I said It by Stephen King. I would also add Gone Girl and Brain on Fire.

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Tana

Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn and The Glass Castle by Jeanette Walls–both great books, but disturbing.

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Sundra

Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn as well.

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Gergana

A Child Called “It” by Dave Pelzer,House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski ,Identical by Ellen Hopkins (sexual abuse ,incest themed),Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille ,Go Ask Alice
by Beatrice Sparks and Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso

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Amanda

I can’t remember the title but it was a book of short stories by Stephen King. One of the stories was a man that was a surgeon and he survived a plane crash. He was alone on an island where he lived off eating his body parts ? it was so twisted, yet so good.

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Dorian

American Psycho ~ the fact that he was a regular guy making it on Wall Street and having that little thing on the side…. at the end, he tells his lawyer and laughs…. a bit creepy…

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Jordanna

“Blaze” by Richard Bachman who turned out to actually be Stephen King…not a King fan.

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Yvonne

Steven Kings rose madder

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