What is the most brutal, unrelenting, nasty book you have ever read?

Question

I thought A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess , The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum and Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite were pretty high up there.

Answer 1

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PayBack by Gert Ledig
The worst part about it was that it was drawn from true memories.
Amazon.com link:
http://www.amazon.com/Payback-Gert-Ledig…

Answer 2

check out pretty much anything written by Irvine Welsh...he is responsible for Trainspotting. if you have seen the movie and dont think its that bad, the book is worse...its all very good reading, like, its brilliant stuff, but its full of drugs and sex and violence, but it leaves you wanting more because of how he writes.

Answer 3

The Turner Diaries by MacDonald. Don"t buy it, don't read it. It is propaganda in its most serious form. The most unamerican peice of junk I ever read. The blueprint of Timothy McVeigh's cowardly act in Oklahoma City.

Answer 4

Juliette by the Marquis de Sade . Some of the things he describes are just plain awful, and happen OVER and OVER again. One would not think there was so much blood and other bodily fluids parlayed about in a period work--really violent stuff, but this IS the Marquis de Sade, after all...it became so awful that it numbed me after awhile and I couldn't enjoy it; had to stop reading it, not because it made me ill, but because it started to seem rote and banal after awhile. Somehow I decided that when the violence got to the point where it was unrelenting and mind-numbing, it was no longer interesting.

Answer 5

Beowolf

Answer 6

"A Clockwork Orange" doesn't hold up next to William S. Burroughs's "Naked Lunch" (in terms of brutal nastiness...Burgess tears Burroughs apart in literary ability). Imagine acid trips, orgies, asphyxiations, hallucinations, and underage boys all rolled into one sentence. Repeat that sentence for 300 pages. Add nastier stuff every few paragraphs. Lo and behold, you have "Naked Lunch." Heck, you basically have the content of "Cities of the Red Night" and "Nova Express" as well.
Then again, Paris Hilton has an autobiography...

I haven't read the other two you have listed, but I recently bought Ketchum's, and now I'm excited to read it.

Answer 7

The Room or Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.
The man's description of the events in The Room were so demented that I almost couldn't finsh it.

Answer 8

Story of O by Pauline Reage
End of Alice by A M Homes

Answer 9

American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis - I liked the movie and I heard that the ending was less vague in the book. But I couldn't get through even half of it. I was disgusted, and it takes a lot to disgust me.

Push by Sapphire - I had to read it for a class and it was really hard to take. Not as bad as American Psycho, because I was able to get through it. It's about a young girl who is physically and suxually abused by both her father and her mother. You meet her when she's pregnant with her second child by her father, so really the only abuse you read about is by her mother, but it's pretty intense as it is.

And, oddly enough, I had no problem with Clockwork Orange...

Answer 10

I, Jan Kremer by Jan Kremer. This guy makes a study of what people's turds look like after they've used public restrooms and haven't flushed. Nauseatingly graphic.

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Sos.

Answer 11

running with scissors

obscene, graphic, rude, racist, abnormal content.