Well, I was creeped out...
Most disturbing book you've read?
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It's in a collection called Magic Terror. It is a tough one to read.
Didn't he dedicate this tale to Sai King?
1979 Ghost story
Magic Terror 2000-- but a couple stories printed elsewhere and collected into this book
Magic Terror 2000-- but a couple stories printed elsewhere and collected into this book
I think someone (maybe it was you) mentioned this before on the board. It's all coming back to me now. Not the Celine Dion song.
Why are all my posts song titles?
I was terribly disturbed by SK's The Long Walk.
I was too. I felt the whole thing, as if I were there.
Great read. Disturbing, yes.
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I'll add one more. "One of Us" by Asne Seierstad. The non-fiction story of the mass shooting in Norway several years ago. Well-written and arguably more relevant today with all the issues relating to immigration in Europe and the US. Putting the politics aside, the sheer cold-blooded human element involved in the planning and implementation of this event is chilling. Somewhat reminiscent of the recent Vegas incident.
Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway - The New York Times
Review: ‘One of Us,’ by Asne Seierstad, on Anders Breivik’s Rampage in Norway - The New York Times
Love The Wasp Factory. I included an essay on this and Walking on Glass (also by Iain Banks) as part of my English lit coursework when I was at school. Can also highly recommend The Bridge, Canal Dreams, Whit, Espedair Street and The Business by the same author. But if you want the dark and disturbing stuff then Complicity is the one to go for. He also had a nice line in SF under the Iain 'M' Banks if that's your thing. I haven't read as many of those but Player of Games is fantastic. Blimey! Almost forgot The Crow Road, that's a great read too.
I haven't read any Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is on my list though. Thanks for your suggestions
Secrets Of The Bones by Teri Jacobs.
Do. I saw the movie and read the book when the movie came out. The book is way more disturbing.I have never got around to reading the book, it is on the list though
I did a paper in Comp I on Auschwitz my Freshman year. It was disturbing....a non-fiction book that my father had years ago....and the blatant real life horror of it has never left me....
...I read it as a young man, a "tween", and that really was my first exposure to the horrors and the hate that could be visited upon people that were only different because of their religion....
I have told that plot to more people than any other SK book. It makes for interesting discussions.
One of the disturping things for me was a visit to Auchwitz in the summer of -96. It had gone over 50 years since the ovens stopped burning but you could still feel the atmosphere of the horrors perpetrated where i stood. You saw things they picked out for further use, like Gold teeth, and was not just a few things. It was rooms with it. You got a real feel for the scope of it when you're there than when you read about it. It somehow makes it easier to visualize, to imagine and accept. You can accept a fact in a book but to see the scope of that fact and what it encompasses a visit was, for me, necessary. The evil kind of reeked out of the ground. If i had lain down on the ground i might have heard voices.... It was eerie.
I can Imagine, I felt similar when I was at the Imperial War Museum in London, they had a huge glass cabinet that was full of shoes and glasses and other personal belongings that were recovered from Auschwitz.
I have also been to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. Very emotional place.
Honestly, I can' imagine being there at all. I would go, if I had the chance.
((Kurb)) I would like to say more, but I do not have the words right now.