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Do /lit/ have a list of bleak, disturbing (really disturbing) books? Specially modern ones. If not, do you have any recomendation related?

Pic related; something like this or Blood Meridian

>> No.2785735

bump hours later dudes cmon

>> No.2785743

Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

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2785751

We have the depressing literature chart, which contains some bleak and some disturbing books. Stoner is extremely bleak though not especially disturbing, while The Sufferings of Prince Sternenhoch is mostly disturbing. I can't think of any which are both in large amounts at the moment.

>> No.2785779

>>2785743
Already have that, yeah, is disturbing enough to fit, but Palahniuk is too "tongue in cheek" and over the top. But thanks man
>>2785751
Thanks for that, ill check some, see what are those about. THanks man

>> No.2785991

Intensity

>> No.2786582

>>2785751
>To Live: Yu Hua
Is that what Kurosawa's Ikiru is based off of?

>> No.2787149

bump for interest

>> No.2788495

is this board always this slow?

>> No.2788512

The riders by Tim Winton, A farewell to arms by Ernest Hemingway and Goethe's The sorrows of young werther are all really bleak.
Tim Winton is the only modern one, he's (in my opinion) Australia's best writer and uses language beautifully.

>> No.2789168

another bump

>> No.2790998

again...

>> No.2791001

Try Never Let Me Go. Stop bumping

>> No.2791002

We already gave you a list of depressing books. Did you look through all of them already? And none of them were what you're looking for?

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Reality is very VERY disturbing.

>> No.2791092

>>2790998
we already gave you a damn list, and you never have to bump at all on this board, ever.
You annoy me.

>> No.2791128

You should check out Michel Houllebecq, though he does overdo the sex.

>> No.2791132

Cows - Matthew Stokoe.

It gets a bit bleak at times.

>> No.2791151

>>2791128

Of course he overdoes the sex. Because he's french. On the other hand, I never found any of his works particularly shocking. He's a great writer, but that épater le bourgeois stuff only works if you're bourgeois, I guess.

Peter Sotos wrote some pretty nasty books, but they're all out of print the minute they get published.

Dennis Cooper's work is quite upsetting, but the homosexual content may not be to /lit/'s reactionary taste.

Ian McEwan's The Concrete Garden (may have the
title slightly wrong there) has a lot of unsettling elements - similarly Iain Banks' The Wasp Factory.

>> No.2791152

There Is No Year by Blake Butler

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>>2785751

>OP asks for bleak and disturbing
>receives standard-issue recommendation chart for entry level, sub-goth, books for depressed teenagers.
>fucking /lit/

If you want pretentious stuff to impress girls, then Les Enfants Terrible [Jean Cocteau] will do the business. If you just want straight out nasty, then Matthew Stokoe and Peter Sotos have been mentioned already.

There's also a load of books I've seen on Amazon called things like The Baby Jesus Buttplug and something about Ass-Goblins of Auschwitz - maybe that would be something you'd like, but I've never read it myself - seems a bit tryhard.

>> No.2791172

>>2785134
I've been looking for The End of Alice for ages, does anyone have a free ebook download of it?

>> No.2791175

>>2785751
of mice and men?

>> No.2791177

>>2785751
Who Will Run The Frog Hospital? hurts so good.

The Secret History by Donna Tartt is pretty bleak
>the winter Richard spends in Camden
>the bacchanal

>> No.2791560

>>2791159
Straight out nasty is what im looking exactly. Another example is Jack Ketchum's "The Girl Next Door"

>> No.2791564

>>2791560
SADE

>> No.2791578

>>2791172
Its in Amazon at a good price

>> No.2791583

>>2785751

>Tess of the D'Urbervilles

Not Jude the Obscure? What are you, black, a woman or gay? Because you cannot into literature.

>> No.2791588

>>2791002
>>2791092
Sorry if i bother any of you. Im not looking for deppressing books, but i appreciate the list and some of them will end in my personal library

>> No.2791596

>>2791151
Man, Peter Sotos themes sounds interesting. Who dares to publish him?

>> No.2791598

>>2791159
I dont want them to impress girls, i want them to impress myself. I want to be repulsed and scared

>> No.2791629

>>2791596

No-one for very long.

>> No.2791637

>>2791598

Well, Les Enfants Terrible is a bit fucked anyway, so give it a whirl. But by comparison to the later 20th century books, it's pretty tame.

William Burroughs has some pretty hairy moments if you like people being hanged and ejaculating into the mouths of gay cowboys in their death throes.

Other than that - Cows is pretty nasty.

>> No.2791643

Sociology is pretty depressing stuff.

>> No.2791644

I've never read it, but doesn't somebody in the Twilight books fuck his best friend's baby daughter or something?

How they got that past the censor I've no idea.

>> No.2791650

The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing is fairly disturbing, but not in an in-your-face William Burroughs kind of way.

>> No.2792300

American Psycho.
Crash

>> No.2792317 [DELETED] 

>>2791643
>mfw


>>2791583 Jude the Obscure is on there as well you twat.

>> No.2792470

>>2785751
This is some grad a stuff.

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>no Pure

~P(A=B)
>A=disturbing
>B=depressing

>> No.2794004

The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum

>> No.2794705

>>2794004
Thats a good example of what im looking for