A book about a high school senior boy who, thinking he was very clever, decided to do a project where he wrote letters to imprisoned serial killers.
He ends up striking up an ongoing correspondence with John Wayne Gacy. He goes to visit him in prison. Gacy gets him alone.
He gets out of the situation but the book very much felt like that guy never really escaped the mental space that he had gotten into.
That guy comes to mind now and then.
I looked him up once, and discovered he died by suicide. Which did not surprise me. That poor man had gone very far into the dark sea, thinking he was too clever to drown.
Night, by Elie Wiesel. Had to put it down in several places and some of the imagery is burned into my brain. What makes it so much worse is that most of those scenes were recounting of horrors he witnessed during WWII. How anyone lived through that and was able to function at all defies logic.
It’s about rockstars, drug addiction and sex and involves overdosing, someone being murdered, and very explicit directions on how to come off of heroin.
My mom bought it for me to read because she thought I would like it. I was 10. Let’s just say I had a LOT of questions after reading that book.
A very close second is Flowers for Algernon, which I read at 8 years old and is VERY inappropriate for an 8 year old. Holy shit.
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. I read both of them my senior year of college, and also read The Handsmaid’s Tale in the same class. Just to make things a little more dramatic, we had just started this class when 9/11 happened.
Landssvik oppgjøret is a book written just after ww2 from the leader of the Norwegian resistance in the Oslo region. Major Langeland where he wrote about the injustice the government showed the war torn people of Norway where normal civilians were executed or imprisoned for ‘’ collaborating with the enemy ‘’ building infrastructure or anything that they did before the war. But politicians and influential people that actively participated and supported the Germans barely got a smack on the wrist.
Shake Hands with the Devil. The true account of Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire’s experiences in Rwanda. He recounts a lot of his experiences, and the descriptions are horrific. Roads they couldn’t drive down because they were so covered with bodies, watching people hacked apart in the street, stuff like that. It’s brutal.
Precious has a truly uncomfortable start to the book, but I think my most disturbing is The Poet by Micheal Connelly. There is a chapter I wish I could scrub from my memory in that book!
When I read The Handmaid’s Tale in college in the mid 90s I was troubled for days. It caused me to seriously rethink gender roles, bodily autonomy, and religion. Which, I suppose, is exactly what it was trying to do.
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A book about a high school senior boy who, thinking he was very clever, decided to do a project where he wrote letters to imprisoned serial killers.
He ends up striking up an ongoing correspondence with John Wayne Gacy. He goes to visit him in prison. Gacy gets him alone.
He gets out of the situation but the book very much felt like that guy never really escaped the mental space that he had gotten into.
That guy comes to mind now and then.
I looked him up once, and discovered he died by suicide. Which did not surprise me. That poor man had gone very far into the dark sea, thinking he was too clever to drown.
I’ll be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
The content of the book itself is creepy and fact that she didn’t live to see the Golden State Killer captured sits with me years after reading it
Organic Chemistry, 5th edition. Legit wake up in the night sobbing thinking about it.
Night, by Elie Wiesel. Had to put it down in several places and some of the imagery is burned into my brain. What makes it so much worse is that most of those scenes were recounting of horrors he witnessed during WWII. How anyone lived through that and was able to function at all defies logic.
We Need to Talk About Kevin, Lionel Shriver
The kite runner
The Long Walk. It’s by Stephen King but it’s a Bachman book. Can’t believe they’re making it a movie now, it’s gonna be nuts.
Flowers in the Attic
We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow You Will All Be Killed With Your Families. It’s about the Rwandan genocide.
The Unexpected Salami.
It’s about rockstars, drug addiction and sex and involves overdosing, someone being murdered, and very explicit directions on how to come off of heroin.
My mom bought it for me to read because she thought I would like it. I was 10. Let’s just say I had a LOT of questions after reading that book.
A very close second is Flowers for Algernon, which I read at 8 years old and is VERY inappropriate for an 8 year old. Holy shit.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote and The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien. I read both of them my senior year of college, and also read The Handsmaid’s Tale in the same class. Just to make things a little more dramatic, we had just started this class when 9/11 happened.
american psycho
A Child Called It, it’s very graphic and sad and a true story
Landssvik oppgjøret is a book written just after ww2 from the leader of the Norwegian resistance in the Oslo region. Major Langeland where he wrote about the injustice the government showed the war torn people of Norway where normal civilians were executed or imprisoned for ‘’ collaborating with the enemy ‘’ building infrastructure or anything that they did before the war. But politicians and influential people that actively participated and supported the Germans barely got a smack on the wrist.
The most disturbing thing I ever read was I Have No Mouth Yet I Must Scream.
Shake Hands with the Devil. The true account of Lt. Gen. Romeo Dallaire’s experiences in Rwanda. He recounts a lot of his experiences, and the descriptions are horrific. Roads they couldn’t drive down because they were so covered with bodies, watching people hacked apart in the street, stuff like that. It’s brutal.
She’s come undone by Wally lamb.
Beloved is pretty fucked up. I loved it & the movie was brilliant but I don’t think I’ll ever read it again
A child called It. Read it in fourth grade for some reason and it’s still burned into my mind 23 years later.
Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk
Apt Pupil by Stephen King was pretty dark.
All of Ann Rule’s true crime books. She was a top notch writer
Precious has a truly uncomfortable start to the book, but I think my most disturbing is The Poet by Micheal Connelly. There is a chapter I wish I could scrub from my memory in that book!
Tender is the Flesh
Congo atrocities
[King Leopold’s Ghost – Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Leopold%27s_Ghost)
It’s been some years, but i believe the color purple’s first page features child rape
Flowers for Algernon
When I read The Handmaid’s Tale in college in the mid 90s I was troubled for days. It caused me to seriously rethink gender roles, bodily autonomy, and religion. Which, I suppose, is exactly what it was trying to do.
Well there’s no such list without Marquis de Sade. I’ll throw The 120 Days of Sodom in there for one specific text.
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille.
One paragraph will turn you on and the next paragraph will make you want to vomit and round and round we go.