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Any book that makes you uncomfortable ? (pg. 3)
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| Halcyon+On+On |
Well that's why I recommend De Sade; If the rarity and obscenity of a piece is of attraction to you, The good Marquis will probably explain why, and in the most explicit and perverse detail possible.
Not saying you're attracted to child-porn writing, I mean, you're not IGK or something, but the taboo of certain philosophies is naturally attractive to many people for many of the reasons it repulses others; it's an odd phenomenon, but not one entirely without reason. |
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| Chimney |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
Well that's why I recommend De Sade; If the rarity and obscenity of a piece is of attraction to you, The good Marquis will probably explain why, and in the most explicit and perverse detail possible.
Not saying you're attracted to child-porn writing, I mean, you're not IGK or something, but the taboo of certain philosophies is naturally attractive to many people for many of the reasons it repulses others; it's an odd phenomenon, but not one entirely without reason. |
Sounds interesting. Might be something to look into. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by leph555
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted (filled with 23 short stories)
Specifically interesting story from the book is called "Guts". It's about an abnormally skinny man who lost part of his lower intestine in a masturbation accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_(novel) |
I also found "Guts" to be absolutely hilarious. Maybe I am just completely broken or I use humour as a defense mechanism against psychological mutilation? Either way, I can assure you that amusement is far more enjoyable than hesitant respect for everyone else's personal bubble. And enjoyment is probably everything. |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by leph555
Chuck Palahniuk - Haunted (filled with 23 short stories)
Specifically interesting story from the book is called "Guts". It's about an abnormally skinny man who lost part of his lower intestine in a masturbation accident.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haunted_(novel) |
Palahniuk is such a one-trick pony putz :p |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| Hey Hal, I finally read Salammbo. Joy! |
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| Esiotrat |
| quote: | Originally posted by d_Verge
The Catcher In the Rye back in High School and I was a little disturbed; I think I was afraid of becoming a Holden type character in real life. It didn't happen, luckily. |
I hated that book as well.. Poor little rich boy.
The worst book I've ever tried to read was hack children's author R.L. Stine's one and only attempt at an adult horror novel. The man. Cannot. Write in. Complete. Sentences. To save his. Contemptible. Life. I literally got so frustrated with the thing that I threw the book across the room. It was physically painful to continue reading.
I also forced my way through both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, largely because I was interested enough in the historical minutiae to ignore the fact that Dan Brown's craft is execrable. If you can ignore the writing, he does actually have a good sense of story, despite all the "OMG AMBIGRAMS R SO HARD GUYZ" suspensemongering.
Another book that made me really uncomfortable was The Turner Diaries. Because it's badly written and racist. One of my professors made us read it for class. I couldn't finish it. It led to an awareness that I'm not ing racist. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Hey Hal, I finally read Salammbo. Joy! |
I'd just heard somebody mention Flaubert earlier today, and thought of you. :o
So how 'bout it? Fatal attraction and child sacrifice? Sounds like the roots of democracy, if you ask me! |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by Halcyon+On+On
I'd just heard somebody mention Flaubert earlier today, and thought of you. :o
So how 'bout it? Fatal attraction and child sacrifice? Sounds like the roots of democracy, if you ask me! |
Carthage is still the most fascinating city in the pre-modern world to me. I mean, beautiful priestesses walking around naked in the midst of barbarian hordes crucifying lions? Sign me up! |
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| couch-potato |
| quote: | Originally posted by Enigmatik
The worst book I've ever tried to read was hack children's author R.L. Stine's one and only attempt at an adult horror novel. The man. Cannot. Write in. Complete. Sentences. To save his. Contemptible. Life. I literally got so frustrated with the thing that I threw the book across the room. It was physically painful to continue reading.
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Once I developed a taste for good writing a lot of books were ruined for me. I can't finish Moby Dick, be all this as it may, Herman Melville in his overreaching prose and scrutiny for things psychological, nautical, and factual gives me headaches of the highest caliber that would send the cursed white whale trembling under the highest agony beyond thunder and harpoon to its adamant hide. |
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| Halcyon+On+On |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Carthage is still the most fascinating city in the pre-modern world to me. I mean, beautiful priestesses walking around naked in the midst of barbarian hordes crucifying lions? Sign me up! |
I hate to practically quote the book jacket, but...
| quote: | A vague idea of immolation spread among the people. To appease the Baalim it was without doubt necessary
to offer them something of incalculable worth, a being handsome,
young, virgin, of old family, a descendant of the gods, a human star.
Every day the gardens of Megara were invaded by strange men; the
slaves, trembling on their own account, dared not resist them.
Nevertheless, they did not pass beyond the galley staircase. They
remained below with their eyes raised to the highest terrace; they
were waiting for Salammbo, and they would cry out for hours against
her like dogs baying at the moon. |
Ok, so I don't hate it that much.
The condensation of so many people, reducible to mere tribute for a beauty so divine the Gods must surely grant pardon for even the most dire of transgressions - it's romanticism on a purely existential level that only that age could elicit in unflinching decadence - is incomparable, irreplaceable in its rapidity. Only a time where the value of human life was that of both equal value tribute and sacrifice could this manifestation been so attractive - in our current time it is either a disgusting disambiguation of sexual enactment or a reverence for the feminist dominance; never anything else, always something of extremes, of impossible fantasies and moral nightmares made second nature. |
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| couch-potato |
| Jesus I'm reading this ASAP :p |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| HG Wells scarred me so deeply as an 11 year old I still have recurring nightmares. Does that count as "uncomfortable"? |
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