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The most disturbing and upsetting novel you will ever read ?



Brighton TID

Brighton TID

New member
Jul 24, 2005
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Horsham
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Based loosely on a true story, this is a novel about a teenage girl who is abused by a family of boys and their insane mother.
I finished it a week ago and am still haunted by it.

I know Christmas is a time to be happy but this book is the most disturbing thing I have read in my 40 years on this planet.

I cannot believe that this shit happens.
 




Leighgull

Leighgull

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Dec 27, 2012
2,377
Fiction...The Terror by Dan Simmons. Fictional account of the Doomed Franklin Mission to find the Northwest passage. HMS Terror and HMS Erebus are trapped in the ice and something is on the ice with them. Very disturbing stuff. Scurvy, alcoholism, cannibalism and cryptozoology. It's a long book but very very well written. I also rated "last light" by Alex Scarrow. Global terror attacks on the worlds power resources send society back to the Stone Age. UK writer so focused on Britain collapsing in on itself.

Non fiction I vote for "killing for company" the Dennis Nillson story, or " beyond belief" the account of the moors murders.
 


EDS

EDS

Banned
Nov 11, 2012
2,040
Brighton TID said:
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Based loosely on a true story, this is a novel about a teenage girl who is abused by a family of boys and their insane mother.
I finished it a week ago and am still haunted by it.

I know Christmas is a time to be happy but this book is the most disturbing thing I have read in my 40 years on this planet.

I cannot believe that this shit happens.
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Why would you read anything like that?
 


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Danny-Boy

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Apr 21, 2009
5,579
The Coast
Brighton TID said:
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Based loosely on a true story, this is a novel about a teenage girl who is abused by a family of boys and their insane mother.
I finished it a week ago and am still haunted by it.

I know Christmas is a time to be happy but this book is the most disturbing thing I have read in my 40 years on this planet.

I cannot believe that this shit happens.
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Shit happens.. I saw an 83 year old woman squijjed by a car (or what was left of her on the road afterwards with all her shopping) a few weeks ago.

I'm reading Jack Dee's autobiography at the moment to help me recover. It's hilarious, most of the time, but in parts quite profound. A very troubled guy.
 


Publius Ovidius

Publius Ovidius

Well-known member
Jul 5, 2003
46,038
at home
A farewell to arms by Ernest hemmingway

Karen was pregnant with laura at the time when I read it and for all of this who will have read it, will know the outcome.

I loved it until the last 5 pages and then Ended up completely traumatised.

If you get a chance please do read it.
 




Beach Hut

Beach Hut

Brighton Bhuna Boy
Jul 5, 2003
71,969
Living In a Box
The most disturbing book is by our former chairman
 


BN9 BHA

BN9 BHA

DOCKERS
NSC Patron
Jul 14, 2013
21,551
Newhaven
Brighton TID said:
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Based loosely on a true story, this is a novel about a teenage girl who is abused by a family of boys and their insane mother.
I finished it a week ago and am still haunted by it.

I know Christmas is a time to be happy but this book is the most disturbing thing I have read in my 40 years on this planet.

I cannot believe that this shit happens.
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Thanks for the heads up, I will give this one a MISS.
 














Buzzer

Buzzer

Languidly Clinical
Oct 1, 2006
26,121
A book called Cows by Matthew Stokoe. He works in an abattoir with some proper psychos, his mum is mental. They do unspeakably perverted things to the cows...and likewise he does to his mum. It's seriously, seriously warped - imagine Iain Banks 'The Wasp Factory' multiplied by Irvine Welsh 'Filth' and you're not even close to how sick this is.

*shudder*
 


Pevenseagull

Pevenseagull

Anti-greed coalition
Jul 20, 2003
19,633
http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Comforts-Madness-Paul-Sayer/dp/0340508043

catatonic mental patient having a bad time

pretty effing disturbing and upsetting

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Buzzer said:
A book called Cows by Matthew Stokoe. He works in an abattoir with some proper psychos, his mum is mental. They do unspeakably perverted things to the cows...and likewise he does to his mum. It's seriously, seriously warped - imagine Iain Banks 'The Wasp Factory' multiplied by Irvine Welsh 'Filth' and you're not even close to how sick this is.

*shudder*
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well that's the future ex-Mrs Pevenseagull's Christmas present sorted then :)
 






BadFish

BadFish

Huge Member
Oct 19, 2003
17,117
Brighton TID said:
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. Based loosely on a true story, this is a novel about a teenage girl who is abused by a family of boys and their insane mother.
I finished it a week ago and am still haunted by it.

I know Christmas is a time to be happy but this book is the most disturbing thing I have read in my 40 years on this planet.

I cannot believe that this shit happens.
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Don't worry movie fans..... they made it for you.



I haven't seen it and I don't think i want to.

This review says it all for me

http://technorati.com/entertainment/film/article/the-girl-next-door-is-an/
 


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willyfantastic

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Mar 1, 2009
2,368
Leighgull said:
Fiction...The Terror by Dan Simmons. Fictional account of the Doomed Franklin Mission to find the Northwest passage. HMS Terror and HMS Erebus are trapped in the ice and something is on the ice with them. Very disturbing stuff. Scurvy, alcoholism, cannibalism and cryptozoology. It's a long book but very very well written. I also rated "last light" by Alex Scarrow. Global terror attacks on the worlds power resources send society back to the Stone Age. UK writer so focused on Britain collapsing in on itself.

Non fiction I vote for "killing for company" the Dennis Nillson story, or " beyond belief" the account of the moors murders.
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the first 2 you mention sound great - thanks for the recommendations
 


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