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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

From the lounge

I will start with a little life by Hanya Yanagihara. Not for the faint hearted

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By *ubal1Man
over a year ago

Newry Down

Personally, I find tomes relating to religion very disturbing because they encourage naive gullible people to live their lives in a dysfunctional way.

The Bible, which is the one with which I am most familiar is full of contradictory nonsense and cobbled together from the warped ideas of desert dwellers who suffered from hallucinations and delusions.

Millions of people have died from conflicts about these books, beginning with the Crusades, and leading to the present day.

Mercifully, in Ireland, as a result of the abuse and historic exploitation by the clergy, many people have copped on, and the churches are devoid of congregations.

The Bible, The Quran and other similar books will, I hope, fade into the distant past: they are dangerous books!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I read The Exorcist when I was about 11, didn't sleep for weeks.

Now the most disturbing books are those chick-lit ones

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"I read The Exorcist when I was about 11, didn't sleep for weeks.

Now the most disturbing books are those chick-lit ones

How do you know they're disturbing? Have you read one?

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By *aywhatnowMan
over a year ago

North County

A few by Richard Laymon are extremely traffic. He was a Brilliant horror author.

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By *ublinjonnMan
over a year ago

dublin

It by Stephen King.....scariest read I've ever had....he's a genius

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"I read The Exorcist when I was about 11, didn't sleep for weeks.

Now the most disturbing books are those chick-lit ones

How do you know they're disturbing? Have you read one?

Unfortunately yes, in a holiday apartment where it was on a shelf

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By *og-ManMan
over a year ago

somewhere

There's an English author called James Herbert who died a few years ago

I read all his horror / stroke thriller books in my teens

The fog is about a chemical weapon outbreak that forms a cloud and travels around England and creates a type of madness in everyone that comes into contact with it

It's unbelievably graphic and has some amazing disturbing sex orgy / death scenes

I was 13 when I read it and can still remember it

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Done of Edgar Alan poe's short stories leave more questions than answers.

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By *oghunter33Woman
over a year ago

on the hill NordWest of

"I read The Exorcist when I was about 11, didn't sleep for weeks.

Now the most disturbing books are those chick-lit ones

How do you know they're disturbing? Have you read one?

Unfortunately yes, in a holiday apartment where it was on a shelf

It must have changed your life!

I've never read one, although I've to confess I bought once a Marian Keyes as an easy read when my English was bit more basic. I never read it though and it went to the recycling in its virginal state.

I actually ended up reading 'Felicia's journey' by William Trevor instead, which truly is a disturbing story.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Connolly, brilliant Irish author, “Every Dead Thing”. Is his first book and the first of the “Charlie Parker” series, I would be a big Stephen King fan but I think Connolly can give him run for his money

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By *ilthyNightsCouple
over a year ago

East / North, Cork

I read most of HP lovecrafts writings as a teenager and I clearly remember "At the mountains of madness" to this day.

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By *he zephyrCouple
over a year ago

The Sol

The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood. Most of her books are pretty disturbing dystopian visions

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"John Connolly, brilliant Irish author, “Every Dead Thing”. Is his first book and the first of the “Charlie Parker” series, I would be a big Stephen King fan but I think Connolly can give him run for his money "

Absolutely love the Charlie Parker series, my son has his second name cos I adored Louis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

American Psycho was disturbing in places. An interesting read, but extremely depraved at times

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By *oungcouple1993xCouple
over a year ago

Dublin

I hated a little life, felt it was somewhat lacking a storyline and it was more so random trauma dumping. Loved Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The God of Small Things, was pretty weird at times, uncomfortable even

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By *omebirdWoman
over a year ago

Anything by Margaret Atwood.. She's not far off the mark with her dystopian fantasies it seems...

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"I hated a little life, felt it was somewhat lacking a storyline and it was more so random trauma dumping. Loved Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro."

Agree except for two things

The passage where the vase breaks is so beautiful . I actually couldn’t carry on reading .

And I like the title . Some people can’t form the connections and do the things people associate with everyday happiness . But within their ‘little life’ they can still find joy

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By *asual777 OP Man
over a year ago

i travel all over

"I hated a little life, felt it was somewhat lacking a storyline and it was more so random trauma dumping. Loved Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro."

Yes that one and Klara and the sun also by him are on my to read list

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By *heeky_BudgieMan
over a year ago

Belfast

The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks.

It’s not a horror, but there are images conjured up in this book that you don’t want in your head. I read it over 25 years ago and can still see the things described.

It’s about a sort of loner teenager in a remote part of Scotland reminiscing on the horrible things he has done and seen. He has a thing for trapping animals… But it’s the sub plot, about his brother that has all the really dark stuff in. He has escaped from a Psychiatric Hospital and heading home…

There’s my elevator pitch!

It really is a great book.

But dark

And twisted.

And will haunt you.

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By *cottybear74Man
over a year ago

kilkenny

The first book I read that disturbed me was 'Jaws' by Peter Brenchley. Tho I had seen the movie reading the detail of the first attack was so well written that it stayed with me for years.