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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 12, 2019 15:05:58 GMT
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Post by hi224 on Feb 12, 2019 15:07:49 GMT
Well depends.
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Post by mmexis on Feb 12, 2019 21:53:18 GMT
The Lovely Bones Beasts of no nation (took a long time for a small book) Smyrna 1922 (not fiction)
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Post by hi224 on Feb 13, 2019 3:17:29 GMT
The Lovely Bones Beasts of no nation (took a long time for a small book) Smyrna 1922 (not fiction) hmm beasts eh, ill say rape of nanking.
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Post by Bargle on Feb 13, 2019 10:58:30 GMT
I'll say "Killer Fiction" by Gerard Schaefer. Serial killer short stories by a real serial killer. Thought by many to be thinly disguised retellings of his actual murders. I gave up about half way through it. It was just too ugly.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Feb 15, 2019 12:03:06 GMT
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Post by pimpinainteasy on Feb 15, 2019 15:14:12 GMT
GUERILLAS by VS NAIPAUL A HOUSE FOR MR BISWAS by VS NAIPAUL HALF A LIFE by VS NAIPAUL
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Post by koskiewicz on Feb 15, 2019 17:14:05 GMT
I don't remember the author: The book title was "Curse of the Swastika"
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Post by Hairynosedwombat on Feb 17, 2019 19:58:12 GMT
The first book of The Gap series by Steven R Donaldson.
Torture and sex slavery aren't my thing so I didn't finish the first book.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Feb 28, 2019 8:02:26 GMT
How about a short story? Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.
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Post by wickedkittiesmom on Feb 28, 2019 12:36:14 GMT
Mein Kampf Vol. 1 & 2, I read this in High School in the mid 60's, I bought it at a bookstore but did not let anyone know I was reading it because many people are very narrow minded and draw the wrong conclusions (I openly read Karl Marx's The Communist Manifesto and was called a "Commie" by other students). If the political leaders of the time had taken the time to read Mein Kampf, they would have had a good idea of who they were dealing with. When I was a teen and also in my early 20's, I read a lot of political and philosophical books, now that I'm approaching 70, I read mostly "cozies" and mysteries.
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Post by llanwydd on Feb 28, 2019 20:09:03 GMT
Poland by James Michener was relentlessly depressing. Michener is my favorite 20th century author so I had to read it but he could have put at least some cheerful content in such a long book. His aim, apparently, was to present the entire history of Poland as one long holocaust which it was not. They had their struggles but they certainly had their triumphs as well.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Mar 1, 2019 0:38:18 GMT
How about a short story? Guts by Chuck Palahniuk. That was puerile more than disturbing.
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Post by moviebuffbrad on Mar 1, 2019 0:40:01 GMT
How about a short story? Guts by Chuck Palahniuk. That was puerile more than disturbing. Puerile, sure, but those things can and do happen.
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Mar 1, 2019 7:55:16 GMT
How about a short story? Guts by Chuck Palahniuk. That’s the one in the pool right? I read the short story book, but it didn’t really stick with me.
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Post by Zos on Mar 2, 2019 15:00:43 GMT
The Girl Next Door by jack Ketchum would be right up there.
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Post by Captain Spencer on Mar 2, 2019 16:50:38 GMT
The Woods Are Dark by Richard Laymon. The 1981 Warner Books version of this horror novel contains tons of explicit violence and rape. Lots of disturbing content. I've never read another horror book like this.
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Post by TheSowIsMine on Mar 2, 2019 20:34:13 GMT
The Girl Next Door by jack Ketchum would be right up there. Especially because its based on real events.
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Post by twothousandonemark on Mar 3, 2019 4:48:26 GMT
Some WWII history books. Antony Beevor's WWII in particular, he writes without filter, & rightly so. Some accounts of Japanese & Russian soldiers going full Neanderthal on populations in retreat &/or retaliation. Keeping in mind towards war's end, the armies were younger, teenagers, facing zero hope of much other than getting theirs. That's messed up. Armed & violent teens running over the global battlefields... not a great legacy of humanity.
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Post by jackspicer on Mar 3, 2019 22:09:19 GMT
I didn't read the list, but I would be surprised if The Rape of Nanking was left out.
Mindhunter was also disturbing.
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