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*SallyGauge:iconSallyGauge: May 7, 2008, 4:14:21 PM
I was talking to my English teacher and she was saying that she couldn't stand 'A Clockwork Orange' because it disturbed her more than any other book. Shes a big bookworm and shes pretty good when it comes to weird stuff like that. I bought the book and I plan on reading it once I finish the book I'm reading now but I was curious, has anyone else ever read a book they couldn't finish because it weirded you out or made you uncomfortable?

(I don't mean like it was written badly and you hated it, I mean if it bothered or scared you)

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*violetice:iconvioletice: May 7, 2008, 4:44:47 PM
Not yet, although for some reason I tend to enjoy books like that. "Suffer the Children" by John Saul and "Dark Rivers of the Heart" by Dean Koontz probably fall into that category, and I loved reading them.

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*SallyGauge:iconSallyGauge: May 7, 2008, 4:45:57 PM
what were those about?

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*BerylAlexandros:iconBerylAlexandros: May 7, 2008, 6:48:01 PM
Nah, I never let that kind of thing keep me from finishing a book.

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*violetice:iconvioletice: May 7, 2008, 10:01:50 PM
"Suffer the Children" is about a family that lives on a house on a cliff, and in that cliff is a haunted cave of sorts. It causes their youngest daughter to go crazy and local kids start disappearing.

"Dark Rivers of the Heart" is...huh, it's been quite a while since I've read it. I had to consult amazon--it's got a sort of government conspiracy plot. What I really remember are the characters--the two main villains are complete psychopaths. Very disturbing but a great book.

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~Conspiracy-of-Ravens:iconConspiracy-of-Ravens: May 7, 2008, 10:44:51 PM
I would love to find a book that really got under my skin like that. Horrorwise or thriller would be preferrable it would seem. I haven't read 'A Clockwork Orange' but I STILL remember the movie and I know the book is so much more detailed. I don't particularly want those characters in my head eventhough I tend toward psychological themes.

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=deathtosanity:icondeathtosanity: May 7, 2008, 11:12:36 PM
Kushiel's Avatar had that effect, not to the point where I couldn't finish it, just kinda made me shiver from how absolutely horrible that one part was. I did finish it I actually found myself impressed that a book could do that to me. :O

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=BloodiRose:iconBloodiRose: May 7, 2008, 11:52:08 PM
Ohh, now I want to read it...No, no books I have ever read have weirded me out O__o I really want to read Lolita.

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~middleearthhare:iconmiddleearthhare: May 8, 2008, 12:18:35 PM
1984 by George Orwell, Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo, and Night by Elie Wiesel all made me shiver...Very good books, classics like A Clockwork Orange (which is excellent...) There is a reason some books are read for years and years :)
~smooveenrique:iconsmooveenrique: May 8, 2008, 9:43:19 PM
anything by Charles Dickens.
~Tsuchan:iconTsuchan: May 8, 2008, 9:53:26 PM
I read "Out of the Silent Planet" by C.S. Lewis and it was good, in fact I really liked it. I started reading Perilandra (the second book in the series) and wow..that freaked me out.
It's like..it wasn't that scary but it was disturbing me how this guy called Un-man in the story was posessed.. and became this freakish monster that was mutilating animals and leaving them to suffer.

*cries in corner*

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