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What's the rudest bit of fiction you have ever read?
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The first thing I thought about after reading the title of this thread was The Catcher in the Rye. The narrator is vulgar, from what I remember. He's also a little prat.
To bring up Palahniuk again, I think Choke was pretty rude and crude (and not too well written either).
To bring up Palahniuk again, I think Choke was pretty rude and crude (and not too well written either).
Hmm, OK, but where you offended by either of those books?
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Naked Lunch was undoubtedly the filthiest thing I've read.
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Well, with catcher, I read it when I was younger. I was all, "Egads! Bad words!" And Choke was a mix of gratuitous sex and very poor writing. But I wasn't "offended" per se. It wasn't quite to that level. More like irked.
I haven't read the book -- I heard children are sodomised? But I liked the movie.
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I was very offended by Palahniuk's Survivor, but mostly because I was Christian at the time and it's a very anti-Christian novel. Now I just don't care. Palahniuk isn't that interesting anyway.
From what I gathered from the first 60 pages, the novel alternates between really interesting scenes filled with intense description, and boring shit. The interesting bits weren't interesting enough to make up for the boring shit, which was why I stopped reading after 60 pages.
(The Benway chapter was probably the best part of what I read.)
(The Benway chapter was probably the best part of what I read.)
Probably... Rochester. 'A Ramble in St. James's Park' is a particular favourite.:
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Few poets achieve such heights of disgusting obscenity. Still, you've got to admire him for it. And for his ego. I mean, he's far more interesting than Dryden, or late Wordsworth, say.
(It really gets going in the last couple of stanzas, so hold on till then. The best bit is where he curses her to become sexually obsessed with the wind.)
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But can you prove that?
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Few poets achieve such heights of disgusting obscenity. Still, you've got to admire him for it. And for his ego. I mean, he's far more interesting than Dryden, or late Wordsworth, say.
(It really gets going in the last couple of stanzas, so hold on till then. The best bit is where he curses her to become sexually obsessed with the wind.)
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But can you prove that?
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I also asked the person who asked the question what she meant, and she clarified with this: "Rude could span from downright utterly bigoted sort of Mrs Mortimer sort of writing to Shaw’s letters. And everything in between."
And I've gotten answers like Chuck Palahniuk's Fight Club (because it talks down to you), his Snuff (because the plot is weak), Philip Roth's The Dying Animal (because of "the sudden doggie-style scene", but rude is very high praise in this person's dictionary) and Georges Bataille's Story of the Eye ("since it’s a bit like being assaulted").
Can you think of anything else?
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