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Forget creative license, authorial "intent", or the separation of author/narrator. When you read this book, you suspect the author is a perverted, scary, dangerous or generally disturbed individual. Have you ever read something and felt like, "Dang, anyone who thinks of stuff like this is messed up!"? Then please vote for that book on this list!
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100 books · 69 voters · list created November 6th, 2010 by Brixton (votes) .
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message 1: by Jack (new)

Jack I'm confused, why are Pynchon, Irving, and Freud "scary", is there something they've done i don't know about, or are their bodies of work "scary"?


message 2: by Brixton (new)

Brixton Sorry for the delayed reply, Jack.

I thought the list description explained the motive for this list clearly enough, but perhaps it sounds a little over-serious. Have you ever read something and felt like, "Dang, anyone who thinks of stuff like this is messed up!"? That's the idea I had in mind for this list.


Loveliest Evaris Why is Sigmund Freud on here? Yes he connects everything with sex but... It's not that he's a weirdo or anything, because his Oedipus Complex ideas and the anal, phallic, oral, etc. stages are actually pretty reasonable theories.... But I'll look at some of these other books...


message 4: by F. McGill (new)

F. McGill As I was reading Wuthering Height's, the dominating thought running through my head was, "Good Lord, Emily Bronte must have had a miserable f*cking life if this is considered romance."


message 5: by [deleted user] (new)

Honestly, Chuck Palahniuk writes disturbing books, but i don't find him particularly disturbing as a person


message 6: by [deleted user] (new)

Outlander, really? WOW


message 7: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn F. J. McGill wrote: "As I was reading Wuthering Height's, the dominating thought running through my head was, "Good Lord, Emily Bronte must have had a miserable f*cking life if this is considered romance.""

I agree! Her life must have been a horror!


message 8: by ~☆~Autumn (new)

~☆~Autumn deleted user wrote: "Outlander, really? WOW"

My sister and I agreed that book is SICK! (VERY SICK)


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