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Listopia > Arthur Chappell's votes on the list Controversial Books I Have Read (52 Books)
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Savoy Dreams: The Secret Life of Savoy Books
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"Notorious Manchester publishers and book sellers who fell foul of draconian obsenity laws in Manchester "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Peeping Tom
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"A look at the long banned seriel-killer movie now recognized as a horror masterpiece "
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rated it 5 stars
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Goodbye Again: The Definitive Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
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"Includes their very vulgar but funny Derek & Clive sketches"
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rated it 5 stars
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Blasphemy ancient & modern
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"A look at religious controversy "
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rated it 3 stars
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The Atrocity Exhibition
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"Short story collection that includes he first version of Crash, a story about sexually fetishized car crashes "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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The Human Zoo: A Zoologist's Study of the Urban Animal
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"Sequel to The Naked Ape (See Below) "
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rated it 5 stars
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The Naked Ape
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"Famous study of humans as if we were animals in a zoo"
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Darwin: The Life of a Tormented Evolutionist
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"Comprehensive biography of the man who gave us The Origin Of The Species "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Holy Blood, Holy Grail
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"The book that claimed Jesus survived the crucifixion and founded a dynasty - the root inspiration for The Da Vinci Code novel "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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The Last Temptation of Christ
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"A novel (later filmed) about Jesus surviving the crucifixion "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Batman: A Death in the Family
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"The story that killed off Robin "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Dice Man
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"A satire on psychiatry and religion by a man literally living his life at random "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Howl
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"The Beat Poet's famous howl of outrage against mental health abuses and homophobia "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Death of Superman
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"This upset fans who thought Superman was really being killed off "
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rated it 5 stars
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"Poem about the importance of sticking two fingers up at those you don't like."
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Myra Breckinridge/Myron
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"Notorious novel about a transgender woman - the film was so bad it harmed the author's sales for decades "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Live from Golgotha: The Gospel According to Gore Vidal
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"A Time Traveller tries to send live TV footage of the crucifixion to the present day "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Iron Dream
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"Imagines Hitler quit politics before the war to write extremely racist science fiction instead "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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A Time to Dance
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"A middle aged man seduces a younger woman - laughable sex scenes "
Arthur
rated it 2 stars
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American Psycho
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"Notoriously explicity seriel killer story "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Lolita
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"A child molestor story with the girl controversially as manipulative as her assailant "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Watership Down (Watership Down, #1)
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"Many expecting a cute fluffy bunny children's story were shocked by the realistic brutal realism of this story of rabbits seeking a new home"
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Lady Chatterley’s Lover
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"Banned story of a woman's affair with her gamekeeper,Mellors after her husband is sexually crippled in the war "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Escaped Cock
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"Jesus runs away before he can be crucified and eventually elopes with the Goddess Isis "
Arthur
rated it 3 stars
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Behold the Man: A Time Traveler’s Quest to Become the Messiah—The Nebula-Winning New Wave Science Fiction Classic
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"A time traveller hoping to see the crucifixion, finds out Jesus is a mentally disabled child with no real claim to fame, and decides to take his place as the Messiah, even getting himself crucified "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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Against Religion: Why We Should Try to Live Without It (Counterblasts #19)
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Euthanasia: The Good Death (Counterblasts #13)
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The Apocrypha: King James Version
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The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
by See Review |
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Je ne parle pas français
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Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
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Disloyal: The True Story of the Former Personal Attorney to President Donald J. Trump
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The Cold Equations
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"The story flipped the trend for finding last minute solutions to save characters from sacrificing lives in order to survive and the publisher kept trying to get the author to add a happy ending but Godwin stuck to his principles "
Arthur
rated it 5 stars
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The Siege of Trencher's Farm
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Mein Kamph
by See Review |
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Moorcock's Book of Martyrs
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Brimstone and Treacle
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Commander in Cheat: How Golf Explains Trump
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Siege: Trump Under Fire
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The Art of the Nasty
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Facts on the Last Temptation of Christ
by See Review |
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Collected Poems
by See Review |
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Salomé
by See Review |
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The Man Who Died: D.H. Lawrence's Profound Parable of Resurrection, Awakening, and Redemptive Love
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The Plumed Serpent
by See Review |
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The Wind People
by See Review |
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Juliette
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Justine, or the Misfortunes of Virtue
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The Hand-Reared Boy
by See Review |
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Where the Crawdads Sing
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Heart On My Sleeve
by See Review |
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