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Decadent Books
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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,920,560 ratings — published 1890
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,475 ratings — published 1884
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 15 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,830 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.54 — 152 ratings — published
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,874 ratings — published 1899
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,356 ratings — published 1959
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 82,493 ratings — published 1857
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,656 ratings — published 1857
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 217 ratings — published 2013
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.06 — 382,031 ratings — published 1971
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,157 ratings — published 1953
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.87 — 957,345 ratings — published 1955
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,054 ratings — published 1884
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.44 — 102 ratings — published 1998
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.52 — 28,488 ratings — published 1895
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.67 — 17,056 ratings — published 1890
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.14 — 70 ratings — published 1990
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,316 ratings — published 1891
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.04 — 564,940 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 369,099 ratings — published 1991
Les liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,646 ratings — published 1782
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,236 ratings — published 1892
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,989 ratings — published 1869
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 46,803 ratings — published 1997
Hadrian the Seventh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.45 — 590 ratings — published 1904
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 186 ratings — published 1901
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 656,560 ratings — published 1976
The Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 246 ratings — published 1898
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,384 ratings — published 1907
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 2016
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,281 ratings — published 1896
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,074 ratings — published 1874
Becalmed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 302 ratings — published 1886
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 232 ratings — published 1895
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,782 ratings — published 1872
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,060,028 ratings — published 1992
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,993,478 ratings — published 1925
The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 47 ratings — published 1994
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.97 — 70 ratings — published 2007
The King in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.78 — 2,828 ratings — published
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 524 ratings — published 1896
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,288 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 452,351 ratings — published 1957
Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,503 ratings — published 1870
Neo-Decadence Evangelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.80 — 49 ratings — published 2023
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 304,860 ratings — published 1891
Nil-Pray (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2017
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 58 ratings — published 1902
Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.73 — 81 ratings — published 2018
“In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust.”
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“We have become a Nazi monster in the eyes of the whole world—bullies and bastards who would rather kill than live peacefully. We are not just Whores for power and oil, but killer whores with hate and fear in our hearts.”
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
― Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-Crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century
