• BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world
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    Was just talking about this yesterday because of the “would you pick the man or the bear” question going around. The novel Bear by Marian Engel is quite literally about a woman who falls in love with and tries to have sex with a large bear. It won the Governor General’s award in Canada.

    Also The Wasp Factory is seriously fucked up.

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      1984 is honestly the most terrifying book I’ve read. I read to it see if people were invoking it in good faith (they weren’t) and left with a very real fear that there will always be a more pressing issue to distract us from any real political change, even in cases where most Americans agree with each other.

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      That one is crazy how the main character does shitty things like wiping out civilizations just out of spite, then he impregnates a teenage girl and the baby grows up and is all nice and loving but says he is actually his dad and he/his dad love everyone. So much gaslighting.

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      Indeed, among the religious books I have read, the Book of Mormon takes the top position on the loony pile. What kind of indoctrination and drugs do you need to believe that?

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      The Bible did fuck me up as a kid.

      But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart. If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.

      Matthew 5:28-5:29

      Reading this as a super religious + horny 12 year old was terrifying. I felt extreme guilt for not maiming myself for a few years before I finally realized religion was bullshit.

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      I had full access to the internet growing up (the secret was to be awake when other sleep lol) and reading the bible made me feel like I was viewing age inappropriate content then anything else

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      Which one pops to mind first, even if it’s not the most fucked up one you’ve come across? Alternatively, any of the options have a published English translation (though I imagine these’d probably be the tamer of the bunch)?

      I for one am super interested.

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        Which one pops to mind first, even if it’s not the most fucked up one you’ve come across?

        what I remember for sure, is the general theme of these books ( made me really disgusted and depressed ) which… is hatred…

        alot of things that we consider wrong, you name it… are normalized… Not directly but they’re presented in a certain way, that is justifiable…like… say racism…homophobia… Murder… Etc…

        1. The Human Meat restaurant ( Tag: Conspiracy )

        Takes place in NYC, a story about Dr. Joseph Lister who works for the Mafia under a guy named Lucky Lusiano, so this Doctor guy works inside a building that looks like any normal building, but it’s actually a secret club, for the Mafia… And other shady people…

        Inside that building there’s a butchery ( or butcher shop ), where he inspects the human meat that will be served to the club members…

        So one day he decides to get that story out, and he goes to the FBI…👀… He spoke to the head of the FBI who told him to act normal and go to work the next day…

        The next day he walks in to that building were he saw the FBI director standing next to Lucky Luciano, and his family on their knees… I’ll let you guess what happens next

        Tap for spoiler

        🍖🥩🍗🍔🍟🌭🍲🍞

        That’s not the only fucked up part, a lot of restaurants, famous ones like McDonald are serving human meat, and people love it because it’s actually delicious… The author claims…

        From where they’re getting this meat ? Homeless people… Again according to the author…

        1. Black Boner ( I’m serious… 🙂 ) ( Tag: Erotic )

        CW: Homophobia, Racism

        Ok… I’m genuinely worried about the mental state of this author…

        basically this guy wrote a novel about himself, where he turned himself into a… a gifted fucker… shall we say…

        would somebody tell this guy this is not a real flex? his crush irl won’t be impressed

        1. Evidence Of Honey ( Tag: Erotic )

        CW: dehumanizing objectification

        So this author views men as sex toys, like on the first page… aside from that there’s something really interesting going on for this novel, she descibes her sexual experiences ( yuck I must tell you ), but she says she’s doing it for “research purposes”… ( lol, i know ), like she quotes verses from the Hadith ( Hadith is any book that gathers and curates all of Prophets Mohamed’s sayings and deeds, the two Major ones are Sahih Muslim & Sahih Bukhari ) and she tells us that she’s having random sex with strangers to apply the stuff Prophet Mohammed did with his wives… her reasoning is: if we’re going to take Prophet Mohammed as a roll model, we might as well … include his sex life…( she triggered a lot of Muslims because of this, but I’ll give this one another read to fact check some stuff despite how cringy it is )

        published English translation

        You’d be right, you guys don’t even get the real translation of the Qur’an and Hadith… just a watered down version… peaceful and cheerful…

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    Blood Meridian by Cormac Mccarthy.

    It’s kinda hard to describe. I recon it’s a parable about American colonization and the genocide of the native people. Like a map of how a project like that gets done and who benefits from it.

    It’s like a melodrama in that it’s light on plot, and character motivation, but without the extreme circumstances unless you count the pervasive, persistent, and senseless violence. (that the characters themselves barely seem to notice) Not exactly a supernatural tale, but filled with dream logic, oh and the literal Christian Devil is one of the main characters.

    This is the only book Ive ever read twice, back to back. I got to the end and was like WTF, turned to the first page and started again.

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    I really wish I could remember the name of it, but it’s about a lawyer who effectively puts the devil on trial, except it’s really messed up in parts. There’s this entire sequence involving a girl, a young child, who over time seduces the main character who describes in great detail the experience of screwing this child, only for it to be revealed that the girl was the devil/a demon of some sort whose sole purpose is to corrupt the main character. The majority of the book was great, but that particular sequence was well into distasteful and disturbing.

    I think it was called Son of the Endless Night, but I’m not certain if that’s correct.

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    Firefly by Piers Anthony (the writer of the Xanth fantasy series).

    There’s way too much talk of erections around dead bodies, but by far the worst part is the long section with a woman describing in way too much detail how much she enjoyed being raped as a five year old, acting it out and everything. Anthony is a messed up dude.

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      Was just about to post this. I read it in the 90s, expecting something more along the lines of a scifi Xanth style story. Got a traumatising, f’d up sexual fever dream. To this day some of the shit from that story pops in my head sometimes.

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    “Mangez le si vous voulez” (Eat him of you wish)

    A book relating events that happened in 1870 in a French village. From a misunderstanding one guy is beaten, released, tortured and ultimately burned alive with people bridging toast to collect the fat that was dripping from the fire.

    All the events happened in a single day that goes from mundane to horror.

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    Aside from the occasional designed-to-offend ones, probably The Road. Only book I’ve ever read that haunted me

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      I got offended at the lack of punctuation or anything. Didn’t get far. Fuck you Oprah and fuck your book club.

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      I read it and then watched the movie and it was depressing. His other book Outer Dark involves brother sister incest, child murder, and cannibalism! Very cheery.

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    Anytjing that marquis de sade wrote. Dont read it. Its the work of someone who pretended to “pose interesting questions” while write the worst rape fanfiction with his dick in his hand.

    Trigger warning: just straight up awful assault

    !There is a scene in which a father is forced to raped his underaged daughter and then gets shot while cumming inside her. The daughter of course gets spared. Oh wait no. She gets raped a gun point, mutilated and then rape killed again. Repeat this fof roughly 400 pages. Oh wow, so challenging and insightful! I truly believe that de Sade was horrified by this! Fuck off. !<

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      it is horrific - but you’re missing some of the context.

      De Sade partly wrote it as a fuck-you to the establishment in and of itself

      Partly as a satire of the aristocracy - and you can’t understate exactly how much he hated them - which is why he casts them as rapist pedophiles that prefer young boys

      And partly as an attempt to catalog horrors of abuse and mental illness and the suffering of the common man at the hands of those in power