Thread: Have you ever found a book to be good, but too disturbing to continue?
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Old 04-29-2011, 09:46 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by Richey79 View Post
Probably the book that I found most 'disturbing', recently at least, was Gaiman's Coraline. I found the alternate reality she enters - in which her family have buttons for eyes and everyone is perfectly happy all the time - to be really quite unsettling. It seemed such a stark reminder of what it is to actually be human, and there was a real tang of mortality to those dead eyes and beatific smiles.
Ooooh absolutely. One of my favourites from Gaiman. Read it in one sitting (which admittedly wasn't difficult) but thought it was one of the creepiest books I've read.

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