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BookCat · 04-30-2011, 04:47 AM

"The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice. I'd enjoyed "Interview With the Vampire" and had read it several times, also seeing the film, so it seemed natural to read the sequel. But it was so heavily macabre that I couldn't get past the first 100 pages. Too dark and bloody. And I was a goth!

garrybuck · 04-30-2011, 01:06 PM

Anne Rice has written a Sleeping Beauty series under the name Anne de Roquelaure. I read a review somewhere that touted it as politically correct feminist erotica, unlike that nasty male pornography stuff. It was well written, but holy cats it freaked me out, I couldn't finish it. I was expecting consciousness raising, but it was just hair raising. I'm sticking to porn, sorry.

grumpy3b · 04-30-2011, 05:37 PM

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Originally Posted by garrybuck

Anne Rice has written a Sleeping Beauty series under the name Anne de Roquelaure. I read a review somewhere that touted it as politically correct feminist erotica, unlike that nasty male pornography stuff. It was well written, but holy cats it freaked me out, I couldn't finish it. I was expecting consciousness raising, but it was just hair raising. I'm sticking to porn, sorry.

Further confirming that as a species us men should never try and look into the minds of da wimmens because, well, it's very skeery and complicated in there and if you fall in, you might never find your way back!!

minspargal · 04-30-2011, 06:19 PM

"Almost Moon" by ALice Seabold Couldn't finish it.

somnolik · 04-30-2011, 06:53 PM

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
After being recommended by a friend this book accompanied me to a vacation in Greece. Boy, that was not what I had in mind when I had asked for "something nice for the beach". After about a hundred pages worth of travelling between cozy summer sun and hopeless postapocalyptic madness I had to give up as soon as

Spoiler:

The language is really concise and conjures up extremely vivid images - I totally admire the craftsmanship. But since my girlfriend had to cuddle me out of a semicatatonic state after I had dropped the book, I can't really recommend this book to overly sensitive people (like myself).

Edit: Reading this book is very much like watching a movie by Michael Haneke: It's good stuff but it makes you feel utterly miserable about everything.

bhartman36 · 05-01-2011, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by somnolik

"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy
After being recommended by a friend this book accompanied me to a vacation in Greece. Boy, that was not what I had in mind when I had asked for "something nice for the beach". After about a hundred pages worth of travelling between cozy summer sun and hopeless postapocalyptic madness I had to give up as soon as

Spoiler:

The language is really concise and conjures up extremely vivid images - I totally admire the craftsmanship. But since my girlfriend had to cuddle me out of a semicatatonic state after I had dropped the book, I can't really recommend this book to overly sensitive people (like myself).

Edit: Reading this book is very much like watching a movie by Michael Haneke: It's good stuff but it makes you feel utterly miserable about everything.

The Road is one of those books I wish I could get into, but I just can't. For me, it wasn't the subject matter. It was the writing style. Something about never using quotation marks really gets to me, for some reason. For me, it made the story too hard to follow.

Joykins · 05-01-2011, 01:10 PM

You know, I remember stopping reading Anne Rice's _The Witching Hour_ at one point way past midnight because it was really creeping me out, but I don't know if that would qualify as "good" because I was kind of skimming it as well.

Miss Understood · 05-01-2011, 01:24 PM

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Originally Posted by Nyssa

The Romance of Lust, or Early Experiences came very close to being the first book that I put down due to disgust. The detailed synopsis on GoodReads explains why. It was particularly disturbing once the main character became a father.

Edit: Oh, look. My 600th post!

When I found this book on Project Gutenberg I thought, oh it will probably be a quaint Victorian book - there was no detailed description of the book. I only got partway through when I had to put it down, it was just WAY too creepy and disturbing for me.

Assassin · 05-01-2011, 04:28 PM

The only book that has truly bothered me was "We the Living" by Ayn Rand. The whole idea of socialism carried to the extreme and destroying peoples hope was extremely depressing. I found it very hard to finish, but did and then re-read it about twenty years later with the same result. A great book but disturbing.

357mag · 05-01-2011, 10:18 PM

I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.

grumpy3b · 05-02-2011, 03:51 AM

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Originally Posted by 357mag

I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.

hey, nothing wrong in stating your opinion in this area. You did it very well and it's a valid observation. So I hope nobody takes you to task for it. I don't subscribe to your beliefs but you are darned well entitled to express them with worry of being abused for doing so.

In reality the comment you made might make the book more interesting to people like myself. So see, you helped either way.

Nyssa · 05-02-2011, 07:02 AM

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Originally Posted by 357mag

I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.

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Originally Posted by grumpy3b

hey, nothing wrong in stating your opinion in this area. You did it very well and it's a valid observation. So I hope nobody takes you to task for it. I don't subscribe to your beliefs but you are darned well entitled to express them with worry of being abused for doing so.

In reality the comment you made might make the book more interesting to people like myself. So see, you helped either way.

I'm pretty sure grumpy meant "with OUT worry" of being abused.

He is right. There is noting wrong with expressing your opinions as to why you did not like the book; and it was well put. We are just asked to keep all detailed discussions about religion and politics in the appropriate section of the forum.

AlexSno · 05-02-2011, 07:44 AM

Well not really.
And i am even a very addictive horror books reader.

obs20 · 05-02-2011, 09:05 AM

I almost did it with Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart The hero of the story is really repulsive but it was a great read.

L.J. Sellers · 05-02-2011, 09:47 AM

Yep. I stop reading if books become too disturbing and I stop watching movies if they start to freak me out. Torture, for example, always makes me move on. I quit watching a Firefly episode just last night because of torture. Sad, but true.
L.J.

04-30-2011, 06:53 PM	#65
somnolik Technophile Posts: 21 Karma: 88888 Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: Vienna, Austria Device: Kobo Touch	"The Road" by Cormac McCarthy After being recommended by a friend this book accompanied me to a vacation in Greece. Boy, that was not what I had in mind when I had asked for "something nice for the beach". After about a hundred pages worth of travelling between cozy summer sun and hopeless postapocalyptic madness I had to give up as soon as Spoiler: the main characters discovered some half eaten but living people locked up in a basement as food supply. The language is really concise and conjures up extremely vivid images - I totally admire the craftsmanship. But since my girlfriend had to cuddle me out of a semicatatonic state after I had dropped the book, I can't really recommend this book to overly sensitive people (like myself). Edit: Reading this book is very much like watching a movie by Michael Haneke: It's good stuff but it makes you feel utterly miserable about everything. Last edited by somnolik; 04-30-2011 at 06:58 PM.

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04-30-2011, 04:47 AM	#61
BookCat C L J Posts: 2,911 Karma: 21115458 Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Birmingham UK Device: Sony e-reader 505, Kindle PW2, Kindle PW3, Kobo Libra2	"The Vampire Lestat" by Anne Rice. I'd enjoyed "Interview With the Vampire" and had read it several times, also seeing the film, so it seemed natural to read the sequel. But it was so heavily macabre that I couldn't get past the first 100 pages. Too dark and bloody. And I was a goth!

04-30-2011, 01:06 PM	#62
garrybuck Connoisseur Posts: 64 Karma: 69964 Join Date: Dec 2007 Device: Kindle	Anne Rice has written a Sleeping Beauty series under the name Anne de Roquelaure. I read a review somewhere that touted it as politically correct feminist erotica, unlike that nasty male pornography stuff. It was well written, but holy cats it freaked me out, I couldn't finish it. I was expecting consciousness raising, but it was just hair raising. I'm sticking to porn, sorry.

04-30-2011, 06:19 PM	#64
minspargal Enthusiast Posts: 34 Karma: 154 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Texas Device: sony reader	"Almost Moon" by ALice Seabold Couldn't finish it.

05-01-2011, 01:10 PM	#67
Joykins Wizard Posts: 1,610 Karma: 9211856 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: kindle Oasis 2018, kindle 4 NT, kindle PW2, iPhone, iPad mini	You know, I remember stopping reading Anne Rice's _The Witching Hour_ at one point way past midnight because it was really creeping me out, but I don't know if that would qualify as "good" because I was kind of skimming it as well.

05-01-2011, 04:28 PM	#69
Assassin Connoisseur Posts: 54 Karma: 40000 Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Midwest Device: kindle	The only book that has truly bothered me was "We the Living" by Ayn Rand. The whole idea of socialism carried to the extreme and destroying peoples hope was extremely depressing. I found it very hard to finish, but did and then re-read it about twenty years later with the same result. A great book but disturbing.

05-01-2011, 10:18 PM	#70
357mag Connoisseur Posts: 52 Karma: 248 Join Date: Nov 2010 Device: iPad and Galaxy S5	I almost stopped reading "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" because of it's anti-religion, anti-God leanings. I state this not to start a discussion on religion or spirituality, it is just how I feel. I am a Christian and I found his anti-God comments disturbing to me. It was a good book otherwise.

05-02-2011, 07:44 AM	#73
AlexSno Connoisseur Posts: 74 Karma: 330 Join Date: Feb 2011 Device: none	Well not really. And i am even a very addictive horror books reader.

05-02-2011, 09:05 AM	#74
obs20 Wizard Posts: 2,793 Karma: 29028512 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Florida Device: Sony PRS 600, Nook ST, Toshiba Excite 10.1 AT 300	I almost did it with Absurdistan: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart The hero of the story is really repulsive but it was a great read.

05-02-2011, 09:47 AM	#75
L.J. Sellers Novelist Posts: 287 Karma: 387979 Join Date: May 2010 Location: Eugene, Oregon Device: Kindle	Yep. I stop reading if books become too disturbing and I stop watching movies if they start to freak me out. Torture, for example, always makes me move on. I quit watching a Firefly episode just last night because of torture. Sad, but true. L.J.