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I’ve just finished Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian, my first by him. I thought I had a high tolerance for gore and brutality, but it was horrific. McCarthy’s poetic style (extremely skilfully done to be fair) made it even harder going, as I kept having to go backwards and forwards to get his point. Edges out The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks and HP Lovecraft for the most disturbing thing I’ve read.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 10:29 - Apr 4 with 1617 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 10:29 - Apr 4 by MrSheen
Definitely read it. He’s a good writer and the post war Tokyo setting is fantastic, my problem is by the time you read his fifth, it’s very familiar.
yep i enjoyed 'year zero' and loved 'GB84'. gave up with 'red or dead' unreadable.
A bit like Jake Arnott with the 'long firm' and 'he kills coppers' he shot his bolt and his latest stuff was utter crap. Irvine welsh another one, last few books were painful to read.
For a really slow motion riot of a book , look up glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyles auto bio.. 'a sense of freedom' Welsh based his character 'begbie' on him. jesus it was a bleak bleak read.
Anything by David Irvine shreds the skin like a potato peeler. just finished 'Dresden' i was in tears.
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Don't need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn't be,
Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 15:48 - Apr 4 with 1457 views
Steve Strange 'Blitzed' second half was a hard read.
His Descent into heroin addiction with no glamour , sitting in a church hall in a NA meeting in Porthcawl in kenzo leather bondage trousers with full on skag heads who robbed him of his strides for gear, pinched a bit.
He gave it is all steve but the damage was done, he never stood a chance the poor bugger.
oh yeah , Ed mitchell the ITN news golden boy of the 80's.. his auto bio 'from headlines to hard times'. his freefall into alcoholism, debt and homelessness was brutal. amazing book
. i'm proud to say i know Ed on a personal level, having reached out to him after his documentary was aired. lovely fella.
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Don't need no politicians to tell me things I shouldn't be,
Neither no opticians to tell me what I oughta see.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? (n/t) on 18:43 - Apr 4 with 1348 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 16:07 - Apr 4 by Discodroids
Steve Strange 'Blitzed' second half was a hard read.
His Descent into heroin addiction with no glamour , sitting in a church hall in a NA meeting in Porthcawl in kenzo leather bondage trousers with full on skag heads who robbed him of his strides for gear, pinched a bit.
He gave it is all steve but the damage was done, he never stood a chance the poor bugger.
oh yeah , Ed mitchell the ITN news golden boy of the 80's.. his auto bio 'from headlines to hard times'. his freefall into alcoholism, debt and homelessness was brutal. amazing book
. i'm proud to say i know Ed on a personal level, having reached out to him after his documentary was aired. lovely fella.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 19:46 - Apr 4 with 1296 views
Antony Beevor books on Stalingrad and the Russian Revolution/Civil War i found very unsettling.How millions of ordinary people went through such terrible times is hard to imagine.
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 20:46 - Apr 4 by lightwaterhoop
Antony Beevor books on Stalingrad and the Russian Revolution/Civil War i found very unsettling.How millions of ordinary people went through such terrible times is hard to imagine.
The civil war is amazing to read about now. The Royal Navy fighting the Reds on the Caspian Sea with guns sent overland from Basra to be mounted on paddle steamers, the Czech Legion joyriding across Asia on the Trans Siberian Railway, and White armies running out of men, food and weapons but never cocaine in the middle of Siberia. Supply chains are miraculous things.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 14:44 - Jun 3 with 793 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 20:46 - Apr 4 by lightwaterhoop
Antony Beevor books on Stalingrad and the Russian Revolution/Civil War i found very unsettling.How millions of ordinary people went through such terrible times is hard to imagine.
Just finished the audiobook of Stalingrad and some of the descriptions of how people suffered and died is appalling.
When I first saw the title my first thought was Blood Meridian; but I must disagree with some of the assertions about McCarthy's writing here. Yes, tons of horrible stuff happens in it, but post Appalachian era, I find his work utterly beautiful with people and love understatedly enduring in the worst of circumstances.
The other option would be a work colleague recommended me The Book of Lies, except I didn't check who by and ended up buying and reading a book of Alestair Crowley';s satanic poetry
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 17:10 - Jun 3 with 650 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 12:44 - Apr 2 by TheChef
Suffice to say I'm a big David Peace fan.
Clearly I love the bleakness
I must get around to that series of his books. I missed the TV adaptations of them too. I've enjoyed all his football ones - 'Damned United', 'Better Red Than Dead'- about Shankly's time at Liverpool and his recent one, 'Munichs', about the 1958 air crash.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 17:50 - Jun 3 with 602 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 02:16 - Apr 4 by E17hoop
Unpleasant is it? Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk, the writer of Fight Club. It's a series of the grossest and most disturbing 23 short stories you could ever want to read. Some are funny in a very black way, some are properly disgusting.
Chuck Palahniuk books always have at least one series of a couple of pages that are disgustingly overwhelming. I love his books and way of writing but always gird myself for those paras. One of the most graphic was in another story (can't remember which right now) where one of the characters graphically and emphatically describes the act of fetching. I'll leave it at that
Shit but local
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 18:09 - Jun 3 with 575 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 15:05 - Jun 3 by robith
When I first saw the title my first thought was Blood Meridian; but I must disagree with some of the assertions about McCarthy's writing here. Yes, tons of horrible stuff happens in it, but post Appalachian era, I find his work utterly beautiful with people and love understatedly enduring in the worst of circumstances.
The other option would be a work colleague recommended me The Book of Lies, except I didn't check who by and ended up buying and reading a book of Alestair Crowley';s satanic poetry
yes, agree. the beauty is absolutely worth the bleakness.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 18:48 - Jun 3 with 543 views
I think Cormac McCarthy's The Road is his best. His writing is so spare and draws you in brilliantly. I read it in one sitting. Really recomend it - but it is a very tough, bleak story.
Read the first two of the Border Trilogy and they repeated themselves too much for me. Not going to read the third.
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 19:21 - Jun 3 with 503 views
Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 17:50 - Jun 3 by QPunkR
Chuck Palahniuk books always have at least one series of a couple of pages that are disgustingly overwhelming. I love his books and way of writing but always gird myself for those paras. One of the most graphic was in another story (can't remember which right now) where one of the characters graphically and emphatically describes the act of fetching. I'll leave it at that
Is he the guy who wrote the swimming pool story...? 🤢
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Most unpleasant book you’ve ever read? on 19:36 - Jun 3 with 480 views
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