I can’t find any other book that touches these. Not sure if the picture loaded but the books are “American Psycho” (gotta love that urinal cake dipped in Godiva chocolate Patrick gifted to Evelyn on a date).
Other book is “Dead Inside”.
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My english teacher told us about The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks back in the 8th grade and I checked it out of the school library.
The main character is a very eccentric and disturbed teenager who kives on a island with his weirdo father and who built a clock device for ritualized insect deaths, that involves a lot of urination. He gets a call from his brother who escaped the mental hospital and is on his way home, and then things start to get really fucked up.
R Scott Bakker’s books if you’re feeling like questioning your free will. Beautifully bleak and philosophical. Imagine if Tolkien had his heart broken instead of marriage and wrote on that.
We make a sad couple,” she said, as though making a casual observation.
“Why would you say that?”
“A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There’s something sad about that.”
He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. “There’s something sad about all couples,” he said.”
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Most palahniuk is pretty wtf actually.
I’ll check it out. I’ve heard of “Haunted”
I was just about to suggest Haunted.
You never forget Guts.
Read Guts two decades ago
Still haunts me
Yeah. I think it was probably about that long ago for me too.
Pool vacuums still make me nervous.
Blood Meridian
First one that comes to mind is Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (using the pseudonym Murray Constantine).
It’s a “What if the Nazis Won the War?” story, set 900 years in the future. However, it was written in 1937, two years before WW2 even started.
It’s kind of like 1984, and much of it is quite talky and philosophical, but there are also some bits that are really, really messed up. It’s excellent.
A Scanner Darkly or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick.
Thank you!
If you like Sci-Fi and are open to something less extreme than Bret Easton Ellis I’d also recommend “Roadside Picknick” by Strugatsky bros. Or if you want something in a more similar direction but with a lot more cynicism “Post Office” by Charles Bukowsky.
“Road Side Picknick” is more existencial wtf. There is also an excellent film about it called “Stalker”.
Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
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Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
I was about to post this one :)
I read it many years ago because it was supposed to be Bjork’s favorite book.
