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Most disturbing novel you have read lately?
BrilliantEraser:
I am mid-way through Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed. It's a fictional account of a husband and wife who work at Columbine during the shootings. They both survive, but the book tracks the emotional trauma that occurred, and how it effectively ruins both of their lives. I usually do not get too upset when I read, but when I read the section detailing the shootings, I was shaking so hard that I had to put the book down. Talk about an emotionally difficult read.
I is Grammar:
--- Quote from: BeoPuppy on 29 Oct 2009, 02:33 ---I generally think that horror works better in films than in books.
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Then you've been reading the wrong kind of horror. Try reading Peter Straub or Graham Masterton.
In that vein, Night Wars by Graham Masterton disturbed me on many different levels. Also, The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood scared the pants off of me. I love dystopian tales.
BrilliantEraser:
I love Margaret Atwood. Ever read Oryx and Crake?
pilsner:
I stopped reading dystopic Atwood books after Handmaid's Tale in high school, but if you're looking for futurist books that will make you shed actual tears, I can't recommend Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go strongly enough. Soon a movie with Kiera Knightley!
ackblom12:
Kat just checked out the sequel to "Oryx and Crake" called "The Year of the Flood". I'm quite interested in reading it once she's done.
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