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Post by beth on Apr 26, 2010 10:58:36 GMT -5
Not necessarily offensive . . . just those that can crawl inside our heads and affect our perceptions, or fiddle with our emotions. I can think of a few - Stephen King - Rose Madder - Thinner - Pet Sematary
Peter Straub - Ghost Story - The Hell Fire Club
Dean Koontz - From The Corner of His Eye
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2010 11:49:45 GMT -5
Hm, I will have to think about this one.
A potentially very interesting thread here!
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Post by Wonder Woman on Apr 26, 2010 21:47:44 GMT -5
Love Stephen King, love Dean Koontz. Don't think I've read Peter Straub.
Last book I read was Stephen King's 'Cell'. Excellent, IMO........ sigh, I miss reading.
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Post by sadie on Apr 26, 2010 21:56:31 GMT -5
Have liked several Dean Koontz books.....but really have to avoid some of the ones with kids in them......they really screw with me. I don't know what that guy is on.......or what kind of childhood he had......but yikes.....his books mess with me and just really lurk around in my head. Stephen King's usually scare the crap out of me.....but I can put them down and I'm just fine.......
Haven't ever heard of Peter Straub........may have to look his up.........I know I'm demented but I do so love to have the crap scared out of me!!!
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Post by beth on Apr 26, 2010 23:17:21 GMT -5
King uses child and animal involvement to increase the fright factor in some of his books, too. That was the reason Pet Sematary was so effective. The book smacked me around enough I should have had better sense than to watch the movie. I hated that movie . With Rose Madder, the antagonist was an abusive husband (very abusive) who was also a law officer (police chief, I think). Very frightening book to me until, toward the end, King introduced an element of supernatural fantasy that relieved the anxiety. Never forgot that freakin' villain, though. Horrific villains were the reason The Hell Fire Club and From the Corner of His Eye were so hellish. Absolute monsters - no redeeming qualities whatsoever - though a kind of justice was served in the end of both. Prince of Tides was also a book I found disturbing, but not in the same way. It was about mental illness - sad and touching - but not a horror genre. Sadie, if you're going to read Straub, start with Ghost Story, his best.
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Post by michiganmagpie on Apr 27, 2010 5:23:51 GMT -5
King uses child and animal involvement to increase the fright factor in some of his books, too. That was the reason Pet Sematary was so effective. The book smacked me around enough I should have had better sense than to watch the movie. I hated that movie . With Rose Madder, the antagonist was an abusive husband (very abusive) who was also a law officer (police chief, I think). Very frightening book to me until, toward the end, King introduced an element of supernatural fantasy that relieved the anxiety. Never forgot that freakin' villain, though. With King, my favorite reads of his are actually the non-supernatural stories: Gerald's Game, Misery, Shawshank Redemption, The Body, Apt Pupil. I love those and wish he'd do more.
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Post by Wonder Woman on Apr 27, 2010 10:28:38 GMT -5
Another author that makes a great read, IMO, is Robin Cook.
Toxin kept me from eating hamburgers for months. And, even still I can't eat pink burgers. Very disturbing!
.......... maybe it bothered me so much because when I was growing up, my dad would bring home freshly ground beef from the butcher, pour a bit of salt on the stuff, plunk a ball into his mouth, raw. Yum! I loved it as much as he did.
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Post by sadie on Apr 27, 2010 10:42:20 GMT -5
Will definitely stay away from that book..........hubby teases me that he doesn't cook my steaks....be flicks a lighter under them and that's it.........swears I was a vampire in a former life. Took me forever to convince him that cooking his to the state of charcoal was criminal.
Did anyone read the book The Kite Runner? It was a rough book to read, but I could barely put it down. I didn't see the movie.
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Post by beth on Jun 18, 2010 6:59:40 GMT -5
Not sure this is the best thread for this, but does anyone here read the Laurell K. Hamilton books - the Anita Blake series? I think the "Edward" character in the later AB books might have been a model for Dexter - lots of similarities.
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Post by Erasmus on Jun 18, 2010 17:37:17 GMT -5
Anything by Iain Banks writing without the middle M in hist name that he uses for his Culture sci-fi. His first famous novel was The Wasp Factory which as you get into it you realize is some kind of psycho waiting for his brother's return from breaking out of a mental home predicting all his movements by the way wasps traverse a maze he has constructed from an old clock face. It emerges that they had both been setting sheep on fire and are raving dangerous nuts. Most of the stuff he followed it with is equally as dark and surreal but I haven't read much of it.
Something disturbing is his compatriot who I think is a friend, Ken McLeod, wrote a lot about Trotskyist Communist futures - much of it in the 1990s and later - and where a kind of revolutionary Greenism has been the order for centuries and distrusted 'Tinkers' are the nomadic heirs to the technology only they can keep going.
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Post by beth on Jun 18, 2010 19:40:49 GMT -5
Another author that makes a great read, IMO, is Robin Cook. Toxin kept me from eating hamburgers for months. And, even still I can't eat pink burgers. Very disturbing! .......... maybe it bothered me so much because when I was growing up, my dad would bring home freshly ground beef from the butcher, pour a bit of salt on the stuff, plunk a ball into his mouth, raw. Yum! I loved it as much as he did. Toxin gave me nightmares. It's another book that uses children to make the horror worse. I'd never suggest it to anyone. Too much bad stuff - especially the part inside the meat plant. brrrrrr
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Post by leah on Jun 30, 2010 2:26:54 GMT -5
Well I really don't know where to put my particular book so hope posting it here is okay. I finally managed to get a copy" A Beautiful Child" by Marc Burkbet I believe. This book it true and such a sad story that many will come away crying at all of the horrors this child went through with this very dangerous man. I would reccommend it very highly as it shows just what some children have gone through. If any of you would like to read just send me a pm.!leah
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Post by mouse on Jun 30, 2010 6:39:02 GMT -5
i find Patterson a most disturbing author....too creepy by far
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Post by dewey on Jun 30, 2010 7:43:02 GMT -5
Lisa Gardner's books are really scary and suspenseful. They actually keep me awake at night.
Leah, I don't know if I could stand to read a book where a child has been mistreated. I'm sure that would keep me from sleeping too.
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Post by leah on Jun 30, 2010 8:16:13 GMT -5
Dewey it really is a heartbreaking story. I first started reading about online a few years ago and finally got the book. I try to stay away from the stories about children but this one I felt I had to read. And yes a lot of sleepless nights thinking about what this little girl went through and how special she was...
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