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What do readers say about The Wasp Factory?
first person narrative frank's very strange altar/retreat dark, disturbing and original dark and disturbingThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.
Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: ... More details on The Wasp Factory
At the north end of the island, near the tumbled remains of the slip where the handle of the rusty winch still creaks in an easterly wind, I had two Poles on the far face of the last dune. One of the ...
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What do readers say about A Clockwork Orange?
english/russian pidgin tongue ultra violence and language one possible future vivid, cruel, and evocativeIn Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his frie... More details on A Clockwork Orange
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip da...
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What do readers say about The Butterfly Garden?
disturbing, yet not graphic kidnapped girls lived dark and twisty creepy little thrillerAn Amazon Charts bestseller.
Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.
In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious "butterflies"-young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble the... More details on The Butterfly Garden
The techs tell him the girl on the other side of the glass hasn’t said a word since they brought her in. It doesn’t surprise him at first, not with the traumas she’s been through, but watching her now...
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What do readers say about The Devil All the Time?
dark and disturbing dark disturbing story his first full-length novel a fascinating debut novelFrom the acclaimed author of "Knockemstiff"-called "powerful, remarkable, exceptional" by the "Los Angeles Times"-comes a dark and riveting vision of America that delivers literary excitement in the highest degree.
In "The Devil All the Time," Donal... More details on The Devil All the Time
IT WAS A WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON in the fall of 1945, not long after the war had ended. The Greyhound made its regular stop in Meade, Ohio, a little paper-mill town an hour south of Columbus that smelled ...
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What do readers say about Lord of the Flies?
good vs evil boys without adults depth and layers subtly, beautifully and conciselyFirst published in 1954, William Golding's debut novel, now a classic, is a stark story of survival, probing the depths of human nature, and what happens when civilization collapses. As dystopian stories like The Hunger Games and Battle Royale surge ... More details on Lord of the Flies
The boy with fair hair lowered himself down the last few feet of rock and began to pick his way toward the lagoon. Though he had taken off his school sweater and trailed it now from one hand, his grey...
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What do readers say about Penpal?
they weren’t in order psycho stalker fare slow, creeping horror creepypasta turned novelIn an attempt to make sense of his own mysterious and unsettling childhood memories, a man begins to reconstruct his past. As the games and adventures of his youth become engulfed by a larger story, he finds that it forms a tapestry of unbelievable h... More details on Penpal
When I was younger, I took a job at a deli that had what the owner called an “ice cream buffet.” On Thursdays, children would get a free ice cream cone with their meals, and they could pick any one of...
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What do readers say about Perfume?
robust and lyrical every single detail dark and humorous murder, passion and obsessionAn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-c... More details on Perfume
In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His story will be told here. Hi...
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What do readers say about The White Hotel?
eroticism and inexplicable violence contrived and flat a single life a very compelling novelIt is a dream of electrifying eroticism and inexplicable violence, recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud. It is a horrifying yet restrained narrative of the Holocaust. It is a searing vision of the wounds of the twentieth century, ... More details on The White Hotel
I give you a warm bear-hug from the new world! What with the journey, the hospitality, the lectures, the honors (mostly to Trend naturally and, to a lesser extent, Jung), there has hardly been time to...
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What do readers say about Torture Garden?
a satire-a mundane comedy torture and erotica grounded and appreciative its attempt to falsely moralizeThe Torture Garden (1899), Octave Mirbeau's classic of erotic horror and disgust, has been called by one reviewer, "The Most sickening novel of the Nineteenth Century." A horrifying descent into the world of one woman's madness and frenzy to experien... More details on Torture Garden
Twelve years ago, no longer knowing what to do and condemned by a series of misfortunes to the harsh necessity of either hanging myself or throwing myself into the Seine as a final resort, I put mysel...
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What do readers say about Blood Meridian?
gritty and gruesome macabre magical realism profound and intense lyrical and dark proseAn epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America's westward expansion, Blood Meridian brilliantly subverts the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the "wild west."
Based on historical events that took place on the ... More details on Blood Meridian
See the child. He is pale and thin, he wears a thin and ragged linen shirt. He stokes the scullery fire. Outside lie dark turned fields with rags of snow and darker woods beyond that harbor yet a few ...
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