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What do readers say about The Wasp Factory?
first person narrativefrank's very strange altar/retreatdark, disturbing and originaldark 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: ... Read more about 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 tongueultra violence and languageone possible futurevivid, cruel, and evocativeForeword by Martin Amis... Read more about 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 Perfume?
robust and lyricalevery single detaildark and humorousmurder, 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... Read more about 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 Serial Killers?
murder and wacky crimesserial killers or occulta good readnonfictionA comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide-including information on America's most prolific serial killers such as:
Ted Bundy
"Co-ed Killer" Ed Kemper
The BTK Killer ... Read more about Serial Killers
I am not a highly educated expert on serial killers. I was never an FBI profiler, a police officer, a criminologist, or a forensic psychologist. I did not write a college thesis about them and I never...
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What do readers say about Story of the Eye?
surrealism and symbolismabsolutely unremittingly fantastica pornographic prose poemdisturbingBataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture,... Read more about Story of the Eye
That was the period when Simone developed a mania for breaking eggs with her behind. She would do a headstand on an armchair in the parlour, her back against the chair’s back, her legs bent towards me...
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What do readers say about The Invisible Man?
crisp and cleanmediocre slapstick comedyprimitive and shortan inferior adventure taleThe mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be t... Read more about The Invisible Man
The stranger came early in February one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station and ...
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What do readers say about The Butterfly Garden?
disturbing, yet not graphickidnapped girls liveddark and twistycreepy 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... Read more about 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 Brave New World?
satirical and disturbinglots of memorable quotesnineteen eighty fourmore contemporary feelAldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to pas... Read more about Brave New World
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRALLONDONHATCHERY ANDCONDITIONINGCENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABIL...
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What do readers say about The Island of Doctor Moreau?
interesting and gruesomemorbid but highly entertaininga morality piecea harrowing memoirA man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.
They say that terror is a disease...
A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From ... Read more about The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it ...
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What do readers say about Complicity?
two sets of murdersreally good thrillerhypnotic rather than repellenthe's written betterCOMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO - he commits brutal ... Read more about Complicity
You hear the car after an hour and a half. During that time you’ve been here in the darkness, sitting on the small telephone seat near the front door, waiting. You only moved once, after half an hour,...
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