Naked Lunch by W.S. Burroughs. Pick up a copy at a bookstore/library, open it to a random page, and start reading. Frankly I think Palahniuk’s Guts is tame in comparison, and Naked Lunch goes on and on for 200 pages. It’s incredibly obscene, at parts it seems satirical and at others you just go “whoaa.” The non-linear, scatterbrained structure makes it even less comfortable to read. Think stuff like a couple hanging a boy, using him as a sexual aid, then lighting themselves on fire and jumping out a high-rise window. And there’s lots of rimming too.
On the plus side, for some reason after I read it I really, really, really didn’t want to try heroine…
I really don’t understand the OP’s motivation in this thread. So far I’ve thought:
Finding creepy titillating books to read - but this doesn’t seem to be the case.
Discussing creepy titillating books to condemn them without reading them, by looking them up on wikipedia.
Pissing off my local librarian by demanding these books that I don’t want to read are banned so that others can also not read them.
Freaking out my local librarian by checking out these books either one by one, or all at once, while giggling and fondling my hatchet.
Discussing Hogg under a new username, and waiting for hilarity to ensue.
Man, that book is so badly written, and so nasty. I’ve read the first couple chapters and it lacks both literary and social merit. I can’t stand racist/nazi/skinhead types, but that book makes me want to hunt them down and teach them how to write.
I"m drawing a blank on the name; but there’s some novel that is reputed to be a favorite of psychos and serial killers, one of whom remarked after reading it that “for the very first time, I felt someone understood me”.