Ghost.X

Exactly as the titles implies. What do you find disturbing in terms of character, story, theme, or anything that's disturbing in terms of reading. Is it a good or bad thing? Would something disturbing compel you to read or would it put you off a book?

Personally I find things that are disturbing to be quite compelling. I don't know why, but when something is disturbing, I want to know everything about it. Things that I would consider disturbing are bizarre characters, violence that isn't too cheesy and is casual, like say a girl loses an arm in school for some reason rather then seeing violence in war, which you'll know you'll see sooner or later.

Now that I think about it, I haven't read a whole lot of disturbing tales except maybe a few short stories by Steven King, Poe's 'The Raven' (my favorite poem), or maybe Butler's 'Wild Seed' (more or less).

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SoNickSays...

Huh... I didn't find this video disturbing whatsoever...

Books I find disturbing... To be honest, I don't find books disturbing.

I think actually seeing things happening (whether it true or fake, like in movies etc.) that are disturbing will freak me out.

Nick

Sam Winchester

I didn't find that video disturbing either. It was kind of comical, all that high-pitched laughter. If you want disturbing, watch the SAW movies. They're disturbing.

I've never really been "disturbed" by reading a book. I've been disgusted, maybe. Angered, possibly. But not disturbed.

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spider8

Not disturbing. In fact a little boring, with no story. I don't find cartoons disturbing, or monsters, or caricatured killers. What I do find disturbing are people who an pass themselves off as decent out in the open but, in the shadows, they are thieves/murderers/bullies/rapists etc. Sometimes there are people on this forum that will be abusive to you but they wouldn't be if they were in the same room as you. There are people out there like Mugabe, Stalin, Hitler, Saddam etc., perhaps not evil but seeing other people as we see ants. Also disturbing is the suffering of people/s. I may have found the youtube clip funny when I was a child but I've seen/read too many horrors now.

tucanbundy

I have an entirely different response to anime than that video was attempting to cause.

I've experienced way too much trauma in my life to really find anything disturbing anymore.Usually I try to find something funny about it.When I try, I can think almost anything is funny, even myself being crippled.I mentioned in another thread that I want to try to be a comedian.Most of my jokes so far revolve around "disturbing" subjects like death, rape, genocide, suicide, necrophilia, sodomy, sexual fetishism, and other stuff like that.I'm working on the principal that I'm crippled, so I can get away with it.

Nothing I watch or read really disturbs me anymore.I use to think Salo was a really disturbing movie and 120 Days Of Sodom (which Salo was based on) was a really disturbing book, but they're My Little Pony to me now.

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Ghost.X

I guess I'm not very good at expressing myself. Sometimes I have a thought and it doesn't come out right. But what you just described really appeals to me. In fact, a short story I'm working on right now sort of follows what you just described

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GodofLiterature

You want disturbing?

You will not survive this book: The Girl Next Door:

PageOfCups

Without the context everything in that link in the OP is just boring. I agree with Sam, the Saw movies are disturbing.

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Ghost.X

Ok, the link is too distracting and obviously not getting my point across, so I removed it.

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edropus

I seriously don't get it, but people keep saying it, so I've got to go ahead and ask:

What's so disturbing about the Saw movies? Seriously? The gore is pretty weak, and the psychological aspect is kind of half-baked. They seem to have developed this 'hardcore' mystique; what's the deal?

lilacstarflower

Those 'gorno' movies like Saw and Hostel really freak me out - I hate the idea that people watch that stuff to be entertained.

On a similar note; I recently started reading a book (forget whose; it was a crime novel - something I usually never read) and it started with a rapist in the middle of an attack. I squirmed reading it. Didn't make it to page two.

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A-L

Yeah, Saw was pretty weak, it wasn't scary and the plot was just dumb after the first movie. But I don't find most books disturbing but sometimes there are scenes in the books that are disturbing, or make me feel really uncomfortable. Movies don't always make me feel uncomfortable, but has anyone seen the Hills have eyes II? Very stupid movie in almost every aspect, but the rape scene with the big guy near the end-now that was disturbing, at least to me.

GodofLiterature

Have you read it?

Read it. Nothing Stephen King wrote even comes close. He pales in comparison to Ketchum.

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Now, TT, don't go slandering your idol.

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SevenWritez

Holy shit it's Eyez0nme!

HOLY SHIT!

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