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Ireallyamthisshallow on
The obvious answer, but *Lolita* is both extremely well written and extremely uncomfortable.
princedabus02 on
You could check out 120 days of Sodom (De Sade)
Heard some interesting things about that book
Indifferent_Jackdaw on
An Ordinary Wonder – Buki Papillion. There are multiple occasions where the intersex teen protagonist nearly dies because of the homophobia and eugenic sentiments of some of those around them. But the protagonist is such a light and it is so well written that while it breaks your heart it doesn’t traumatise you.
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*The People in the Trees* by Hanya Yanagihara manages to dive into two uncomfortable topics at once. First up, interference in other cultures and the role that this interference may play in the downfall of these cultures. The prose when she delves into the subject is actually quite beautiful. However, she also looks at incestuous statutory rape at the same time. This is just blunt and disturbing in how it’s presented, even coming off as being realtively unnecessary.
*A Little Life* by the same author has a lot of beautiful aspects to it – the descriptions of living in New York were quite wonderful – but is also frequently described as torture porn.
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The obvious answer, but *Lolita* is both extremely well written and extremely uncomfortable.
You could check out 120 days of Sodom (De Sade)
Heard some interesting things about that book
An Ordinary Wonder – Buki Papillion. There are multiple occasions where the intersex teen protagonist nearly dies because of the homophobia and eugenic sentiments of some of those around them. But the protagonist is such a light and it is so well written that while it breaks your heart it doesn’t traumatise you.
*The People in the Trees* by Hanya Yanagihara manages to dive into two uncomfortable topics at once. First up, interference in other cultures and the role that this interference may play in the downfall of these cultures. The prose when she delves into the subject is actually quite beautiful. However, she also looks at incestuous statutory rape at the same time. This is just blunt and disturbing in how it’s presented, even coming off as being realtively unnecessary.
*A Little Life* by the same author has a lot of beautiful aspects to it – the descriptions of living in New York were quite wonderful – but is also frequently described as torture porn.
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Never let Me Go by kazuo ishiguru