like in terms of how illegal it was (ei student x teacher etc), or the mental disorders it gets into detail about, or like smth from the perspective of a criminal
Those sorts of topics don’t traumatize me, my brain enjoys taboo in fiction. ‘Whispers and the Roars’ was probably one of my favorite books I read in 2023, and it deals with a difficult subject firsthand in a profound and fascinating way (no spoilers from me, it kind of ruins it 😉 )
But books like ‘Bridge to Terabithia’ fucked me up for days. Emotional trauma, grief, etc. NOPE. The older I get, the less I enjoy them.
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‘Winter Birds’ by Jim Grimsley. His work is pretty messed up in general but that shit was next-level.
MNVixen on
This one messed me up for a couple of weeks, mostly because it’s nonfiction/true. Humans are a messed up species, my random internet friend.
Adam Hochschild’s *King Leopold’s Ghost*
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Lolita did, mostly because I was a teenager and kept forgetting that it’s an old dude describing a very young girl. I had a different image in my head but I would read, get excited, remember I’m reading about a little girl and not another teenager my age, and then be disgusted. I didn’t finish it.
How Long ‘Til Black Future month as well. Not traumatizing so much as it was just… fucking heavy. At one point I just cried for a time, and put it down knowing I needed to have a recovery period before I picked it up again. It ultimately took me a year or so to finish it.
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Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Those sorts of topics don’t traumatize me, my brain enjoys taboo in fiction. ‘Whispers and the Roars’ was probably one of my favorite books I read in 2023, and it deals with a difficult subject firsthand in a profound and fascinating way (no spoilers from me, it kind of ruins it 😉 )
But books like ‘Bridge to Terabithia’ fucked me up for days. Emotional trauma, grief, etc. NOPE. The older I get, the less I enjoy them.
‘Winter Birds’ by Jim Grimsley. His work is pretty messed up in general but that shit was next-level.
This one messed me up for a couple of weeks, mostly because it’s nonfiction/true. Humans are a messed up species, my random internet friend.
Adam Hochschild’s *King Leopold’s Ghost*
Lolita did, mostly because I was a teenager and kept forgetting that it’s an old dude describing a very young girl. I had a different image in my head but I would read, get excited, remember I’m reading about a little girl and not another teenager my age, and then be disgusted. I didn’t finish it.
How Long ‘Til Black Future month as well. Not traumatizing so much as it was just… fucking heavy. At one point I just cried for a time, and put it down knowing I needed to have a recovery period before I picked it up again. It ultimately took me a year or so to finish it.