A book that made you uncomfortable from the beginning to the very end.
For me, it has to be Tabitha Suzuma’s ‘Forbidden’. Don’t get me wrong for it’s well written, so much so that I was BEYOND uncomfortable reading it and, to this day, it’s still that one book that makes my stomach churn just by thinking about it. It’s also the one book I removed from my Kindle library.
I’ve read ‘A Little Life’, I’ve read ‘Pet Sematary’ and other books considered to make people uncomfortable and/or depressed while reading them and, although they did cause discomfort, it was nothing like ‘Forbidden’.
Something about it is just so… visceral to me. The family dynamics, the plot, it’s just so uncomfortable to read.
by Lunanella
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Haven’t read the “Forbidden” but “Little Life” left me in pieces. So I’d say that one for now.
Low-hanging fruit, but… Atlas Shrugged. I dunno, I was a dodgy university first-year who was flirting with the concept of ethical egoism, and I hadn’t minded The Fountainhead too badly. Even if Ayn Rand wasn’t just a giant misreading of Nietzsche, I’m certain Atlas Shrugged destroyed all credibility she might once have held in my (already selfish, 18-year old) mind; it was plumb awful.
P.S. I also hated A Little Life and will go to my grave swearing that it is just misery porn.
not an answer to the post but I just read the summary for forbidden on goodreads and I’d be really interested to know how it compares to flowers in the attic? as it has a similar theme of sibling loove