Looking for something extremely explicit, detailed, bleak, depraved, repulsive, gory, you name it! Any type of fiction is welcome but I'm mostly into sci-fi/fantasy, especially anything post-apocalyptic 🙂 thanks in advance for any suggestions!
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Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
American Psycho by Brett Easton Ellis is the most gory, violent and depraved book I’ve ever read – but it’s otherwise utterly boring.
The Road Novel by Cormac Mc Carthy and its post-apocalyptic, saint justice by mike grist, The Turner Diaries by William Luther Pierce
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis was this for me. I watched the film first and I’ve seen it more than once, but I DNF’d the novel at one of the torture scenes.
Under the Skin
Marlon James – Black Leopard Red Wolf
Battle Royale by Koushun Takami.
It’s extremely violent and super descriptive of the violence.
The Library at Mount Char is pretty bleak and depraved. Definitely some of the most disturbing scenes I’ve read, but also very gripping
Seconding the Cormac McCarthy recs and adding Child of God. A short but disturbing read
*The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II* by Iris Chang.
*The Frontiersmen* by Allan Eckert.
*Wilderness Empire* by Allan Eckert.
*Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History* by S. C. Gwynne.
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong was a DNF for me, due to graphic content. Between the gore and descriptions of parasites, I just couldn’t keep reading. I’m shocked it’s labeled as a YA book.
Disturbing will be def Cows. I DNF it because it was really just disturbing without no other characteristic worth the time, no reason to read it if it wasn’t to get shocked (it wasn’t even exactly well written imo).
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy. Hands down most depraved, bleak, violent book I have ever read and I have read thousands of books.
Cows
The Wasp Factory
The Water Knife by Pablo Bacigalupi is the most violent thing I’ve ever read. Takes place in an apocalyptic near-future where there’s no more water in the south/western US. Incredibly bleak, even through the end.