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 No.15989

My dear anons… How about the book that you just couldn't possibly finish reading, not because it was bad per se, but due to sheer disgust. I want malevolent, disturbing, truly unruly books. If it shook you, share it

PS: on another irrelevant but still interesting genre, what was the realest book you read? Something like Bukowski or John Fante, some authors that exposed their guts without embelishing their opinions.

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 No.16005

File: 793c7d5b2f31114⋯.jpg (20.71 KB,318x455,318:455,In the Land of Pain, Alpho….jpg)

Recently read. Did finish.

A harrowing series of notes about the downward progression of his health, along with his growing realization of his own prospects, and his attempts to face it. A story from a time before the germ theory of disease, before antibiotics, before any form of meaningful chemotherapy, or effective treatment of any kind. While not exactly rich, Daudet was wealthy enough to afford what could be had–chiefly quackery, and narcotics. Plus the occasional visit to an honest doctor who would point out, quite simply, his disease was going to kill him in due course through unbearably painful insanity.

“Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit. Be my philosophy, be my science.”

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 No.16013

File: b4b108ee565e6ae⋯.jpg (204.54 KB,785x1097,785:1097,54c044e720a346062b1eec698e….jpg)

>>16005

That sounds extremely interesting. I had no idea such a book existed, but I always imagined it should. RIP Alphonse.

>>15989

One of the few books I couldn't finish was "Blimdness" (An essay on Blindness) by Jose Saramago, not because it was malevolent, disturbing or truly unruly (you go to Sade for that, hands down. You're missing out if you havent read Sade) but all the contrary. It portrayed the submissive nature of humans to an extent I couldn't bear, so I dropped it like it was cursed.

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