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Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:03 am
by cxwx
Blood Meridian
2666
American Psycho

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Mon Oct 22, 2018 6:55 pm
by kevin hash
Mystery of precious hitler's cum

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:23 am
by featherboa
hey cw, check out A Little Life

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:56 am
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:23 am hey cw, check out A Little Life
Will do thanks.

Has anyone here actually read Hogg?

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:05 pm
by Foot Foot
cxwx wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:56 am Has anyone here actually read Hogg?
yup.

Matthew Stoke's Cows and High Life are pretty relentless.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Dec 28, 2018 5:30 pm
by cxwx
Foot Foot wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 1:05 pm
cxwx wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 11:56 am Has anyone here actually read Hogg?
yup.

Matthew Stoke's Cows and High Life are pretty relentless.
I remember someone mentioning the book “cows” years ago but didn’t know the author, thanks!

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Sun Dec 30, 2018 3:29 am
by cxwx
The beginning of The 158 Pound Marriage is one of the most harrowing things I’ve ever read.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2019 4:00 pm
by cxwx
I’m reading High Life right now. This is like if the scripts for Dead Alive and LA Confidential got jumbled together in the copy machine.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:36 am
by hipster holocaust
The bible

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:03 am
by Foot Foot
hipster holocaust wrote: Wed Jan 30, 2019 8:36 am The bible
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https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/915 ... with-blood

best CliffsNotes ever

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Jan 30, 2019 11:47 am
by hipster holocaust
:shock: :tup:

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Mar 13, 2019 5:18 am
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Fri Dec 28, 2018 10:23 am hey cw, check out A Little Life
God damn you Travis.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:04 pm
by featherboa
haha i was wondering if you'd get to it
did you ever throw it across the room?

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:35 pm
by cxwx
featherboa wrote: Fri Mar 15, 2019 2:04 pm haha i was wondering if you'd get to it
did you ever throw it across the room?
No. I wouldn’t say it was completely hopeless. Even though things ultimately didn’t work out it still felt oddly hopefully at the end of “Dear Comrads”

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 11:38 am
by cxwx
cxwx wrote: Mon Oct 22, 2018 2:03 am 2666
Alright solidaritywithfruit, this is your reading assignment.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:34 pm
by featherboa
man i don't have the stomach

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Tue Apr 23, 2019 1:53 pm
by Jimm O' Lation
you'd be upset by an archie comic for fucks sake

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:29 pm
by cxwx
I loved Cows so fucking much. This was like American Psycho meats Story Of The Eye with Joseph Kallinger becoming the god of lower ( higher?) organisms. Maybe if Marques De Sade wrote Watership Down.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Jul 03, 2019 11:47 pm
by NIGEL GARAGE
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Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2021 2:40 pm
by cxwx
“The Girl Next Door” - Jack Ketchum

Fuck. I know it’s based on true events. For a mass market novel this is pretty strong meat.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 3:41 pm
by cxwx
Gabrielle Wittkop’s “The Necrophilic” should be approached with caution.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Sat Aug 28, 2021 10:08 pm
by Eight Bit Alien
Tricknollegy trivcks


Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Sep 17, 2021 8:17 pm
by cxwx
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Far more lurid than expected. Some of this stuff would make Chris Barnes puke. A bit like Bukowski writing splatter punk.

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Wed Feb 15, 2023 9:42 pm
by cxwx
Most depressing:

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara
Leaving Las Vegas - John OBrien
The Neon Bible - John Kennedy Toole
Johnny Got His Gun - Dalton Trumbo
Notice - Heather Lewis
Infinite Jest - DFW
Filth - Irvine Welsh
Cujo/ Pet Semetary/ The Tommy Knockers/ Herman Wouk Is Still Alive - Stephen King
The Road/The Passenger/Stella Maris - McCarthy
Kafkas’ Letter To His Father
The Girl Next Door - Jack Ketchum
Angela’s Ashes - Frank McCourt
Dark Spring - Zurn Unica
The Royal Family - Vollmann
The River - Flannery OConnor
Lord Of Dark Places - Hal Bennett
Geek Love - Katherine Dunn
The Tunnel - William H Gass
Less Than Zero/Lunar Park - Ellis
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
Breakfast of Champions / the Dresden clean up section of Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut
Ask The Dust - Fante
VALIS - Phillip K Dick
The End Of Alice - AM Homes
Dog Fight - William Gibson and Michael Swanwick
House Of Leaves - Danielewski
The Arms And Legs Of The Lake - Mary Gaitskill
The Year Of Magical Thinking - Joan Didion
Empty Mile - Matthew Stokoe



Runner ups:

The Earlie King And The Kid In Yellow - Danny Denton
Kafka On The Shore - Murakami
His Name Was Death - Rafael Burnal
Brothers Karamazov - Dostoyevsky
End Of Watch/Cell - Stephen King
Some George Saunders stuff
Dhalgren - SR Delany
2666 - Bolano
Cather In The Rye - Salinger
Magnetic Fields - Ron Loewinsohn

Re: Most relentless violent novels you’ve read.

Posted: Fri Jan 12, 2024 2:34 am
by cxwx
The collected plays of Sarah Kane.