Two years ago I would never have thought a book could create an image that I would define "disturbing".
I now nominate Dexter by Design, Chapter 2 to win an award for the above Title
A wikipedia summary does not do it justice:
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And to top that, it's sequel gives a very good reason why not to tell bedtime stories about monsters eating flesh.
Anyone read it/something worse?
P.S. I would highly reccomend these books as they are, in a word, brilliant.
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Kafka's entire novel The Trial is the most existentially disturbing literature I have read.
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Definately
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Large portions of George R R Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire, as awsome as they were, were quite disturbing. Namely the one when
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Ah, so that is why it's being made into a HBO drama. Nice for True Blood to have some competition in the Originally Posted by Orko
ed Up category.
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Its being into a drama because Martin's Song of Ice and Fire is the most realistic fantasy ever written with the best character development a fantasy novel series has ever seen. Originally Posted by Inarus
Ah, so that is why it's being made into a HBO drama. Nice for True Blood to have some competition in theed Up category."Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor."
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You obviously haven't read Tolkien's works. Originally Posted by chilon
Originally Posted by Corvis
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I was going to suggest that also, but the part where Originally Posted by Orko
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I have, Martin is much better at character development than Tolkien. Tolkien is a fantastic linguist and great at developing a deep, complex, and rich world. But as a writer he's not the greatest. Originally Posted by Inarus
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Originally Posted by Inarus
To the contrary I was actually comparing Martin's work to Tolkien specifically. Have you even read the Song of Ice and Fire?
Personally I found LoTR very meh (and I read it twice even as a kid and adult). But then my preference is to realistic or "low fantasy" rather ultra high fantasy.
And Tolkien has not a single female character of any note. Certainly can't compare to Martin's deep ensemble of Cersei Lannister, Catelyn Stark and her daughter Arya, Brienne of Tarth, Arianne Martell not to mention Daeny Targaryen.
The only interesting character that Tolkien has is Smeagul and even that is not written from the depth of human emotions that Tyrion's chapters are in Ice and Fire.
I am well aware that Tolkien has his fanatical fans devoted to his made up languages and what not. But that doesn't impress me. I really was not into Tolkien's hobbit chapters and hobbits in general. Ugh! Worse than ewoks IMO.
Anyhow, its cool you think Tolkien is so amazing and I agree he has a great world-builder type of mind but no interesting plot twists in that entire LOTR triology. Very predictable storyline. To me (and many others) Martin writes Shakespearean tragedy, Tolkien writes "fantasy space-opera". The character development and depth in Martin's characters, especially the POV ones, is really incredible writing that transcends the genre."Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs," I said. "We have a protractor."
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Isn't she also on her period in that scene? But I must agree it's a pretty Originally Posted by Orko
ed up scene and Inarius have you read A Song of Ice and Fire? because otherwise you can't really say that Tolkien is a better author. I prefer Martin every day in the week because I like characters that actually have flaws.
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Plenty of stuff in Berserk. Great as it is, the disturbing level makes anything in A song of ice and fire look like MA 13+ content.
This i have to mention The Eclipse again. It just so wrong
. Among others but that the most messed up part till Uncle Skullie comes round and Save Guts's ass.
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Tolkien has made a perfect world with so much detail in characters and locations that the only work of fantasy that can rival it is the Bible. And I never heard of A Song of Ice and Fire until I joined these forums a year ago, the excellence of an Author can be measured by how well known his books are (dammit, that's self contradiction, no-one here has heard of Jeff Lindsay it seems Originally Posted by molonthegreat
Isn't she also on her period in that scene? But I must agree it's a prettyed up scene and Inarus have you read A Song of Ice and Fire? because otherwise you can't really say that Tolkien is a better author. I prefer Martin every day in the week because I like characters that actually have flaws.). And all Tolkien's characters had flaws, even the elves, possibly the elves over all others.
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Originally Posted by Inarus
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Twilight. The entire series.
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the above
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A Clockwork Orange is pretty disturbing. There comes a point in it when you look past the somewhat cutesy exotic looking language and you realise that not only that Alex is describing scenes of unspeakable savagery, but Burgess' dystopian state is not too far off from Britain today, the only thing he got wrong was the slang.
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Most scenes from Blood Meridian, many that include Judge Holden. The dance of death comes to mind. Also, the scene where David Brown shoots the kid is a bit on the disturbing side, though it evokes shock and sadness more effectively. Almost made me cry
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Much of American Psycho had me cringing, especially:
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The most disturbing scene I ever read was in a book about child abuse. I read it in 1981, I think it was called "The Boy Behind Green Eyes" or something like that.
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