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What do readers say about The Wasp Factory?
first person narrative frank's very strange altar/retreat dark, disturbing and original dark and disturbingThe polarizing literary debut by Scottish author Ian Banks, The Wasp Factory is the bizarre, imaginative, disturbing, and darkly comic look into the mind of a child psychopath.
Meet Frank Cauldhame. Just sixteen, and unconventional to say the least: ... More details on The Wasp Factory
At the north end of the island, near the tumbled remains of the slip where the handle of the rusty winch still creaks in an easterly wind, I had two Poles on the far face of the last dune. One of the ...
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What do readers say about A Clockwork Orange?
english/russian pidgin tongue ultra violence and language one possible future vivid, cruel, and evocativeIn Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his frie... More details on A Clockwork Orange
There was me, that is Alex, and my three droogs, that is Pete, Georgie, and Dim, Dim being really dim, and we sat in the Korova Milkbar making up our rassoodocks what to do with the evening, a flip da...
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What do readers say about Perfume?
robust and lyrical every single detail dark and humorous murder, passion and obsessionAn acclaimed bestseller and international sensation, Patrick Suskind's classic novel provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man's indulgence in his greatest passion-his sense of smell-leads to murder.
In the slums of eighteenth-c... More details on Perfume
In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His story will be told here. Hi...
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What do readers say about Serial Killers?
murder and wacky crimes serial killers or occult a good read nonfictionA comprehensive examination into the frightening true crime history of serial homicide-including information on America's most prolific serial killers such as:
Ted Bundy
"Co-ed Killer" Ed Kemper
The BTK Killer ... More details on Serial Killers
I am not a highly educated expert on serial killers. I was never an FBI profiler, a police officer, a criminologist, or a forensic psychologist. I did not write a college thesis about them and I never...
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What do readers say about Story of the Eye?
surrealism and symbolism absolutely unremittingly fantastic a pornographic prose poem disturbingBataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is still his most notorious work. In this explicit pornographic fantasy, the young male narrator and his lovers Simone and Marcelle embark on a sexual quest involving sadism, torture,... More details on Story of the Eye
That was the period when Simone developed a mania for breaking eggs with her behind. She would do a headstand on an armchair in the parlour, her back against the chair’s back, her legs bent towards me...
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What do readers say about The Invisible Man?
crisp and clean mediocre slapstick comedy primitive and short an inferior adventure taleThe mysterious Griffin arrives at a picturesque English inn during a snowstorm, swaddled in bandages which cover his face and with his eyes hidden behind dark glasses. His odd get-up and irascible behavior intrigue the locals, who believe him to be t... More details on The Invisible Man
The stranger came early in February one wintry day, through a biting wind and a driving snow, the last snowfall of the year, over the down, walking as it seemed from Bramblehurst railway station and ...
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What do readers say about The Butterfly Garden?
disturbing, yet not graphic kidnapped girls lived dark and twisty creepy little thrillerAn Amazon Charts bestseller.
Near an isolated mansion lies a beautiful garden.
In this garden grow luscious flowers, shady trees...and a collection of precious "butterflies"-young women who have been kidnapped and intricately tattooed to resemble the... More details on The Butterfly Garden
The techs tell him the girl on the other side of the glass hasn’t said a word since they brought her in. It doesn’t surprise him at first, not with the traumas she’s been through, but watching her now...
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What do readers say about Brave New World?
satirical and disturbing lots of memorable quotes nineteen eighty four more contemporary feelAldous Huxley's profoundly important classic of world literature, Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to pas... More details on Brave New World
A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRALLONDONHATCHERY ANDCONDITIONINGCENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABIL...
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What do readers say about The Island of Doctor Moreau?
interesting and gruesome morbid but highly entertaining a morality piece a harrowing memoirA man is discovered adrift in the wreckage of a boat, babbling of horrors scarcely imaginable...this is his story.
They say that terror is a disease...
A shipwrecked man finds himself, after various twists of Fate, on a lonely tropical island. From ... More details on The Island of Doctor Moreau
The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Island of Doctor Moreau, by H. G. Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it ...
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What do readers say about Complicity?
two sets of murders really good thriller hypnotic rather than repellent he's written betterCOMPLICITY n. 1. the fact of being an accomplice, esp. in a criminal act
Local journalist Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have the same MO - he commits brutal ... More details on Complicity
You hear the car after an hour and a half. During that time you’ve been here in the darkness, sitting on the small telephone seat near the front door, waiting. You only moved once, after half an hour,...
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