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The 10 Most Disturbing Books Of All Time
In my younger days if I heard a book or movie was disturbing or hard to handle I generally took that as a challenge. Most books generally turned out to not be too bad, but occasionally I’d come across something that would leave me with a sick feeling in my stomach for weeks. I’ve largely outgrown this “genre” of late, but here are my picks for the ten most disturbing books of all time. Any one of these books is capable of leaving you feeling a little depressed at the least, and permanently scarred at the worst. I’d say enjoy, but that doesn’t really seem appropriate …
74 Books to Read if You Love the Hunger Games
If you haven't read the Hunger Games you really should! They're pretty awesome. Check them out: If you're already a fan of the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins...
Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Anybody who grew up in the 1960s (and still remembers anything about it) can tell you what Lewis Carroll's classic children's book was really all about: A girl takes a "trip" down the rabbit hole and finds herself in a surreal world where animals start talking to her. After she eats some "mushrooms," everything starts to change sizes before her eyes. She meets an over-stimulated "white rabbit" and a stoned caterpillar smoking a "shitload of drugs."
6 Books Everyone (Including Your English Teacher) Got Wrong
post written by: Marc Email The Web is grand. With its fame for hosting informative, easy-to-skim textual snippets and collaborative written works, people are spending more and more time reading online. Nevertheless, the Web cannot replace the authoritative transmissions from certain classic books that have delivered (or will deliver) profound ideas around the globe for generations. The 30 books listed here are of unparalleled prose, packed with wisdom capable of igniting a new understanding of the world.
30 Books Everyone Should Read Before Their 30th Birthday
The-Editing-Room.com is one of our favorite humor sites on the Internet. They've written abridged versions of some of the most popular movies from the past five years for us. Below, they've summarized The Hunger Games , so you can make fun of it without actually spending the money to go see it. JENNIFER LAWRENCE and LIAM HEMSWORTH walk to the town square sullenly.
If Hunger Games Was 10 Times Shorter and 100 Percent Honest
We come from the future. - StumbleUpon
in the 10th grade, I did a book report on "A Clockwork Orange". When I told the teacher upon which book I was basing my report, she said, "Hmmm... that was a weird movie...
When I read this list and came across "Bored of the Rings" (which I have never been [bored of it], but I still enjoyed it anyway), I immediately thought of another, maybe not so well known political satirical play that was published as a play, almost lost in the sands of time: "MacBird" by Barbara Garson. A parody of Macbeth with Lyndon Johnson as the star - concerning the murder of the former king (JFK) and usurption of power by the murderer - MacBird (LBJ). This satire, famously made LBJ furious but was well liked by JFK's brother, Robert Kennedy. Initially no publisher would handle it until Barbara Garson's husband initially had 5, 000 copies printed privately and then after the book had sold over 100,000 copies, Grove Press (who had previously turned it down) became the official publisher.
10 Satirical Novels that Could Teach You To Survive the Future
Recently, someone asked Reddit for a list of the best science fiction books of all time. Being a fan of sci-fi, and wanting to expand my own reading list, I thought it would be helpful to tally the results and preserve them here for future reference. I've also included selected quotes from the comments, as well as my own notes on the books I've already read. PS: All book images in this post are copyright Amazon, and were retrieved using my Big Book Search Engine .
The Best Science Fiction Books (According to Reddit) - StumbleUpon
If Seasons Were Boyfriends & Thought Catalog - StumbleUpon
The Summer Boyfriend The Summer Boyfriend is easy breezy. You can find him on a fire escape at someone’s house party, smoking cigarettes and clutching a sangria. He is the definition of someone you don’t want when the weather gets cold but he’s perfect for the warmer temperatures. You envision him on a beach with the sand in his toes.
Annora
I know you hate me, but we were best friends once and I need you to read this. I think I'm in serious trouble and there's nothing you can do, but I need you to read this so you understand. I know we haven't talked since sectionals. It's been forever, but what happened to you wasn't my fault.The Last of the Red-Hot Vampires | Katie MacAlister
The bestselling author of Even Vampires Get the Blues delivers a diabolical tale of a vampire who’s sexy as hell… Physicist Portia Harding’s life is grounded in facts. There’s nothing that can’t be explained by logic and science. Until she travels with her best friend to England—and accidentally summons an ethereal Virtue who bequeaths her gift of weather control to Portia… Now Portia’s walking around with a literal cloud over her head—and a heartstoppingly handsome maniac trying to kidnap her. But Theondre North is no run-of-the-mill maniac.The Boy with His Heart on His Sleeve and the Girl Who Never Tried to Fix Him by Max Andrew Dubinsky I was born with my heart on my sleeve. When the doctor handed me over to my mother he told her to be careful. "He's fragile," he said. Mom cried when she held me, overjoyed at the prospect of raising a son who would be so in touch with his emotions.
Daily Love: 9/17/10 - StumbleUpon
undefined . . . you tell people to "Get bent and die." . . . you won't play Monopoly because you think the guy with the cane is a Shadow Man. . . . you are convinced your boyfriend has fangs.