March 18th, 2010
For me "We Need to Talk About Kevin" will always stay with me. I found it really disturbing, but oh so good at the same time. I dont think I would ever re-read it however (I am a big re-reader with all my fave books!).The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. It haunted me because it seems like it really could happen if the extreme fundies ever got full control of the United States. Diary Of Anne Frank. I read it when I was about 10 or 11. I felt panicked by it and even now as an adult, if I see an image of her face I go straight back to 10 and that feeling of revulsion and panic.
I can't feel like that over fiction. I've cried over stuff in fiction books but it doesn't 'stay' with me.Guts by Chuck Palahniuk.
I read it with one best friend because our other best friend dared us. I got revenge by making him watch Cabin Fever and we had a gore'n'horror war.
ADD: The Yellow Wallpaper stuck with me, too. Creepy story. An English teacher dared me to read that one. I really need to stop taking dares."Tuck Everlasting" Thirteen Reasons Why, because it is so horrible and sad that things like that really do happen. And also Ophelia because it is just such a sad love story. =)
+LC♥♥SABRIEL by garth nix
its about a yourn girl who loses her father to death...literally...
and she must travel into a world she does not know to get him back!The Perks of Being A Wallflower. Emotionally, that book struck me like no other ever has. "The Tell-Tale Heart" that thing freaked me out for a long time. Love Story by Eric Segal. It might sound like a bit of an odd choice, but this little tale really affected me at the time. It was so heartrecnching to read about how so young and in love a couple could overcome every hurdle life threw at them and yet there was one none of us can ever escape - death. It made me cry and haunted me when I went to a friends wedding. I just couldnt stop thinking about how fragile their love really is - on a lighter note they are blissfully happy and I am getting over this slight nausea at the thought of so tragic a tale.
The Jungle!
I ached for those poor immigrants trying to have a traditional wedding celebration among people who took advantage of them. Oh and buying that hideous house that they couldn't afford. This and Uncle Tom's Cabin are so outrageous, I can see why they both caused huge social upheaval.The Kite Runner.
I could not even finish reading that book, it is so sad and full of undeserved betrayal. It sits on my bookshelf tormenting me, and I have not the heart to inflict it on anyone else. So there it stays. : --- (((A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer, It reduced me to tears, I still get tearful now just thinking about it.Lolita. It's such a complex multi-layered novel, whenever I think of it I keep realising knew things.
The film (there's a book too) of The Diving Bell and The Butterfly Jar. It was dicatated by the French editor of Elle who got locked-in syndrome suddenly one day, and he could only communicate by blinking so the nurses made him a code and he wrote a very sad book about his life by blinking.i read true singapore ghost stories...
i am never going to singapore...The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey EugenidesIt would have to be Sybil, one really frightening book of child abuse, and multiple personality.
DianeThe Outsiders- S. E. Hinton
I haven't read it since 7th grade and I still think about it here and there. I'm gonna read it again.Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo.
It has stayed with me, longer than most . It has everything a person could aspire to. The only part I ever get tired of reading, is when he goes on for like 30 pages of what a Paris "gamin" is.
Yeah, a cunning homeless street urchin............we got it...........MOVE along!!!!!!!!!
Other than that.........it is a most EXCELLENT book. 'Mangos, Bananas, and Coconuts' by Himilce Novas and 'The Education of Ruby Loonfoot' by Paxton Riddle really disturbed me. The first was about a Cuban girl who was molested for years by her father, and ended up in an incestuous relationship with her newly discovered twin brother. 'Ruby Loonfoot' was about the horrible things going on in a Catholic boarding school that was set up for Native American children (starvation, beatings, molestation/rape of several little ones by a priest, and the use of a homemade electric chair device just to name a few). The thing that made 'Ruby Loonfoot' so disturbing to me is that, though it was a work of fiction, the events portrayed were not. They are accounts of actual happenings in these types of boarding schools in both the U.S. and in Canada. Worse is that, though the schools in the U.S. were starting to fix themselves by 1957, Canada held onto the old despicable acts until the 1970's...and some of these cases are still being tried within the court system.
Both books were disturbing for me because childhood trauma is hard for me to tolerate. But the writing was so good, so emotive, that I had to finish reading...Orwell's "1984"
At the very end the protagonist is faced with a threat of torture so terrible, that he betrays his loved one. The nature of the torture is unimportant (in the book it was the threat of an appliance with two rabied rats being put over his face so that the rats would devour it) - it represents one's greatest, ultimate innate fear (the protagonist had a strong phobia of rats since childhood). I ask myself this question ever so often: would I submit, would I placed in a similar situation, like the protagonist cry out: "No, only not me! Do it to Her!", or would I find the will to die for a beloved person.
I still don't have the answer, sadly.There are a lot of books that I think about after years, Dune, On the Road, East of Eden, To Kill A Mockingbird, etc..
But the only one that "haunts" me, would be Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun.Hi there.
It is called "House of Dolls" and is the diary of an unnamed woman who was forced into an army brothel by the Germans in WW2. They cut out her ovaries to prevent pregnancy then sent her and other prisoners out in a mobile brothel to be used by the soldiers. Once they were too ill to continue, they were killed or sent to death camps.
It is horrible and supposedly true.
Regards, Steve.I too have only just read "Perks of Being a Wallflower" - so I will need to see if it haunts me in years to come.
I would say "Lord of the Flies" - that book is such a cruel reminder of the rampant savagery humans have lurking under the surface, without the confines of society to bind them.Tory Hayden, One Child. Made me cry more than once. As its a true story it really stuck in my head.flowers in the Attic! Yuk! I still cant l;ook at my brother!Oseola....I'm not sure of the spelling, since I read it in Bulgarian when I was little (I think it is an American book, though), and it is about this Native American chief...Well, I've been a fan of Native American's ever since, and I think it even affected me spiritually, considering the young age during which I read it.#If you have any other info about this subject , Please add it free.# |
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