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Transgressive Fiction

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  • 17-10-2012 7:51pm
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    damselnat
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    Any other fans out there? I fell in love with the genre when I read A Clockwork Orange at 14 and have been eating it up ever since. I love anything a bit weird, a bit different, a bit off the wall. So I'm a few years older than 14 now :p and I've read most of the usual suspects, Irvine Welsh, Chuck Palahniuk, Kathy Acker, Thompson, Burroughs, Bukowski (I've struggled with Cormac McCarthy and Houllebecq, I admit) and I'm looking for recommendations for something new if anyone has any....the stranger/more disturbing the better :D


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    MagicMarker
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    I don't like weird. I read the first 2 or 3 pages of A Clockwork Orange before going "ah here leave it ou".

    I'm a glutton for punishment though so I'll probably go back to it with a fresh approach and prepared mind.


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    chasmcb
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    How about that rascal the Marquis de Sade?


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    BlueValkyrie
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    Have you tried The Dice Man? A great read if you like the weirder/darker side of fiction, about a psychiatrist who develops a therapy (which he then lives) where every decision is made on the roll of a dice. It's now viewed as a subversive classic.

    Also Geek Love is well worth a look too - not very well known, but a great novel about a carny family who deliberately mutate their own children to be more successful 'freaks' - it sounds messed up, and it is, but it's also quite beautiful and tragic.


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    judgefudge
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    You should try a scanner darkly by Philip k dick if you haven't already read it!


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    D-FENS
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    damselnat wrote: »
    I've read most of the usual suspects

    Bret Easton Ellis?..


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    nyarlothothep
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    You should try reading Logan: A Family History, that's very transgressive, full of excess for the refined sensibilities of the nineteenth century.


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    Paddy Samurai
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    damselnat wrote: »
    ..the stranger/more disturbing the better :D

    Blown by Philip Jose Farmer is pretty fcuking strange.Some have even been known to call it disturbing.:D

    I only read this one but He has written a fair few books. I assume the rest are similar,


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    krankykitty
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    Some of Haruki Murakami can be pretty strange. Recommend "Wind Up Bird Chronicle"


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    emeraldstar
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    krankykitty wrote: »
    Some of Haruki Murakami can be pretty strange. Recommend "Wind Up Bird Chronicle"
    Reading that at the moment. Odd book but it's holding my attention.


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    baalthor
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    "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z. Brite


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    Malari
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    The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas is quite strange. The main character finds out how to enter other people's minds through some sort of homeopathic trance. :pac: I enjoyed it!


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