What is the edgiest book you ever read?
>>8172279
Your diary.
Ham on Rye or No Longer Human.
Disliked both.
By Steven Hall. The ideas in the book are really cool but the writing is just horrible and incomplete.
classic edgecore
The road.
Most of Nietzsche's work really tested my patience for edginess.
If only he had drove into one of those brick walls, I would have been saved the level of pretentiousness that is spewed across this book's pages.
>>8173433
>The ideas in the book are really cool
what is it
the catcher In the rye
snowcrash
>>8172279
Temple of the golden pavilion was pretty edgy
Probably American Psycho
>>8172279
hypersphere desu senpai
>>8172279
>literally baiting a bear in it's den
ishyddt
>>8172279
>rape
>kidnapping
>murder
>cannibalism
>incest
>hebephilia
>necrophilia
>genocide
>racial intolerance
Didn't even finish it. Read like a bad /b/ gay gorefic.
>>8173870
I wish Burroughs was still alive so I could introduce him to shitposting and memes.
I couldn't finish 120 days of Sodom so I can't count that.
Maybe The Painted Bird.
Reading Damned rn, so I guess that. You guys hate Chucky P, right?
>>8173880
If Burroughs was alive now, he'd never have written Naked Lunch, since everyone would have seen crappy smut in the internet and he could not dream of offending people the same way in a novel.
>>8172279
To Kill a Mockingbird
Ghost written by a New York Jew who had never been to the South.
>>8173917
Marquis de Sade was fucking edgy but the guy went just full out on 120 Days of Sodom. He was actually edging out because he was in prison.
>>8173945
Right. Read DeLillo and Ellis then tell me if he still does anything for ya
>>8172279
Crash by JG Ballard or
Justine by Marquis de Sade
>>8173428
You find Bukowski edgy?
The Bible. Not just saying that to be an asshole, I really mean this.
>>8174058
bukowski is extremely edgy, he has been a cancer for poetry.
>>8174059
Why
>>8174023
>DeLillo
>edgy
really, what book?
>>8174090
I like poetry, and I actually like some of his poetry.
>>8174097
>I actually like some of his poetry.
sure, but as a whole he's been terrible to literature.
>>8174091
Because the stuff that's written in it is bananas. I haven't gotten around to the Quran, but, I'm expecting it to be more of the same.
>>8174118
Edgy, though?
>>8172279
Does this picture look too much like a human eye to be coincidental to anyone else?
>>8174095
Not saying edgy, his work covered the same ground before and to subtler effect. Phlnk names him as an influence.
>>8174122
i thought goatse
>>8174163
ah, thought you ment in terms of edgyness
Grendel
>>8174122
if you gaze long into a bear, the bear also gazes into you
O shit nigga, I had to read that before I got to cmu, fucking horrendous book and pretentious as hell
>>8174121
Depends on the definition of edgy I guess (or is there only one).
>>8173694
house of leaves but shittier
amnesia
>>8174222
Tell me yours
>>8174099
Why do you say that? It's not like what he's written has forcibly changed anything. If you don't like a certain writer, then why not just ignore them?
>>8173849
>hebephilia
But that's normal.
>>8173870
seconded
i finished it but i had no fucking clue what i just read
the movie was really good, it was an amalgamation of Burrough's life and the book itself. As usual, Cronenberg does his job well
>>8173428
>No Longer Human
jesus christ that book was a such a disappointment. i was expecting something really actually tragic/depressing, but instead its about some guy who has women throw themselves at him, but he's too big of a pussy to keep them in line.
Babyfucker definitely.
It was still interesting though.
>>8174458
When young, uninitiated readers of poetry discover Bukowski, they think that writing sentences and breaking them up into something resembling a poem is the same thing as writing free verse.
There really aren't any edgy books. They're all pretty dull and innocuous in that regard.
Something in the ballpark might be Stephen King's Rage. It was a pretty good short story and was popular with many people who carried out violent acts in schools. It came to the point where King ultimately self-censored the story from ever being published again.
I wouldn't consider de Sade's books "edgy." I feel they're more a realist's analysis of "absurd' subjects. To call his books edgy would be to call newspapers "edgy" for reporting on the Orlando Pulse shooting.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid
>>8173433
I read this last year.
It's as though some guy thought that house of leaves wasn't gimmicky, pretentious or poorly written enough and wrote his own book adhering to his garbage sensitivities.
This book is so shitty that not even reddit seems to like it, despite it having the accessible shallowness and pretend erudition that they eat up over there.
Cows, by Matthew Stokoe.
It also made me reevaluate my life when I got a boner on multiple occasions.
>depressed as hell
>>8175617
Ichi The Killer is an amazing manga, sad the movie was so low budget
>>8173694
Amnesia and delusion.
>>8172279
>>8172279
Candide probably, unless we count Name of the Wind and usual atheist fantasy drivel
>>8177318
What was edgy about candide?
For edgemaster shitlords who prefer contemporary edge:
Behead All Satans
>>8177404
Got an epub/pdf link, anon?
>>8176794
Try Homunculus by the same guy, its just as good
naked lunch desu. didn't hate it for it though
>>8176779
you must be 18 years old to post on 4chan
The end of Alice and naked lunch
>>8175550
I don't even know what the difference is senpai. I write free verse poems and try to make them have a decent if irregular meter (basically don't go above or under two syllables per average line), is that decent free verse or what
>>8173970
How the hell did you find To Kill a Mockingbird edgy? Are you sure you now what that word means?
>>8173455
Came to say this. People defending him always say that "hey he wasn't that bad it's just meme" but if you read some of his wrtiings, you can tell that it's the language of your average 4channer.
Just got this yesterday and it's real disturbing so far. It's similar to The Wasp Factory
>>8173870
I used to have a policy of finishing every book I started, but after finishing Naked Lunch I changed that policy. Total garbage.
>>8173403
Delete this
>>8173661
All I know about this book is that it was memed on Oprah or something and my mom said it would change her life. She still hasn't read a book in 40 years
is lolita considered edgy?
>>8179629
only conceptually
>>8177293
lol'd
>>8177293
I had a sensible chuckle
>>8175449
This is the opinion of someone who cannot on any level connect to another human being.
I was just thinking about this today, how most people are unable to connect to fictional characters at all because they don't understand the concept of giving a shit about anything but themselves.
>>8177885
meter isn't about number of syllables, it's about which syllables are stressed
>>8180197
No Longer Human had no realistic characters to connect to.
>>8172279
I can't stop seeing an eye in this photo.
>>8173849
>hebephilia
not edgy
>>8173661
>head fake
Catcher in the rye
Caulfield reminds me of myself and I hate him for that.
