A book that has disturbed/depressed you too much

[Kdecicco]

Misery by Stephen King.......slightly hard to get through and very disturbing......does not leave you feeling good at the end.

[Carrie R]

....anything about the Holocaust leaves me " verklempt "

Same here. I also read a book once by Clive Barker. Very disturbing, but I can't remember which one it was.

[ipekbunsal]

Sister by Rosamund Lupton and Le Passager by Jean Christophe Grangé
Ah. Still sad.

[Reshmi]

Another one from me is 'Narcopolis' by Jeet Thayil. Unfortunately I couldn't get past the first 5 pages. I lent it to a friend who managed to complete it but he also confirmed that its a dark dark book and he would have been better off not reading it

[bluebutterfly2]

The Angel Factory. I read it when I was a little kid, but it disturbed me. It was just downright weird. I thought that it would be a neat book because it had the word Angel in the title, but it just wasn't.

[kichfree]

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold. It was both disturbing and depressing to the point where I refused to watch the movie.

[cyndiha11]

I read this question and laughed out loud... how's V. C. Andrews for disturbing?! I read what must have been 30 of her books non-stop, one after the other after discovering Flowers in the Attic. They're so disturbing I found them wholly entertaining.

[Charlotte Reese]

I was in my early teens when I read George Orwell's 1984. The thought that such a bleak, dystopian future is entirely possible frightened me at that time and still does. I was overcome with hopelessness when I finished reading the novel.

[Lunar]

I haven't read any actual books like that, save for Harry Potter and a few parts of the Inheritance Cycle, but I do read Creepypastas quite a lot... there's a fair few on that site that made me get up and cover my mirror. ._.

[WinterCandyMints]

Angela's Ashes. It made me so depressed.

[rssllue]

Clive Barker's Books of Blood were very disturbing when I read them way back in college. Crazy guy that Clive.

[Ryan]

A play called Blasted by Sarah Kane. Very disturbing indeed

[rssllue]

A play called Blasted by Sarah Kane. Very disturbing indeed

Somehow the smile at the end of your post looks quite evil there. How did you make it do that?!

[Ryan]

A play called Blasted by Sarah Kane. Very disturbing indeed

Somehow the smile at the end of your post looks quite evil there. How did you make it do that?!

The evil cannot be taught. It must come from within

[Phoebe Moon]

Requiem for a Dream is probably the single most disturbing book I've ever had the misfortune to read. I watched the movie afterwards as well.

It might sound silly but I felt almost as if I was being attacked psychically when I read this book. It's very clever the way its done but the symbolism and tone of the book is so dark it really does seem to go beyond the power of word and into some other realm entirely... I can't really explain. If you're sensitive you would have to read the book to understand what I mean. And once you've read something you can't unread it. I had some kind of spiritual experience reading this and it wasn't good. I know it sounds weird, and maybe it's just me but malevolence simply oozes from it's pages.

I never throw books away but I did throw away Requiem for a dream.

Another quite disturbing book is Dream Story by Arthur Schnitzler (the movie is called Eyes Wide Shut).

I also found Brave New World by Aldous Huxley to be fairly disturbing, probably because of the worrying similarities to real modern life.