Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:19am
Son of a...
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:22am
Speaking of Zach whomever...
I used to reallt like his standup comedy.
"Most people don't know this, but TCBY stands for 'this can't be yogurt'. One day I'd like to open up a TCBY in Montana and serve soup. And people would say, "uh...this can't be yogurt" and I'd be like, "I know, it's soup."
All while playing classical music on a piano. And the point of that was to illustrate why no one gets my jokes.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:21am
His standup is brilliant. He's like a much more bitter Mitch Hedberg. Probably without so much heroin, which would explain the bitterness.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:25am
Do they still have TCBY's?
Mitch was a genius.
And Zach is funnier than hell.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:33am
Hell is surprisingly less funny than many people seem to imagine. Or maybe I misunderstand that phrase.
I have no idea if they still have TCBY. I've never seen one in real life.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 2, 2012 - 7:46am
Two Cold Baby Yodels? We got one of those.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:47am
Robert Olen Butler wrote a pretty funny depiction of Hell.
We used to have TCBY, but I think they went out of business.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 2, 2012 - 7:57am
@R - Yeah! The R.O.B. book was pretty frickin cool. I liked that one. Especially the scene with Satan at the hunting lodge target practicing off the back porch. Tried one of his other books, some weird thing about an alien and a bunch of people on their way to a casino. Seemed completely contrived and I've been unable to force myself to read anything by him since.
Although his creative writing handbook, From Where You Dream, is really good and I highly recommend it.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 8:01am
I didn't know he had a creative writing book. I have another one by him called, Had a good Time, but haven't read it yet. When I saw Jerry Falwell's name in the first chapter, I knew the book was for me... Have you read I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan? Great book. Did you read Damned? I thought Damned was a lot like Hell.
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 2, 2012 - 8:38am
Did not read those other two about hell. Isn't Had a Good Time a collection of short stories?
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February 2, 2012 - 9:18am
120 Days Of Sodom. Nuff said...
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Utah
from Fort Worth, TX is reading Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryFebruary 2, 2012 - 9:51am
RMoon and I were actually just getting ready to role-play some stuff from that book.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 2, 2012 - 10:09am
*gets popcorn
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 2, 2012 - 10:28am
I can't stop picturing jfdiaz choking me now and going, "I'm on leave now, bitch!"
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 2, 2012 - 10:30am
I just realized this thread is misspelled, distrubing.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 2, 2012 - 12:13pm
Spelling fixed
I'm not a sex criminal....yet.
I would prefer if you served Asian noodles instead at your TCBY Averydoll.
I only choke the willing. I will write something disturbing just for you. Aliens, choking, sodomy, baby chickens, rabbits, Asians, asteroids, politics, Liam Neeson, Margaret Thatcher, two ducks, and a paperclip all walk into a bar...I'll work on it later.
The guy who screws sea turtles from Lamb by Christopher Moore was a bit disturbing.
avery of the dead
from Kentucky is reading Cipher SistersFebruary 2, 2012 - 12:20pm
"I would prefer if you served Asian noodles instead at your TCBY Averydoll."
Why? What kind? Is this about Taco Bell?
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 2, 2012 - 12:24pm
No, I just woke up and was hungry for Asian noodles. Any kind of yakisoba preferred. Now I must go and order Chinese for lunch. Or maybe I go to Taco Bell....nope, too lazy...and hungover.
"Class do you know what hungover means?"
"Yeah, you're drunk."
"No, it means I was drunk yesterday."
Ash
from the dark ghoulish woods creaking just outside the unhinged door, the macabre biting at the heels. is reading Our Tragic UniverseFebruary 2, 2012 - 12:31pm
The shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer. Not fiction, a biography dripping with grizzly details.
I do like Haunted by palahniuk though.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 2, 2012 - 1:02pm
Final Truth about Donald "Pee-Wee" Gaskins the serial killer. There were some things that I read that I wish I hadn't at the age of 12. The following book I read was about Ursala Sunshine Assaid. Good parenting mom! lol
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ReneeAPickup
from Southern California is reading Wanderers by Chuck WendigFebruary 2, 2012 - 2:55pm
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight. I thought I had long since been desensitized to horror, but alas, no.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 4:08pm
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight.
- I read it in the daytime as well. Check out Possessed by Thomas Allen. It's the true story that The Exorcist was based on. It's just as scary.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 4:11pm
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight.
- I read it in the daytime as well. Check out Possessed by Thomas Allen. It's the true story that The Exorcist was based on. It's just as scary.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 4:12pm
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight.
- I read it in the daytime as well. Check out Possessed by Thomas Allen. It's the true story that The Exorcist was based on. It's just as scary.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 4:13pm
Oops... Triple post...
Max Redford
from Your basement. is reading Mirrorshades: The cyberpunk anthology, Mondo 2000: Guide to life on the New Edge, Book of CthuluFebruary 2, 2012 - 4:14pm
I am not easily disturbed and typically the one doing the disturbing--I have a sick sense of humor.
But there is one book I read a few years ago that disturbed me enough to cause me to actually close the book a couple times and think happy thoughts as a brain-cleansing.
Edward Lee's Flesh Gothic. Several, several graphic scenes in this book about an eccentric man who buys a Victorian mansion and makes it into a porn studio before axe murdering all the actors and actresses--but his body is never found and a team of psychics are called in to investigate the bizarre cult murder.
One of the psychics, a female nymphomaniac, has an Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) and is raped to death by a demon who has penises for fingers....
What makes this book disturbing is that Lee is a first-class writer and his style and voice for this book was real, serious, factual.....this wasn't a cheesy b-slasher. This was Shirley Jackson and Poe after being gang raped by Clive Barker and popping out a disfigured conjoined twin baby.
R.Moon
from The City of Champions is reading The Last Thing He Wanted by Joan Didion; Story Structure Architect by Victoria Lynn Schimdt PH.D; Creating Characters by the editors of Writer's DigestFebruary 2, 2012 - 4:16pm
@Max... You're description of the book is pretty disturbing...
Dave
from a city near you is reading constantlyFebruary 2, 2012 - 5:18pm
The sea turtles made me think of
Spooky Sean
from Massachusetts is reading The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol OatesFebruary 2, 2012 - 5:46pm
Haha, now this is my bag, baby.
So many stories from Peaceable Kingdom, Jack Ketchum's short story collection. In particular, a scene at the end of this story called The Rifle, where a ten-year-olds clubhouse is unlocked by his mom, to reveal all sorts of dead animals he's killed in various states of mutilation on the walls.
Off Season by Ketchum has some disturbing imagery, in particular I'm remembering a fish hook through a woman's tongue leading to a line, that a guy pulls on, and afterwards he cuts off her arm and leg (might be both arms and legs). Also, in the unexpurgated edition, a description of how a feral woman makes human jerky.
The guts part from the first story in Haunted by Palahniuk with the pool...oh yeah.
A scene in Gerald's Game by Stephen King, where there's a description of a woman basically peeling the flesh of her hand off to get out of a handcuff.
Clive Barker has all sorts of imagery, but in particular, I'd say a scene from Books of Blood Volume 1 Midnight Meat Train story, where there is a description of shaved and carved bodies, hanging like slaughterhouse meat in a train. Also, there's a part in The Great and Secret Show by Barker, where a man cums into shit, and animates it through magic, into some kind of moving shit worm thing he can order to go where he wants it to.
I'm reading a collection now called Ruthless: An Extreme Shock Horror Collection, with a story by John Mcnee called Bebbel, about extremely mutilated circus freaks, which is really disturbing.
Peter Straub gets disturbin'. I'm remembering a story called Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff with a distubing allusion to how to torture with dental floss on soft areas, and Bunny is Good Bread has scenes about a dead mother, whom the father refuses to acknowledge is dead to his son.
And I've heard Ed Lee gets messed up. I have yet to read him, but been longing too.
Spooky Sean
from Massachusetts is reading The Corn Maiden and Other Nightmares by Joyce Carol OatesFebruary 2, 2012 - 6:03pm
Oh, and Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. Remember that has stuff in it that's messed, can't remember specifics though.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn has all sorts of stuff in it.
Big Irvine Welsh fan, and most of his work has at least one part where you go "oh what the fuck..."
Marabou Stork Nightmares has an ending that is pretty messy. Also, the story Rattlesnake from If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Welsh has a part with the snake biting a guy in the dick. Then, someone has to suck out the poison, and a guy with a gun shows up, and a comedy of errors occurs I won't spoil for you here.
aliensoul77
from a cold distant star is reading the writing on the wall.February 2, 2012 - 6:37pm
Sean, you are awesome, you just described like a bunch of my favorite horror novels and stories.
Jose F. Diaz
from Boston is reading Wolf Hall by Hilary MantelFebruary 2, 2012 - 6:41pm
My goal is to find and read these books to get an idea of how to really write this kind of disturbing material and place into genres that are not supposed to be geared for such debauchery.
You have all given me a plethora of literature to read in the hopes of grasping the genre. Mahalo all.
Son of a...
Speaking of Zach whomever...
I used to reallt like his standup comedy.
"Most people don't know this, but TCBY stands for 'this can't be yogurt'. One day I'd like to open up a TCBY in Montana and serve soup. And people would say, "uh...this can't be yogurt" and I'd be like, "I know, it's soup."
All while playing classical music on a piano. And the point of that was to illustrate why no one gets my jokes.
His standup is brilliant. He's like a much more bitter Mitch Hedberg. Probably without so much heroin, which would explain the bitterness.
Do they still have TCBY's?
Mitch was a genius.
And Zach is funnier than hell.
Hell is surprisingly less funny than many people seem to imagine. Or maybe I misunderstand that phrase.
I have no idea if they still have TCBY. I've never seen one in real life.
Two Cold Baby Yodels? We got one of those.
Robert Olen Butler wrote a pretty funny depiction of Hell.
We used to have TCBY, but I think they went out of business.
@R - Yeah! The R.O.B. book was pretty frickin cool. I liked that one. Especially the scene with Satan at the hunting lodge target practicing off the back porch. Tried one of his other books, some weird thing about an alien and a bunch of people on their way to a casino. Seemed completely contrived and I've been unable to force myself to read anything by him since.
Although his creative writing handbook, From Where You Dream, is really good and I highly recommend it.
I didn't know he had a creative writing book. I have another one by him called, Had a good Time, but haven't read it yet. When I saw Jerry Falwell's name in the first chapter, I knew the book was for me... Have you read I, Lucifer by Glen Duncan? Great book. Did you read Damned? I thought Damned was a lot like Hell.
Did not read those other two about hell. Isn't Had a Good Time a collection of short stories?
120 Days Of Sodom. Nuff said...
RMoon and I were actually just getting ready to role-play some stuff from that book.
*gets popcorn
I can't stop picturing jfdiaz choking me now and going, "I'm on leave now, bitch!"
I just realized this thread is misspelled, distrubing.
Spelling fixed
I'm not a sex criminal....yet.
I would prefer if you served Asian noodles instead at your TCBY Averydoll.
Comedy: Must watch Anthony Clark on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQlhYB72bIg
I only choke the willing. I will write something disturbing just for you. Aliens, choking, sodomy, baby chickens, rabbits, Asians, asteroids, politics, Liam Neeson, Margaret Thatcher, two ducks, and a paperclip all walk into a bar...I'll work on it later.
The guy who screws sea turtles from Lamb by Christopher Moore was a bit disturbing.
"I would prefer if you served Asian noodles instead at your TCBY Averydoll."
Why? What kind? Is this about Taco Bell?
No, I just woke up and was hungry for Asian noodles. Any kind of yakisoba preferred. Now I must go and order Chinese for lunch. Or maybe I go to Taco Bell....nope, too lazy...and hungover.
"Class do you know what hungover means?"
"Yeah, you're drunk."
"No, it means I was drunk yesterday."
The shrine of Jeffrey Dahmer. Not fiction, a biography dripping with grizzly details.
I do like Haunted by palahniuk though.
Final Truth about Donald "Pee-Wee" Gaskins the serial killer. There were some things that I read that I wish I hadn't at the age of 12. The following book I read was about Ursala Sunshine Assaid. Good parenting mom! lol
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight. I thought I had long since been desensitized to horror, but alas, no.
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight.
- I read it in the daytime as well. Check out Possessed by Thomas Allen. It's the true story that The Exorcist was based on. It's just as scary.
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight.
- I read it in the daytime as well. Check out Possessed by Thomas Allen. It's the true story that The Exorcist was based on. It's just as scary.
The Exorcist also scared the piss out of me, and I read most of it in broad daylight.
- I read it in the daytime as well. Check out Possessed by Thomas Allen. It's the true story that The Exorcist was based on. It's just as scary.
Oops... Triple post...
I am not easily disturbed and typically the one doing the disturbing--I have a sick sense of humor.
But there is one book I read a few years ago that disturbed me enough to cause me to actually close the book a couple times and think happy thoughts as a brain-cleansing.
Edward Lee's Flesh Gothic. Several, several graphic scenes in this book about an eccentric man who buys a Victorian mansion and makes it into a porn studio before axe murdering all the actors and actresses--but his body is never found and a team of psychics are called in to investigate the bizarre cult murder.
One of the psychics, a female nymphomaniac, has an Out-of-Body Experience (OBE) and is raped to death by a demon who has penises for fingers....
What makes this book disturbing is that Lee is a first-class writer and his style and voice for this book was real, serious, factual.....this wasn't a cheesy b-slasher. This was Shirley Jackson and Poe after being gang raped by Clive Barker and popping out a disfigured conjoined twin baby.
@Max... You're description of the book is pretty disturbing...
The sea turtles made me think of
Haha, now this is my bag, baby.
So many stories from Peaceable Kingdom, Jack Ketchum's short story collection. In particular, a scene at the end of this story called The Rifle, where a ten-year-olds clubhouse is unlocked by his mom, to reveal all sorts of dead animals he's killed in various states of mutilation on the walls.
Off Season by Ketchum has some disturbing imagery, in particular I'm remembering a fish hook through a woman's tongue leading to a line, that a guy pulls on, and afterwards he cuts off her arm and leg (might be both arms and legs). Also, in the unexpurgated edition, a description of how a feral woman makes human jerky.
The guts part from the first story in Haunted by Palahniuk with the pool...oh yeah.
A scene in Gerald's Game by Stephen King, where there's a description of a woman basically peeling the flesh of her hand off to get out of a handcuff.
Clive Barker has all sorts of imagery, but in particular, I'd say a scene from Books of Blood Volume 1 Midnight Meat Train story, where there is a description of shaved and carved bodies, hanging like slaughterhouse meat in a train. Also, there's a part in The Great and Secret Show by Barker, where a man cums into shit, and animates it through magic, into some kind of moving shit worm thing he can order to go where he wants it to.
I'm reading a collection now called Ruthless: An Extreme Shock Horror Collection, with a story by John Mcnee called Bebbel, about extremely mutilated circus freaks, which is really disturbing.
Peter Straub gets disturbin'. I'm remembering a story called Mr. Clubb and Mr. Cuff with a distubing allusion to how to torture with dental floss on soft areas, and Bunny is Good Bread has scenes about a dead mother, whom the father refuses to acknowledge is dead to his son.
And I've heard Ed Lee gets messed up. I have yet to read him, but been longing too.
Oh, and Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates. Remember that has stuff in it that's messed, can't remember specifics though.
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn has all sorts of stuff in it.
Big Irvine Welsh fan, and most of his work has at least one part where you go "oh what the fuck..."
Marabou Stork Nightmares has an ending that is pretty messy. Also, the story Rattlesnake from If You Liked School, You'll Love Work by Welsh has a part with the snake biting a guy in the dick. Then, someone has to suck out the poison, and a guy with a gun shows up, and a comedy of errors occurs I won't spoil for you here.
Sean, you are awesome, you just described like a bunch of my favorite horror novels and stories.
My goal is to find and read these books to get an idea of how to really write this kind of disturbing material and place into genres that are not supposed to be geared for such debauchery.
You have all given me a plethora of literature to read in the hopes of grasping the genre. Mahalo all.