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Wilson Rawls. Required reading in my world. To this day I blubber like a baby when I read that book. I grew up much the same as Billy Coleman. I formed relationships with animals very much as he did with the two Redbone hounds. I watched my four legged friends put themselves in harms way to protect me.
"I have to disagree that this story was "disturbing". Painful, yes, but full of hope and unconditional love. It is a brutal lesson on how life changes for us, as human beings, and how growing up blows. A wonderful story, but profoundly sad, yes. Makes Ol' Yeller look like a happily ever after.
Oh my. I don't think it would affect me the way it did then, but, oh boy, was that a book that stood out in my childhood!
It's not a traditional scary book, but Still Alice by Lisa Genova disturbed me so much that almost a year after reading it, it still makes me uneasy.
It is about a woman who is narrating her descent into early onset Alzheimer's, and the story is heartbreaking and so scary. It is a frightening disease and the author makes you feel as if you are living the horror along with the main character.
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. A brutally realistic look at a man and boy surviving in a completely decimated society. When I go on the "prepper" board here to peruse the posts, I have to laugh at their optimism.
The best part about The Road? My super strait-laced 85-year-old grandmother thought it was a "wonderful" book. She's been dead for about 5 years now, and it still cracks me up how she talked about what a lovely read it was. At the same time, my ex-boyfriend - who had actually ridden with a biker gang in his extremely misspent youth - was brought to hysterical tears by it and called me sobbing to thank me for recommending it.
All of that said, there were sections of Gerald's Game, by Stephen King that I couldn't read.
The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. A brutally realistic look at a man and boy surviving in a completely decimated society. When I go on the "prepper" board here to peruse the posts, I have to laugh at their optimism.
The best part about The Road? My super strait-laced 85-year-old grandmother thought it was a "wonderful" book. She's been dead for about 5 years now, and it still cracks me up how she talked about what a lovely read it was. At the same time, my ex-boyfriend - who had actually ridden with a biker gang in his extremely misspent youth - was brought to hysterical tears by it and called me sobbing to thank me for recommending it.
All of that said, there were sections of Gerald's Game, by Stephen King that I couldn't read.
I probably drank more water than I ever have in my life when I read Gerald's Game. That poor guy wanted a little bitty sip of water. That was wonderfully written. I like Kings books like that one so much more than the silly monster, or alien or ghost books.
I don't read anything in the horror genre; but one of the most unpleasant novels I've read was "Meridian" by Alice Walker. That was eight years ago and I don't remember all the details, but I thought the characters were despicable.
IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote. It is about the relationship between the writer and two killers who slaughtered innocent lives out of fear. They did not have to, but they did fearing being caught. They also had, already killed one so they decided to kill another. On the run, they even considered killing a person who gave them a lift. It was out of fear with no logic at all.
The disturbing part is the writer took advantage of the two killers, naive attitude towards him.
To make the book worst, the two suspect had an relationship that was almost non-heterosexual. Where one suspect, would be jealous after the more dominant one, especially around women.
I just remembered "The Unit" by Ninni Holmqvist. Women who reach 50 and men who reach 60, and are single with no children, are sent to a spa-like government facility where they "donate" their organs one at a time to more productive members of society until they make their final donation.
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