Dave Pelzer's memoir A Child Called "It". I was a teen when I read it so it was by far the most messed up thing I'd encountered at that point in my life. Because it's a true story it hit way different than any fiction I'd read from authors like Stephen King and stuck with me for years.
This book chronicles the unforgettable account of one of the most severe child abuse cases in California history. It is the story of Dave Pelzer, who was brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother: a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games--games that left him nearly dead. He had to learn how to play his mother's games in order to survive because she no longer considered him a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy, but an "it."
Dave's bed was an old army cot in the basement, and his clothes were torn and raunchy. When his mother allowed him the luxury of food, it was nothing more than spoiled scraps that even the dogs refused to eat. The outside world knew nothing of his living nightmare. He had nothing or no one to turn to, but his dreams kept him alive--dreams of someone taking care of him, loving him and calling him their son.
"The obedient always think of themselves as virtuous rather than cowardly" - Robert A. Wilson |
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1. The Road fucked me up good with how bleak it is. I need to read more McCarthy and have Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men on the list.
2. Lolita. I recommend reading and then watching the lectures on this book by Amy Hungerford (https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291), it helps clarify a lot of the background that makes the book a lot more interesting (but no less disturbing).
"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
Seems like Cormac McCarthy is the winner of this thread. It's The Road for me, and I know it's not even his worst one. I read the first half of Child of God and quit.
A guy from my HS wrote a collection of short stories based on his time in Iraq. Redeployment is seriously messed up. The first story is about a guy who has to kill his dog after he gets home, and it gets darker from there. I let my cousin in law read it on the beach once, and after the first story he said "nope," handed it back to me and told everybody else not to read it. It won as couple awards though and was described as "gritty And unsparing." by the Times, "...upsetting..." by NY Mag, and "...disquieting..." by the WSJ.
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I generally see somebody I know on TV on Bloomberg/CNBC etc. once or twice a week. This sounds cool, until I remind myself that I see somebody I know on ESPN five days a week.
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Dave Pelzer's memoir A Child Called "It". I was a teen when I read it so it was by far the most messed up thing I'd encountered at that point in my life. Because it's a true story it hit way different than any fiction I'd read from authors like Stephen King and stuck with me for years.
Damn that's truly what nightmares are made of, son.
1. The Road fucked me up good with how bleak it is. I need to read more McCarthy and have Blood Meridian and No Country for Old Men on the list.
2. Lolita. I recommend reading and then watching the lectures on this book by Amy Hungerford (https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291), it helps clarify a lot of the background that makes the book a lot more interesting (but no less disturbing).
I read Lolita in an English lit class in Uni. That book is a true masterpiece.
The Bible
lol riiight
Yeah there’s some wild stories in the Bible. And Revelations alone is pretty crazy.
Seems like Cormac McCarthy is the winner of this thread. It's The Road for me, and I know it's not even his worst one. I read the first half of Child of God and quit.
A guy from my HS wrote a collection of short stories based on his time in Iraq. Redeployment is seriously messed up. The first story is about a guy who has to kill his dog after he gets home, and it gets darker from there. I let my cousin in law read it on the beach once, and after the first story he said "nope," handed it back to me and told everybody else not to read it. It won as couple awards though and was described as "gritty And unsparing." by the Times, "...upsetting..." by NY Mag, and "...disquieting..." by the WSJ.
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