What’s the most offensive book you own?

[Reno]

The guy penetrated the woman's leg injury. It was the wrongest thing I've ever read. I was surprised to hear there was a film. I guess they cut the wound-fucking.

There was a huge tabloid outrage over the Cronenberg film led by Alexander Walker from the Evening Standard and Westminster council banned it, so no West End cinema could show it. Apart from the atypical Empire of the Sun, I could never get into Ballard and with Crash I preferred the film over the book. It featured what at the time were big movie stars and it's a rather elegant and atmospheric film. The wound fucking is there, but it's not explicit. The film implies a lot but doesn't show much. I never understood why there was such a fuss over the film, it was like the last gasp of the video nasties hysteria.

 

[Spymaster]

The guy penetrated the woman's leg injury. It was the wrongest thing I've ever read. I was surprised to hear there was a film. I guess they cut the wound-fucking.

I read American Psycho when it first came out and there's loads of similarly sick shit in it. When they made the film I wondered how it would ever be released but they completely changed it into a comedy/farce. Nothing like the book at all.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

There was a huge tabloid outrage over the Cronenberg film led by Alexander Walker from the Evening Standard and Westminster council banned it, so no West End cinema could show it. Apart from the atypical Empire of the Sun, I could never get into Ballard and with Crash I preferred the film over the book. It featured what at the time were big movie stars and it's a rather elegant and atmospheric film. The wound fucking is there, but it's not explicit. The film implies a lot but doesn't show much. I never understood why there was such a fuss over the film, it was like the last gasp of the video nasties hysteria.

I was desperate to see the film when it was finally released. The ticket person asked me if I was aware of the content of the film before selling me the ticket.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

I was desperate to see the film when it was finally released. The ticket person asked me if I was aware of the content of the film before selling me the ticket.

I wish they'd done similar with the book.

 

[Reno]

I read American Psycho when it first came out and there's loads of similarly sick shit in it. When they made the film I wondered how it would ever be released but they completely changed it into a comedy/farce. Nothing like the book at all.

Being a sick fuck, I liked the novel at the time. Not being the greatest fan of the 80s, it felt like the "fuck you !" that decade deserved. The film is the best adaptation that could be made of a novel which is unfilmeable and therefore a little pointless.

 

[Brainaddict]

Saul Alinsky's Rules for Radicals.

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

My uncle and aunt gave me a book by renowned skidmark Douglas Murray. I haven't read it and have no intention of doing so but I guess it's probably that.

 

[sunnysidedown]

I remember Michael Giras' the Consumer raising an eyebrow, also Bad Wisdom by Bill Drummond and Mark Manning was like some speed & Special Brew fuelled American Psycho in parts. My copies of both now lost to the winds of time.

 

[8ball]

The guy penetrated the woman's leg injury. It was the wrongest thing I've ever read. I was surprised to hear there was a film. I guess they cut the wound-fucking.

That bit wasn't explicit in the film as I recall, but two rows of the cinema still walked out at that point (the amputee sex thing in general).
The way it was depicted in the film, it made me wonder what the issue was that people had.

 

[Bus Honeygun]

I've got a book called The Men's Guide to Europe that I picked up for pennies in a secondhand shop years ago.

It's from the early 60s and reads like a manual for a certain type of Ugly American tourist of that era. Headings on each country's women, describing them like they're animal breeds or something, sports with no acknowledgement of the games the people who live in those countries actually play, where to get a dry Martini, play golf and basically make no attempt to absorb the local culture.

Not especially offensive, more unintentionally funny in a kitschy type way really.

Also got one called Shit Ground No Fans that collated loads of football chants from about 15 years ago. Got given it as a present ('you like football'). Only reason I still have it is because charity shops won't take it.

 

[Orang Utan]

Matthew Stokoe’s Cows is another rather horrible book in my possession

 

[Chairman Meow]

Anything by Paul Coelho.

 

[Idris2002]

I took delivery of Joan Didion's Salvador this morning. Looking forward to her forensic descriptions of mass graves, etc.

 

[DotCommunist]

Anything by Paul Coelho.

I used to have a copy of the Alchemist, not very good as I recall

 

[jakejb79]

Love is an uphill thing by Jimmy Savile, it's absolutely shocking to read in places.

 

[pogofish]

One of the root texts of eugenics. Can’t remember it’s name because it is up in the loft (with my grandad’s Masonic stuff and my gran’s Rolf Harris) and I’ve not looked at it in years.

How I got it is another story - I once picked-up a small freestanding bookcase from a very elderly and very prominent citizen, who clearly believed in this shit - and he gave me his copy to with it!

 

[Proper Tidy]

Think it's called The Professional Bachelor or something. I saw it as a bit of a wind up/joke; surely not to be taken 100% seriously? Some folks on here would find it super offensive.

Is it a pick up artist book?

 

[seventh bullet]

A pamphlet:

Long Live the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea! Congress Speech by Pol Pot September, 29th 1977.

Stilted in the Stalinist vulgate. And dull as dishwater.

 

[Johnny Vodka]

Is it a pick up artist book?

Seemingly.

 

[redsquirrel]

The guy penetrated the woman's leg injury. It was the wrongest thing I've ever read. I was surprised to hear there was a film. I guess they cut the wound-fucking.

No it is in the film. But it is an old injury and it is an entirely consensual act.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I didn't mind high rise, I wouldn't read it a second time but it was ok. The film was fucking terrible

 

[NoXion]

I used to have in my possession a document called the White Resistance Manual. Vicious racism aside, the matter-of-fact manner in which it described various ways to be a terrorist cunt is what really struck me.

 

[not-bono-ever]

This is volume 2. It is terrible fairy tale shit.just stories of KJI wisdom on crop yeilds and magical doubling of output. and thankful citizens praising him.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I picked up a load of the series in a chazzer a bit ago - really grim stuff, and the prose was too turgid to make up for the grimness. Thankfully there's enough sentimental middle-aged skinheads collecting them in the world for me to be able to sell them on ebay for a reasonable amount though, so I did.

ebay it is then !

 

[weltweit]

Already mentioned by many - Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

Actually at the moment I don't know where it is, half or more of my belongings being in storage, I did intend to read it sometime and still do even though I am informed it is a deeply dull and unsatisfying read.

 

[tim]

Never got very far with this because I decided it was best not to read it whilst commuting. I should dig it out from the chaos that surrounds me and add it too my lock-down reading stack.

 

[Yu_Gi_Oh]

No it is in the film. But it is an old injury and it is an entirely consensual act.

Yeah, I didn't say it was non-consensual. It was still the grimmest thing ever. I am fairly squeamish. If I'd known what the book contained, I wouldn't have started it.

 

[Pickman's model]

A pamphlet:

Long Live the Seventeenth Anniversary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea! Congress Speech by Pol Pot September, 29th 1977.

Stilted in the Stalinist vulgate. And dull as dishwater.

strange how genocidal maniacs tend to be very boring

 

[Pickman's model]

I've got a book called The Men's Guide to Europe that I picked up for pennies in a secondhand shop years ago.

It's from the early 60s and reads like a manual for a certain type of Ugly American tourist of that era. Headings on each country's women, describing them like they're animal breeds or something, sports with no acknowledgement of the games the people who live in those countries actually play, where to get a dry Martini, play golf and basically make no attempt to absorb the local culture.

when i used to work in a local authority archives, one of the books in the local studies library (altho held in the strong room) was a guide to massage parlours which it seems a previous borough archivist had deposited.

 

[Pickman's model]

yep. i deleted my ppost. its proper bad shit. needed to wash my hands after remembering i still had it.

was this the richard allen skinhead novels? they were reissued in the 90s and after reading stewart home's oh-marges i ran through them then