Disturbing books which DIDN'T disturb

I've just finished Geek Love, which I came across on this list, and found it didn't disturb me in the slightest. This didn't surprise me at all - Katherine Dunn describes her family as a tribe of story and joke tellers, which reminded me of life at home with my sisters (we would have loved this book as teens). It was gross in places but it didn't play on my mind or offend me in any way.

I also read The Room by Hubert Selby jr recently. While I'm surprised it isn't on the list, I personally didn't find it shocking. In fact I found it a bit boring, being stuck in the head of a bitter, petty criminal for the course of the novel, like one long whinge.

I'd love to know which books other members found non-disturbing, despite the subject matter.

Who added Art & Physics by Leonard Shlain? Do they have a physics phobia or are they just not into art?

Brave New World. I don't remember ever being creeped out or disturbed, just bemused.

Some of the chapters in The Devils of Loudun bemused me, he goes on a bit does Huxley.

For disturbing dystopias, you can't beat 1984.

Never found Lovecraft the slightest bit disturbing - unless you count being disturbed by his terrible prose.

That's funny! During "Earth Hour" or whatever it was last week my wife and I read Call of Cthulu to my daughters by candle light.

They complained about his prose, and my wife noticed the barely literate Norwegian (or was it Sweedish) sailor who wrote his account in English so his wife wouldn't be able to read it used Lovecraft's own unique vocabulary and sentence structure.

I wrote two Cthulu-like paragraphs on Writing.com the next morning (my Daughter is very active there) as a joke for them to read. Another member there thought it was serious, and actually reviewed it saying: "
A good start, save for the incredibly long paragraphs" ..."I'm not sure what a happy medium would be, save to assume the reader understands certain things and then explain the obscure points (since no definition of "cephalopod" was given)."

:-)

Hey Angel! Been a while since I've been here. How's MostDisturbing getting on?

Chuck Palahniuk's Haunted did not bother me at all. Actually, I thought it was kind of boring. He seems to write shocking stories for shocking's sake and nothing more.

Peters: *cough* The good news is I'm graduating tomorrow, so I'll finally be free to update the catalog like I've been wanting to. I think I've kept up with new additions, but tagging is only partially done, and collections will be out soon so I'm think of a way to incorporate that.

AA1986 - well done you!