 | The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq
Buy new: $19.96 / Used from: $4.15 I didnt think this was Houellebecqs best effort until I realized it had left me depressed for days afterwards. In fact, upon finishing the book, I threw it in the nearest trashcan so as not to have to face it again.
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 | Afterhuman by Michael Cross
Buy new: $14.50 / Used from: $68.32 A book that is so unremittingly violent, perverse, pornographic, and mocking of every conceivable decency, you have to read it to still not believe it.
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 | In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami
Buy new: $11.90 / Used from: $3.17 A novel by the other Murakami. A thriller that is more than a thrillera kind of philosophical musing on the serial killer packed with grit and guts (spilled).
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 | La Maison de Rendez-Vous and Djinn: Two Novels (Robbe-Grillet, Alain) by Alain Robbe-Grillet
Buy new: $10.80 / Used from: $3.88 Robbe-Grillet is the master of the novel of looming sexual dread. Literary porn at its finest.
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 | hardcore romeo by Mark Nadja
Buy new: $18.50 / Used from: $18.49 A thriller that proves true love requires certain sacrifices and its not always pretty. Better bring a gun and a shovel.
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 | The Western Lands by William S. Burroughs
Buy new: $11.25 / Used from: $2.95 Wm S. Burroughs crowning achievement as a novelist. A poisoned garden of adventure, rebellion, speculation, and deviance of all sorts.
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 | Journey to the End of the Night (New Directions Paperbook) by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Buy new: $14.35 / Used from: $9.38 The seminal work of classic modern misanthropy. Why is honesty always discounted as cynicism? The truth as nihilism?
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 | Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis
Buy new: $10.17 / Used from: $2.98 Its easy to recommend American Psycho and Glamorama, but give LP a read. At first it seems like a conventional horror novel, but its far more terrifying.
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 | Maldoror and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont by Comte de Lautréamont
Buy new: $17.95 / Used from: $12.28 One of those rare books you cant believe was written over a hundred years ago because today it would be condemned as the most dangerous sort of obscenity. Presents a formidable challenge to any present-day literary maniac whod try to surpass it.
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 | The Maniac Manifesto by Nick Caligari
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $16.47 The fictional memoir of a suicide. As horrifyingly compelling as a car wreck or a videotaped beating by the LAPDbut you cant look away. This gruesome autopsy of the human soul is biting, relentless, and hilarious.
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 | Guide (Cooper, Dennis) by Dennis Cooper
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $1.49 Cooper plays on the notion that fantasy and reality cannot be distinguished, not even by the author himself. A scary proposition since Coopers narrators often fantasize about seducing, sexing, and killing young men.
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 | Extraterrestrial Sex Fetish by Supervert
Buy new: $15.00 / Used from: $7.50 Youve never read a novel like this one. Guaranteed.. What does a man do when he has an impossible desire? What does Kant say about aliens? What about Heidegger? This book tells us.
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 | FAKE GIRLS by Matthew Sloan
Buy new: $15.96 / Used from: $15.97 I know I said TWELVE books to corrode your complacency, but heres an extra one in case youre extra- complacent. A little Philip K. Dick, a little Chuck Palahniuk, a little Haruki Murakami, and a whole lot of corrosive fun.
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