You never know what you’re going to get on this channel! 🍌

@@PlaguedbyVisions big head is like if infant annihilator,carcass and vxpxoxaxaxwxaxmxc werent bands but instead one single book writer

This comment legit made me emotional. Jeremy, I’m so happy you found this channel, too! Your support and kind words are what keep me motivated. Thank you so much! You have no idea how much I appreciate comments of this kind. ❤️

Method acting by not cleaning my room. Thank you so much for watching!

Set design? Homie, that’s just my room. JK thank you so much, Caleb! 😂

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I believe it’s because most people can’t bring themselves to read his work. It’s certainly a chore! I find his books quite repetitive and hard to keep up with, but him as a figure, as a symbol for what literature can do, definitely merits wider discussion!

@@PlaguedbyVisions have you seen the movie Quill? It’s about Marquis de Sade.

Holy crap. This is genuinely one of the nicest comments I’ve ever received. I’m at a loss for words! I thank you deeply. I’m happy you’ve enjoyed the content and found it insightful! This is what keeps me going. I’m just so happy that people connect with what I’m making. My most sincere gratitude!

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed the video, and thank you for your supportive words! I’m so happy over all the positive reception this silly little video has gotten. :)

Thank you so much! 🥺 I always try to sprinkle in some clownery to assure you all that I’m really just vibing out here. 😂 Thank you so much for the support!

This is exactly why I do this: To bring the joy (or in this case, displeasure) of reading to people who might think it’s unapproachable or uninteresting. I am also glad you found my channel, and I hope you decide to give some reading a try! Thank YOU!

I actually was not a big fan of the film myself, but it’s definitely due for a rewatch! I think this countercultural, satirical “pulling of the rug” of society is precisely where BEE thrives haha.

@@PlaguedbyVisionsI won’t think of Bee Movie the same way ever again.

@@PlaguedbyVisionsI agree, I think the movie wasn’t that well received.

That’s exactly the vibe I want to put out, so thank you! Very “homeless person behind the dumpster in Mulholland Drive.”

@@PlaguedbyVisions oh god, i had that scene erased from memory and you brought it back 😂

In ALL of KZfaq?! 😱 This is too much responsibility haha. Thank you so much for supporting this lil channel! ❤️

Thank you so much! This definitely was one of my most ambitious videos. Believe me: The stench of that banana peel was UNBEARABLE.

Thank you so much, Dave! You definitely DON’T need to read Wittkop’s novella. I honestly don’t know who does. But I did, so... Haunted’s a solid book! Like I said, some stories are a miss, but overall, there’s no way for Palahniuk to NOT entertain, given the plethora of disgusting subject matter he covers in a single book. I had no idea he wrote a nonfiction book! But it makes sense. So much of his writing is informed by real-life bizarre factoids. I think he really understands there’s just no way to compete with real life when it comes to grossing out.

Haha, I’m honestly baffled that I have so many! Thank you so much for your kind and encouraging words. 🥲

Exquisite Corpse never really struck me as “disgusting” the way these other books did. Maybe it’s due to the prose style. Dennis Cooper definitely wants that grime and odor! Thank you so much for watching and commenting! 🥴

Thank you so much again, Caleb! Hope you “enjoy” those new picks you got from this video! You have no idea how much I appreciate your unending support! ❤️

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Thank you so much for watching and your words, Lydia! As always. I feel like Dennis Cooper may well be the author of the book you’re talking about. Even if you didn’t go into specifics about it, I have that feeling simply because his writing has that quality of ensnaring itself in your thoughts. Something about it feels like it goes directly to the backmost recesses of your brain to fester. I find that what I’ve read is going to “plague my visions” at the most inopportune times in the future. Hogg is precisely that: A haunting read. Although I couldn’t stand it, I can always appreciate that quality in literature. Again, thank you for being here! 🖤

Thank you so much for watching! I’m so happy you enjoyed the video. I’m glad I was able to please those lovers of gore and filth. It was my intention! 😄

Aw, thank you so much! 🥺

@@PlaguedbyVisions always man you make my day and you’re super well educated in literature. Just nice to see content that is quality.

Thank you so much! I’m so happy you enjoyed the video! Child of God is a great book to have, but understandably a hard book to get to. I would definitely say Frisk makes Closer seem like a walk through the park. The repulsiveness really amped up. Still taking a break from the George Miles Cycle, although I’ve heard the next installments are nowhere near as extreme as Frisk was. Thanks so much again for the support and lovely words! I really appreciate it.

Thank YOU so much for watching! 💚

And English isn’t even his first language! It’s so impressive!

@@mek0626 what? Wow ! 🥰

Thank you!!! 🥲❤️❤️❤️

This is quite frankly one of the nicest comments I’ve ever received. I don’t even know what to say! Thank you so much for such overwhelmingly kind words! 😭 I’m just happy you got something out of this.

Thank you so much! I think this video is definitely my masterpiece. 😂 What can I say, the disgusting really inspires me. Hope you are as wowed by Wittkop and Jackson as I was!

And I haven't touched a book in years, this is a miracle!!

Yes! Promoting literacy is the goal, so I’m so happy to hear this! Happy reading! If you ever need recommendations of any kind, let me know!

Thank you so much! I appreciate you watching! I’m glad you could hang with the stink 😷

Thank you so much! I’m so happy to hear you enjoyed this video! Always good to hear from fellow lovers of filth. Harry Crews is criminally underrated. I also spoke of him briefly in my “southern gothic” video. I hope I can bring a little more awareness to his amazing writing! That’s a great insight on the 120 Days of Sodom. That’s what always rubs me the wrong way about all the reception that Pasolini’s film gets. It’s mostly viewed as just a sick film, which just ignores the incredibly scalding and recalcitrant political commentary behind his work. His film, Teorema, is also fantastic. Again, thank you so much for the support and your lovely words!

Gracias, Martín! Qué bueno que te agradó, y que encontraste nuevo material para seguir explorando la literatura repugnante 🤮

Thank you so much! Always happy to reel in more lovers of filth to this channel! Lol. Hogg is definitely a trial. It's an experiment, and quite a successful one, of the boundaries of humanity and depravity. See my video titled "Books I Cannot Read" for more of my thoughts on him! I agree, Filth is highly humorous, and somehow, that's what makes it the more tragic. Welsh's books are always unforgettable! Thank you for this wonderful comment!

@@PlaguedbyVisions Hey Juan I checked out your earlier video and I have to say my inital reaction lined up a lot with yours in relation to Hogg. I finished the book a few days ago and wrote a review for Goodreads. While it's the most disgusting book I've ever read I do believe it's of some literary value although I'd never reccomend it to anyone to read (even as seasoned a disturbing novel reader as yourself). I'll link my review here as it's more simple than typing my thoughts in a KZfaq comment. Not trying to convince you to read it at all but just want to show where I ended up after pushing through. For a funny but disgusting book you should check out "Mother Maggot" by Simon McHardy. Its grotesque but it at least had a sense of humour unlike Hogg. www.goodreads.com/review/show/4146428608?book_show_action=false&from_review_page=1 Have to say Welsh is one of my favourite authors and I've read 9 of his 16 published novels/collections. Only weak things of those books is the final third of "Crime" and most of the "If You Liked School You'll Love Work" collection. The former is so forced in its reveal and wrap up and the latter is molasses slow throughout which is not what I'd want or expect from him tbh. Watched a few of your older vids as well and you've come on so well in your style man it's awesome to see. Congrats on 2k! I'm glad to be one of those 2k and may it continue to climb.

Never left! 👊🏽😎

​@@PlaguedbyVisions HAHA Yes I realized that after I added my comment. BLESSINGS, FRIEND!

Blessings to you, too!

My friend! This was my exact same experience with Bataille’s Story of the Eye. I passed it around to so many friends and loved seeing the varied responses.

For 1959!!?!?

When one of the adorable young teens I was impromptu-speaking coaching told me she was into Bukowski and Burroughs I nearly choked on my coffee.

😭🤘🏽 Thank you so much for such kind words! I’m happy to suffer for art. I’m glad you enjoyed this!

It’s really an art form to be this fucking goofy and still try to sound dignified 🍌

Thank you so much! I’m glad you enjoyed it. 😁

Thank you so much! I had to wear a banana peel for hours, so I’m happy the end product was enjoyable! I had no idea banana peels could get so smelly. 🤢

You’re in the right place, homie. Any time you wanna talk gross books, I’m here. 😂

Thank you so much! So many comments saying they like this style of presentation. That makes me so happy to share my vision of book discussions with you all! The banana look is good, but also it started to stink. I had no idea banana peels got so smelly! Now I know...

Hahaha! Erm, yeah, it was totally intentional! 🥸

Ah, those old days when literature felt dangerous and daring! I did the same for The Exorcist and Rosemary’s Baby in middle school. 😂 Not as extreme!

@@PlaguedbyVisions Less the Zero the book is FAAAR more nihilistic and depressing than the watered-down movie. But the casting was pretty perfect. Robert Downey Jr. during this era definitely embodied the debauched ennui of the characters in the book.

It is definitely a comedy of excess! An overwrought Aristocrats joke. I think Stokoe really balances that line well between pushing readers' limits and also thoroughly entertaining them. Glad to hear you enjoyed it!

Thank you so much for watching!

Of course, we must bring academic poise to discussions such as these. 💩 Thank you for watching! ❤️

Thank you! Thank you! 😭 I’m literally trying my hardest 😂

I hadn’t even noticed that effect! Cool! That banana peel will forever be immortalized. Sorry about the TBR and the trauma!

Hell yeah, thanks again! Sorry, I’m way behind on answering comments. 😓 Less Than Zero the novel is way worse than the film. It’s pretty deranged, in an unfiltered kind of way. Thank you so much for such kind and encouraging words! Always happy to hear from people who also appreciate off-putting things like these.

Provecho! 💩 Thank you so much! I’m happy you enjoyed this video!

I do love Delany’s work! Aye, and Gomorrah is one of my favorite short story collections, and Babel-17 is quite great as well. I’m happy to hear you enjoyed Hogg! It really is quite a revelatory and daring work.

Mo Hader's detective novels suck you in and before you know it you are knee deep in psychosis and putrid gore. The main character's complexity and clinical detachment dulls the nastiness.

A true honor! 😁😁😁

Thank you so much for watching!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I hope you... uhm... enjoy? De Sade’s work! What I will say is that it is strangely... readable.

I read this one on July of last year, and it was definitely a trip! I didn’t like it as much as I thought I would, but the chimpanzee sequences made me… very itchy, for starters. 😂

@@PlaguedbyVisions yeah those animal trials were 😳

Hogg could honestly be on all the lists of my channel. And I just recently read End of Alice! I didn’t really see much to it, but I guess I’m only happy to be able to say I’ve read it.

Thank you for the compliments on the costume! 😂 Agree with all of this, and it’s also why so much extreme fiction and splatterpunk doesn’t register as disturbing to me. Sure, the violence and gore are grounded in reality, but they’re so over the top, almost carnivalesque that I lose sight of seeing it as “realistic.” You’ve also described why I’m not the biggest fan of true crime. Real life disturbs me. I work as a paralegal in the field of criminal defense. We don’t often get murder cases, but when we do, it’s such a sobering reality, and going through discovery and police reports is the most disturbing reading I’ve ever undertaken.

Thank you for watching! Hope that’s a good thing! 😂

I have not! I have actually not read many of these “extreme” titles. In all honesty, oftentimes they’re not written very well or need severe editing. I don’t own an eReader, but I’ll certainly keep it in my radar! Thank you so much for watching!

I read Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 42. After that I knew that I didn't have the fortitude to read Gravity's Rainbow.

I’ve never read this book, but the Beat Generation most definitely fascinates me for their irreverence! And I hope that you end up enjoying Frisk. 😂 I personally don’t like De Sade’s writing (very bland), but I love the concept of his literary merits!

Thank you so much for watching!

I hope you got your reading done! It would’ve been time better spent than listening to me talk about poop. 💩

@@PlaguedbyVisions trust me, this video was well worth it!

Well, that just fills me with joy. Thank you for all the support, Michael. 🕵🏽

I’ve heard so many mixed things about this one. Some people were entirely outraged, some loved it. I probably will not be reading it, but it is all of our mutual consensus that it definitely fits snugly in a list of this kind!

That is an interesting comparison! Jackson is not as in-your-face grotesque as Ito, but definitely, both have similar tastes of cosmic dread and the terrible philosophies behind the body and its… liquids.

Thank you so much for watching!

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Haha, I talked about GG Allin briefly in a video I made on disturbing theater. What a guy!

I definitely agree, there’s a poignancy to Frisk that doesn’t really tower over the disgust, but kind of melds into it. The overall experience is unforgettable and quite off-putting, but in such a human and sorrowful way. Filth is fantastic! Yes, I was rooting for the tapeworm. 😂

Justine and Juliette, I think, are much more competently written than 120 Days. They also have a clearer intent, and actually read like books, so I prefer them too!

Smart fella! 😂 Maybe I should’ve done the same.

Just one? I think you should order all ten. 😈 Thank you so much! ❤️

@@PlaguedbyVisions By now, I've ordered 4 from your videos and I know I'll order more 😅 Thank you!!

It’s what I do!

Let this be the last f’ing time. 😔

The things I do for content!

Just an honorable mention for me, but I guess technically it’s ON the list? Idk. But yeah that book is nasty.

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This has been suggested to me many times before. I think I’ll eventually have to read it. I am lightly familiar with the history, and seen the film, Men Behind the Sun.

You are in good company, my friend! That’s pretty much all we read around here! I do think there’s something cathartic and even therapeutic about the subject matter. I know it certainly helps me sublimate a lot of fears regarding the real-life horrors that make fiction pale in comparison.

@@PlaguedbyVisions Just subbed to you! I enjoy your personality & articulation. 🍌 (lol.) I’m very proud of myself I’ve picked up reading again. Can’t wait to hear more recent fucked up reads, lol.

The movie is vastly different from the novel!

@@PlaguedbyVisions they all are, i have noticed...from other movies based on books i have read...

Oh my, fanfic seems to be an untapped transgressive market I should be paying more attention to! Wishing you nothing but great reading with your new Kindle. And funny you should mention a disturbing books iceberg-I think you’ll really enjoy the new video I’m working on. 😉

@@PlaguedbyVisions If you're interested in the subject I recommend looking up the disturbing fanfiction iceberg. Many of the fanfics kinda left a bad taste in my mouth to be honest but they definitely interested me in a morbid way. One of the fics was in the list because it told the story of an adult who was having a relationship with a child but the story portrays it in an extremely positive light, like the author supports the themes she's writing about it, and it's such a bizarre thing to read. It isn't enjoyable or fun to read but it raises questions about what is the right way to write about such dark topics It's like... how do I say it... I didn't like most of the fics but I like talking about them and discussing what did they do wrong (or what did they do right) as amateur writing. I'll be honest most of them are really bad lmao and most of them are extremely sexual in nature but I have a strange morbid fascination with these fics

Okay, I need to read this RIGHT NOW! I believe I heard of the film version through some buzz going around. I had no idea it was a novel!

This was definitely very TMNT and Street Trash inspired! Thank you!

The best way to approach Cows is to realize there’s a purposeful humor to it. It’s gruesome to an exaggerated degree, but if you learn to laugh with it, you’ll have a good time.

@@PlaguedbyVisions Will keep that in mind. Thanks! We shall see how it goes, lol. I also am trying to figure out the best edition to buy, “The Metamorphosis.” There are so many on Amazon..

@@Bindras2 you mean by Kafka? Look for the Schocken Kafka Library edition. Those are the best translations of his work.

@@PlaguedbyVisions Yes. I found one translation by that one you said but it’s combined with other stories (and I just want the one story ) & the Amazon reviews complained about the print for that version. I found another translation by Susan Bernofsky, that seems to be better? Maybe you can link me to what you suggest. Sorry to bother!

I just read the Oxford Edition by Joyce Crick, or Penguin Edition or Joachim are good translations too on Reddit, but they’re all combined with his other stories or something. New reader here and on a mission to find just the one story of “The Metamorphosis “in good translation. There was also a lady from India that recommended one but I guess I’d have to order it off India Amazon, lol. Idk

Hahaha, have you seen my video, “Can a Book Kill you”? I think you’ll enjoy my segment on “Guts” in it. :)