Literary Extremism

A Listmania! list by David Senior (Norwich, England)
 
The Sluts
1.  The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
The list author says:
  "A distant relation to Cooper's George Miles cycle, and an equal to Frisk."
£10.43   Used & New from: £4.01
3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)

Proxy: Peter Sotos Pornography 1993-2000
2.  Proxy: Peter Sotos Pornography 1993-2000 by Peter Sotos
The list author says:
  "Collection of 5 Sotos books.  Aggressive, bleak, hardcore."
Used & New from: £94.99

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Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
3.  Naked Lunch: The Restored Text by William Burroughs
The list author says:
  "The grandfather."
Used & New from: £2.48
3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (35 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

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American Psycho
4.  American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The list author says:
  "The godfather."
Used & New from: £0.01
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (146 customer reviews) | 1 customer discussion

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The Turner Diaries
5.  The Turner Diaries by Andrew Macdonald
The list author says:
  "A racist utopia.  It's certainly unsettling."
£11.69   Used & New from: £6.42
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (68 customer reviews)

Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff (Creation Cinema)
6.  Killing for Culture: An Illustrated History of Death Film from Mondo to Snuff (Creation Cinema) by David Kerekes
The list author says:
  "Makes film criticism edgy, exciting, limitless."
Used & New from: £8.27
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Eden, Eden, Eden
7.  Eden, Eden, Eden by Pierre Guyotat
The list author says:
  "Linguistic somersaults.  Baffling."
Used & New from: £31.78
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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Blood Electric
8.  Blood Electric by Kenji Siratori
The list author says:
  "See above."
Used & New from: £7.87
2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)

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The Consumer and Other Stories
9.  The Consumer and Other Stories by Michael Gira
The list author says:
  "Swans and Angels of Light frontman Gira's early short screeds."
Used & New from: £70.49
5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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From Hell
10.  From Hell by Alan Moore
The list author says:
  "The smartest comic in existence?"
Used & New from: £12.99
4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (61 customer reviews)

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Cinema Sewer
11.  Cinema Sewer by Robin Bougie
The list author says:
  "Fetid cinema: great fun.  You'll never look at Thora Birch in the same way."
£9.09   Used & New from: £5.50
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

Cows
12.  Cows by Matthew Stokoe
The list author says:
  "Meat, meat, meat. Francis Bacon would surely have approved."
Used & New from: £10.69
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)

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Howl (Pocket Poets)
13.  Howl (Pocket Poets) by Allen Ginsberg
The list author says:
  "An apt title: thrilling."
£5.39   Used & New from: £1.36
4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)

THEATRE OF INCEST
14.  THEATRE OF INCEST by Arias-misson
The list author says:
  "Isabelle Hupert ought to try and get this filmed."
£9.99   Used & New from: £5.39

Story of the Eye (Twentieth Century Classics)
15.  Story of the Eye (Twentieth Century Classics) by Georges Bataille
The list author says:
  "Holds up outrageously well."
Used & New from: £1.93
4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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Crash
16.  Crash by J. G. Ballard
The list author says:
  "Before Ballard started writing respectable thrillers for the middle classes, he wrote this stuff.  Just hedges The Atrocity Exhibition."
£5.59   Used & New from: £2.53
3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (26 customer reviews)

Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books)
17.  Blood Meridian: Or, the Evening Redness in the West (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
The list author says:
  "Sickeningly good.  Dense, lyrical, brutal, and disorientating."
Used & New from: £0.01
4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (105 customer reviews)

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Child of God (Picador Books)
18.  Child of God (Picador Books) by Cormac McCarthy
The list author says:
  "McCarthy's minimalist take on the Ed Gein mythos."
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3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)

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Marabou Stork Nightmares
19.  Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh
The list author says:
  "The usual Welsh brutality with genuinely disturbing sequences.  Overlooked."
£4.88   Used & New from: £0.01
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (47 customer reviews)

Exercises in Style (Oneworld Classics)
20.  Exercises in Style (Oneworld Classics) by Raymond Queneau
The list author says:
  "A non-story repeated 99 times in 99 styles."
£5.99   Used & New from: £2.52
4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)

The Baby Jesus Butt Plug
21.  The Baby Jesus Butt Plug by Carlton Mellick
The list author says:
  "Maybe too self-consciously 'wacky,' but Mellick's titles get him through to the semis every time."
£6.66   Used & New from: £4.00
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)

House Of Leaves
22.  House Of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
The list author says:
  "Utterly beautiful, cryptic, postmodern reworking of the haunted house tale."
£16.25   Used & New from: £12.91
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (75 customer reviews) | 2 customer discussions

Haunted Hillbilly, the (Soft Skull Shortlit)
23.  Haunted Hillbilly, the (Soft Skull Shortlit) by Derek Mccormack
The list author says:
  "The sparse tale of Hank Williams and his gay vampire tailer."
£7.99   Used & New from: £6.39
2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)

Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics)
24.  Finnegans Wake (Penguin Modern Classics) by James Joyce
The list author says:
  "The great unread novel."
£9.09   Used & New from: £2.41
4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (31 customer reviews)

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics)
25.  Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Vintage Classics) by Lewis Carroll
The list author says:
  "Seems to get more nuts each time I read it."
£4.20   Used & New from: £0.01
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (74 customer reviews)

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