The Fuck-Up

5 best books like The Fuck-Up (Arthur Nersesian): The Contortionist's Handbook, The Room, Apathy and Other Small Victories, Guts, Waiting Period

AuthorCraig Clevenger
ISBN1931561486
John Vincent Dolan is a talented young forger with a proclivity for mathematics and drug addiction. In the face of his impending institutionalization, he continually reinvents himself to escape the legal and mental health authorities and to save himself from a life of incarceration. But running...
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN0714530387
Devastating, and strictly for the most daring reader.

Uncompromising, stark, bleak, unremittingly repetitive, gruesome, sickening and despairing -- The Room is perhaps not as great as Selby's more narratively interesting masterwork, Last Exit to Brooklyn, but it is no less accomplished...
AuthorPaul Neilan
ISBN0312351747
The only thing Shane cares about is leaving. Usually on a Greyhound bus, right before his life falls apart again. Just like he planned. But this time it's complicated: there's a sadistic corporate climber who thinks she's his girlfriend, a rent-subsidized affair with his landlord's wife, and the bizarrely...
AuthorChuck Palahniuk
2/5

** This short story is an excerpt from the novel Haunted**

I was sent this book by a friend who knows I have a warped sense of humor. Apparently this book is so disturbing and disgusting that people fainted at a live reading of it and others literally vomited their guts up. "This book...
AuthorHubert Selby Jr.
ISBN0714530905
"I love the book because it transcends fashion and style. . . . It’s fantastic."—Paul Morley, BBC 2 TV Newsnight Review

A man pulls back from the brink of suicide when his application to buy a gun with which to shoot himself is -delayed. Instead of throwing his life away, he decides to spend...
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