Shelfari Book Activity

Tags: sadistic

• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  The 120 Days of Sodom

  And Other Writings

  by Marquis de Sade

  The Marquis de Sade, vilified by respectable society from his own time through ours, apotheosized by Apollinaire as "the freest spirit that has yet existed," wrote The 120 Days of Sodom while imprisoned in the Bastille. An exhaustive catalogue of sexual aberrations and the first systematic exploration-a hundred years before Krafft-Ebing and Freud-of the psychology of sex, it is considered Sade's crowning... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  American Psycho

  by Bret Easton Ellis

  The controversial novel about a handsome serial killer who moves among the young and trendy in 1980s New York.
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  Cyanide and Happiness: I'm Giving You the Finger

  by Dave McElfatrick, Matt Melvin, Kris Wilson

  A laugh-out-loud and exceedingly irreverent collection of comics from the #1 hit web comic, Cyanide and Happiness. Complete with 150 of their funniest classic comics as well as well as 30 brand new ones. WARNING - This book is illicit, inappropriate, insensitive, perverse, profane, depraved, reprehensible, and, well, just plain wrong. Rob D., Matt, Dave and Kris have been drawing the #1 hit web comic, CYANIDE AND... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  Serial Killers Uncut: Book 1

  Serial Uncut

  by Jack Kilborn, J. A. Konrath, Blake Crouch

  The original version of SERIAL, still available as a free ebook, was a 7500 word horror short story done as an experiment. Remember the twin golden rules of hitchhiking? #1: Don’t go hitchhiking, because the driver who picks you up could be certifiably crazy. #2: Don’t pick up hitchhikers, because the traveler you pick up could be certifiably crazy. So what if, on some dark, isolated road, Crazy #1 offered a... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  The Messiah of Death Saga: Book 1

  Demonmachy

  Demonic Apocalypse

  by Brant Danay

  As the universe slowly dies, all demonkind is at war in a tournament of genocide, for the nirvanic afterlife of the Jh'a'vyraa shall only be attained by the single remaining entity or pair of soulmates to survive the cosmos-spanning battles at the edge of time. Chariah, a death-addicted Necrodelic who smokes the flesh of his victims through a giant, blood-filled bong, and traverses the galaxies in a bestial... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  The Hunger Games: Book 3

  Mockingjay

  by Suzanne Collins

  MY NAME IS KATNISS EVERDEEN.WHY AM I NOT DEAD?I SHOULD BE DEAD.Katniss Everdeen, the girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. Gale has escaped. Katniss's family is safe. Peeta has been captured by the Capitol. District 13 really does exist. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding.It is by design that Katniss was rescued from the... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

  by Haruki Murakami

  Japan's most highly regarded novelist now vaults into the first ranks of international fiction writers with this heroically imaginative novel, which is at once a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage, and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II. In a Tokyo suburb a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife's missing cat.  Soon he finds himself looking for his wife as well in... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  Millennium Trilogy: Book 1

  The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

  by Stieg Larsson

  Stieg Larsson's The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo combines murder mystery, family saga, love story, and financial intrigue into a complex and atmospheric novel, with an unpredictable occurences, intriguing scenes, and giant twists to the plot in many places. Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden's wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  The Misfortunes of Virtue and Other Early Tales (Oxford World's Classics)

  by Marquis de Sade, David Coward

  The name of the Marquis de Sade is synonymous with the blackest corners of the human soul, a byword for all that is most foul in human conduct. In his bleak, claustrophobic universe, there is no God, no human affection, and no hope. This selection of his early writings, some making their first appearance in English in this new translation by David Coward, reveals the full range of Sade's sobering moods and... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book

  The Guardsman (Science Fiction)

  by P. J. Beese

  The Guardsman (Paperback) by P. J. Beese
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  The Hunger Games: Book 1

  The Hunger Games

  by Suzanne Collins

  MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN YOUR FAVOR.In the ruins of a place once known as the Rocky Mountains in North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. In the previous war the Capitol took over and now, the Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl from each district, between the ages of twelve... (more)
• 

  

  • plan to read
  • reading now
  • I’ve read it
  • favorite
  • want to own
  • own it
  • remove book
  The Hunger Games: Book 2

  Catching Fire

  by Suzanne Collins

  SPARKS ARE IGNITING.FLAMES ARE SPREADING.AND THE CAPITOL WANTS REVENGE. Katniss is threatened to make a show for the President that she did not make fun of the capitol.Against all odds, Katniss has won the Hunger Games. She and fellow District 12 tribute Peeta Mellark are miraculously still alive. Katniss should be relieved, happy even. After all, she has returned to her family and... (more)