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Cult Classics Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,354,210 ratings — published 1949
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 637,154 ratings — published 1996
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 762,790 ratings — published 1962
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 356,915 ratings — published 1991
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 774,913 ratings — published 1962
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,460,198 ratings — published 1945
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,781,656 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,192,268 ratings — published 1963
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,851,032 ratings — published 1951
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 375,279 ratings — published 1971
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,469,180 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 444,395 ratings — published 1957
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 406,138 ratings — published 1993
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,976,781 ratings — published 1999
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 177,404 ratings — published 1993
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,161,337 ratings — published 1954
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,790,106 ratings — published 1960
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,770 ratings — published 1971
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,995,474 ratings — published 1979
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,050,510 ratings — published 1932
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 995,435 ratings — published 1992
Valley of the Dolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 76,593 ratings — published 1966
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.46 — 97,974 ratings — published 1959
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 934,315 ratings — published 1955
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,827,354 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,377,767 ratings — published 1985
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 107,350 ratings — published 1984
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 150,597 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,246,881 ratings — published 1997
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 243,743 ratings — published 1974
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.84 — 70,795 ratings — published 1953
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 881,113 ratings — published 1961
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,832,517 ratings — published 1818
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,506,456 ratings — published 1988
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,313 ratings — published 1975
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,481 ratings — published 1978
Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,709 ratings — published 2012
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 295,374 ratings — published 1980
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,405,602 ratings — published 2012
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 818,489 ratings — published 1990
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,571,399 ratings — published 1967
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,795,496 ratings — published 1937
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 433,357 ratings — published 1963
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,362,047 ratings — published 1942
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 100,302 ratings — published 1996
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 536,012 ratings — published 1984
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.60 — 97,679 ratings — published 1985
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 277,895 ratings — published 1973
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.90 — 39,698 ratings — published 2010
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.28 — 412,336 ratings — published 1967
“For its survival, the satanic cult demanded secrecy and obedience while it made brutality, even killing, appropriate. Denial and disavowal were inevitable responses to required behaviors so bizarre as to seem unreal, even to those who enacted them. What they could not deny or disavow, they could distort. They could blame the victims, who deserved to die for fighting or crying or for failing to fight or cry. They found encouragement for such a stance in a general culture accustomed to blaming victims for their misfortunes, and in specific contact with child victims eager to blame themselves. By believing that victims had a choice when there was none, they could see victims as culpable. They could even see the deaths as right and purposeful in the nobility of sacrifice.”
― Satan's High Priest
― Satan's High Priest
“In cases of organized and multi-perpetrator abuse when the abuse occurs in the context of rituals and ceremonies, some elements of the experience may have been staged specifically with the intention of encouraging the disbelief of others if the victim were to report the crime. For example, someone reporting such a crime may mention that the devil was present, or that someone well-known was there, or that acts of magic were performed. These were tricks and deceptions by the abusers-often experienced by the victims after being given medication or hallucinogenic drugs - that render the account unbelievable, make the witness sound unreliable, and protect the perpetrators.
(page 120, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)”
― Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
(page 120, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)”
― Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
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