Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20170430155022/@comment-30530552-20170501000939

Not DPD. That's an overt trope I wish to avoid because I'll misportray it. You'll see, SYUTK.

As for a mature read, sometimes you like reading something less mature because you read too much mature content. For instance, take In Cold Blood, story of the investigation behind the brutal murder of a Kansas family and the hunt for the killers and a vivid description near the end of how they were brutally executed in tons of detail. Yeah.

The House on Mango Street, due to its conversations from a little girl's perspective on teenage pregnancy, poverty, prostitution, and rape.

Beloved dealt with how a mother murdered her own baby to keep it from suffering, and that baby came back as a malevolent ghost and the book overall discusses slavery.

The Color Purple, which on the first page gives a vivid description of how the main character got raped, and throughout the book was subjected to racism and belittlement for being mentally deficient, and also discusses sexuality. Probably the most explicit of all of these, save for the next entry, maybe.

The Road was a post-apocalypse novel where a nameless man and nameless boy wander through unending gray, and was brutal enough to depict cannabalism of human beings, a baby being roasted on a fire to eat, the mother committing suicide, and overall discussing the true "humanity" without a civilization or rules to tell it so.

So don't tell me about mature novels, SYUTK. I know where to find them.