The phrase "alarming book" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used to describe a book that is causing fear, concern, or unease. Example: The novel's central theme of a dystopian society was reflected in its alarming book cover, with illustrations of a bleak and desolate world.
For a serious and alarming book, "Full Body Burden" has its share of charming moments.
News from the showerhead biome is just one part of this fact-filled, occasionally disgusting, slightly alarming book.
Who Killed Daniel Pearl? by Bernard-Henri Lévy Duckworth £20, pp454 This is a truly alarming book.
But this is a thoroughly alarming book, perhaps all the more so because Owen is so matter-of-fact: The facts alone are so discouraging that no rhetorical flourishes are necessary to underscore their urgency.
He now finds himself courting a new demographic: people who like alarming books.
But in "Republic.com," an alarming new book that explores the relationship between new technologies and democratic self-government, Sunstein distances himself from the cheering crowd.
In the Book Review, Richard Davenport-Hines called this a "macabre, misanthropic and sometimes alarming volume".
AT a children's play group 10 years ago, Toni Parker and a few of her friends discussed the alarming paucity of books for young readers about famous African-American women.
I went home and stared at my shelves and the four alarming piles of books on the floor and wound up pulling out two of Philip Roth's new novels, completely untouched, and a copy of "The Lovely Bones," which I've also never read.
But the alarming conclusion of this book is how completely scarcity colonises the mind.
For all the book's alarming statistics, its message is ultimately uplifting — or at least invigorating.
