Most Violent Moments in a Book!

[swolf]

Check out "Inside Delta Force" by Eric L. Haney. There's a bit where he describes a specific deployment which has a rather interesting list of incidents, especially because they were all witnessed by one person at one place within such a short period of time.

 

[Canadian Briton]

The most graphic iIve read is Nedry's death in jurassic park. It probably pales in comparison to other violent moments though.

 

[Dexiro]

I remember The Talisman being quite violent.

The book pretty much starts off with children being whipped to death, and has a lot of stuff later on about someone being electricuted/burnt to death and sheep exploding left right and center from this guy with lightning powers. It goes into more detail of course, nothing like the smell of burning flesh and innards exploding into the air.

I didn't even get half way through the damn book D:

 

[Acier]

The whole of Battle Royale. Particularly the lighthouse scene and the attempted rape scene between the soccer captain and the track star.

Quentin Taratino listed it as one of his top 10 movies of the past 10 years or something like that, so thats a good yardstick.

 

[SHWiMM]

Probably in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows when Nagini explodes out of Bathilda Bagshot's empty skin-husk. Ok, so maybe that just disturbed me because of my vivid imagination. And maybe it's because it was 3am while I was reading that.

 

[Composer]

The last part of "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk. It's a short story, part of the novel "Haunted":

Spoiler: Not for the faint-hearted...

I did warn you. People fainted at book readings of this story. Seriously, think twice before clicking the link.

Scroll down about half-way for the part I'm referring to (the narrator is in a pool). Definitely not appropriate for under-18s. You have been warned.

Link - [link]http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html[/link]

note to self
avoid the pool

Well that was...........................interesting 0_O

note to self
avoid the pool

 

[evilengine]

Michael Chricton's Jurassic Park has alot of detailed violence and gore. The scene in the movie where Dennis is attacked by the Dilophosaurus (frilled, spitting dinosaur) it goes into graphic detail. Dennis is first spat in the eyes, feeling them burn and becoming blind. Goes on to feeling a burning sensation in his stomach, reaching down to feeling something warm and wet in his hands...suddenly realising he was cradling his own intestines...so yes, some gory moments.

 

[hazabaza1]

If I remember correctly, in The Talisman,

Spoiler

Wolf's death

was pretty gruesome. The first fictional thing I had a proper cry over, too.

 

[Cowabungaa]

I'm currently reading Death Masks, book 5 of The Dresden Files, and yesterday I just read the part where he bashed up the snake demon (in his human form). That was rather...graphic.

What made it more cringe-worthy was the fact that it wasn't horribly overdone. It wasn't as insane as say gibs flying everywhere (though even that has happened before in The Dresden Files). That scene felt very real. And awesome.

Most awesome death ever.

Close, but no cigar. The most awesome death ever would be this one:
By law of nature it is impossible to surpass that.

Michael Chricton's Jurassic Park has alot of detailed violence and gore. The scene in the movie where Dennis is attacked by the Dilophosaurus (frilled, spitting dinosaur) it goes into graphic detail. Dennis is first spat in the eyes, feeling them burn and becoming blind. Goes on to feeling a burning sensation in his stomach, reaching down to feeling something warm and wet in his hands...suddenly realising he was cradling his own intestines...so yes, some gory moments.

I remember that bit, it was my favourite part of the film next to the guy on the toilet getting ripped apart. I laughed so hard at both of them. I was 9.

 

[PurpleSky]

Every page from Sven Hassell's books are gruesome,because they're real life( WW2)

 

[Ray De Ation]

The description of the impromptu surgery in Marathon Man Made me physically cringe.

 

[SlowShootinPete]

Most awesome death ever.

Close, but no cigar. The most awesome death ever would be this one:
By law of nature it is impossible to surpass that.

Movies and books are separate categories.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Movies and books are separate categories.

The most awesome death ever encompasses books, games, movies, real-life, anything. No book or real life death can beat Major Kong. Nothing can, it is physically impossible.

 

[wasalp]

The last part of "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk. It's a short story, part of the novel "Haunted":

Spoiler: Not for the faint-hearted...

I did warn you. People fainted at book readings of this story. Seriously, think twice before clicking the link.

Scroll down about half-way for the part I'm referring to (the narrator is in a pool). Definitely not appropriate for under-18s. You have been warned.

Link - [link]http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html[/link]

Well that was...........................interesting 0_O

indeed....

 

[Slaanax]

Elie Weisels 'Night'.

Indepth look at what the man experianced as a child as a survivor of the holocaust.
(you'll probably read it in grade 12 kiddies)

pretty much^^

but in a fictional sense...the entire Sword of Truth series, is pretty violent.

When Richard is Captured by the Mord Sith that is probably one of the intense moments in any book I have ever read. Warhammer 40K books that involve Chaos always seem to go way over the top on the violence description.

 

[SlowShootinPete]

Movies and books are separate categories.

The most awesome death ever encompasses books, games, movies, real-life, anything. No book or real life death can beat Major Kong. Nothing can, it is physically impossible.

Not even Spacebat? [http://gizmodo.com/5173385/shuttle+riding-bat-dies-the-most-glorious-death-imaginable]

 

[PurpleSky]

The last part of "Guts" by Chuck Palahniuk. It's a short story, part of the novel "Haunted":

Spoiler: Not for the faint-hearted...

I did warn you. People fainted at book readings of this story. Seriously, think twice before clicking the link.

Scroll down about half-way for the part I'm referring to (the narrator is in a pool). Definitely not appropriate for under-18s. You have been warned.

Link - [link]http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html[/link]

Well that was...........................interesting 0_O

Yeah.....interesting.....


I am physicaly sick.I have read war novels,but this is too much.

 

[Cowabungaa]

Not even Spacebat? [http://gizmodo.com/5173385/shuttle+riding-bat-dies-the-most-glorious-death-imaginable]

*salutes Spacebat* 'T was a glorious end, but alas, even this heroic death cannot beat riding a nuclear bomb rodeo-style into oblivion.

I am physicaly sick.I have read war novels,but this is too much.

Heh, I just chuckled and casually ate some cookies imagining how they would look if I could see my own intestine.

 

[Zannah]

Mai-chan's Daily Life.

The whole thing is beyond words...

It's a manga by the way, so you actually SEE the images.

Oh dear God I read through that entire fucking thing in one night.

The death of many of the children in the battle royale novel who pretty horrific.

Now it maybe, that black-and-white manga gore doesn't get to me, or it may be that the internet (or quite possibly my boyfriends books) have made me emotionally oblivious to such things but... what's the deal?