Haha, I know man I know. I was doing the same. Any book that describes a person going looney already sounds like a promising title, would you recommend it?Furburt said:
Most Violent Moments in a Book!
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There's a series of books called the hungry cities chronicles which I heartily recommend to everybody, they have some pretty violent bits.
For instance, there are these things called Stalkers that are basically robotically re-animated corpses, at one point they describe how they made them before the war (Long story short the books take place after an apocalyptic war) and it includes descriptions such as removing organs, basically performing an ochiectomy, running wires through flesh and other squirmy details.
Mind you it's still pretty tame compared to some of the stuff I've read on this forum already.
For instance, there are these things called Stalkers that are basically robotically re-animated corpses, at one point they describe how they made them before the war (Long story short the books take place after an apocalyptic war) and it includes descriptions such as removing organs, basically performing an ochiectomy, running wires through flesh and other squirmy details.
Mind you it's still pretty tame compared to some of the stuff I've read on this forum already.
Definatly Stephen Kings Needful things.
*slight spoiler* (i dont know how to do that weird thing where u have to click to view)
But at one point a kid (i think hes around 13) Blows his brains out with a shotgun in front of his younger brother (i think around 8 years old). It was more the age of the characters that disturbed me rather than the description of it.
*slight spoiler* (i dont know how to do that weird thing where u have to click to view)
But at one point a kid (i think hes around 13) Blows his brains out with a shotgun in front of his younger brother (i think around 8 years old). It was more the age of the characters that disturbed me rather than the description of it.
The Cobra Event. Some part in the middle or near the middle(I am assuming anyway. Been a while since I have read it and have recently started to read it again). The part in the operating room involving a scalpel.
Marquis de Sade: 120 Days of Sodom.
That stuff is just too wrong to even begin to explain. Every scene is literally a new gruesome way of inflicting torment upon others (mostly children) to illustrate his "right is might" Libertine philosopy.
As a forerunner to Foucault, it's interesting, but prepare for an illustration of the extremes of his thoughts which won't soon be forgotten. The conservative America would vilefy/ban/burn books as a media instead of video games if they ever read a snip of this.
That stuff is just too wrong to even begin to explain. Every scene is literally a new gruesome way of inflicting torment upon others (mostly children) to illustrate his "right is might" Libertine philosopy.
As a forerunner to Foucault, it's interesting, but prepare for an illustration of the extremes of his thoughts which won't soon be forgotten. The conservative America would vilefy/ban/burn books as a media instead of video games if they ever read a snip of this.
Besides 'American Psycho', which has racked up a few well-deserved mentions already, 'The Wind-up Bird Chronicle' by Haruki Murakami has a memorable sequence in which a man is skinned alive, and 'The Story of the Eye' by Georges Bataille features the rape-murder of a priest. Oh, and I nearly forgot the castration scene from Roberto Bolano's '2666' (I'm so tempted to quote it, but I know I shouldn't).
01.01.00 by RJ Pineiro, lets go with the top 3 shall we.
1. Soviet Rape Scene
2. Castration and Forceful eating of ones own testicles.
3. Being ripped apart by ANTS.
Also most of Matthew Reilly's books have some pretty graphic scenes, point in case Having one's skull split in two by a mountaineering piston.
and so does the Gaunt's Ghost and Eishenhorn series.
1. Soviet Rape Scene
2. Castration and Forceful eating of ones own testicles.
3. Being ripped apart by ANTS.
Also most of Matthew Reilly's books have some pretty graphic scenes, point in case Having one's skull split in two by a mountaineering piston.
and so does the Gaunt's Ghost and Eishenhorn series.
My gods, the Iliad. We're told about how somebody's guts were pouring out of his chest at one point, and that's just one example out of many. Isn't it wonderful that this is a book parents would love their eight-year olds to read?
What you have described here is not violence, it is meerely gore... it was self inflicted and there was no acompanyment of physical force.Master_Spartan117666 said:
Geomancer, by Ian Irvine. One of the more violent books I've ever read, very dark and sad as well. Lots of people getting brutally killed by lizard-men. I remember the ending especially well, being a horrifying climax to the sad and violent story.
Man, I need to read it again, and then the next book in the series.
Also, I agree with Fluffles about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. The entire Millenium series is just brutal. I really enjoyed the ending of the third and last book. It was so bizarre because you get a huge sense of satisfaction from the violent use of a pneumatic nail gun.
Man, I need to read it again, and then the next book in the series.
Also, I agree with Fluffles about The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson. The entire Millenium series is just brutal. I really enjoyed the ending of the third and last book. It was so bizarre because you get a huge sense of satisfaction from the violent use of a pneumatic nail gun.