Most Violent Moments in a Book!

[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?

 

[person427]

The entire book "Battle Royale". Don't even bother looking for it if you're in America, it's been banned.

 

[Jaqen Hghar]

Well, there is a battle scene in The Wheel of Time that is pretty violent.

Spoiler: When the...

Asha'Man blows up hundreds of Aiel Soldiers. Yes, blows them up into chunks. Hundreds. Not as good as the others in this thread, but I think it fits.

 

[splatterguy734]

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?

Well...maybe I'm easily shocked but I'll admit I was taken aback by the pages where a man ripped a baby out of a womans womb then proceeded to rape it death before blending it and pouring it through the mothers hands. I guess its just the psychotic fucked up malice of it or the fact that someone actually thought it up and put it to paper. Also have you actually read it? (just curious).

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Parts of Cell - Stephen King are pretty bad. Specially at the start where the shit hits the fan. Clubbing people to death with a glass paperweight, people eating people and planes hitting buildings are all just parts of this experience. Later on there is even a part where one guy smashes another guy's head through a wheelbarrow wheel.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

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.

Those books are awesome, but I didn't think they were that gory.


Some Bernard Cornwell books have people getting stabbed in the eye, which I find horrible.

And the Warlord Chronicles were set in a time period where warfare involved huge shield walls, and a common tactic was using a knife too reach under the shield and stab the other person in the groin.

The Sharpe series has people getting their heads blown apart by cannon balls, as did Redcoat (with a hilariously "dead"pan comment by Captain Vane).

To wrap it up, in Agincourt a dude was disemboweled with a knife to prevent him from raping someone. His guards didn't investigate because they thought the moans of pain were moans of...

 

[SnipErlite]

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

note to self
avoid the pool

Always avoid the pool (decides against referencing it being closed due to AIDS)

indeed....

Quite.....

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


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

Really? I felt a bit......ew.... but I was surprisingly unaffected. Maybe because I read it in a purely fictional sense..........or I'm a soulless bastard. Hm.

 

[Cain_Zeros]

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.

Especially when Richard's captured by the Mord-Sith, or any time gars kill something.

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.

That and Hammond's death were definitely the two most graphic to my memory, not that any of the others shied away from violent deaths. Then again, that's kinda Crichton's trademark. Sphere, Congo, and Prey all have some pretty nasty ones too.

 

[Ironic Pirate]

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 agree, and that movie was amazing, one of Kubrick's Best.