Most Violent Moments in a Book!
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Guts was pretty messed up, but the end went a bit far so as to be unbelievable, like his sister would go in the pool after that happened...Haagrum said:
Some scenes in the Night's Dawn trilogy by Peter F. Hamilton can get pretty graphic. Especially when the possessed are torturing people.
There's a scene in "Lords of the Bow" in which Genghis Khan takes his sword and slices the back of someone's knees, thereby crippling him for life.
Not particularly violent, I suppose, but quite brutal, and very painful to read.
Not particularly violent, I suppose, but quite brutal, and very painful to read.
Steven Erikson fills his books with lots of nice wholesome violence such as this part from Chain of the Dogs.
...then reached between his legs.
A hand closed indiscriminately around all that it found.
And tore.
Until, with a ripping of tendons and shreds of muscle, a flood of blood and other fluids, the hand came away with its mangled prize.
Ow.
...then reached between his legs.
A hand closed indiscriminately around all that it found.
And tore.
Until, with a ripping of tendons and shreds of muscle, a flood of blood and other fluids, the hand came away with its mangled prize.
Ow.
Oh dear God I read through that entire fucking thing in one night.AshPox said:
The death of many of the children in the battle royale novel who pretty horrific.
A Clockwork Orange is very violent. I also read a book as a kid called "Reef of Death". Crappy little book. Anyway it had pretty gruesome descriptions of peope getting killed in horrible ways by horrible sea creatures, twisted experiments done by crazed marine biologists on people... with descriptions of people's ribcages bursting open and seeing someone's exposed heart and them being ripped into tiny fleshy bits, finding the decapitated and eaten-out head of a character's brother who's gruesome death she witnesed... then you realise "holy shit - this is a CHILDREN'S book!" Or at least young adult you know, short book, big text. The incredibly corny name actually came from a group of primary school kids. I would have probably read this when I was eleven or twelve.
There's a scene in Battle Royale that always got to me. It's a fight scene between Takako and Kazushi somewhere in the middle of the book.
Takako takes her long finger nails and digs out Kazushi's eyes with her middle finger and thumb. He gets her off of him and swings around at his (literally) unseen enemy and she knocks him back down and shoves an ice pick into his mouth sending his body into convulsions and ultimately killing him.
Originally I copied the scene from the book, but it seemed a bit too long so I shortened it. I'm not sure my summary truly captures the moment.
Takako takes her long finger nails and digs out Kazushi's eyes with her middle finger and thumb. He gets her off of him and swings around at his (literally) unseen enemy and she knocks him back down and shoves an ice pick into his mouth sending his body into convulsions and ultimately killing him.
Originally I copied the scene from the book, but it seemed a bit too long so I shortened it. I'm not sure my summary truly captures the moment.
Battle Royale may seem like the obvious choice, but I'm going for it anyway. Both manga and book count really.
Highlights include a character who in the manga is shot with an Uzi across the stomach, causing his intestines to fall out and he's forced to try and keep them in, first with his hands, then with duct tape, then he has his foot shot off, then he gets machine gunned again, before finally being shot in the throat, and is still alive enough to carve a message with a toothpick into a metal car door for the main hero to read.
Other notable inclusions are eye-gouging and castration, all in the same scene, multiple head shots, dismemberments, and a scene where one deeply deranged female character has sex with a male character who is already dying of a gutshot wound in the mistaken belief that it can heal him.
Every single detail people, and in the manga it's been illustrated.
EDIT: Goddammit ninja'd!
Highlights include a character who in the manga is shot with an Uzi across the stomach, causing his intestines to fall out and he's forced to try and keep them in, first with his hands, then with duct tape, then he has his foot shot off, then he gets machine gunned again, before finally being shot in the throat, and is still alive enough to carve a message with a toothpick into a metal car door for the main hero to read.
Other notable inclusions are eye-gouging and castration, all in the same scene, multiple head shots, dismemberments, and a scene where one deeply deranged female character has sex with a male character who is already dying of a gutshot wound in the mistaken belief that it can heal him.
Every single detail people, and in the manga it's been illustrated.
EDIT: Goddammit ninja'd!
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:
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.