Most Violent Moments in a Book!
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Well, there is a battle scene in The Wheel of Time that is pretty violent.
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.
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).Zannah said:
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.
Those books are awesome, but I didn't think they were that gory.Pegghead said:
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...
Always avoid the pool (decides against referencing it being closed due to AIDS)Composer said:
Quite.....wasalp said:
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.PurpleSky said:
Especially when Richard's captured by the Mord-Sith, or any time gars kill something.Croix Sinistre said:
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.evilengine said:
I shall turn to my friend Stephen King for this thread. I'll try to keep this as spoiler free as possible.
IT: The scene towards the beginning with the kid getting his arm ripped off.
Needful Things: Two women get into a knife fight. Use your imagination.
Cell: A character gets hit in the head with a cinder block that was thrown by someone in a moving car. (Similar scene in Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.)
Cujo: Surprisingly, none of the dog's kills!
IT: The scene towards the beginning with the kid getting his arm ripped off.
Needful Things: Two women get into a knife fight. Use your imagination.
Cell: A character gets hit in the head with a cinder block that was thrown by someone in a moving car. (Similar scene in Survivor by Chuck Palahniuk.)
Cujo: Surprisingly, none of the dog's kills!
The kid dies of dehydration after being locked in the car for too long. He couldn't come out because the dog was outside.
Exquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite.
The whole thing is a violent, gory, necrophiliac sex fest. It's fucking awesome!
The whole thing is a violent, gory, necrophiliac sex fest. It's fucking awesome!
I agree with "Night" by Elie Wiesel.
In one scene, a young Jewish boy is hanged but is too light to die immediately so he just sways back and forth slowly dying over the course of several minutes. At this point Wiesel (the narrator) renounces his faith.
And the fucked up thing is this actually happened, probably in more than one location.
In one scene, a young Jewish boy is hanged but is too light to die immediately so he just sways back and forth slowly dying over the course of several minutes. At this point Wiesel (the narrator) renounces his faith.
And the fucked up thing is this actually happened, probably in more than one location.
I did scroll through the first hundred pages or so, yes.splatterguy734 said:
There's people who get off on this (And as long as they leave me out of their games, it's their business, and certainly none of mine) - and to me, the whole 'torture someone who regenerates anyway' jsut feels redundant. The tension, that can potentially be created by violence done to a protagonist is kinda killed off, when you know nothings permanent - It worked (a little) in Mnemosyne, because there was a psychologic aspect to it, and because it's more impressive in color and with sound - manga-gore (I believe they call it 'guro') just fills me with indifference, especially when there's nothing to it except for the violence - I've seen worse (or at least more 'tense') in various Pen&paper campaigns...
I'm afraid I havent seen Mnemosyne but I agree with you about it overall I thought it was fairly silly and just faintly nihilistic I forgot about it fairly soon whereas the violence in the film Oldboy stuck with me due to the really dark emotions and connections with the chaacters involved.Zannah said:
