American Psycho question

Psycho was good but - as i guess was it's intention - it makes the gore and sex tedious - everything is narrated in the same flat style so he puts as much into his decription of huey lewis and the news as he does into the gore and sex. admittedly though the torture is inventive and i've never been able to shake off "car battery and girls breast"

the goriest i've ever read? Ikon by Graham Masterton was pretty foul, early Clive Barker, Shaun Hutson excels are vile moments and some Richard Laymon gets pretty grusome - and all are more "fun" than American Psycho - though Psycho is the better book

Lunar Park by Ellis is also great, his version of Poltergeist - well worth a look

I seem to recall The Last Exit to Brooklyn was rather gruesome. I read American Psycho when it first came out, and it took me about a full month to get through it. I kept having to put it down for a bit until I could stomach it again.

It has been a few years since I have read it, but I remember Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk making my stomach churn... There are some scenes in that book that are just hard to forget. American Psycho was a good one. I had to read that one for a class. It has some great disturbing imagery.It was definitely an interesting book to study.

The goriest book I've ever read was Robert Devereaux's Deadweight. Unfortunately it's also the worst book I've ever read. Really don't know what all the hype was about with this one.

Mo Hayder's books are pretty gory too. Some of the things she describes are so vivid you can almost smell them.

Good gory books:
Exquisite Corpse
Off Season
The Painted Bird
The Big Nowhere

Like Liz said, I didn't find it gory due to the matter of fact nature of the delivery. That was why I loved the book. The only book to give me the same sort of 'that's clever' Is Malice in Blunderland. Some of the graphical sex is just so awful and shocking in it's description, yet so incredibly funny that you digest it. (If you've read it, the cripple sex and uniporn bits) It is a clever book that pretends to be stupid.

This is the only book I have ever read and tossed in the trash as soon as I finished. And I have no idea why I waited so long.

Well I've read all the comment except for some of the mini-comments sorry a bit busy but anyways I have to say this book was gnarly gross. I am a horror lover and I was told, oh the book is disturbing, don't read it if you have a weak stomach, blah blah blah..." I thought it was just bullcrap until I actually got it and read it. I was like "Holy crap! Dude! WTF is wrong with the author of this book? Dude needs Jesus that's what he needs." I remember reading it and I was just wigged out, I couldn't really eat anything after some of the scenes and I was a bit on edge. I was just thankful I wasn't in this book cause I would have shot Patrick's ass, even if it was or wasn't in his head, I am from the South I know how to use a gun. lol Is it weird that on some of the books you guys mentioned I want to read them? Is that a good or bad thing? I will confress I actually threw the book in the trash and cleaned out the kitty box to pour kitty poop all over it so I wasn't tempted to go back and get it in the garbage. LOL

Strangely, I didnt find it gory at all. I mean it is brutal, but it didnt emotionally involve me at all. And it is well written - though it might be considered boring - but Ellis knows how to use language...

I recently glanced at a number of torture porn by the likes of Karin Slaughter and must say they made me feel sick, a) because they are brutal and b) because they are badly written by your some conservative MILF in your neighborhood, if you see what I mean... i.e. they are totally pointless and boring...

oh, and there is the one where that nurse tortures that policeman by having him swallow draincleaner... can't remember the name or who the author was, but that is pretty gory, too... and again, pretty bad...

For the first 290 pages of the book I didn't find it that brutally gory, but as I was approaching the final decent in the book, I found myself having to hold my breath and just skim the last few chapters dealing with the prostitutes. Oh I know what the turning point of of the brutality came it was the "killing child in park." I'm a fairly new parent so anything along the lines of children being killed is going to not sit well with me.

American Psycho is just such an incredible look into the eyes of a deranged individual. It comes shocking to people who normally don't read books that center around murder, I don't really. But it's so beautifully written it's so easy to get swept up into the words and eat them up.

Gore? I thought this was a children's book?

Goriest book ever that I've read? Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers by Pierre Guyotat. Only I don't know if I can really claim that, because all of the violence gets extremely tedious, and repetitious, and I didn't finish it.

I am a Murakami fan and like his eclectic mix of echo-chamber surrealism and a good dose of gore (like the skinning scene in "The Wind-up Bird Chronicle" and the killing spree in "Kafka on the Shore") and loads more. But, "American Psycho" and almost every book by Chuck Palahniuk (oh, the superbly macabre "Haunted" is a must-read) are definitely the goriest reads. Early Ian McEwan is also very, very disturbing. Gore fans, try John Burnside. His brooding macabre is pretty much breathtakingly beautevil.

It's still sold shrinkwrapped here. Best gimmick ever.

But I don't think I've read anything gorier. Gore in books is difficult without being gratuitous, and if it's gratuitous, I won't read it at all.

I'm happy with what I've got at the moment. If I want more gore, I'll watch those medical shows on TV x:

I read this on the train to work every morning with it barely open so no one could read over my shoulder. I went from heaving and refusing to put it down on the grounds that I wouldn’t let the bastard beat me to fits of giggles by the sheer ridiculousness of it all.

I don’t generally aim for gory so this is definitely it by a long shot for me, though the Book of Revelation hit me pretty hard too.

The thought of boobs mixed with batteries stills haunts me...

I haven't read all the above comments, so apologies if this is a repeated book.
You want gore? read Guts by Chuck Palahniuk. Mostly guys would be able to relate to it, but even I, a girl, was cringing and cowering while reading the short story. I wanted to cry. I wanted to hurl. I wanted to cower in a corner. I wanted to bleach my mind. I don't think I'd go back to read it again, but I won't deny its brilliance.

The horror writer Ed Lee is quite disturbing and graphic.

Edward Lee hands down, give The House a read if you want some gore/sex/disgusting stuff.

His Pain..short and brutal.

I thought the internet and torture/gore porn that people call "Scary Movies" now-a-days would prepare me for this book. Nope nope nope nope! It was awfully gruesome, however the Grey Poupon on the brain scene had me in stitches. That scene was supposed to be funny right? Or am I a Bateman? :/

Jack Ketchum books are pretty gory. Off Season and Offspring I think were the worst, maybe Girl Next Door.

I don't tend to read these type of books and there were a few parts where I had to step away for a bit. I can't imagine what else goes on in this authors head or where he gets the ideas...makes me wonder if I should be scared of him. Wondering also if I should try some of the ones mentioned here.

One of the goriest and one of the funniest books ever - such a scathing satire on modern society and pop culture.

One of the goriest books ever must be Paul Cleave's The Cleaner.
See the article below in which Cleave is described as "too dark" for the New Zealand market:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainme...

I say "Afraid" by Jack Kilborn is up there for gore. I also consider it one of the best thrillers I've ever read.

I thought this book was disturbing however, I love the juxtaposition of his descriptions of his materialistic things and his descriptions of torture. That is what kept me reading it, the commentary on yuppie American society in the 80s (and maybe not too far off from the present!).
I have friends who have seen the movie and have not read the book so when I mention that American Psycho terrifies me, they ridicule me! It is only after I have thrown the book at them, and they have read it, my exclamations are understood.

I don't remember this one too well, just enough to remember it as one of the goriest I've read. quite a few of Karin Slaughter's have been pretty gory, too, though I've still loved all of them.

I think I would also add Let the Right One In- there were some very icky parts.

I would add "Frisk" by Dennis Cooper and "Exquisite Corpse" by Poppy Z. Brite to the list of the goriest books. Is there such a list on here? Hmmmm

Sandyboy above - don't really know about Masterton's "Ikon" being all that gory, but the first part of both "Black Angel" and "Family Portrait" had me squirming a bit. Some of Clive Barker's work is obviously a bit meaty in this respect, but I have to admit that in a long list of horror and thriller titles, "American Psycho" manages to have some of the most vividly gruesome moments. By itself that wouldn't be so amazing (so to speak), but those descriptions of the materialistic that are nestled next to the violence (as Liz mentions above) are often highly and deeply irritating, probably on purpose, so when the horror does come there's already a feeling that Bateman is not to be liked or trusted. Negative builds on negative - and so the grue is enhanced even more.

I would definitely agree with Durwood in saying Poppy Z Brite's Exquisite Corpse. That book was crazy gory, and I loved it.
American Psycho was another one. Very gory, and I loved that too.

I am a big fan of American Psycho - and although this book is very gory, I don't find it gratuitous, it's a very clever book. I definitely recommend Dennis Cooper's books, especially Try, if you like American Psycho - Easton Ellis is a big fan of Cooper.

I would agree that American Psycho is pretty gory but I don't find it that disturbing. A book which I found gory and so disturbing that I had to leave it a few months before I could pick it up again is Survivor by J.F. Gonzalez. Defintely not for the faint hearted.

I read this book years ago, loved it. when looking back I didn't really think it was that gory. Then I re-read when he axes up Paul (I guess i must have a had a stronger stomach when I was 15, I could barely read it now!)...and then I started to remember how the book slowly drifts into total insanity and well, on reflection I would probably class it as one of the goriest books I've read. I would agree and say that yes Shaun Hutson's early work was very gory but none of it has ever disturbed me and made me literally gag as much as American Psycho. Amazing book though. Oh god and the whole rat thing? Just no! *gags*

Ashley wrote: "what is the goriest book you have ever come encounter with? im not finished reading it yet, but its definitely going into my top five so hopefully by the end of the book it will be number one. and ..."

I almost threw up twice while reading and kind of laughing hysterically at the same time. I almost felt ashamed reading it, but it was worth wading through the endless monotonous descriptions of clothing and accessories to get on with the juicy parts. I actually wondered if he used the descriptions to create juxtaposition from mundane drudgery to horrifying subhuman behavior.

120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis De Sade is pretty effing gruesome and disturbing.

didnt think this book was overly gorey at all.....plus he seemed more interesting in who was wearing what.....he should have been a woman with that much interest in clothing