# The Most Disturbing Scenes in a Book (Spoilers)

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [January 11, 2003, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disturbing-scenes-in-a-book-spoilers/147898 "2003-01-11T04:06:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disturbing-scenes-in-a-book-spoilers/147898/21 "2003-01-12T14:40:08Z")

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DO IT TO JULIA! DO IT TO JULIA!!!  
If anyone needs the cite- I’ll give it later _EG_

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**Author:** ![Ruffian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/71e660/32.png) [@Ruffian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ruffian)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disturbing-scenes-in-a-book-spoilers/147898/22 "2003-01-12T15:28:33Z")

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I read King’s _Different Seasons_ (a collection of 4 novellas) several years ago, and was impressed and touched by _The Body_ and _Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption_.

However, I couldn’t even get to halfway through _Apt Pupil_. When the boy started practicing holocaust-event-tortures on neighborhood cats and dogs (specifically I’m remembering where they put a cat in an oven), I was out. I put down the book and didn’t dare finish it. Yet I still had nightmares. ☹

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**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disturbing-scenes-in-a-book-spoilers/147898/23 "2003-01-12T17:56:38Z")

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Another part of _American Psycho_ that was just wrong was where he made the rodent go up through the woman’s vaginia, closed the opening and had the rodent chew it’s way out of the woman’s abdomen.

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**Author:** ![Agrippina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8797f3/32.png) [@Agrippina](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Agrippina)\
**Post date:** [January 12, 2003, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-disturbing-scenes-in-a-book-spoilers/147898/24 "2003-01-12T18:04:49Z")

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Oh, forgot another book. The part in _Misery_ where Annie uses the axe on Paul’s legs (in the movie she used a sledgehammer).

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