vomiting

[reeder]

:biggrin2:Have any of Stephen King' writing's ever make you vomit?


I was reading Apt Pupil and it was discussing the torture of a woman in the nazi camp and it made me run into the bathroom and vomit. I read it and felt fine, but I went back to read it out loud to my roommate and that is when the sickness hit me. It was disgusting and brutal. Not the most disturbing thing I have read by him. :biggrin2:

[Cowboy]

Nope, never have. Iron stomach here.

[aimeeleanne]

His books have never made me vomit, but I've been nauseated. He's a creepy and sick writer, but its like you can't stop reading what he writes.

[Srbo]

Nope.

[Ubasti]

Ick. Nope can't say that I've been that moved by a book ... from anybody.

[Sawney Beane]

Some book adaptations to movie have.

[Agincourt Concierge]

I'm with Ubasti...nothing I've ever read has made me vomit! And I read alot of heinous true crime stuff....

Now...I had a bad lobstrosity that did a number on me once...... (think my brother was trying to do me in!) :D

[PatInTheHat]

Puke because of what you read:umm:?
Huh, I can't imagine it:dunno:.

Although, I have found little uhhh, gifts, left inside some library books on the occasion that have caused me to shove my hands into scalding bleach water:eek:.

Please people, place your boogers (and any other crusty and/or slimey body secretions) under the coffee table or box springs...you know, the socially acceptable places they're supposed to go:oo:.

Yes by all means, this may be considered to be a public service announcement:smile2:.

[jacobtlong]

Never happened to me before. And I personally think that only Dethklok (because they're Dethklok) or Chuck Norris (well, Chuck can do anything) could write a book that is that brutal and disgusting.

[wally wonder]

kinda hoping there'd be other threads related to this one, but alas, no such luck.

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

No, but A Very Tight Place in Just After Sunset did cause me to put my dinner to one side.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Sintify]

Nothing lol. I don't think that.

[Goodlovin]

The only time I came close was at the beginnig of the book The Dark Half. When they describe finding the eyeball in his brain instead of a tumor I actually started to gag a bit an was grossed out.

Of all the sick and disturbing things my favorite author has written I would hardly have thought that would have made me gag.

It did though.

[Jax]

Puke because of what you read:umm:?


Although, I have found little uhhh, gifts, left inside some library books on the occasion that have caused me to shove my hands into scalding bleach water:eek:.

Please people, place your boogers (and any other crusty and/or slimey body secretions) under the coffee table or box springs...you know, the socially acceptable places they're supposed to go:oo:.

Yes by all means, this may be considered to be a public service announcement:smile2:.

:rofl:So, true. Thank you for the psa!

[pixiedark]

Puke because of what you read:umm:?
Huh, I can't imagine it:dunno:.

Although, I have found little uhhh, gifts, left inside some library books on the occasion that have caused me to shove my hands into scalding bleach water:eek:.

Please people, place your boogers (and any other crusty and/or slimey body secretions) under the coffee table or box springs...you know, the socially acceptable places they're supposed to go:oo:.

Yes by all means, this may be considered to be a public service announcement:smile2:.

I agree with this post! The same can go for people in bookstores and bookstore cafes! I have seen people cough and even sneeze all over books they are looking at. Then they put it back on the shelf for it to be sold!
Come on! No one wants your germs! Cough or sneeze in a Kleenex!

I have even seen people who put the books they are looking at in puddles of coffee or water! I understand that people like to look at books without purchasing them, but please take proper care of them! Don't try to hide them and just put them back on the shelf!

[Moderator]

There have been quite a few gross outs for me but the only one that had me close to actually yarking was from The Dark Tower when one character was popping another one's zit and then eating the pus. Makes my gag reflex react a bit just thinking about it. :barf:

[SixPins]

There have been quite a few gross outs for me but the only one that had me close to actually yarking was from The Dark Tower when one character was popping another one's zit and then eating the pus. Makes my gag reflex react a bit just thinking about it. :barf:
Was not sure if my next King book would be The Stand or The Dark Tower. Just made up my mind. :biggrin2:

[reeder]

kinda hoping there'd be other threads related to this one, but alas, no such luck.

I thought this would happen

[O'Hara]

I've gotta say, no book has ever made me vomit, but I did make the mistake of reading It while eating lunch one fine afternoon. Of course it doesn't help that the same day I had been helping in surgery (I work at an animal hospital, where they do large and small animals, and we were doing something on a horse, can't remember what, precisely), so between that and the scene I read where they open their fortune cookies and all the fun things come out, It was fairly gross. I will never eat a fortune cookie again. And then there was the ending in It with the final battle or whatever you will call it, where Bill sticks his arms into the monster and gets the goop all down his nose and throat. That part made me gag and have to put the book down. I had to leave it alone for a few minutes :biggrin2:

[boogerb53]

Gerald's Game didn't make me puke but it really upset me. I ran across a mint condition hard back copy on vacation and it was only $3. I think I might try it again, since I'm older and more jaded.
[Double Post]

Hi,

Welcome to the MB, and keep posting!

No, but A Very Tight Place in Just After Sunset did cause me to put my dinner to one side.

Long days and pleasant nights

Amen! I made the mistake of trying to read it on my lunch hour. Eewww!!!

[coolambindang]

SK never made me puke but when I was in college my forensic anthropology books came very close!:smile2:

[Jax]

There have been quite a few gross outs for me but the only one that had me close to actually yarking was from The Dark Tower when one character was popping another one's zit and then eating the pus. Makes my gag reflex react a bit just thinking about it. :barf:

It's been awhile since I read that. Yeah, that is gross.:barf:

[Q'smum]

Believe it or not there were a couple of passages in Tommyknockers where the "transformation" was described while she was talking... nausea.. had to put it down get some water, wait for stomach to settle before I could continue. Doesn't help that for me it was the most nerve wrecking book of SK. Don't know why it affected me when no other horror book has, but it did. And it wasn't the plot of the story either, it was mostly the rhyme... still gives me the creeps anytime someone knocks at my door in the middle of the night. "Last night and the night before, tommyknocker, tommyknockers knocking at my door."

[tillyn]

I have to agree with you the Tommy-Knocker rhyme sticks in your brain. And drills a hole there. My son never liked when i joked and said it. I thought the movie was somewhat cheesy though.:smile2:

[Lord Black Cat]

I have never vomited from any of King's works. I've been disgusted a few times, but never to that point.

A few things in Apt Pupil come to mind, specifically the cat in the oven. That was so sick.

Dark Tower VII: Mordred & Flagg was pretty unpleasant.

The last one for me was the film version of Stand By Me's Pie Eating Contest. Not the actual barfing, but the leadup right before it.

[blunthead]

This thread may do it to me.:eyebrow:

[Ben E Gas]

I've cringed on several occasions, but never got sick. I have only read a few of his books so far though. Only scratched the surface.

[danfan]

:biggrin2:Have any of Stephen King' writing's ever make you vomit?


I was reading Apt Pupil and it was discussing the torture of a woman in the nazi camp and it made me run into the bathroom and vomit. I read it and felt fine, but I went back to read it out loud to my roommate and that is when the sickness hit me. It was disgusting and brutal. Not the most disturbing thing I have read by him. :biggrin2:

I can relate. Apt Pupil was very disturbing and although it didn't make me vomit, it did give me nightmares for a few nights.

I've have been pretty nauseated in a few scenes of various books though - a scene in DT7 (Mordred and Walter) and a the handcuff scene in Gerald's Game nearly made me pass out.

[Firebird]

I almost threw up when my dog ate one of my Stephen King books...I didn't take it lightly :biggrin2:

[LadyPain]

When I am reading, I tend to have a cup of tea and sometimes a couple of cookies or something. Even the gross parts don't make me yurk. I'm not very squeamish, I guess.

[Born In Sin]

No to the vomit, but I just read JAS The Things They Left Behind and I bawled like a baby. That story just touched me.

[peaceluvnsploosh]

Ive never puked from any stephen king movie or book---- or any other movie and ive seen quite the list of gross and gorey movies----- but puke ?? i dont think i ever will

[Bryan James]

I made my mom puke with a short story. She wouldn't talk to me for two days. Compared to what's "out there" it wasn't severe...she just wasn't ready for it. WT rejected it also.

(The Mom-Silence was payment enough!)

~BJS

[~Ally~]

I made my mom puke with a short story. She wouldn't talk to me for two days. Compared to what's "out there" it wasn't severe...she just wasn't ready for it. WT rejected it also.

(The Mom-Silence was payment enough!)

~BJS

Maybe it wasn't the actual story that made her vomit but the more the fact that you, her son, had written it.
I have to admit the first time I read the story you're talking about I did wonder for your sanity.
Now I KNOW you're nuts, but back then I wasn't too sure. :wink2:

I've read it quite a few times now though and it's one of my favourites of yours.
I actually think the main character is deserving of a full book being dedicated to him, not just a short.
But are YOU brave enough to write about him??

[Bryan James]

But are YOU brave enough to write about him??

I don't think so. I don't even think I named the guy. Maybe it was a gal? I don't remember, and I'm not sure that I want to...................

[Bryan James]

I think it was the way it was written that caused the good problems. Logical. Friendly. Methodical, and maybe even Methodist. Iceblooded, constant, accurate, and intense. No character has no writer parent.

I don't think I'm ready to play with that kid again anytime soon.

~BJS

[TBlack]

I only get this kind of regurgitation reflex after accidentally clicking onto
:belch:Rush Limbaugh:barf: or :belch:Glen Beck!!!:barf::vomit:

[Jenn*]

nope

[Roseasharn]

Bryan James: I write short stories that mildly entertain people, but never has one made someone not speak to me for two days.
You must teach me your magic.

As to SK making me vomit, UTD, first time. And honestly, it was more of a rage reaction. Which was weird. I mean, not that I don't have a wicked temper, because I do. But I've read books with truly horrific things in them that didn't cause me as much upset as UTD re: Sammy Bushey.
Makes me angry just thinking about it.

[Snaggletooth]

Nothing that I have read in a book has been quite as disturbing as the recent evening news. Especially when the revelations about "advanced interrogation techniques" were coming out. Our government (USA) makes me sick on a daily basis.

[Sigmund]

Nothing that I have read in a book has been quite as disturbing as the recent evening news. Especially when the revelations about "advanced interrogation techniques" were coming out. Our government (USA) makes me sick on a daily basis.
I would be the first to say that our government has done some atrocious things (experimenting with mentally ill, Tuskegee. how they treat or NOT treat our veterans etc.) but, war is war. You cannot fight an enemy with rules and regulations when the enemy is willing to do ANYTHING , ANY WAY. I have seen too many of our soldiers coming home in coffins, missing limbs, mental illness etc. I haven't walked in their shoes or experienced the horror and atrocities they have and I will not judge them.

[GNTLGNT]

Nope, can't say it's happened, but then again-I work as a RN in a men's prison, which sorta helps build one's immunity to vomiting. Now being forced to watch endless episodes of "The Bachelor"-THAT would induce projectile technicolor yawns!:barf:

[Kaleidoscope]

I've written worse things than I've read in SK books. I don't see him as a gory or sick writer actually. Maybe I'm not reading the "sick" or whatever books but yeah... never thought about it that way.

[O!Discordia]

Never puked from what I read, although I was really grossed out and disturbed by a scene in The book "Haunted" by Chuch Palahniuk. I slammed down the book, and couldn't even repeat what I'd read... Pretty gross stuff.

[91rewoT]

Nope, n:glare:ot even close. But I did have a nasty case of food poisoning about a week ago. Reminded me of how much I HATE puking.

[Homebrew]

Heh, no. Not even close. Iron stomach as someone previously said. The internet has pretty much desensitized me to everything. I could probably read about everything mentioned in this thread at once while eating raw steak without a problem.

[fushingfeef]

Never puked from what I read, although I was really grossed out and disturbed by a scene in The book "Haunted" by Chuch Palahniuk. I slammed down the book, and couldn't even repeat what I'd read... Pretty gross stuff.

Funny, I read "Haunted" and know exactly which scene you're talking about! Luckily I had already heard a similar story years before, so I was a little desensitized to it...