Rape in SK books

[Lord Black Cat]

Warning: There will be some slight spoilers here.

Bag of Bones: I just finished reading Bag of Bones. I loved the first half of it. It was absolutely amazing. It was one of my top books up until the end. I joked with a close friend that it almost felt like King had written a book specially to bother me. The woman who was brutally gang raped at the end of Bag of Bones shares a name with my ex who was brutally gang raped. That was not a pleasant surprise and kind of killed the book for me.

So, as can be expected, this is kind of a touchy subject for me. What other books have touched on the subject? Having a little less surprise will help a bit. I know the Stand, Dolores Claiborne, and Gerald's Game have a little bit of it, are there others?

[JohnDalglish]

Hi,

Touches of female abuse in Rose Madder and Lisey's Story, but I firmly believe that they are necessary for dramatic effect and character development.

The tennis racquet and the can opener.

Long days and pleasant nights

[Maddie]

so youre wanting to know the titles of all books that contain rapes in them....for the purpose of , not reading them... ? naturally I think that a horror writer would write about horrifying things, its not unusual. I would say if this is your choice genre you can expect anything, all the time. :wink2:

[wally wonder]

seems like one of the dark tower books does, as well. perhaps pertaining to flagg, as walter, walter being the recipient of someone's actions. wanna know non-sk works that do so, as well?

[Cody44]

I believe in The Gunslinger, Walter was trying to rape/seduce Roland's mother.

[md10pc]

Lord Black Cat,

When I reached that part of Bag of Bones, it shocked me so much I had to put the book away for a little while. The combination rape of Sara/drowning of her son was horrifying but it was necessary for something really terrible to take place for Sara to exact such an awful revenge.

I did finish it and I re-read the book once a year; it is an excellent book.

[Chatterbox]

I think rape is a subject people should talk about, so I think stephen is right when he writes about it, he makes you think that's what is important

[LadyHitchhiker]

Oh let's not forget Gerald's Game...

[tillyn]

A subject of violence which sometimes is needed to do justice to the piece of work. I'm sure it is not used unless it is pertinent to the piece.

[Black Suit]

yes, let's not forget Gerald and his Game .. the rape scene is very disturbing.. that damn eclipse

[wally wonder]

Duma Key has some abuse by the narrator against his wife. They divorce. Funny thing is, over in the Duma Key re-read group, there's almost a consensus that Edgar (the narrator) is not a bad man. What does that say about us?

Hearts in Atlantis has some violence by some boys against a young girl, and when and older man tries to help her, his actions are misinterpreted by another, an older woman, who was abused, who had just been the victim of violence in fact. It happens, misinterpretation. What does that say about us?

[wally wonder]

I believe in The Gunslinger, Walter was trying to rape/seduce Roland's mother.

Hey codester! No, it didn't happen that way. It went on for two years and Stephen knew about it. As I recall, Stephen tells Roland 'i've known for two years' in The Gunslinger, but maybe that happened in a later book.

And don't mean to be flip, but found this in another:
From Home Delivery: Bigfoot Rapes Choir Boy, 334/usa/pb/nightmares and dreamscapes kinda par for the story...the emir of Kuwait had been eaten alive in the White House East Room by zombies, other fun stuff happening :oops:

[~Ally~]

[QUOTE=Bluey Lunger;287130]Duma Key has some abuse by the narrator against his wife. They divorce. Funny thing is, over in the Duma Key re-read group, there's almost a consensus that Edgar (the narrator) is not a bad man. What does that say about us?

Ah but in this case the abuse is not intentional. Edgar was the victim of events which were not in his control, the accident changed him not only physically but mentally. His brain was now 'wired' differently, i don't know if you have ever encountered people with brain injuries but their whole personality can change drastically. It really isn't a nice thing to see and not everyone is fortunate enough to overcome these injuries.
I guess i am in the group who agrees Edgar is a nice guy..i actually found his wife to be quite unsupportive and almost shallow.

[wally wonder]

yeah, figured i was takin a chance on posting something like that, ally. run the risk of not getting to play anymore reindeer games. i too think edgar is a nice guy, a real hoot at times, but i'm not going to give him a pass for what he did to pam, sorry. i'm wondering if maybe what was at work on him while on duma was at work on him then, even before he got there. and we're not there yet in the group, but there's enough coming in the chapters we haven't talked about yet to give pam a moment or two of grace.

[karend3]

Bag of Bones

[sam peebles]

The Library Policeman has a pretty graphic rape scene of a child in it. It's disturbing, told from the point of view of the child.