vomiting

[coolambindang]

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

[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.

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

[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.

[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.

[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]

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.

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

[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.