CODES: * means plain. The scene is unsatisfactory due to lack of length or detail. ** means average. *** means hot.
V is a warning for above average violent content. S is a warning for snuff content - the excerpt is usually from a crime novel.

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Ongoing irregularly updating list of books with rape content that didn't make it into the blog

Not all books with rape content qualify as fantasy fodder and thus as material for this blog. I'm looking for lengthy, rather detailed, graphic and descriptive scenes with the whole chain of events explained. The following lack that.

The book has (a) rape in it but there is not an actual scene or a whole scene about it, or the scene comprises of just a few non-descriptive sentences that, from my viewpoint and for my masturbation purposes, amount to nothing
- Atonement, Ian McEvan, chapter 13. One character witnesses another character getting on his feet and walking away after raping a third characte.
- Hovimäki, Ruotsin vallan iltarusko (Finnish). A woman is carried off by a Russian soldier on horseback and later found disheveled on a road - all the action has been left out.
- Crank by Ellen Hopkins, written in verse.
- Two Women by Alberto Moravia, originally La Ciociara in Italian. In chapter 10 the rape of the narrator’s daughter happens conveniently while the narrator is unconscious.
- Don’t move by Margaret Mazzantini, originally Non ti muovere in Italian. The guy grabbed her and forced her on the floor. Practically the next thing the reader is told is the guy walking away.
- The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving. A girl is carried off and raped by high school fotball players but the rape is not described as the narrator is a sibling left behind.
- The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. Chapter Spring. There is no description of the rape, just a vague ramble of the train of the perp's thoughts. 


Rape serves in the book only as a background
-Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy. A rape takes place between the first and second part of the book, but the insinuation is so roundabout that unless I read from Wikipedia that it was there, I wouldn't have noticed.
 - Rape: A Love Story by Joyce Carol Oates. Quick flashes and tidbits of information about the incident is given here and there but there is not an actual scene in the book of the rape happening.
- The Color Purple by Alice Walker. The narrator is abused by her father, and later her husband, but there are no actual whole scenes of any of the incidents.
- The Breaker by Minette Walters. Rape happened before the events in the book take place. The book is about the police investigation of the rape.
- Breath, Eyes, Memory by Danticat, Edwidge. The main character was born as a result of a rape.
- Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov. The book is about stepfather-stepdaughter incest but the coquettish girl is at least partially into it so no rape. There is very little sexual content of any kind, sex being described in words like "a quick connection before dinner."


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