Help with disturbing book I read in middle school

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Hello,

I am trying to find out the title of a book I read when I was very young that I surprisingly found at the school library. Here is what I can remember from it:

A group of people are transported to an alien world filled with deadly creatures and all kinds of torture including a being that attaches to the back of a woman and makes love to her until she dies from exhaustion, a large creature with a super large penis that rapes a captured woman over her lover below so that the blood of her lover falls on her.

If anyone can find out the title of this book I would be very thankful because it has been bothering me for so long I am beginning to think it doesn't exist!
 
Gasp! In a Middle School Library??? --- Your description makes me think of a highly sexual book bordering on pornography.
 
Sounds like something I wrote half my life ago...and no, those words do NOT fill me with pride.


Hehe. No, I wouldn't know what that would be. Such is very rare within most genres, as I have seen; even those like Piers Anthony, who had actually a relatively disturbing amount of sexual conduct in his works, wouldn't do anything like this...well, that isn't true, but, some semblance of decency and all. Then again, I haven't read, but have heard, disturbing things about Firefly...


On second thought, not even he has done anything like this. And I read Pornucopia. (Never in my life have I ever felt so cheap and embarrassed reading a book, even in the company of only myself.)
 
Very odd that such a book was in a middle school library. I used to read a lot of Philip José Farmer, and this sounds like something of his...maybe Image of the Beast?
Another possibility is Golem100 by Alfred Bester, but my instincts tell me Farmer is a more likely candidate. Hope this helps, CC
 
They put that book in a middle school library?! What the helll were they thinking?!:mad:
 
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Were they sheltering in a large cave on this planet?
Were the creatures like ghost protoplasm? You couldn't remove them physically by dragging them off victims but the victim could fully feel what was being done to them.

I read either this or a similar story but if none of my points sound familiar then I needn't rack my brains trying to remember the title.

School library theory: Someone bought a bundle of sci fi/ fantasy books to "allow for all tastes" but felt that actually skimming through the blurbs of such pulp was beneath them. I used to see that attitude years ago in my local library
 
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To be clear I do not think this is the answer (mostly because I do not remember the books being that over-the-top) but maybe take a look at Edmund Cooper's/Richard Avery's Expendables series. The books involved explorers, often convicts of some kind, sent to other planets who most of the time met their ends in rather gruesome ways.

The books that made up the series were Deathworms of Kratos, Rings of Tantulus, Venom of Argos, and Wargames of Zelos. and originally came out in the mid-seventies or so.
 
Onyx- I hope your post was made tongue-in-cheek. Banning a book that none of us have read is a terrible idea! Like the people who 'banned' the Harry Potter series because there were witches and wizards performing magic. And the people who want Huckleberry Finn banned because it uses the "N" word. Books must be -read- before they can be banned!

--Paul E Musselman
 
I really do think that Onyx is saying this with a deadpan voice -- the "that none of us have read" is rather a giveaway on the point.

While I appreciate the concerns raised here by all parties, this is a thread in Book Search. Regardless of our feelings about the alleged subject matter of this book -- possibly even this alleged book -- and regardless of our feelings about censorship one way or the other, this isn't a thread in which we deal with the matter of banning books. Let's therefore stick to the issue in hand.

If anyone else has an idea about the author and title of the book, let's hear it. Other comments and topics don't belong here.
 
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Isn't there an infamous series - Qork or Gorn or something - which is basically sex obsessed sf/f? I've sure I've seen something like that mentioned here before, but does that ring any bells?
 
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The description reminds me of Greg Irons, Tom Veitch, S.Clay Wilson and certain other “underground” comix artists of the late 60s/early 70s, for instance their work in the “Slow Death” comix. That kind of material was getting published then in comic form, so it’s not a big jump to the written medium.
 
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nixie said:
No I don't think it is the Gor series by John Norman. Embarrassing I know but I did read a few as a teenager.
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I read book one of that series and that was quite enough.
 
BAYLOR said:
I read book one of that series and that was quite enough.
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Likewise. I read one. Couldn’t believe it was popular enough for a series. I’d assumed it would just be heroic fantasy.
 
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