Guts Reactions (Not about fainting)

This is just me, but I really think that you need a penis and experience of masturbating to sort of [I]get[/I] it in a way. But then again your guts prolapsing is something that could be relevant to anyone so I don't know.

Yeah, I know the carrot and the prolapse could affect anyone, but not having had the experience surrounding the icidents, I wondered how women would respond. It wasn't like the dude was just swimming and got caught in the pump.

I'm not assuming anything, since that's not my area of expertise.

Does anyone even know of females who have read the book?

I read Guts with a female friend and her response was laughing at my response (a lot of hair pulling and not wanting to continue but doing it anyway).

I find many people use comedy kinda the wrong way sometimes, if they're disturbed by something (especially films) they start joking about it. I'm not saying the women the above poster mentioned was necessarily doing that, but I find it very...disrespectful, in a sense, when I'm at a horror film, for example, and at the most dramatic point, when the audience is on the edge of their seats, someone blocks out the film and makes some stupid comment about it, expecting a laugh. It just kinda kills the mood. I'm figuring any person, male or female, would find it gross and disturbing, but have/would females be among the fainters?

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I'm editing this in to clarify a bit. Obviously, there are some comedic elements in Guts. I started laughing when I got to "God forbid my folks see my dick". But right before that, I was light-headed and feeling like the runs were coming. Laughing at the comedy wouldn't be peculiar, but laughing at the snake part, or the part about the wax bouncing around in the bladder, that would show someone's not recieveing it in a way that would result in a sickening feeling.

I read Guts. It was pretty...grotesque. Very good story, but incredibly disturbing. I honestly don't believe I have any different opinion about it than a guy would have.

When I was in Ireland my cousin, female, my age, found it pretty disgusting. Hand over mouth, "ew" kind of shit.

I don't have a penis (by the way I'm female not a male who has no penis) but I still put myself in the position of all the characters in Guts. It is a sickening story but in a fascinating 'tell me more' kinda way. I don't think it makes much of a difference if the reader is male or female but I can only speak for myself. I guess there are both males and females that are more squeamish than other males and females.

I was listening to the Chuck readings (from the CDs in my Chuck parcel that I put on my ipod) the other day on the bus and I was sitting next to this old biddy who had half her shopping leaning on me and Guts was playing. The situation made me smirk because it was so mundane yet I was being told this story that no one else could hear and I just kept thinking about the old biddy who would probably collapse if she overheard.

women also has urethras. have you ever heard of "feminine urethral masturbation?" it's pretty much the same as guys putting things down their dickhole to jack off. not exactly the same. sort of. there are a few fetish sites (that im not going to look up for the sake of this discussion) in which women have strectched their pissholes up to 2" in diameter with dildoes.

one of my lady friends is the "purest," most "sacred" person i know besides some mormon guy that doesnt know what masturbation is, even though hes 18. hes sitting next to me, if you want to say anything to him. anywho. i had this girl read the entirety of the haunted, and i made sure she read guts and the director denial story with me around. she crossed her legs and squirmed a lot during guts and wouldnt talk for a few hours. during the other story, she vomited a little in her mouth.

I'm female.
When I read it, I didn't react so much to the physical aspect of it as to the "invisible carrot." Female or male, getting caught in the act or having to own up to it would (I imagine) evoke such a horrible, guilty, [I]slimy[/I] emotion in oneself. We all have "invisible carrots" of some sort, and Guts made me think of mine. Reading the rest of the story, feeling that shame feeling, it blew my mind. In a good way. Guts was the first bit of Palahniuk work I'd read, and after that I went on a rampage and read all of his work.

If I had a penis, I think the story would stick out in my mind more because of what actually happens to the guys.

I was listening to it on my iPod at school and making strange faces, so I lent my friend the book. She read Guts three times in a row and said it got better every time, again because of the emotions called up.

[I]Haunted[/I] is the only book which has ever given me nightmares.

Oooh thanks. I'll check it out.
It sounds really trippy.

[QUOTE=karbunkle;944572]go get House of Leaves[/QUOTE]

I hear alot about this. Anyone fill me in? Author, genre, any good? Are Nate and Karbunkle the same person?

-Male
and I didn't really have any reaction to it.
Thought it was gross of course, but nothing much more.

The only part I laughed at is when he is checking out at the grocery store looking like he's going to have his fun night with an entire cake.

I am female.

It was gross in the way that Chuck had planned it to be gross-shocking in the way he wanted to be. You don't have to have a penis to feel those elements.

[QUOTE=bigshrimpn;984274]I hear alot about this. Anyone fill me in? Author, genre, any good? Are Nate and Karbunkle the same person?[/QUOTE]

Mark Danielewski, Suspense/Horror, ridiculously good

I found Guts really disgusting, interesting and awesome, but my friends think its popy hardcore. does somone want to try it out?

When I read it, I had that visceral reaction most women get when they see a video of a man getting kicked in the balls.

There's sympathy there, there's a reaction, but it's almost muted. You laugh, only because you're uncomfortable, and are trying to find a female equivalent to it. The prolapse part was something that I think me and my guy friend both reacted to similarly, with matched "AUGH!?...what the FUCK!??" ...s.

I'm a girl, and I found it gross, but not disturbing on any sort of deep level.

I'm reading that now. i havn't gotten to the scary stuff yet though lol