Sentence examples for violent book from inspiring English sources

I believe Islam is a violent religion and the Qur'an is a violent book.

Mervyn Peake's playfully fantastic and interestingly violent book is set there.

"I always resisted," he said, "because it's a violent book about social degradation, rape, and I didn't want it to fall into the wrong hands".

"This is a complex, unusual, violent book, bleak but with welcome humour, and she manages a huge cast with confidence; there is never any doubt that she is in complete control, right to the unexpected but perfect ending," he said.

His motivations recall another cult children's writer, Heinrich Hoffman, author of the violent book of juvenilia "Struwwelpeter," who had grown tired of "stupid stories, beginning and ending with admonitions like 'the good child must be truthful.'" Sandburg didn't have any interest in allowing moral lessons to dictate his stories.

But the point of that scene is that he enjoys the violence in the Bible, and how hypocritical it is that the Bible is the only book you have access to in prison, yet it's the most violent book of all time.

92 (New) Val McDermid; Crime writer Crime novelist who waded into the row caused by Ian Rankin's comment that the most violent books were written by women, "mostly lesbians".

First off, a 2002 US Secret Service study of 41 individuals involved in school shootings found that only 12 per cent were attracted to violent video games but 24 per cent of them were attracted to violent books.

James Crumley, a critically acclaimed crime novelist whose drug-infused, alcohol-soaked, profanity-laced, breathtakingly violent books swept the hard-boiled detective from the Raymond Chandler era into an amoral, utterly dissolute, apocalyptic post-Vietnam universe, died on Wednesday in Missoula, Mont.

Plenty of violent books, movies, television programs and video games are readily available today; the creators of those things are not removing their products from the market.

The U.S. Secret Service concluded the study by saying that "[t]he largest group of [school shooters] exhibited an interest in violence in their own writings, such as poems, essays or journal entries," while other school shooters showed an interest in violent video games, violent movies and violent books.