What about "Non-Dev" books...?

[Valkyrja]

I asked before about dev thrill in movies or TV Shows without PWD.
What about books?
Did you ever read a "non-dev" book that made you feel all that caleidoscope of sensations that create the dev thrill?

The first time I felt that (or at least the first I remember) was with a book I read when I was like 12 or 13 yo called "The Promise" by Danielle Steele
I guess all the emotions it made me feel had to be with my "pre-teen" era.

[Maurine]

Whenever someone gets hurt in a book, I get slightly aroused.
Characters often make it into the devolicious category without being disabled. It's like some AB guys have something that pushes my dev button.
I don't like to read books specifically about disability, because they almost always portray it as something alien and pitiful.

[nas]

I used to read a ton of those conveyor belt thrillers that had a male character who was somehow damaged in the past (wife murdered, child kidnapped and never found, brother died, sent to prison on false charges etc). Those I kinda felt for in a devy way. I found better things to fill my time with stopped reading that stuff a while ago, but I remember the detective from Mo Hayder's books...

[Pisti]

As I said in the other thread - anything where the hero is injured but recovers, or has a troubled soul can do the trick.

What I want to mention are fairy tales: they are a huge source of devy stuff. At least the Hungarian ones... Heroes cut to pieces then put back together... Hmmm... And all imaginable non-permanent injuries (OK, sometimes they are permanent, but balanced by some magical power)...

I mentioned already the original fairytale on Beauty and the Beast and it's different versions.

Also there are stories like Michel Strogoff and the like.

Those non-permanent injuries and permanent injuries plus magical power are also present in lots of fantasy and some science fiction novels, too - like in Stephen R. Lawhead's "The Song of Albion" cycle (sorry but beside that I only remember Hungarian ones).

[Maurine]

Temporary injuries are hot as long as there isn't any metaphysical power involved, curing the wounded person in an instant. There needs to be a recovering process. I like injuries best if they leave scars. Depending on the context, it's OK if there's magic involved in the healing process, otherwise it wouldn't seem plausible in books about a magical world like Harry Potter.

[Pisti]

Apr 16, 2014 9:36:57 GMT -5 Maurine said:

Temporary injuries are hot as long as there isn't any metaphysical power involved, curing the wounded person in an instant.

In a fairy tale or in a fantasy novel I'm not against instant healing by magical powers. It all depends on the context. If it is believable in that world, I'm OK with it.

[Valkyrja]

I have to agree... I have a huge collection (IN PAPER!!) JAJAJA.. of books we called "Fantasy Adventure" (sorry, I don't know how is it called in English)
I have all the books of the Dragonlance with the Majere Brothers. Everybody loves the big, tall, strong twin "Caramon" when I love the other one, "Raistlin" the mage, twisted, tortured soul.
Or the Forgotten Realms novels... don't let me start it! jajaja

[kivic]

Recently, I read a book by Sandra Brown called Envy.  It had a few dev-moments for me as one of the MCs had been injured and used a wc.  I don't *think* she's a dev as I haven't read any of her other books.  

sandrabrown.net/books/envy/

Without a doubt, I LOVED the Outlander series.  When I was a kid, I ate up the V.C. Andrews series, Flowers in the Attic, and in junior high, Misery by Stephen King was pretty freakin good, although somewhat gruesome.  I think Misery was a turning point for me in that I recognized that injuries really and truly got me hot. 

[Valkyrja]

We have Envy in the Book Project library!
it is pretty divvy and it is a good book... at least better than others (I liked that one)

[sweetequine]

Absolutely. But it seems that (like someone mentioned above) there is always at least emotional trauma (if not physical) involved with main the character, and that typically brings out the devness for me. A lot of what I read pushes dev buttons because it's all fiction and usually based around a male/female relationship.

Believe it or not Fifty Shades of Gray gave me the dev-thrill at times?

[RyooT]

There was a book I read as a teenager about the experience of a WWII soldier. I didn't know/expect it, but he got shot and had his arm amputated above the elbow. That book gave me a dev thrill like few others, but unfotunately I am neither able to remember the title of the book, nor the name of the author - which has been a great frustration. But I hope one day I will remember and I will find it again and post it for everyone. The one thing I do remember that it had a quote in the beginning by Erasmus of Rotterdam: "Dulce bellum inexpertis".

So if anyone has seen this quote in a book about a WWII soldier before, will you let me know, please?

[lisa]

I have no clue what the name or author of the book were, but in my early teen years a friend of mine showed me her book collection and said I could choose a book to borrow and read. Well, back then I hadn't realised my devness yet (although I kinda knew about it...), but chose a book with the main character being a teenager (a girl, but for my dev feelings, that's not the biggest problem ) who gets MS. It's not the disability/illness that would usually turn me on, but in the course of the book there were some pretty devy moments, climaxing in her boyfriend buying a scooter to drive her to school every day and making sure she made it savely to the classroom. Haha, teenager memories .