Muscle Growth Books

[hombregrande]

I've read two books that happend to have some nice muscle growth in them. The first, R.L. Stein's "Night in Werewolf Woods" is a 'choose your own adventure' book with plenty of muscle growth. In one part you can choose to eat "Super-Strength O's" that make you hulk out into a huge muscle beast. There's some other good parts in there too.

The second is, "And The Devil Will Drag You Under" which is a cheesy sci-fi adventure where a man and a woman must travel to alternate dimensions to save the world from the apocalypse. While in the different dimensions their bodies take on the appropriate forms for the particular area. Also, at the end is a really hot growth scene where a devil becomes hugely muscular, then the other characters become super buff. I recomend reading the whole book before reading the end because it makes it hotter to be involved with the characters.

[kwijibo418]

In Choke, his best friend goes from slightly overweight to buff and the description of his shirt getting tight around is chest is nice.

Also its just a good book.

[dominicrue]

i think chuck palahniuk has a thing for muscle. In several of his books he's mentioned muscle. In haunted there's a story about the end of the world and this bodybuilding couple who where the best body builders in the world cause everyone else was dead.

[Phlex]

Devil WIll Drag You Under was by the late Jack Chalker. I think that transformation is a motif that he used in a lot of his stories, though I no longer recall other examples.

[mutador]

Mmm Sci-fi and muscle growth, my favorite!!

[digger]

In Palahniuk's Survivor, the protagonist goes through a steroid-and-exercise regimen that gets him so huge he can't tie his own shoes. All part of the marketing machine's plan to make a figurehead. In Stranger Than Fiction, his collection of non-fiction, there is a piece about his brief experimentation with (doctor-prescribed) steroids. So, yeah, I'd say he appreciates muscle at some level. He's gay but fairly quiet about it.

[agreatguy6]

SERIOUSLY?
Palahniuk is gay????
wow. I'd've never known. I <3 the net xD

[Otaru_grower]

That confirms my theory. I met Chuck at a book reading years ago and even though he didn't discuss his sexuality, I was pretty sure I picked that up about him.

[dominicrue]

Originally Posted by digger

So, yeah, I'd say he appreciates muscle at some level. He's gay but fairly quiet about it.

wow I wasn't expecting that. next time I read one of of his books that will definitly be something to think about. reading between the lines sorta thing.

[hsmoose]

In John Saul's Creature, a scrawny kid moves to a new town with his family and the school jock is transforming into a creature thanks to the local doctor & the town company using a new growth procedure that gets out of control. Needless to say the scrawny kids soon gets in on the action. Not huge on the muscle growth, more of a creature feature but well worth the read.

[rairf]

Rowan McBride's books are amazing- especially Chasing Winter. Also Jet Mykles "Leashed" series has some pretty hot muscle...and shape-shifters. More furry than growth...but still sexy.

[cesarvillavi]

I've recently begun reading a book I've been wanting to read for years called One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garc?a Marquez and I've found it great.

It has some musclegrowth and some muscle descriptions specially about Jos? Arcadio Buend?a's son: Jos? Arcadio.

From the beginning of the book is told the boy's got the strenght of his father, and that he has always been big for his age. He the runs away with a gipsy girl only to come several years later as a mountain of a man with a huge endowment. There are many descriptions of superhuman strenght he shows, like lifting objects that 11 men can only carry, or his collosal weight that makes earth shake.

It's such a great book.

[mutador]

Originally Posted by cesarvillavi

I've recently begun reading a book I've been wanting to read for years called One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garc?a Marquez and I've found it great.

It has some musclegrowth and some muscle descriptions specially about Jos? Arcadio Buend?a's son: Jos? Arcadio.

From the beginning of the book is told the boy's got the strenght of his father, and that he has always been big for his age. He the runs away with a gipsy girl only to come several years later as a mountain of a man with a huge endowment. There are many descriptions of superhuman strenght he shows, like lifting objects that 11 men can only carry, or his collosal weight that makes earth shake.

It's such a great book.

Wow! I'm definitely going to read it!! Had I known about this and I would've read this book before. It was always recommended at school. I didn't know Gabriel Garcia Marquez was interested in big muscled guys, I knew Garcia Lorca was gay but Marquez was supposed to be straight hehehe thanks C?sar

[RyBearATL]

See also Jack Chalkers' River Of Dancing Gods trilogy (might be 4, IDK). There's MG early on, transformation throughout, and overall a good crossover-to-fantasy-world read.

Oh, and BTW, Arpeejay's Ogre In Albion stories are a parody of them, so it's doubly fun.

(http://www.pridesites.com/omelissoko...es-of-rex.html)

-R

[rextorres]

Well, you guys, check out MY book! It has ONE muscle growth scene in it! Sure, it's a young adult book about teenage superheroes, but it's worth the read! After all, the author is a member of this forum!!!

Check it out, it's called "Myst, Titan and the Outcasts".




Book cover for "Myst, Titan and the Outcasts" by Rob Aultman and Rex Torres.

[penguin101]

Here in Australia, we've got a couple of weird, but very decent authors. In the library not long ago, I came upon a book by Paul Stafford, called Blatantly Bogus. It's part of the Pants on Fire series.

These books are compilations of short stories (all the more reason why I read them). The book in question contains a story called the Miraculous Muscle Machine. To save people the trouble of getting access to it, I scanned in a few pages where the growth stuff is most evident.

Here....

[Jaypat]

In the sequel to Twilight, apparently the character Jacob Black grows to be about siz and a half feet tall and puts on some serious muscle. Is it worth reading the book for this?

[leedwards2005]

Interesting reads .

Any pdf 's available of any of these stories ?

[HawkShark]

Amazon.com: Help!: I'm Trapped in My Gym Teacher's Body: Todd...
HELP! I'm trapped in my gym teacher's body is one of the books that did it for me when i was a kid... Typical body swap story, includes a little loss/gain of intelligence etc, the gym teacher while in the kids body exercises it etc..

[Ohme123]

Oooh, is there a .pdf of that anywhere? Or maybe a scan of it? I'd love to read it.

[nnnrg]

Originally Posted by Jaypat

In the sequel to Twilight, apparently the character Jacob Black grows to be about siz and a half feet tall and puts on some serious muscle. Is it worth reading the book for this?

No. The Twilight books are mormon mary-sue feculence and may cause permanent brain damage. See this document before you have to buy not one, but six gallons of brain bleach to purge the stuff from your brain.

[Adam]

Thanks for the link, nnnrg. It was an amusing site.

"Child over Superhuman" and its sequel, "The Collector of Souls" by Carlos Soriano contain no muscle growth scenes, but a heck of a lot of super-strength and invulnerability sections concerning the teenage protagonist.

[Jaypat]

Thanks for the warning, nnrg, but it came too late. I have to admit I had more than a few laugh-out-loud moments while reading New Moon, and it wasn't anything intentional on the author's part. If you treet the books as so bad they're funny, it doesn't hurt to read them.

That being said, I did enjoy her take on werewolves. In my view, they were the most interesting part of the story and she spent far too little time with them. I would loved to have seen this tale told from Jacob's point of view. His journey was far more interesting than that of the angst ridden teenage girl protagonist and those watered down Ann Rice vampires.

[rextorres]

Well, you can read more about my book, along with an excerpt and two short stories, on my website: here...

http://www.superfantasystories.com/index.html