Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen, but I loved it very much though.
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Mere Anarchy by Woody Allen, but I loved it very much though.
Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.
The story is told backwards, in the first person and ends with the narrator's birth. Strange.
Some of the stranger books I've read:
The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
House of Leaves - Mark Danielewski
A Void - George Perec
The Story of the Eye - Georges Bataille
And,my favourite,Ugursuz by the Bosnian author Nedžad Ibrišimović.It's a pity this wasn't translated(at least as far as I know),it's a true masterpiece.
Jeu de Robin et Marion by Adam the Hunchback.
Sounds like another one to avoid, then. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Antiquarian
Naked Lunch, I could never get it.
I'll give it another try one day though.
The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon and Gravity's Rainbow.
I'll second the vote for anything by Richard Brautigan although I haven't read it in years.
I'll also second much of John Barth's early work with Giles Goat-Boy at the top closely followed by Letters.
I'll put in a vote for A Confederacy of Dunces as well.
'The Castle' - Franz Kafka. I enjoyed it though.
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy was bizarre and eccentric if that's what you mean.
Also the writing style of Victor Hugo, I've never seen an author keep on writing on a subject for very long that isn't particularly relevant to the plot but somehow ties it to the plot at the end which is brilliant but weird! haha.
I'm not sure anyone will ever get it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dharmabeat
Homeport by Nora Roberts
Probably Les Chants de Maldoror by Count de Lautréamont...
Naked Lunch. I read it recently and it was the most disgusting book I have ever read. I noticed the point that Borroughs was trying to make in some of the chapters (such as the one about the 'Island', the 'Sender', which stick out in my mind) but the rest of it just felt like rampant pedophelia, homosexuality and mutilation.
That's what I thought, up until now, as I started reading George Bataille's The Story of the Eye yesterday. I wonder if weired or even weirdest come close to describing that book.Quote:
Originally Posted by Melmoth