Weird books

I think you should try the youtube. There is one video, something called Chuck Palahniuk's advice on stealing in bookshops.... it is just what he recommends of the contemporary authors. I read some of that stuff and it was quite as twisted as Chuck.... :thumbs_up

^, Looks like it was this video. Thanks!
I've never really read anything that's newer than 2 years, except for The People's Act Of Love by James Meek (hehe, another weird book!). Maybe Chucks video will cure that.

It may not be as weird as you are thinking but I'm still gonna mention Side effects, short story collection by Woody Allen... one is about a box you can go into with your favourite book and wake up in it, the main character changes ALOT in Madame Bovary... a strange idea I think....

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Originally Posted by glover7

I read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask back when I was a sophomore in high school. At the time, I was closeted and privately engaged in regular bondage-oriented masturbatory activity. Moving right along, I thought that his writing was perhaps the most natural thing for a person.

My junior year of college, I read the book again for the class, and everyone in the class thought that it was bizarre and disturbing. There's a lesson in subjectivity for you.

As for disturbing books...I haven't really found a book that disturbed me. The only play that has ever pushed me into a rage was Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart," which made me want to be an activist, but that was short-lived.

Dennis Cooper writes a number of books that deal with "disturbing" activity (rape, snuff, pedophilia), but even as I was reading them, I didn't really think they were disturbing. Maybe it's just that I'm desensitized by my own psyche (that makes me sound like a badass), but more than likely I'm just a freak. I'm more disturbed by movies than anything else.

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Are you really that much of a freak?

I found "Snail" (Richard Miller) pretty weird when I first read it...

I found The Life of Pi to have a unique concept - i wont spoil it, but i had no idea when i got to the end which direction it was heading in.