The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan, and
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Those two caused great nausea when I was reading them so I decided never to read any book by him again. If I ever had, I think it would be the third item on this list. :p
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The Comfort of Strangers by Ian McEwan, and
The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan
Those two caused great nausea when I was reading them so I decided never to read any book by him again. If I ever had, I think it would be the third item on this list. :p
The Trial by kafka
But that wasn't wierd at all! Just original and perhaps a bit unusual.Quote:
Originally Posted by Scheherazade
Ours, we would think would be Lord Malquist and Mister Moon by Stoppard, although there could be even more wierd things we have read.
And yes, Kafka is quite high on our wierdometer too.
And I quote:Quote:
Originally Posted by CaptureLife
"...thnthnthn.
Chips, picking chips off rocky thumbnail, chips. Horrid! And gold flushed more.
A husky fifenote blew.
Blew. Blue bloom is on the
Gold pinnacled hair.
Trilling, trilling: I dolores.
Peep! Who's in the... peepofgold?
Tink cried to bronze in pity.
And a call, pure, long and throbbing. Longindying call.
Decoy. Soft word. But look! The bright stars fade. O rose! Notes chirruping answer. Castille. The morn is breaking.
Jingle jingle jaunted jingling.
Coin rang. Clock clacked...
Jingle. Bloo."
Recognize it? Ulysses. Now that was bizzare. Consider: what would become of us if we wrote all our posts in stream-of-consciousness. No I say no I will no.
The Five People you Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom. That was a weird book. A librarian saw me reading it at the library and asked me to tell her what I thought of it when I finished. It was just...odd. Went totally against my faith and was just bizarre.
Same with Morning Girl by Michael Banks, I think. Never really make sense to me.
I'm thinking . . . probably one of the weirdest books I've read is The Castle of Crossed Destinies by Italo Calvino. I really like Calvino, but this book I was unable to understand, which is probably why I'm calling it weird. If I understood what was going on it, it might not have seemed as weird to me . . .
I'm just sure there must be something else extremely weird that I've read. But I can't think of anything else.
that book wasn't weird it was STUPID .Quote:
Originally Posted by andave_ya
I'm so glad I'm not the only one who thinks so :nod:
Tuesdays with Morrie was stupid too...I hated that book
the weirdest book i read was "the wayward bus" by stienbek ... i just couldn't find the story ...!
'Mistral's Kiss' by Laurell K. Hamilton
i thought it was just a nice fun gothic vampire novel. i read it for fun....and i still have no idea what the point, plot and meaning of that story was.
Hmmm. I like some of Alice Hoffman's work but her novel Here on Earth, is just weird. I didn't like it at all. It is a modern, "sexed up" version of Wuthering Heights.
Haha. I haven't heard of that novel, but I can just see someone trying to do that. I mean, there is already so much passion and drama in Wuthering Heights. Actually, the writer Maryse Conde from Guadeloupe has a novel that redoes Wuthering Heights in the Caribbean. It has some sex scenes in it, but not overwhelmingly so. It's called Windward Heights in English.Quote:
Originally Posted by kathycf
Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel.
It is a story about a Mexican girl who is not allowed to get married because she is the youngest daughter and needs to take care of her aging mother. So her older sister marries her boyfriend. Each chapter begins with a recipe that somehow have strange effects on those who eat it. Fore example she cries in the wedding cake and everyone at the party becomes terrible. Her older sister ends up dying of excess gas. She finally marries the man of her dreams at the end, and the house explodes into fireworks.
Steppenwolf by Hermann Hesse