I've been thinking about Nightwood a lot for a couple of days now. I read it for my Modern American Lit coursework eight years ago. Very weird book indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by HotKarl
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I've been thinking about Nightwood a lot for a couple of days now. I read it for my Modern American Lit coursework eight years ago. Very weird book indeed.Quote:
Originally Posted by HotKarl
Dave Berry Slept Here, a book that gives you history but it is wrong.My copy was stolen but in basically the guy say's if you are going to read history wrong then do it right. that is what type of book it is.
The weirdest book I ever read was "Caroline." Its cool but yet a little weird.
The girl in the box by Ouida Sebestyen
It's about a girl who gets captured and thrown into a cement cellar and all she has are the clothes on her back, a type writer, bakery items, and an old jar of water.
Slaughter-House 5. What a trip.
Try will self's "a crack rock the size of the ritz"
very strange
but it does exactly what it says on the can !
i read Afterdark by Murakami.
I cant say it was the weirdest book ever, but it made me think a lot over the plot. still i must say i enjoyed the idea. =)
Kafka On the Shore by Murakami. But Mysteries by Knut Hamsun is definitely a close second. Mysteries has a much more linear progression but was infinitely harder for me to understand.
Melville's Pierre.
I might have mentioned it here before, actually; but I cannot complain enough about this outrageously bizarre book!
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey.
I had to read this for year 11 English. I finished it and just thought: "Wow, that was wack."
Really enjoyed it though, however it was pretty hard to discern what was reality and what was Chief's delusions within the novel. :D
weird good or weird weird? for weird weird then Naked Lunch for weird good then Metamorphosis
Ugh-- Love in the Ruins by Walker PErcy...my gosh I how I hated that book! It took some couple hundred pages to really have any idea what the heck was going on...
Moscow-Petushki by Wenedikt Jerofejew.
Kafka on the Shore closely followed by Slaughterhouse 5. But still Kafka on the Shore. After I had finished it it was in my head for days because that was the first time ever that I could not even remotely say what deeper meaning there was. I wonder if there is an interpretation available. Because if there is, I would really like to have it.
metamorphosis and basically all kafka's stuff. a horse that wants to become a lawyer?!
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
As I was reading through everyone's posts I was wondering if someone would mention A Confederacy of Dunces. It was the first book to come to mind. It was weird in a very disturbing way.
Same with She's Come Undone.
Actually, both books were weird in a BAD way. A Fool on The Hill was an odd book, too.
Others have mentioned Fear and Loathing; that was weird in a GOOD way. So was Alice in Wonderland.
The Master and Margarita (which I am reading now) is a bit weird, too, but it's a good read so far.
Miss America - anyone read it?
I completely agree there. It really confused me, as I first picked up 'Junky' and thought it was quite a nice easy read albeit a tad on the gruesome side. So I picked up 'Naked Lunch', and it just seems so different - and about ten times more morbid than anything else I've ever read.Quote:
Originally Posted by John Goodman
The Trial
Les Enfants Terribles. Mad is Cocteau :) but very good!
Don Quixote by Kathy Acker
Kathy was mad, absolutely mad. A punk in every sense of the word. I have a copy of The Empire of the Nonsense upstairs. I read some of it, weird writing indeed. I have a copy of Blood and Guts in High School as well. If you could find it anywhere, listen to Pussy, King of the Pirates, very,very different stuff:Quote:
Originally Posted by monad
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Pussy-King-P...8159653&sr=8-4
The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
I love A Confederacy of Dunces. It is dark, it is hilarious, it is sad but weired it is not. John Barth's The Last Voyage of Somebody the Sailer is weired with two plots running parallel. A huge book and a weired one on top of that!Quote:
Originally Posted by integrity
http://www.amazon.com/Last-Voyage-So.../dp/0385422202
Nice to see someone that recognizes her name, she's certainly got a unique style and refreshingly twisted perspective.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kafka's Crow
Funny, it seems like this hard-edged lesbian punk writer is mostly digested in the comfortable ivory towers of university postmodernist / lit theory courses (this is where I first encountered her work).
Well, that's where I discovered her back in 2000-2001. I first came across her name in Nicholas Zurbrugg's book The Parameters of Postmodernism. A rubbish book but still I managed to extract two good things out of it: Kathy Acker and John Cage.Quote:
Originally Posted by monad