Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson, premier gonzo journalist. Truely bizzare, but in the best possible sense of the word. And if anyone mentions that movie with Johnnie Depp, well I just hope it doesn't happen as that film was a crime against fiction [actually, y'now I have a horrible suspicion it was true] and nature.
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy".
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Location: Turks and Caicos Islands,2003
That reminds me Kathy, i thought her book the Ice Queen was really weird.Originally Posted by kathycf
"Come away O human child!To the waters of the wild, With a faery hand in hand, For the worlds more full of weeping than you can understand."
W.B.Yeats
"If it looks like a Dwarf and smells like a Dwarf, then it's probably a Dwarf (or a latrine wearing dungarees)"
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Slapstick by Kurt Vonnegut was a little weird, I read it a few years ago. Strangest characters I ever saw. :P
'...A cast of your skull, sir, until the original is available, would be an ornament to any anthropological museum. It is not my intention to be fulsome, but I confess that I covet your skull.' --Dr. Mortimer, The Hound of the Baskervilles
I agree with you. I had to read it for Canadian literature and I almost physically forced myself to do it.There's also this book by Raymond Queneau "Exercises in Style". He tells the same short story in 99 different ways...
In dreams begin responsibilities.
@ Haven....
no point in mentioning the bats........
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
My aunt recommeneded that book! She said it was quite good.
I'd have to say the weirdest book I can think of right now was The Black Book by Orhan Pamuk. I read it recently for a book club, and no one really enjoyed it. Oh! And Steinbeck's The Red Pony. What a waste of time.
I'm weary with right-angles, abbreviated daylight,
Waiting for a winter to be done.
Why do I still see you in every mirrored window,
In all that I could never overcome?
There was a film based on this book. I quite liked it, really. Sort of magical realism, like GG Marquez.
In dreams begin responsibilities.
I never said it wasn't a good book. I said it was weird. It was surely the strangest book I ever read.
FRANCISCO
For this relief much thanks: 'tis bitter cold,
And I am sick at heart.
Hamlet Act I Scene I
Bluesky, where on earth did you get that from? Thank you. It is such a brillliant thing you have done. I haven't read this for years [never watched that movie! Gag!]. It's like Christmas coming early. I love Hunter, the premier gonzo journalist and miss him terribly after he shot himself in the face. What was going on that night?@ Haven....
no point in mentioning the bats........
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
Haven [aka Raoul Duke: Lawyer and confidante to the Gonzo journalist]: You can turn your back on a person, but, never turn your back on a drug. Especially when it's waving a razor-sharp hunting knife in your eye.
Dr. Gonzo: I have to go.
Raoul Duke: Go?
Dr. Gonzo: Yes. Leave the country. Tonight.
Raoul Duke: Calm down. You'll be straight in a few hours.
Dr. Gonzo: No. This is serious. One more hour in this town and I'll kill somebody!
I'll PM you on GB.
Okay just searched everywhere for a big smoochie kiss smilie - another gap in the market...
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"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy".
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Location: Turks and Caicos Islands,2003
Well, Hoffman often writes in this everyday magic/realism sort of a way. While most of her stuff is weird, I tend to like it. I really should have clarified earlier that I found Here on Earth to be both weird and distasteful. Sometimes weird is good. Niamh, I know you hate Wuthering Heights, but that isn't the reason why I disliked Here on Earth....I just thought it was creepy.
@ Haven....
no point in mentioning the bats........
"We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a saltshaker half-full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, laughers, screamers... Also, a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether, and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get into locked a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge, and I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon.
Haven, would this one do?
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"Frivolity is a stern taskmaster."
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Wow...didn't expect that.....LOL
Thanks Kathy and Haven....
Kathy, I think that we have our answer, seems like the perfect 'smoochie kiss'. Night night to you and BlueSky.
Haven, would this one do?
"Man, of all the animals, is probably the only one to regard himself as a great delicacy".
Jacques Yves Cousteau
Location: Turks and Caicos Islands,2003
It's not weird, it's just beautiful. One of the loveliest books I've ever read.
Mostly, I think, I like to read weird stuff.
Anything by:
- Haruki Murakami
- Angela Carter
Is generally on the strange side.
Started reading A Clockwork Orange once and couldn't understand a word of it, so I guess that's the strangest book I didn't quite read.
Probably not that weird, but A Wrinkle in Time
Hehe, I was lucky with this one, I had a glossary at the end of the book. Though it was tiring to look at the back of the book every 5 words.
In dreams begin responsibilities.
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