It's a close fight between Ulysses and Metamorphosis. Though Kafka is at least readable without the urge to throw yourself from the rooftops...
It's a close fight between Ulysses and Metamorphosis. Though Kafka is at least readable without the urge to throw yourself from the rooftops...
"Haunt me, take any form. Only, do not leave me in this abyss where I cannot find you."
I found Alice in Wonderland...truly bizaare. Maybe as a child,I couldn't care less so long as rabbits and caterpillars and cards entertain me. But I'm now a grown-up trying to stick to reason and logic. After the book, all can ask is....what?
Man...this is one book that needs some interpreting.
I would have to say the weirdest book i've ever read was Brave New World by Huxley. Expecially the opening with the little kids and stuff. I read it a few years ago and it's at the top of my weird list.
Esse Quam Videri: To be rather than to appear
I've recently read The Freakshow, by Brian Smith, and I'm sure it's the wierdest book I've ever read, or ever expect to read. A book would have to be wierd on steroids to beat this one!
"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences."
Steve Allen
After further reflection I realized that Of Grammatology by Derrida was, by far, the weirdest book that I have read. I strongly suspect that it was a joke by him.
House of Leaves. Don't remember who wrote it, but it was weird, fun, but weird.
I wrote a poem on a leaf and it blew away...
Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder. I know it's supposed to be about philosophy and all, but the ending is just, well, weird. I won't say anything more than that in case anyone is reading the book right now.
~The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar WildeTo get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.
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When I was younger, I read the book Lizard Music by Daniel Manus Pinkwater. I know it was fantasy, but still... Synopsis: a young boy stays up late watching tv. When it goes off the air (it's the 70s), strange lizards appear and play hypnotizing music. He goes on what appears to be a drug-induced adventure with a man who has a chicken for a pet.[QUOTE]
...I've been wondering what the name of that book was for the past decade or so. It's even stranger how these things just pop up.
In my own consciousness, I was not a child. When I was alone, not subject to the demands of the world, I had the opportunity to be the aware sentient being I knew myself to be.
~World's Fair, E.L. Doctorow
I just read it and I, too, found it quite weirdOriginally Posted by jedi
Entertaining, though
Little Lotte thought of everything and nothing. Her hair was golden as the sun's rays and her soul as clear and blue as her eyes.
Gaston Leroux - The Phantom of the Opera
I've just remembered another very wierd book I read about 15 years ago - Giles Goat-boy. Very well done, but wierd!
"Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences."
Steve Allen
The Naked Lunch by William S Burroughs
So weird until the final chapter/postface that kind of ties the whole thing together.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
This little aside is purely to expedite 'weirdness'...
Man...this is one book that needs some interpretingOriginally Posted by jedi
I found Alice in Wonderland...truly bizaare. Maybe as a child,I couldn't care less so long as rabbits and caterpillars and cards entertain me. But I'm now a grown-up trying to stick to reason and logic. After the book, all can ask is....what?
Hi if you guys are interested the post 'Complete the Thought' on 'Games' is doing an Alice thing at the moment. Great fun!! Heads up, she's in Hades at the moment and Cerebus the 3-headed dog had just eaten a bit of one of her cakes and has shrunk to the size of a West Highland Terrier and she's about to do a deal with Charon... over a Bic lighter... Well,I just read it and I, too, found it quite weird
might have moved on since I last looked.
Wasn't this the book that he wrote and just flung the finished pages over his head and then gathered them all together at the end in a kind of mish-mash. Believe so. Might also have been around the time that he and his wife, Jane played 'William Tell'...and he accidently shot her through the head with an arrow... Sadly, she did not survive.
"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
I think he shot her in the face with a hand gun, actually. He was released after 13 days of jail.
The Naked Lunch was written by Burroughs in Tangier and edited by Kerouac and Ginsberg later on.
"And the worms, they will climb
The rugged ladder of your spine"
callmeburroughs.tripod.com/joan.htmHeir's Pistol Kills His Wife; He Denies Playing Wm. Tell
Mexico City, Sept. 7 (AP)--William Seward Burroughs, 37, first admitted then denied today that he was playing William Tell when his gun killed his pretty, young wife during a drinking party last night. William S. Burroughs, c.1951
Maybe he did, maybe he didn't play Wm. Tell [extrapolating, arrow, Wm. Tell]... seems not substantiated, might have been a tabloid fabrication. Very sad. 13 days of jail... doesn't seem enough.
Re the flinging the pages over his shoulder as he wrote, trying to remember, if that was actually in the Naked Lunch? I think that it was, actually got a really good memory of it, even talked about it with others who had read the novel. He was doing meth amphetamine with of course heroin. Kerouac is my hero, haven't read that much Ginsberg, but sure they would have been supremo editors for even this challenge. Excellent genre piece. Really glad you mentioned it.
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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
Glad I could help!
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