Time's Arrow by Martin Amis.
The story is told backwards, in the first person and ends with the narrator's birth. Strange.
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.
Noću, u intimnom, poluglasnom razgovoru sa samim sobom, nikako ne mogu zapravo logički opravdati zašto se u posljednje vrijeme toliko uzrujavam zbog ljudske gluposti.
Miroslav Krleža
Jeu de Robin et Marion by Adam the Hunchback.
Sounds like another one to avoid, then.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.
No damn cat, no damn cradle - Newt Honniker
'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.
All the world's a stage,
And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm not sure anyone will ever get it!
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Homeport by Nora Roberts
Love is a leap of faith...
Probably Les Chants de Maldoror by Count de Lautréamont...
'The past only brings... painful memories... the future, the pains to come' Once Upon the Graveyard by Dark Awake
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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.
"The farther he goes the more good it does me. I don’t want philosophies, tracts, dogmas, creeds, ways out, truths, answers, nothing from the bargain basement. He is the most courageous, remorseless writer going and the more he grinds my nose in the sh1t the more I am grateful to him..."
-- Harold Pinter on Samuel Beckett
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?
"Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day"
Oscar Wilde [The Picture of Dorian Gray]
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