Weird books

[Veva]

I think you should try the youtube. There is one video, something called Chuck Palahniuk's advice on stealing in bookshops.... it is just what he recommends of the contemporary authors. I read some of that stuff and it was quite as twisted as Chuck....

[Kidijs]

^, Looks like it was this video. Thanks!
I've never really read anything that's newer than 2 years, except for The People's Act Of Love by James Meek (hehe, another weird book!). Maybe Chucks video will cure that.

[Helga]

It may not be as weird as you are thinking but I'm still gonna mention Side effects, short story collection by Woody Allen... one is about a box you can go into with your favourite book and wake up in it, the main character changes ALOT in Madame Bovary... a strange idea I think....

[Lads of E3]

I read Mishima's Confessions of a Mask back when I was a sophomore in high school. At the time, I was closeted and privately engaged in regular bondage-oriented masturbatory activity. Moving right along, I thought that his writing was perhaps the most natural thing for a person.

My junior year of college, I read the book again for the class, and everyone in the class thought that it was bizarre and disturbing. There's a lesson in subjectivity for you.

As for disturbing books...I haven't really found a book that disturbed me. The only play that has ever pushed me into a rage was Larry Kramer's "The Normal Heart," which made me want to be an activist, but that was short-lived.

Dennis Cooper writes a number of books that deal with "disturbing" activity (rape, snuff, pedophilia), but even as I was reading them, I didn't really think they were disturbing. Maybe it's just that I'm desensitized by my own psyche (that makes me sound like a badass), but more than likely I'm just a freak. I'm more disturbed by movies than anything else.

Are you really that much of a freak?

[Jazz_]

I found "Snail" (Richard Miller) pretty weird when I first read it...

[parisp]

I found The Life of Pi to have a unique concept - i wont spoil it, but i had no idea when i got to the end which direction it was heading in.