I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.
What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?
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Despite being one of my favorites, 100 Years of Solitude is pretty crazy
The Breast.
The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin. Starts off weird, gets quickly weirder, finishes in bizarro-land, all in simple yet beautiful and elegant prose.
Dead Astronauts by Jeff Vandermeer
Bunny by Mona Awad. Read it recently and had a hard time explaining the book to others but couldn’t stop talking about it either, as it is such a weird but fun mix of genres and narration.
Roadside Picnic was prolly the one book where I never actually knew wtf was happening. The wind up bird chronicle too, but I heard that book was written purposely in circles with no real ending.
Snail by Richard Miller.
I don’t remember very much of it anymore, but I believe that it’s about some German marshal during WWII who experiences a series of metamorphical changes throughout time. He turned into a woman at one point and there’s several sex scenes, one which somehow involved Athena and a donkey. Anyway, I didn’t understand much of it when I discovered it as a kid but it always stuck out to me how wild and surrealistic it was. Maybe I’ll have another go at it later.
The death of Bunny Monroe by Nick cave was amazingly crazy when I read it as a teenager. Wonder if I would enjoy it now
So there’s a whole series of books that’s basically set in Magic Florida. Just Google “Xanth map” and look at the images. I just went and tried to read the plot of the first one and boy I’m out of breath.
Magic Florida Man, what more do you need?
Mwahahaha the damn Xanth novels!
The last house on needless street. Realllllly weird and unexpected !! A bit hard to get into because I was like wtf is happening here but I actually ended up enjoying it a lot.
I don’t read very weird books obviously lol
Matthew Stokoe - Cows
My Year of Rest and Relaxation - Otessa Mosfeigh
I think Ham on Rye by Charles Bukowski. That and his book Post Office. Just the first things to come to mind, even though I can’t remember them and need to read them again.
Acting Class by Nick Drnaso.
His books are all… uncomfortable, but this one even more so. It’s like the uncanny valley in a story. If you like graphic novels and weird stuff, he might be your guy.
Valis by Philip K Dick
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Flow my Tears, The Policeman Said by Philip K Dick
Dr.Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick