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What is the absolute craziest book you've read? (alien.top)

submitted 9 months ago by kawaiitophat@alien.top to c/books@metacritics.zone

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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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[–] maaikelcera@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

The Raw Shark Texts by Stephen Hall.

I’ve never seen anyone talk about this book. Read it in the Dutch translation as a teen and it stuck with me for years. Never read the English, so can’t vouch for the original but wacky is a good word

It dives into linguistic theory, extremely meta concepts about words and reading and language and it absolutely blew my mind back then. Maybe I should revisit to see what it’s like now