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

submitted 11 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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[–] boywithapplesauce@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (15 children)

The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut, still one of my all-time favorite reads. A beautiful, crazy dream/nightmare story about the absurdity of human existence.

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is also way up there. I might place his other work, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, slightly ahead of it.

A few more "crazy" books to check out:

Vurt by Jeff Noon
Quicksand by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

[–] Icaruswes@alien.top 0 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Nice to see Hard Boiled Wonderland represented. Usually Murakami recommendations are Wind Up Bird Chronicle or Kafka on the Shore. Which are both awesome, but have a conspicuous lack of unicorns.

[–] nerdonym@alien.top 1 points 11 months ago

Totally came here to say Kafka On The Shore but I’m giving you a big ol’ head nod for this.

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