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

submitted 1 year 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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[–] TheGrumpyre@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Short Stay In Hell. About a book-lover sent to hell's library, miles and miles of shelves that contain every single book that could ever be printed. Literally every assortment of letters and punctuation that you could fit on a printing press exists somewhere in this building. The prisoners are told they can go free if they find the book that contains their own life's story. The moral of the story is that eternity is a really long time!

[–] john_drake@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

A reworked version of The Library of Babel, then.

Would you even be able to remember any details of your life, after a few decillion years?