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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:
Another example of a really great idea that got watered down in the second half of the book.
Read it last week and I was eager for it to end throughout the second half or well, even the last two thirds of the book. It's rather short as a novel but felt drawn-out nonetheless. Probably something that would have worked much better in the novella format.
Interestingly, this is something I'd say about every Calvino book I've read so far. He tends to milk whichever idea he comes up with until it's drier than dirt.