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

Did you like it?

I read it and well... I hated it. The big reveal, that you mention in your comment, was so forced and felt meaningless.

!Why oh why introduce a magical solution to a story that doesn't point towards magic besides a few descriptions of the lake (that MIGHT be hinting) and an old man talking about some ancient people living at the lake or something along those lines.!<

I mostly hated it because I got the author recommended as "the best at mindfucks and plot twists" and the plot twist was just so booooring.

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

Hated the actual book, but was laughably blown away by the audacity. There wasn’t a hint of the twist and it was so out of left field that it made no sense and had no reason to twist like it did. A true twist is “oh it was the neighbor who helped the whole time!” This was essentially a second book that played by different rules. Terrible.