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

Not your point, Not crazy, just outrageous. Everyone knows about the James Patterson scam where some unknown author writes a crappy book, Patterson adds his name to it for a chunk of the profits and they get a certain amount of sales from unsuspecting rubes. I read one of those, and it literally ended after about 280 pages in mid story. Like they have a formula this is how many pages this book is gonna be and who cares if it’s even a complete story. It wasn’t part one of anything.

It annoys me that that guy is filthy rich when he is not just a hack, but has no morals whatsoever. So because my mom liked his first Alex Cross novel, she and many like her got suckered into paying for this crap. I imagine no one in this sub would be caught dead reading him.