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What is the absolute craziest book you've read? (alien.top)
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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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[–] Passname357@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Things in Gravity’s Rainbow

  • A central character is an immortal light bulb
  • A pie fight between a hot air balloon and an airplane
  • The main character keeps a map of London with stars over the places he’s recently had sex. This map just so happens to perfectly match a map of where V2 rockets have dropped. The strange thing is that he has sex before the rockets fall. No one, including him, can figure out why this is happening
  • A mysterious rocket with serial number 00000, and the search for it (which is the central plot of the novel)
  • A history of the extinction of the Dodo bird by colonizers
  • The main character is shot out of a cannon while wearing a pig costume
  • Later, people are looking for the main character and plan on castrating him. Another character has stolen and is wearing the pig costume.