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

submitted 9 months 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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[–] boywithapplesauce@alien.top 0 points 9 months ago (15 children)

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:

Vurt by Jeff Noon
Quicksand by Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
The World According to Garp by John Irving
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami

[–] dafaliraevz@alien.top 1 points 9 months ago

The Hitch-hiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams is also way up there.

I really enjoyed the first book. I love the absurdity of the book, but I felt it lost steam by the end of the second book, so I didn't continue with the series.

I love absurdity in stories. Things that, when you're high, make you go, "WTF is going on right now? This makes no sense, it's giving me a panic attack because I have no clue what is happening." And the first HGttG book gave that to me.

Dungeon Crawler Carl has kinda scratched that itch for me, in a completely different way, and same with Discworld, but I can't find other series that really handle that Dan Harmon style of absurdity meshed with sci-fi or fantasy.

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