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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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[–] eternal42@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When I was 20, I got arrested for driving while prohibited and had to spend 7 days in jail. While there, the guard gave me a book to help pass the time and it was the weirdest, fever dream of a book I’ve ever read.

It was an alternate history where space lizards invaded earth during ww2. They failed their invasion but it let the nazis stay in power. Oh and also ginger makes the lizards go into heat and fuck in the streets.

[–] bleeb90@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Sounds like you weren't bored.

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

That was the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove. The least mediocre of his MANY mediocre books.