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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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[–] bsteckler@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Gravity's Rainbow. It's got everything from war to BDSM to explicit coprophilia.

[–] SierraDL123@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (5 children)

My coworker is reading this book and ever since he’s brought it in, I’ve seen it mentioned at least 15 times in this sub! Its crazy how things like that time out

[–] Basic-Effort-552@alien.top 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This is called the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon or the ‘frequency illusion’ where something you recently learned seems to appear everywhere

[–] SierraDL123@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Update: upon telling him about this phenomenon & how often the book pops up on this subreddit, it’s not our answer for everything. What are you having for dinner tonight? Gravity’s Rainbow. What book do you hate? Gravity’s Rainbow. Best book in the world? You guessed, Rainbow. Thing you want to be when you grow up? You get it

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