Books

I haven't thought about the book in years. Read it in high school. It feels like a fever dream. I remember it being one of the earliest references to WiFi I remember I think.

Definitely Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolf

Tender is the flesh. What was that??? My brain screams every time I remember...

The Lime-Works, by Thomas Bernhard. I found it to be a disturbing and accurate (Imo) look at someone dealing with obsession and isolation. A man devotes himself entirely to writing a book on the "sense of hearing". He bankrupts himself buying an old lime-works (the only suitable location for writing his book), drags his ill wife there, who he then puts through a series of auditory tests he's devised, all for his book. His book never comes to fruition because the correct or propitious conditions never arise, because he's constantly distracted, because he can't properly organize his thoughts, because his neighbors are too distracting, because his wife is constantly second-guessing him and impeding his "work", etc. The more he withdraws for silence and focus in order to complete what he believes to be his "life's work", the more attuned he becomes with the voice in his head that is obsessively preventing him from doing so. He snaps and kills his wife after she remarks on his sanity, exposing him as a madman who ruined both of their lives over his preoccupation and obsession with a book that was never going to be written.

John Irving Son Of the Circus. Absolutely ludicrous.

I don’t generally read books that are all around super weird, but Geek Love by Katherine Dunn was definitely bizarre.

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.

Brave new world. I mean what in the actual fuck. Scarier that some of its coming true.

I'm positive that there are crazier books out there, but for me it's Forget My Name by J.S. Monroe.

The Stand by Stephen King

Finnegans Wake

Yikes, I just read the synopsis of the book you mentioned. That does look utterly bizarre. How can the father be a mountain and the mother a washing machine, and one of the siblings a set of nesting dolls? I think that one might be a little too out there for me.

The Obscene Bird of Nigth by José Donoso. It has monsters, mutations, weird and rancid athmospheres, I aboslutely loved it.

The Kitchen House by Kathleen Grissom

A young Irish orphan is taken in as an indentured servant and raised by enslaved people on a plantation. Doesn’t sound too awful, hope this author is able to write a decent story and not perpetuate any negative stereotypes or be too tone deaf- nope! I’m no historian, and I’m white, but I’m pretty sure this book is the whitest retelling of American slavery I’ve ever read. The amount of stereotypes and needless violence against black women in this story is ridiculous. Incest, rape, Stockholm syndrome, uncomfortable racist stereotypes, the list goes on. I’m aware these things all happened and need to be discussed, I just believe this novel did so very poorly and without respect. It’s not horribly written, but the optics of this book are very tone deaf. It’s been a while since I read it, so if anyone has anything positive to say lmk

ella minnow pea by mark dunn is pretty ridiculous and goofy

American Psycho - Brett Easton Ellis.

One was a "teen drama/horror" book I think called "Unwind" set in a dystopian future where abortion was outlawed but they let people give up their kids as living organ donors if they still didnt want them by the time they were a teenager.

Another one I don't remember the name of but it was a historical fiction romance about a vampire during the civil war. I genuinely want to find this one again to go back and read it.

I think around the age of 10 or so, I once read a book about a teenager that was quite heavily involved in the equestrian lifestyle.

One day she wakes up away from home, in a mansion and a stranger tells her he is her dad, and even though she had a rough patch, mentally, everything is going to be all right.

Not only are there photo's of her with this man throughout a childhood she doesn't remember, her closet is filled with clothes exactly in her size, and her 'father' happens to be a breeder of racing horses. The only downsides to this luxury life is that 1) her schooling is a lot dumbed down, and 2) the friends that were presented to her by her father all treat her like she's completely off the map, mentally.

She starts to doubt her own mental soundness, but hey, horses. So she focusses on riding contests.

It all comes to a halt where a reporter for equestrian contests recognises her. He calls the cops, and she is brought back home to where her parents tearfully get their daughter back.

I don't remember the end scene very well and I don't know whether the explanation happens in the courthouse, or in a letter, but apparently the rich fake!father's actual daughter who could have been her long lost twin in looks had died, and fake!father's saw her picture somewhere in an equestrian magazine where she won something, and decided to kidnap her, and act as if his daughter never died at all.

The wildest about this whole book is that the kidnapped girl let herself be gaslit so easily because she fell into what was basically her dream.

I read this over 2 decades ago, and even then I wasn't sure whether this was a book my sister once owned and whether she might have read it 3 decades ago, so I have no idea when it might have been written. Nor do I remember the name or title, but goodness, that will always be the wildest read.

Outrageous Fortune by Tim Scott. Stolen houses, people living in music themed neighborhoods and more.

I read the book "YOU", which the tv show is based off. Never again. That shit was creepy as hell and has permanently traumatized me

2666 by Roberto Bolaño. Disturbing in a not necessarily fun way. 500 pages (of the 1200 total) consist of descriptions of female corpses found by the police in a town in northern Mexico. Interesting book, but would definitely not read it again.

House of Leaves

If you like strange books check out Carlton mellick iii. Quicksand house, apeshit, and the haunted vagina are fantastic.

Bear by Marian Engel

John Dies at the End is the first to come to mind, but I don't remember it too well at this point. Due for a reread!

Not exactly crazy, but Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by Chuck Barris.

It's either an astonishing confession or a straight up fabrication, but I love it either way.

I don't remember what happens at all, but The Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall is the most fucked up feeling I ever remember with reading. Fight Club and Dark Matter were a couple levels below The Raw Shark Texts for craziness.

Ilium by Dan Simmons is pretty out there.