I've just finished reading "The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle" by Haruki Murakami and the surrealism of it is incredible. This and "Kafka On The Shore" by Murakami again, got me wondering what other strange books are out there.
Whats the strangest book you've ever read?
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Funnily enough, when I saw this thread, Kafka on the Shore is the first book that popped into my mind. That said, pretty much any fiction by Murakami would fit this category. Have you read "A Wild Sheep Chase" yet?piers789 said:
I'd also recommend Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. Not exactly the strangest read (though the way it is written is quite different from the norm) but a damn good one and the concept was brilliant, I thought.
Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin and Philip K. Dick's Man in the High Castle were both pretty out there. I would recommend them though.
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So far, "The Dunwich Horror" by HP Lovecraft. Then again, everything by HP lovecraft is like a balls-to-the-wall acid trip envisioned by Edgar allen poe wacked out on absinthe while outside naked at night in the middle of a winter storm with an angry squirrel chittering in his ear.
...ok, maybe not THAT crazy, but still pretty weird.
...ok, maybe not THAT crazy, but still pretty weird.
Second on 'House of Leaves'
'John Dies at the End' is pretty bizarre too, but in a fun way. It's like if Douglas Adams tried his hand at horror.
'John Dies at the End' is pretty bizarre too, but in a fun way. It's like if Douglas Adams tried his hand at horror.
The strangest book I ever read was in German class (it was called Frau Erdbeere, or "Ms. Strawberry"). My classmates and I couldn't read German all too well, and so we had a laugh as we read the text and came up with all this very strange and violent stuff (there's one part where we read that Ms. Strawberry cannibalizes her children, leaving only their heads behind so she can plant them in the ground to grow more children to eat).
Wanting to see what the story was really about, we confronted our German teacher. To our surprise, we read it almost entirely right. This is a children's picture book by the way. There were no graphic images, though (they were all actually very bright and cheerful). Crazy Germans!
Wanting to see what the story was really about, we confronted our German teacher. To our surprise, we read it almost entirely right. This is a children's picture book by the way. There were no graphic images, though (they were all actually very bright and cheerful). Crazy Germans!
Weaveworld by Clive Barker, although I couldn't finish it.
It was about this word woven into a carpet and how people fell into it and all sorts of weird things along those lines... it was a little too boring and hard to read for me to finish it though.
It was about this word woven into a carpet and how people fell into it and all sorts of weird things along those lines... it was a little too boring and hard to read for me to finish it though.
"The Cipher" by Kathe Koja comes to mind.
Hard to pick a wierdest though.
>>>----Therumancer--->
Hard to pick a wierdest though.
>>>----Therumancer--->