That is a weird one, but to be honest there are MANY books that can be considered pretty surreal.Asdrubaal said:Metamorphosis by Kafka
Quintet.MaxTheReaper said:Trilogy means three, though...Vern said:Best five book trilogy ever. Most books I've read are pretty understandable. My favorite is Crime and Punishment. The Hitchhikers Guide series is one of my favorites.MaxTheReaper said:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
All of them.
They're like "What."
Hitchhiker's would be a..
Uh...
Filogy?
...No, that's dumb.
Anyway, whatever. It is an awesome series, yes.
Hehe, only reason I know is because I read The Cleric Quintet by R.A. Salvatore. Favorite author. Least favorite of his series.MaxTheReaper said:"Hey, lookit me, I'm Captain SMARTASS"
Just kidding. I appreciate it.
I think it would be a pentology.MaxTheReaper said:Trilogy means three, though...Vern said:Best five book trilogy ever. Most books I've read are pretty understandable. My favorite is Crime and Punishment. The Hitchhikers Guide series is one of my favorites.MaxTheReaper said:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
All of them.
They're like "What."
Hitchhiker's would be a..
Uh...
Filogy?
...No, that's dumb.
Anyway, whatever. It is an awesome series, yes.
Thanks, no I haven't read either but I will check them both out. I agree wholeheartedly about most of Murakami's work fitting in this thread, he has an imagination that I can hardly begin to comprehend.MarsProbe said: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'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.
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.
Very true but at the same time they are amazing. If you like them, have a look at Jasper Fford's "Bookworld" Series - they are some of the funniest books I've read.MaxTheReaper said:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
All of them.
They're like "What."
The wierdest book I've ever read is Ulysses by James Joyce, but only because I've never read Finnegans Wake. May I ask why you read it, and plan to read it for a second time? Did you get anything from it, bar a headache?rob_d said:Finnegans Wake by James Joyce.
I'm still building up courage to read it for a second time somewhere this year.
The book is practically unreadable, plus it begins in the middle of a sentence and ends with the beginning of that sentence. The theory behind it is that besides being unreadable it's also never ending.
Well Douglas Adams himself called them a trilogy in five parts. They're still considered a trilogy, just that they have five books. It fits in very well with the overall absurd humour of the series. I think it was supposed to end with Life the Universe and Everything, thus making it a trilogy, but he kept going with it. And unlike George Lucas, he didn't ruin the next two installments.MaxTheReaper said:Trilogy means three, though...
Hitchhiker's would be a..
Uh...
Filogy?
...No, that's dumb.
Anyway, whatever. It is an awesome series, yes.