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Old 09-07-2010, 03:28 AM   #1
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Reading Recommendation-Weird, Stange Books
Do not know if this has been asked about before, but every now and then I like to read weird, strange, and different books. So what I am looking for are the weirdest, strangest, oddest books you have ever read. They can be any genre. I do not care if they are dead tree or ebook either.

For example the two at the top of my list are Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and The Enstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney.
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You could try The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.
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You could try books by China Miéville. Or Kelly Link. Or this one by Cory Doctorow. Or The Ant King.:
http://smallbeerpress.com/creative-commons/
Or some of the authors mentioned in this article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizarro_fiction
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Do not know if this has been asked about before, but every now and then I like to read weird, strange, and different books. So what I am looking for are the weirdest, strangest, oddest books you have ever read. They can be any genre. I do not care if they are dead tree or ebook either.

For example the two at the top of my list are Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon and The Enstein Intersection by Samuel R. Delaney.
I haven't read The Einstein Intersection, and was initially prompted to say Dhalgren. Have you read it?

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Anything by Scarlett Thomas - esp. PopCo and The End of Mr. Y (say it out loud to get the pun) - she's a brilliant, quirky, mathematically based writer that can blend pop culture with Derrida and cryptography. Need I say more?
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The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Just read Perdido Street Station by Mieville, and it was very weird, but very enjoyable. And I'll throw out the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde too--not as weird as some others mentioned, but certainly highly imaginitive. Start with The Eyre Affair.
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I haven't read The Einstein Intersection, and was initially prompted to say Dhalgren. Have you read it?

Cheers,
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No have not read Dhalgren yet thanks for the headsup on it.
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The Illuminatus Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson, Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Just read Perdido Street Station by Mieville, and it was very weird, but very enjoyable. And I'll throw out the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fforde too--not as weird as some others mentioned, but certainly highly imaginitive. Start with The Eyre Affair.
Thank you very much for the tips on the books
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HP Lovecraft's stuff is pretty wierd and unsettling. Depends how you feel about ancient slithering things from the deepest dark places in the ocean I guess.

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China Mieville is about the weirdest that I really enjoyed reading, so +1 for him.

Slightly lower on my enjoyment scale would be Deus Irae by Dick & Zelazny, two true titans of SF. Somehow their collaboration was just too... weird.

Also Robert Anton Wilson's 'Schrodinger's Cat' trilogy. I think my brain just isn't big enough for him.

Things I suffered through for school, like Joyce, are mostly repressed memories now.
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China Mieville

The New Life from Orhan Pamuk is pretty weird too but I can't speak for the english translation.

You can always read Ada or Ardor.
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Breakfast fort Champions by Kurt Vonnegut is what comes to mind. Vonnegut is quite extra ordinary author but that one is one piece of weird book.
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