Reading Recommendation-Weird, Stange Books - Page 2

ManosHandsOfFate · 09-09-2010, 01:51 PM

Tim Powers' "The Anubis Gates".

v1k1ng1001 · 09-09-2010, 02:54 PM

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Originally Posted by SlowRain

You could try The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster.

^^^ I immediately thought of Auster too.

But also this:

NormHart · 09-09-2010, 04:52 PM

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As children they met and built sand castles on a beach out of space and time: Edgar Perry, Little Annie, and Edgar Allan Poe....

The Black Throne by Roger Zelazny and Fred Saberhagen

http://www.webscription.net/p-34-the-black-throne.aspx for $4.00

or http://www.webscription.net/p-517-w2...scription.aspx with four other sci fi ebooks for $15

Not at all what I would expect from either author, quite amazing.

ardeegee · 09-09-2010, 06:08 PM

Haven't read any of his books (yet) but Carlton Mellick III has produced some interesting titles.

Edit: there is a torrent available of some bizarro fiction that is officially sanctioned by the authors. For those unwilling to torrent, I've uploaded it to Sendspace.

lila55 · 09-10-2010, 03:27 PM

Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont.

BenG · 09-10-2010, 05:18 PM

The Windup Bird Chronicles byHaruki Murakami
Sinai Tapestry by Edward Whittemore
If on a winter's night a traveller... By Italo Calvino
Even Cowgirls Get the Blues by Tom Robbins
The House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Wise Blood by Flannery O'Conner
Titus Groan by Mervyn Peake

Elfwreck · 09-10-2010, 06:02 PM

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Originally Posted by RCR

Codex Seraphinianus.

I was going to wait for the ePub edition, but decided it'll probably take a while for unicode support for the font.

Besides, which ebook reader is going to deal with page numbers in base-37?

TLHaddix · 09-11-2010, 12:42 AM

I found "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" to be an odd read. No dialogue, told from the narrator's perspective, and really, really odd.

BenG · 09-11-2010, 09:12 PM

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Originally Posted by TLHaddix

I found "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" to be an odd read. No dialogue, told from the narrator's perspective, and really, really odd.

It sounds a little like "Like Water For Chocolate", at least as far as people feeling what the cook felt when she was making the dish.

ctol · 09-12-2010, 07:48 AM

Some really great recommendations here. A very heartfelt special thanks to all for your wonderful suggestions. Some of them by Lovecraft, Vonnegut I have arlready read. I am looking forward to finding and reading all these books.

________________________

Presently read Masques by Patricia Briggs, The Dresden Files(book 8-Proven Guilty), a Lovecraft collection, and Plato's dialogues.

JeremyR · 09-16-2010, 03:08 AM

The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers (should probably be here).

Especially the first story in it, The Repairer of Reparations. One of the oddest stories ever written, IMHO. The second half of the book is romance but the first half is all pretty good, but none so odd as the first.

James Blaylock writes some strange stuff (fantasy mostly). Very quirky.

Most stuff by Rudy Rucker.

el_brio · 09-28-2010, 10:17 AM

Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe
Neuromancer - William Gibson

I agree with the Zelanzy and Vonnegut also.

rakulos · 09-28-2010, 11:09 AM

'Mr Landen Has No Brain'

Morcecambe. Rainy season. Next Sunday. Winona Smith manages her uncle's caravan park. He's ordered her to keep the park dull; the town council - feeling that the resort's image is being damaged by the strangeness of the occupants of its caravan parks - has promised a million pounds to the most normal park in Morecambe. If that million pounds isn't won, the park will close. 18 year-old Teena Rama is 148.7% too beautiful - and gaining a percentage point every two days. Soon no one will be able to meet her without falling in love. Mr Landen has no brain. But he does have a tub of margerine between his ears.

Great book so of course it's not available as an ebook ^^

GlennD · 09-28-2010, 11:31 AM

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Originally Posted by ManosHandsOfFate

Tim Power's "The Anubis Gates".

I second Tim Powers, really anything by him can get pretty bizzare.

ardeegee · 09-28-2010, 01:13 PM

I've recently been reading this collection. Some fairly weird stories-- one in a setting where the world actually is as the ancients envisioned it, with a flat Earth, celestial spears, and a Vault of Heaven, describing the end stages of the construction of the Tower of Babel. One in a world with golems and where animal reproduction really does originate from homunculi in sperm. One with some really alien aliens. Others.

09-09-2010, 01:51 PM	#16
ManosHandsOfFate Addict Posts: 298 Karma: 1537324 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Chicago Device: Nook, K3, Fire, Nexus 7	Tim Powers' "The Anubis Gates". Last edited by ManosHandsOfFate; 09-28-2010 at 12:13 PM.

09-09-2010, 06:08 PM	#19
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	Haven't read any of his books (yet) but Carlton Mellick III has produced some interesting titles. Edit: there is a torrent available of some bizarro fiction that is officially sanctioned by the authors. For those unwilling to torrent, I've uploaded it to Sendspace. Last edited by ardeegee; 09-09-2010 at 06:15 PM.

09-16-2010, 03:08 AM	#26
JeremyR Guru Posts: 973 Karma: 2458402 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: St. Louis Device: Kindle Keyboard, Nook HD+	The King in Yellow by Robert Chambers (should probably be here). Especially the first story in it, The Repairer of Reparations. One of the oddest stories ever written, IMHO. The second half of the book is romance but the first half is all pretty good, but none so odd as the first. James Blaylock writes some strange stuff (fantasy mostly). Very quirky. Most stuff by Rudy Rucker. Last edited by JeremyR; 09-16-2010 at 03:13 AM.

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TLHaddix Author, wife, reader. Posts: 21 Karma: 515232 Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Near Akron, Ohio Device: Kindle	I found "The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake" to be an odd read. No dialogue, told from the narrator's perspective, and really, really odd.

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ctol Groupie Posts: 152 Karma: 303523 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Arizona Device: Nook, Fire Tablet, Windows RT Tablet Windows Phone	Some really great recommendations here. A very heartfelt special thanks to all for your wonderful suggestions. Some of them by Lovecraft, Vonnegut I have arlready read. I am looking forward to finding and reading all these books. ________________________ Presently read Masques by Patricia Briggs, The Dresden Files(book 8-Proven Guilty), a Lovecraft collection, and Plato's dialogues.

09-28-2010, 10:17 AM	#27
el_brio Enthusiast Posts: 40 Karma: 30 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: Commodore 64	Shadow of the Torturer - Gene Wolfe Neuromancer - William Gibson I agree with the Zelanzy and Vonnegut also.

09-28-2010, 11:09 AM	#28
rakulos Connoisseur Posts: 57 Karma: 36 Join Date: Aug 2009 Device: ipad, K3, acer aspire switch 10	'Mr Landen Has No Brain' Morcecambe. Rainy season. Next Sunday. Winona Smith manages her uncle's caravan park. He's ordered her to keep the park dull; the town council - feeling that the resort's image is being damaged by the strangeness of the occupants of its caravan parks - has promised a million pounds to the most normal park in Morecambe. If that million pounds isn't won, the park will close. 18 year-old Teena Rama is 148.7% too beautiful - and gaining a percentage point every two days. Soon no one will be able to meet her without falling in love. Mr Landen has no brain. But he does have a tub of margerine between his ears. Great book so of course it's not available as an ebook ^^

09-28-2010, 01:13 PM	#30
ardeegee Maratus speciosus butt Posts: 3,292 Karma: 1162698 Join Date: Sep 2009 Device: PRS-350	I've recently been reading this collection. Some fairly weird stories-- one in a setting where the world actually is as the ancients envisioned it, with a flat Earth, celestial spears, and a Vault of Heaven, describing the end stages of the construction of the Tower of Babel. One in a world with golems and where animal reproduction really does originate from homunculi in sperm. One with some really alien aliens. Others.

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