I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.
What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?
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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle made me so crazy. I hated that I stuck with it to the end.
The Sugar Frosted Nutsack by Mark Leyner
John Dies At The End is very very whacky. It’s a weird sort of Lovecraftian comedic horror story by Jason Pargin (aka David Wong) . Wild, silly, horrific, hilarious.
It’s quite the read.
Marabou Stork Nightmares. Craziest and darkest book I’ve ever read. Beware, has every trigger you can think of.
I got really immersed in House of Leaves during the lockdown(s) and it was not good for my mental health at all. It’s really fascinating if you try and manage to grasp the overall “message” behind it. It gets progressively weirder and weirder and it’s intended to be a riddle that can only be solved via internet forums (which plays into the “message” of the book once you figure it out).
Most of my friends don’t take my recommendation serious because they expect it to be style over substance (postmodernism?) but no, it’s perfect as it is. Also the extreme changes in writing style (stream of consciousness schizophrenia rambling vs. satire of the humanities / science jargon) are super well done and that makes it pretty psychedelic.
I got really immersed in House of Leaves during the lockdown(s) and it was not good for my mental health at all. It’s really fascinating if you try and manage to grasp the overall “message” behind it. It gets progressively weirder and weirder and it’s intended to be a riddle that can only be solved via internet forums (which plays into the “message” of the book once you figure it out).
Most of my friends don’t take my recommendation serious because they expect it to be style over substance (postmodernism?) but no, it’s perfect as it is. Also the extreme changes in writing style (stream of consciousness schizophrenia rambling vs. satire of the humanities / science jargon) are super well done and that makes it pretty psychedelic.
This is going to sound absurd, but East of Eden by John Steinbeck. I went into that thinking I’d get through maybe a chapter before getting bored of it. It introduced me immediately to two brothers, one jealously tries to kill the other with a hatchet. Then the other goes on to marry a woman who is literally demented and murders and manipulates everyone she’s ever met (including burning her parents in a house fire). It was soooo exciting and surprising to read! Definitely not what I was expecting. And later on while she’s pregnant with twins she shoots her husband for trying to help her through labour! It was wild.
The Breast.
Spiral by Koji Suzuki