Strangest book you ever read

[rocklobster]

What's the strangest book you ever read? For me, it'd have to be Bunnicula, by James Howe. As well as its sequel The Celery Stalks at Midnight. Both of these are about a vampire rabbit.

[sharien chan]

Atlantis Found by Clive Cussler...awful awful book....

[EricTheFred]

It's a tie between Valis by Philip Dick and Dahlgren by Sam Delaney

And these are two of my all-time favorite writers! Just... shall we say, inexplicable offerings from them.

[Shao Feng-Li]

Out of everything, perhaps Freak The Mighty by Rodman Philbrick.

[Puguni]

Alice in Wonderland and its sequel.

[KagayakiWashi]

A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens.....I mean, really......I missed the fact that what's-his-name was dreaming when they were "bringing back to life" a man who was "buried for 18 years", and I thought it was all literal. But besides that, there's that crazy guy who sings or praises or does whatever with his "little Saint Guillotine".

[Technomancer]

Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami. Wild Sheep Chase was up there to.

[sharien chan]

Haruki Murakami is always a little weird...

[Htom Sirveaux]

[color="Blue"]House[/color] of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. The only book I've ever read that has a learning curve. But it's the fact that it's so multilayered that makes it so good. It's hard to believe one sane person wrote all that.

[sharien chan]

[color="Blue"]House[/color] of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. The only book I've ever read that has a learning curve. But it's the fact that it's so multilayered that makes it so good. It's hard to believe one sane person wrote all that.

That book was crazy!
Did you ever hear his sisters cd? It goes along with the book (I had the cd before I knew the book existed...once I read the book then the cd made sense XD)

[Kkun]

Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs. Easily. Burroughs did a lot of drugs and the book is a bunch of short stories (or "routines" as he called them) that skewer American culture in often horrifying and disturbing satire.

I want to read [color="blue"]House[/color] of Leaves. Is it worth picking up, Spoony and Sharien?

[ClosetOtaku]

Hardboiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki Murakami.

Were you aware that that is Yoshitoshi ABe's favorite book, and served as the inspiration/basis for the anime Haibane Renmei?

For me, the distinction of strangest book belongs to Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness.

[Warrior 4 Jesus]

I've read some pretty weird books but the strangest that I can currently remember is the unfinished Books of Abarat series by Cliver Barker. Those books are pretty odd, even by fantasy standards.

[Aileen Kailum]

I'm sure I've read stranger books, but the one that instantly comes to mind is The War between the Pitiful Teachers and the Splendid Kids by Stanley Kiesel. I loved it, but talk about weird. The villain was a red ant.

[Htom Sirveaux]

@sharien chan: *blinks* No, I didn't even know it existed. I gotta look that up.

@Kkun: The documentary half of the first few chapters are kind of slow, but the Johnny Truant notes make up for that. Also, there are footnotes in one particular later chapter that can be skipped entirely (it'd take you forever to read them and the point isn't in the text itself). But if you want to read something unlike anything else you've seen before in a book, yes. Get [color="Blue"]House[/color] of Leaves.

[Etoh*the*Greato]

The Color Purple. I'm sure it was a beautiful book full of great meaning. What did I get out of it? Rape and drawstring pants.

[bigsleepj]

Loeloeraai by SOuth African author CJ Langenhoven.

Words fail me.... but I liked it.

[Technomancer]

Were you aware that that is Yoshitoshi ABe's favorite book, and served as the inspiration/basis for the anime Haibane Renmei?

For me, the distinction of strangest book belongs to Zelazny's Creatures of Light and Darkness.

I must admit I was unaware of the connection. Interesting.