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In the mood to read something weird.

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  • #32
    hidinginthebush
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,675 ✭✭✭hidinginthebush


    If you want to keep it online, read this:
    http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html


  • #33
    The Dark Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭The Dark Side


    GerB40 wrote: »
    The Dark Tower series by Stephen King. Not only is it a great series of books with a fascinating story and relatable characters but it is by far the weirdest piece of fiction I've personally read.

    It's a pretty straight-forward fantasy series.


  • #34
    The Dark Side
    Closed Accounts Posts: 290 ✭✭The Dark Side


    Maybe try the Bas Lag series by China Mieville.


  • #35
    Hoop66
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 3,273 ✭✭✭Hoop66


    You could read "Geek Love" by Katherine Dunne.

    The tale of a family of carny folk, building their own freak show by experimenting on the mother when she's pregnant


  • #36
    MajorMax
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 865 ✭✭✭MajorMax


    The necromancer series by Brian Lumley

    The charlie parker series by John Connolly

    Anything by China Melvielle


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  • #37
    TheBeardedLady
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    Anything written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant books but maybe not weird in the way you'd like.


  • #38
    John Mason
    Hosted Moderators Posts: 10,661 ✭✭✭✭John Mason


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    If you want to keep it online, read this:
    http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

    What the F .......................i am reading this now in work.................tbh i am slightly freaked out. had to take abreak and get a coffee

    EDIT .....boo at the ending


  • #39
    CiDeRmAn
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 34,811 CMod ✭✭✭✭CiDeRmAn


    Couple of very odd but brilliant books I've read over the last fee years.
    Möbius Dick by Andrew Crumey, a non linear book.about different timelines, universes, mental health and a time machine.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobius_Dick

    Gun with Occasional Music by Jonathan Lethem
    A film noir ride into a quite mad future, with hard boiled detectives and a culture that demands all must be elevated to sentience that can be, including babies and animals, seriously messed up stuff.
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun,_with_Occasional_Music

    Black Easter by James Blish.
    No description surely needed.
    Everyone should own a copy of this, to hell with The Hobbit! (pun intended)
    http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Easter


  • #40
    the_monkey
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    LadyAthame wrote: »

    I like the reviewer saying - "Is it Art, Fantasy, Science Fiction? "

    I'll stop him there and add - "It's pure drivel" , it's a strange picture book basically, unreadable ... wtf...


  • #41
    GerB40
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,047 ✭✭✭GerB40


    hidinginthebush wrote: »
    If you want to keep it online, read this:
    http://www.angelfire.com/trek/caver/page1.html

    Thats a great little read. The author seemed so genuine and the build up of tension is fantastic. I actually believed it until the "Joe" part which I thought went a bit too far. And that ending.... I pressed next around ten times before realising what was going on. Still though, an enjoyable tale.


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  • #42
    Duffy the Vampire Slayer
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    TheBeardedLady wrote: »
    Anything written by Kazuo Ishiguro. Brilliant books but maybe not weird in the way you'd like.

    Except for Norwegian Wood. I liked it, but it's a very straightforward story compared to his usual stuff.


  • #43
    Boom_Bap
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    Wierdest and greatest book I've read is Infinite Jest. I'm actually reading it again for the 3rd or 4th time. It's a behemoth but well worth it.


  • #44
    sbsquarepants
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,810 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    LadyAthame wrote: »
    Codex Seraphinianus, I am possibly one of the very few to have read it and even fewer to have actually finished it. It inspired an awesome online handle of mine for years. If you say you have read it I know you are lying...probably....

    It's weird......

    It's not like you will find it tonight though???? Very visual.

    I took a look at the video you posted - the guy says it's published in a language nobody can understand - so how did you read it? There's also an Italian translation? what did they translate?

    Looks like an expensive pile of ****e to be quite honest!


  • #45
    TheBeardedLady
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    Duffy the Vampire Slayer wrote: »
    Except for Norwegian Wood. I liked it, but it's a very straightforward story compared to his usual stuff.


    You're confusing authors!


  • #46
    John Mason
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    I always find this site good for killing sometime

    http://sometimes-interesting.com/


  • #47
    [Deleted User]
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    You kill sometimes? :O

    I can only second the recommendation for Naked Lunch. It really changes your entire view of the Human Condition. Try reading it with Leonard Cohen CDs on shuffle / repeat in the back ground too.

    If you do not want to get TOO weird - just somewhat off kilter - hit some Jack Kerouac or some of the other Beat Generation authors.


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