Foo - Weird Books

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Anything by Robert Heinlein. That guy was a real wacko.

Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gormenghast

This seems like a good place for this story...

I broke up with a girl I was dating. We still lived together, I was just staying in what was our spare bedroom. Things were a little awkward, but it wasn't too bad. I left for work one morning before she did. I got home from work that night, again, before she did, and sitting on my pillow as though someone had left it as a present was a book with a few stories about erotic spanking. Now, it wasn't mine, so I just assumed it was hers. That she had but it on the bookshelf above my bed, but that it had fallen off. When she got home, I asked her about it. She said she had never seen it before. She had no reason to lie, so I believed her. The thing is, it begs the question, where the hell did the book come from? We locked our door, always, and no one else had a key. So how did an erotic spanking book end up on my pillow?

This seems like a good place for this story...

I broke up with a girl I was dating. We still lived together, I was just staying in what was our spare bedroom. Things were a little awkward, but it wasn't too bad. I left for work one morning before she did. I got home from work that night, again, before she did, and sitting on my pillow as though someone had left it as a present was a book with a few stories about erotic spanking. Now, it wasn't mine, so I just assumed it was hers. That she had but it on the bookshelf above my bed, but that it had fallen off. When she got home, I asked her about it. She said she had never seen it before. She had no reason to lie, so I believed her. The thing is, it begs the question, where the hell did the book come from? We locked our door, always, and no one else had a key. So how did an erotic spanking book end up on my pillow?

Her friend.

She locked the door before she left for work, didn't let anyone in while she was at home, and no one else had a key!

That's what she wants you to think. Or she was throwing hints at you.

That girl cannot drop a hint to save her life. She is not subtle. If she wanted some of UA, she would have just come out and said it.

+1 on Heinlein. Also, anything by Anne Rice. I still like those two authors and voraciously read their books though, even if I find them weird.

Finding Darwin's God by Kenneth Miller is weird. God in quantum uncertainty? Suuuuure...if that's how you want to justify the existence of God :rolleyes:

She locked the door before she left for work, didn't let anyone in while she was at home, and no one else had a key!

OK, it's time to revel the secret that grownups don't reveal to the young uns.






As you get older, you develop telekinetic powers. We all have them.

Obviously, the awesome power that is you....has matured to the point where it's starting to indiscriminately manifest your more inner desires. It's now time to get yourself to Tibet young man, where you can be trained to control your new found talent, before you accidentally destroy our World with a stray thought.

Godspeed Lad.

Aside from fictional books like The Necronomicon by the mad arab Abdul Al Hazrad I would vote for a turn of the last century book about bat culture near the Rio Grande in Texas. Pre-DDT days, people built silo and windmill sized towers that could hold 100,000s of bats each. To control insects and collect the rich guano. This illustrated book went into considerable detail.

Also most of the books in the library of the Museum of Jurassic Technology are weird in one way or another.

Anything by Robert Heinlein. That guy was a real wacko.

He's pretty conservative compared to Clive Barker.

Of the novels I've read and enjoyed recently, I'd have to say Beckett's Watt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_(novel)) and Nabokov's Pale Fire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire) could be considered "weird."

Black's 6th Edition Law Dictionary
Corpus Juris Secondum
Colorado (or any states) Revised Statutes

Welcome to the real Matrix.

Naked Lunch...W.S. Burroughs (his Nova Trilogy is even weirder, but is pretty much unreadable)

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk


Word.

Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/)comes out October 3.

Word.

Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/)comes out October 3.



Fight Club was awesome, too.

Naked Lunch...W.S. Burroughs (his Nova Trilogy is even weirder, but is pretty much unreadable)

Doesn't count - any book written under the influence is going to be weird.

The weird books written while the author's in full control of their faculties are the scary ones.

Word.

Movie (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1024715/)comes out October 3.

No way. I hope it is as good as Fight Club. Trailer looks okay.

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon.
Perhaps Ulysses by James Joyce, although it's not really a weird book, just rather complex.

Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Journal of Albion Moonlight - Kenneth Patchen
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
2182 kHz - David Masiel (very weird but realistic)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon.


Beat me by 3 minutes, I was writing while you were sending.

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

Choke is an excellent book, if a bit dirty. I'd love to read Lolita but I don't want to end up on a list somewhere. Have you tried any other Palahaniuk?

In Pursuit of Valis by Phillip K Dick.

He has a religious and time-shifting telepathic experience after getting shot in the head by a laser from a Russian sattelite...and then he wrote this book. :twitchy:

Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson Man what a huge downer. It was super depressing but I stayed with it until I finished the series because he was such a good writer. I need help.

Steven

Beat me by 3 minutes, I was writing while you were sending.

Then it definitely belongs on the list. No question about its weirdness.

Agree with your choice of The Silmarillion as well.

Then it definitely belongs on the list. No question about its weirdness.

Agree with your choice of The Silmarillion as well.

I would say Finnegan's Wake but I'm not sure anyone but Joyce ever got through the thing.

No way. I hope it is as good as Fight Club. Trailer looks okay.

Man, if they put all the sex in the movie from the book, it would have to be rated XXX. I guess they didn't.

The Thief's Journal -Jean Genet.

Actually loved it, that and Our Lady of the Flowers.

Choke is an excellent book, if a bit dirty. I'd love to read Lolita but I don't want to end up on a list somewhere. Have you tried any other Palahaniuk?

Yea I can't remember which others but I know I also read the Lullaby.

Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson Man what a huge downer. It was super depressing but I stayed with it until I finished the series because he was such a good writer. I need help.

Steven

I read the first book, "Lord Foul's Bane", and ended up not bothering with the rest of the series.

For an author, I like Michael Moorcock. His books, one could describe as weird, but are a nice classic fantasy to re-read them these days.

For something that is weird as in creepy, (creepy not in the spooky sense, but creepy as the "get away from me before I give you a face full of pepper spray" sense), John Norman's later books in his Gor series. The earlier ones were pretty good fantasy, but after book 4 or so, he got onto Nietzsche-like rants which I found not entertaining in the slightest, especially on his views that women were mere unintelligent property to abuse as one sees fit, and men who treated women with respect were just weaklings deserving of nothing but culling.

The Child Garden by Geoff Ryman

He's pretty conservative compared to Clive Barker.

Yeah, Clive Barker is weird too. But with Barker, I get the sense that his weirdness is confined to his fiction. What really weirds me out about Heinlein is that he gets preachy about bizarre sexual things often enough that I think he's really into that in real life.

I really hope he never had a daughter.

House of Leaves

Only Revolutions

Remember, Be Here Now

Fortress of Solitude

Wind-Up Bird Chronicles

As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner.
for that matter, pretty much anything by Faulkner.

Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson Man what a huge downer. It was super depressing but I stayed with it until I finished the series because he was such a good writer. I need help.

Steven

I remember waiting for each book in the series to come out... It was really a fascination for me.

I read a collection of his short stories a few years later, and in the introduction he said something about the fact that novels were much easier to write than short stories because you could just keep throwing out words... and in a short story you had to be more concise.

It is a series I enjoyed the first time, but probably more as a reading event... wondering what would happen next. I can't envision reading them again.

+1 on Heinlein

-1 on The Silmarillion (great book, but I don't know why it would be called 'weird')

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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - RObert Pirsig
Anthem - Ayn Rand
Lord of the Flies - William Golding (did not like this book)
Knight of the Word series - Terry Brooks (only read 1st 2 of the 3 books, need to finish)
Riftwar Saga/Empire Trilogy - Raymond Fiest/Janny Wurts
Brainchild - ??? Can't remember and can't find it on amazon to find out

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Choke by Chuck Palahniuk

neither are "weird."

Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris is weird....and well written.

About a runaway teen who randomly kidnaps a child and hits the road with a mentally challenged highway worker.

It's at the top of my weird list.

+1 for Slaughterhouse Five

Most of Stephen King's books are weird (in a good way). Unfortunately they usually end weird in a bad way.

Most of Stephen King's books are weird (in a good way). Unfortunately they usually end weird in a bad way.Exactly why I don't like Stephen King much. He builds up a really cool super natural story with awesome implications....and then turns it goofy and cheesy at the ending - almost every single time!

This seems like a good place for this story...

I broke up with a girl I was dating. We still lived together, I was just staying in what was our spare bedroom. Things were a little awkward, but it wasn't too bad. I left for work one morning before she did. I got home from work that night, again, before she did, and sitting on my pillow as though someone had left it as a present was a book with a few stories about erotic spanking. Now, it wasn't mine, so I just assumed it was hers. That she had but it on the bookshelf above my bed, but that it had fallen off. When she got home, I asked her about it. She said she had never seen it before. She had no reason to lie, so I believed her. The thing is, it begs the question, where the hell did the book come from? We locked our door, always, and no one else had a key. So how did an erotic spanking book end up on my pillow?

The erotic spanking fairy.

Thomas Covenant series by Stephen R. Donaldson Man what a huge downer. It was super depressing but I stayed with it until I finished the series because he was such a good writer. I need help.

Steven

I forgot about those. Those were extremely weird in their ability to somehow compel people to read them no matter how down the whole thing was.

I forgot about those. Those were extremely weird in their ability to somehow compel people to read them no matter how down the whole thing was.

Didn't work on me. I stopped after 1st one. I couldn't stand it.

I forgot about those. Those were extremely weird in their ability to somehow compel people to read them no matter how down the whole thing was.

Damn, you're making me curious.

$7.99 mass market paperback on Amazon. I think it's going in the shopping cart.

For an author, I like Michael Moorcock. His books, one could describe as weird, but are a nice classic fantasy to re-read them these days.
I forgot about Moorcock. I'd definitely label his stuff a bit weird. I wouldn't call them classic fantasy...he has dark elements not usually found in typical fantasy stories. And some have some cool twists at the end.

+1 for Michael Moorcock

+1 on Heinlein. Also, anything by Anne Rice. I still like those two authors and voraciously read their books though, even if I find them weird.



I wouldnt put anne rice at weird. Not until she flipped sides and became born again. Otherwise her vampire chronicals of her early work are pretty vanilla.

Her "witch" books just sucked, and everything since becoming a good Christian has been dull.

oh unless of course you mean THOSE books (sleeping beauty trilogy), ya her erotic stuff I suppose could be considered weird. I just plain liked it...maybe I am weird...

Island - Aldois Huxley
Nothing in This Book Is True, But It's Exactly How Things Are - Bob Frissell
Illuminatus Trilogy - Robert Shea and Robert Anton Wilson

Exactly why I don't like Stephen King much. He builds up a really cool super natural story with awesome implications....and then turns it goofy and cheesy at the ending - almost every single time!

You should read Dreamcatcher, then. That was probably the only book of his that I was able to finish. Actually, I liked Christine, too.

Of the novels I've read and enjoyed recently, I'd have to say Beckett's Watt (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watt_(novel)) and Nabokov's Pale Fire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Fire) could be considered "weird."


Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
Nightwood - Djuna Barnes
Journal of Albion Moonlight - Kenneth Patchen
The Silmarillion - JRR Tolkien
2182 kHz - David Masiel (very weird but realistic)
Slaughterhouse Five - Kurt Vonnegut


Choke is an excellent book, if a bit dirty. I'd love to read Lolita but I don't want to end up on a list somewhere. Have you tried any other Palahaniuk?


As I Lay Dying - William Faulkner.
for that matter, pretty much anything by Faulkner.

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