It's about a girl who goes to school where a lot of teenage girls have mass suicides, and she investigates and fears that her school nurse is killing them and drinking their blood in order to become younger after suspecting that she ate a towel with her menstrual blood on it.
“We’re still here,” he says, his voice cold, his hands shaking. “We know how to be invisible, how to play dead. But at the end of the day, we are still here.” ~Dax
Teacher: "What do we do with adjectives in Spanish?"
S: "We eat them!"
Hmm. That's a difficult question. I guess it comes down to how I'd define "weird".
I mean, I thought that "To the Lighthouse" by Virginia Woolf was really weird. Mostly because well, to use Woolf's own words, "Don't worry about the plot. The plot's nothing." So it's really just a massive musing on two afternoons that constantly changes point of view so it really messes with your head. Never mind that about a decade is covered in a tiny section and huge, world-changing events seem to be mentioned as merely offhand comments, whereas the said two afternoons are related in Detail To The Max. Weird.
Then again, "My Life is a Wedgie" by Gretel Killeen was extremely weird in a different way. It was just such utterly random humour with a plot that barely made sense at all. That was weird.
But then there was the phase I went through of reading absurdist drama. Eugène Ionesco's "The Bald Soprano" is fairly odd. Good, but odd. And while we're on drama, although it's not absurdist, Harold Pinter's "One for the Road" is so creepy. So, so creepy *shudders*
"A person is a fool to become a writer."
--Roald Dahl
Sumi H. Inkblot wrote:Hmmm...I'm thinking "Hexwood" by Diana Wynne Jones (which is her equivalent of "LotR", slogging-through wise.)
Oh my God, that book was #@$%!. I finished it - eventually - and my roommate goes "so, how'd it end?" and I was like "well, you know, I'm really not sure."
Other'n that, I'd say Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking Glass, as has been mentioned, but I'm not sure they really count because they're literary nonsense.
Dead Girls Don't Write Letters, by Gail Giles, is a completely different kind of weird. Seriously, what the $#%! is going on?! It starts to make sense, and then you read the last chapter and it's like "wait, what?!"
I think it is probably 'Mirror, Mirror' by Gregory Maguire (he wrote 'Wicked'). It was a take on Snow White, for adults, and was just bizarre. I didn't understand it.
Basically, it was all sex with squids, and a gooseboy.
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"Mirror, Mirror" was very, very weird. And disturbing.
“We’re still here,” he says, his voice cold, his hands shaking. “We know how to be invisible, how to play dead. But at the end of the day, we are still here.” ~Dax
Teacher: "What do we do with adjectives in Spanish?"
S: "We eat them!"
I was going NUTS while reading it...sheesh. 
