Published October 17, 2007
For me, it's Abarat by Clive Barker. It's a beautiful book, illustrated on almost every page, but really, really weird. And somewhat creepy in its weirdness.
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When I first read "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" I thought it was pretty weird. But now thinking back on it, I've slowly fallen in love with it.
I haven't really read any weird books, if they truly don't click with me, then I put them down.
The Same Place But Different
Disgusting.
Kids, this is what LSD does to you.
-Kylan
i dont know what it was callled, but it was 5 pages of the worst writing in the world. the characters didnt even have names!!! even worse, we had to "summerise" it to annother class!! i got a D+ on that project, and it brought my A in reading to a B+
I haven't read that many strange books but I'd have to say Der Process, by Franz Kafka. I read it years ago and was probably too young and unmotivated to really put down the thought you need to appreciate it. I hear it's a great book.
You know, I don't even remember what the title was, but talk about weird.
Basically, it was your typical knights in armor sort of thing, (and they rode these things that I presumed were a breed of horse. Like Arabians.) In the end, it turned out they were all actually animals, and the horses were stupid humans. Anywho, it was probably the most nonsensical plot twist ever.
the 1st harry potter book >.< I was sooo going to need therapy after that.
Icaruss>>
Wow. That doesn't really seem like a... book. Wouldn't that be more passible as poetry?
I tried reading Irvine Welsh once and had to give up due to just... not feeling like putting up with that.
You win.
Irvine Welsh always gets a little bit crazy with formatting. In Acid House he has pages filled with the word "LIGHT" and rectangles of meaningless narration scattered around. The plot of that story is weird too. It's not crazy or nothing, but it's pretty bizarre. It's about a hooligan getting struck by lightning and switching bodies with a child being born at the same time.
House of Leaves is also a mad, mad book.
Weirdest stuff ever is John Lennon's book, though. And Bob Dylan's Tarantula. Written in stream of conciousness, heavily influenced by beatnik writers, both are just lines and lines of text making absolutely no sense at all. A little snip:
Do I win?
Most definitely the Painted Bird by Jerzy Kosinski.
It's not even autobiographical, so I don't know what he was thinking. Disturbed writings from a disturbed mind.
im guilty that i havnt atually read it,
but going on the film which was amazingly weird
1984 by george orwel
thanks some sick deranged awesomness
Probably the weirdest book is The Da Vinci Code. The plot turned out stellar, but as it progressed, it got just mind-scrambling and at the end, I wasn't really sastified. Angels and Demons was just a tad less weirder.
Meep -> to be honest, I could be wrong about it =] maybe the writing style was beyond me when I read it. I was pretty young.. Maybe if I read it now I'd see it more clearly =]
I think Dr. Seuss would make more sense when you're under the influence of morphine or Vicodin or something after a surgery. xD
"The Brief History of the Dead" by Kevin Brockmeir was really weird. It sort of... plateaued. There wasn't really a climax or resolution. Yeah, some of his descriptions were lovely, but the characters and the plot were weird. There wasn't really a conflict. I was sort of like, "Huh?" when I finished reading it.
Not one of my favourite books. An interesting concept, but poorly executed.
-:pirate3:
Horton Hears A Who by Dr. Suess. Love it, but it makes no sense whatsoever.
The Origin of Species by Charles Darwin
How is Stargirl weird? I mean, she's weird, but how is it a weird book?
I read a book called Stargirl that was pretty weird.. but it was a long time ago and I'm much harder to weird out these days ^^
I'm with Suzanne and Gadi. House of Leaves was amazing, but very, very werid.
-Jared
'Wicked', I know it's a play but I got the book at my library and tried to read it, way too perverted.
Yuck.
"Mirror, Mirror" was very, very weird. And disturbing.
Probably anything by Paul Jennings.
Anything by Haruki Murakami is demented. I adore his books, though--he's an excellent storyteller.
I don't read many weird books.
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.
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?!"
Just Wacky by Andy Griffith.
I was going NUTS while reading it...sheesh. 
It was weird, dorky, insane, nonsensical...
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*
^ WOW.
That's weird.
Innocence.
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.
Yeah. It's weird.
This vampire book my friend bought at the dollar store. It was very strange. I can't recall the title.
'Siberia'
Goodnes knows who wrote it. My Dad bought it for my little sister but I pinched it first and was like wtf? It's lunacy.
"The Shining" by Stephen King. Scary as well as weird, but very, very weird.
EDIT: Actually, no... "Haunted" by Chuck Palahniuk. NEVER eat while reading that book. EVER. It's freaky, creepy, and very, very odd.
Monster by Christopher Pike, also the bloodiest book I've read. It's so damn creepy. Whole idea. I felt like being sick as it described how she wanted to eat the dog... O_O.
THE LONDON PIDGEON WARS.
It was just so random! These pidgeons delcared war on the sparrows... I mean, what? It was hilariou, just... what!
I'm going to have to go with Edward Bloor's Storytime. Totally creeped me out. Abarat I could sort of understand, I saw where a lot of the puns were coming from, where he could've gotten his ideas. Storytime? I'd like to talk to Edward Bloor, maybe arrange an exorcism ^)^
I think it's the bundle of short stories of Gogol! Diary of a madman was just lunacy! and I am not even going to say anything rational about The Nose.
Gogol wanted to depict lunacy and he put that down nice and correctly,
I mean; Dogs writing letters to each other, A nose that is on the run as an aristocrat and much more
It was enjoyable though.
I would recommend it, to anyone who wants to lose his mind in the strange world of Gogol. He writes funny too!
"The Wish List" was amazing. <3
The weirdest-and the coolest- is the Kingdom Keepers.
Prolly either Alice's Adventures Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carol or Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Fahrenheit 451 is a great book, really interesting, but odd... It wasn't the plot so much as the writing style, I think.
Edit: Or else maybe Edgar Allen Poe's The Tell-Tale Heart. That was rather disturbing.
Yeah, I'd have to agree with you there...especially the tale of the Wife of Bath and the Miller's tale...another one I read in English class this year!
~Deoris
haha, i read the Wish List. My favorite part was Satan playing his Gameboy. *ROTFL*
"The Wish List" by Eoin Colfer.People getting mixed up with the bodies of dogs on the way to hell? Eh, what? Don't know why I even finished this one.
Stephen Fry's "The Liar"...I couldn't even finish it.
Parody of HP, "Barry Trotter..." this was wierd for me too.
I would definitely have to say 'Slaughterhouse 5' by Vonnegut. I have no idea what the hell is wrog with that man, but it skips decades just about every chapter, gets abducted my aliens, i don't know, very odd.
That I have read-- Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe. It's long, chalk full of imagery, and is the epitome of dark introspection.
That I am reading-- Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. I'm currently reading it for my AP English class, Wow, stream of consciousness is crazy.
But I liked both of these books, and, if you're open to different things, I recommend them.
Lolita, just the thought of it
Agreed. I liked them....but they were weird.
Gotta love the dormouse though.
that was very weird. although, my English class loved it. but then again my English class was obsessed with sex. :roll:
I'm with Suzanne on this one. House of Leaves, hands down.
Catch-22, lmao.
God's Debris: A Thought Experiment by Scott Adams. It all makes sense XD A very intriguing book.
Hmmm...I'm thinking "Hexwood" by Diana Wynne Jones (which is her equivalent of "LotR", slogging-through wise.), "The Great Good Thing" by Roderick Townley or "Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass" by Lewis Carroll.
Whatever Carroll was smokin', I hope it hasn't lasted through the years.
The weirdest book I've read (and it's and oldie) was the Canterbury Tales. Just weird...
Exactly! It isn't weird in the sense we're talking at all!
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Bah! That is the funniest thing I've read. Not the weirdest. ^_~ though it is a close call.
Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy!
Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen. Odd, odd plot. Odd, odd characters. I couldn't even finish it.
Abarat 2. 3 when it comes out, maybe. There'll be 5 altogether.
House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski, I believe. Amazing book, although it's ending wasn't as good as I had hoped. But it is one of those books that you have to read, it's so bizarre and horrifying.