3.86 avg rating — 195,835 ratings

"A jigsaw of a novel"

3.83 avg rating — 187 ratings

"stream of conscientiousness-come-stream of disjointed narrative with over 450 characters"

3.93 avg rating — 4,369 ratings

"Neither porn nor graphic, this is proper readable alternative modern literature"

3.85 avg rating — 14,304 ratings

"'forget the story', `enjoy the language' prose poem type book"

3.73 avg rating — 272 ratings

"Magical surrealism in extreme"

3.84 avg rating — 11,261 ratings

"Quirky, seedy literary sort of Cabaret in late 1920s German"

4.02 avg rating — 6,734 ratings

" the style is dense, difficult, deep, imaginative, philosophical and rather surreal"

4.07 avg rating — 176,071 ratings

"A modern non-religion philosophical text"

3.40 avg rating — 242 ratings

"200 pages with about 200 short chapters"

3.99 avg rating — 47,943 ratings

"A jigsaw of a novel"

3.42 avg rating — 447 ratings

"Mozart's Symphony 41 in words (read it to the beat etc)"

3.11 avg rating — 133 ratings

"a sort of stream of conciousness reflective word picture with the occasional E A Poe poem extract"

3.64 avg rating — 233 ratings

"One sentence, adult, 260 pages."

3.99 avg rating — 1,317 ratings

"5 short tales with only the author's dream/nightmare like style connecting them"

3.53 avg rating — 13,225 ratings

"Classic, proper 'surreal' writing "

4.20 avg rating — 49,055 ratings

"Read each chapter in any order or as the list suggests"

3.91 avg rating — 2,230 ratings

"Cuban Ulysses"

3.96 avg rating — 114 ratings

"Prelude, testimonies, parallel stories then a couple of post scripts explaining things"

3.98 avg rating — 5,708 ratings

"the language is detailed, magical realismesque, retrospective and in places dream-like "

2.79 avg rating — 337 ratings

"Original story without using any words with an E in it"

3.75 avg rating — 3,835 ratings

"Original story without using any words with an E in it (even in translation)"

3.06 avg rating — 4,569 ratings

"3 Shorts in the style of Cezanne, Matisse and Picasso"

3.89 avg rating — 984 ratings

"Difficult, over 400 hundred pages of tight spacing and small font with frequent footnotes being almost as long as the main text with even smaller font"

3.76 avg rating — 137,712 ratings

"The obvious choice"

3.50 avg rating — 1,073 ratings

"7x3=21 loosely joined snap shots of an imagined revolution"

4.16 avg rating — 1,201 ratings

"This is a surreal, gothic, poetic, brutal, imaginative, unreadable non-story of a book"

3.81 avg rating — 77,437 ratings

"Stories constrained to 1D and 2D i.e. life on a plane or line"

3.97 avg rating — 1,298 ratings

"One of the original magical realism books"

3.69 avg rating — 644 ratings

"Another proper 'surreal' novel"

3.25 avg rating — 40 ratings

"Prose-poem"

3.87 avg rating — 254 ratings

"short surreal episodes, numerous diagrams and sketches, odd text layouts, frequent foot notes, parallel lives"

4.05 avg rating — 12,950 ratings

"Same short tale 99 different styles."

4.18 avg rating — 10,134 ratings

"Based on the knight move problem in chess for 64 rooms in a hotel. Lots of word play too - like a page of story where words are chosen so an e progress diagonally down the page at each line"

3.91 avg rating — 575 ratings

"It has it all. Difficult to describe - see my review"

3.83 avg rating — 24,225 ratings

"Basically no commas. Good fictionalisation told by Ned himself"

3.92 avg rating — 618 ratings

"Half the book is 50 prologues. The novel is a mix of character types, the author and the reader"

3.43 avg rating — 10,105 ratings

"Standard novel (erotically charge & stepmother goes too far with her young stepson) but interspersed with classic paintings from around 1400-1600"

3.70 avg rating — 8,064 ratings

"Standard novella but the avant-garde author provides some sparsely draw pen sketches of many scenes."

3.68 avg rating — 13,620 ratings

"Unreadable. (Though the experts would disagree)"

4.05 avg rating — 58,825 ratings

"Entirely told by the exchange of letters."

4.15 avg rating — 1,795 ratings

"How to die - the way to reflect. Fantastic prose-poem"

3.95 avg rating — 256 ratings

"Accessible surrealist novel - suicide"

4.01 avg rating — 48,143 ratings

"A V2 rocket in the style of Finnegans Wake."