What's the weirdest book you've ever read?

[Karen]

I haven't seen this discussed anywhere so here goes.
Mines this. When I was about 10 or so I was on a caravan holiday with my family. It rained a lot and I quickly exhausted my reading material so I borrowed my mom's book. It was a For Dummies-style book on Elvis and one of the strangest things I've ever seen. The chapter about his death warned readers to skip it if it was going to upset them too much and the book finished with a section on how to set up a Presley shrine.
What's your weirdest book?

[Jodi]

My weirdest book was . I had no idea what I thought after I read it. It was just weird. I couldn't say if I liked it or not.

[Kelly (and the Book Boar)]

and were both very weird, but I LOVED them.

[Robin]

. I read it when I was 12. Prior to that, I considered Piers Anthony an amazing writer, after - well, I haven't read anything by him since. I do wonder though if I read it now, if I would like it, but it still creeps me out whenever I think about it.

[Michelle {Book Hangovers}]

Invisible Monsters by the awesome Chuck Palahniuk
and Imajica by the creative Clive Barker

Two very weird but imaginative, eccentric and amazing reads!!!! (and incredibly they both have white covers haha)

[Stacy]

Michelle {Book Hangovers} wrote: "Invisible Monsters by the awesome Chuck Palahniuk
and Imajica by the creative [author:Clive..."

i totally agree with Invisible Monsters. my friend recommended it & said it was great and it just confused the heck out of me!

[LaVerne]

Mine was
Very weird, both in writing style and in subject - but I was strangely drawn in. I'm still not sure if I enjoyed it so much because it was written by my uncle, or whether it was because I genuinely thought it was good. I'm still not sure and this is years after reading it! I might have to re-read it some day to try and figure that one out :)

[Silvia]

I know it is classic and everything.... but I think Alice in Wonderland is very weird.

[Melek]

Mine is absolutely . I love long, complex books and I don't remember any that I didn't understand but this. I finished it yesterday and I still have no idea what the hell happened.

[Larissa]

The weirdest book I ever read was when I was about 12. This books is called Sara's Face and totally freaked me out :/ also considering I read it so young it was even weirder, the whole idea about being able to steal someone's face is really freaky!

[Angelica]

Cats by T.S. Eliot. Yes, I know it inspired a Broadway musical, but...

[[deleted user]]

Sender Unknown it was cool but weird so very weird

[N]

Furness - a book about a woman who had to kill the seventh child of someone every year and make a book out of the skin - horrid!!

[Komal]

Jodi wrote: "My weirdest book was . I had no idea what I thought after I read it. It was just weird. I couldn't say if I liked it or not."


Ahh totally agree with you there! I still don't know what the hell that book was about. Didn't even find it funny.

[[deleted user]]

The weirdest book I have recently read was The Ocean at The End of the Lane.It had elements of magic that I liked but the weirdest scene was when the nameless main character uses tweezers to pull a worm out of a small hole in his foot.A piece of the worm snaps off and curls tightly back in the hole.Since the boy was only a kid,he thought this was normal. The scene alone made me cringe.But I still liked the book. When Neil Gaiman writes, I read.

[Viktorija]

'The Lovely Bones'. I hated it and would probably burn it if my return policy wasn't still open.

[Mkooo]

Damnnn I loved Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy ...

But I do understand people finding it weird... there's the scientific part, british humor, a good bit of philosophical ideas, than the british humor again ...

[[deleted user]]

Viktorija wrote: "'The Lovely Bones'. I hated it and would probably burn it if my return policy wasn't still open."

Hello,Viktorija.I haven't read the book but the film was a visual cinematic beauty.Have you seen it?

[Viktorija]

yuri wrote: "Viktorija wrote: "'The Lovely Bones'. I hated it and would probably burn it if my return policy wasn't still open."

Hello,Viktorija.I haven't read the book but the film was a visual cinematic beau..."

Yeah I hated that too.

[[deleted user]]

Cute and funny comment. :)

[Patricia]

[Daniel]

Candide

I'm a couple of hundred years behind everyone else :)

[Jodi]

Daniel wrote: "Candide

I'm a couple of hundred years behind everyone else :)"

I read Candide in University. I feel like I really liked it but I don't at all remember what it was about.

[[deleted user]]

Naked Lunch. By FAR the wierdest and most disturbing read yet.

[Tia]

O.o Well with a title like that I would assume its weird XD

[[deleted user]]

I should have known by the title and by who reccomended it... XD

[Tia]

XD

[Melissa]

Crooked Little Vein is the weirdest one for me.

[Allison]

Clay

I read this book when I was about 13, and it still is the creepiest/weirdest book I've ever read.

[Valerie]

Slaughterhouse Five. Weird but very good!

[Susana]

The weirdest book I ever read was . This book made me really uncomfortable, because the main character Logan falls in love with a transgender Sage and they have sex or something like that. That particular scene was really weird and new for me.

[Shana]

Weirdest book would have to be "Firmin" by Sam Savage. A very odd lil' novella about a mouse who learns language by eating books. Am going to reread it as I began it several years ago and was distracted by life so will get back to it in the next few months. It is a strange concept and the writing is a bit disjointed so not the easiest read.

[Jess the Shelf-Declared Bibliophile]

John Dies At The End...complete mindf***!

[Colleen]

A weird, fairly recent read was The Buffalo Hunter. Not sure why I even read it, except I probably saw some review and it looked familiar in the library, so I checked it out.

[Shannon]

The Tommyknockers by Stephen King I like it but it was just weird book

[Leigh]

Reading it right now. 50% through with Oryx and Crake.

[Amber]

Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins. It just was so bizarre.

[Dean]

69 Things to do with a Dead Princess

[Annie]

a magical realism book for dutch called "het grote gebeuren" (the big happening). I'm still reading it but according to my teacher it's the weirdest book ever

[A Dame To Kill For]

the weirdest book i have ever read would be Justine by Marquis de Sade.It was Horrific!!!!

[Christina]

Populärmusik från Vittula - Mikael Niemi

I can't believe that this book got the August Prize in 2000... It's absolutely the weirdest book I've ever read, and probably the worst too. :P

[Diwita]

Coma by Robin Cook...I absolutely dislike it.
Had to read to as it was part of school's reading list!
Horrible!

[Sarah]

Has anyone ever read Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury? I didn't not like it... But I found the whole symbolism of the book a bit odd...

[Pratiksha]

My weirdest book was . I have heard the movie was good, so the book was just.. weird. Maybe the concept of gore, stinky bodies, gray skin, groaning and BRAINS (!!) intermingled with romance made it so effin absurd.

[Srividya]

this is one of the weirdest books that I have read. After reading Catcher in the Rye, which I loved, I thought I will like this too but the short stories were too weird for me..

[[deleted user]]

Any thing by Samuel Beckett is weird to me and hard to understand

[Angel]

I thought House of Leaves was weird- it was good but oh my gosh!

[Lizzy]

The weirdest book I've read was Watch Me by Lauren Barnholdt. It's realistic fiction, but it didn't make any sense to me as far as meaning and the whole book was very awkward.

[Shayan]

Outliers by malcolm gladwell.
idk why but i felt weird reading it.

[[deleted user]]

I usually come across books that are pretty normal. But the weirdest one I can think of right now would probably be Rules for Ghosting by Ammi-Joan Paquette.