One of my best friends has requested a book for Christmas. Can be any genre, can be a graphic novel or a regular novel, and any length.
He says he wants a book that makes you think “what am I reading?” Something super out of pocket, strange, or chaotic.
I’m hoping the book can be somewhat accessible and easy to find, but I am open to more obscure titles.
Thanks everyone!
by Different-Boot-6350
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House of leaves
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins. I had tried to read it a couple of years ago but thought, “WHAT THE HELL IS THIS?” and put it down after a chapter or so. I picked it up again in May this year and was blown away. As soon as I finished it I read it again just to get the pieces straight in my mind. And I read it again for the third time this year just last week.
Barnes and Nobel’s review calls it “an intensely dark, gothic, unpredictable, and magical fantasy novel. It is confusing at times, crazy at times…” and a review by NewYorkTate says, “But it’s so compelling! It doesn’t so much “draw you in” as it drags you along behind as it throws you, somewhat violently, into the plot.”
yep.
Earthlings by Sayaka Murata. Don’t be fooled by the cover. It is the most chaotic book I’ve ever read.
The Schrodinger’s Cat Trilogy by Robert Anton Wilson
The Magus by John Fowles. Great book, wild ride.
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
**Star Maker** by Olaf Stapledon