Borne by Jeff Vandermeer has a very weird setting and some of the aspects of life for the characters are the same, but the book itself was really good and fun to read.
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Chouette by Claire Oshetsky was the type of book I could not put down because of how odd it was. The main character gives birth to an owl.
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I am not myself these days
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George Saunders is just absurd all around.
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Unwind by Neal Shusterman
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The City and the City, by China Mieville, was really gripping with a weird concept that worked very well. Ubik, by Philip K. Dick, was weird and a bit absurd.
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Nutshell by Ian McEwan. The narrator is an unborn baby.
Lex_Loki on
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix is suuuper weird!
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Batshit crazy, very much a surprise and delight!
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The Hike by Drew Magary
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Anything Jasper Fforde. Want a whodunit? Try the Big OverEasy about the murder of Humpty Dumpty. Like Jane Eyre? Try the Eyre Affair where you learn how the original Jane Eyre ended. Want dystopian? Shades of Grey is set in a future where everyone sees in one color and spoons are a big deal. Constant Rabbit is a commentary on Racism where rabbits can talk and are being marginalized and ghettoized.
That’s just a start. He’s done about 12 books and they are all uniquely original. If you have an open imaginative mind you can’t go wrong w that guy.
Mybenzo on
Blueprint of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
The Manual of Detection by Jedidiah Berry
Bubblegum by Adam Levin
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Lincoln in the Bardo by Georges Saunders
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Animal Money by Michael Cisco.
What a wild ride!
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_The Box Man_ and _The Woman in the Dunes_ by Kobo Abe
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Borne by Jeff Vandermeer has a very weird setting and some of the aspects of life for the characters are the same, but the book itself was really good and fun to read.
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky was the type of book I could not put down because of how odd it was. The main character gives birth to an owl.
I am not myself these days
George Saunders is just absurd all around.
Unwind by Neal Shusterman
The City and the City, by China Mieville, was really gripping with a weird concept that worked very well. Ubik, by Philip K. Dick, was weird and a bit absurd.
Nutshell by Ian McEwan. The narrator is an unborn baby.
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix is suuuper weird!
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Batshit crazy, very much a surprise and delight!
The Hike by Drew Magary
Anything Jasper Fforde. Want a whodunit? Try the Big OverEasy about the murder of Humpty Dumpty. Like Jane Eyre? Try the Eyre Affair where you learn how the original Jane Eyre ended. Want dystopian? Shades of Grey is set in a future where everyone sees in one color and spoons are a big deal. Constant Rabbit is a commentary on Racism where rabbits can talk and are being marginalized and ghettoized.
That’s just a start. He’s done about 12 books and they are all uniquely original. If you have an open imaginative mind you can’t go wrong w that guy.
Blueprint of the Afterlife by Ryan Boudinot
The Manual of Detection by Jedidiah Berry
Bubblegum by Adam Levin
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu
Lincoln in the Bardo by Georges Saunders
Animal Money by Michael Cisco.
What a wild ride!
_The Box Man_ and _The Woman in the Dunes_ by Kobo Abe
_Blackout_ by Hubert Aquin
_Glamorama_ by Bret Easton Ellis
_Black Novel with Argentines_ by Luisa Valenzuela
_Up the Walls of the World_ by James Tiptree Jr
_The Spook Who Sat By The Door_ by Sam Greenlee
Anubis Gates by Tim Powers
The Manual of Detection
Bunny by Mona Awad