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Weirdest: Kama Sutra

Has to be The Maze Runner. I didn't like it but I couldn't stop reading it. There was just something about it that kept me reading.

This was one of the weirdest books I've read. But I loved it. Highly recommended!

Misery by stephen king, a real miserable read.

Lolita....weird.

Blue Eyed Boy by Joanne Harris. Still dont think that i completely understand, but still, an excellent book. She really is an amazing author.

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov..

Easily one of the best books I've ever read. The style of the book is sheer ingenious, a testament to a literary genius. It's got a foreword to a poem, the poem itself and a detailed commentary along with an index following it.

It's just bloody perfect and absolutely hilarious!! The poem is very good on its own though I'm sure its finer details just flew over my head. The commentary is just awesome. The whole book is so different from anything we normally come across that you can't help feeling that the author is just playing a game and having fun at your expense. Utterly Mind-blowing!!

Ruchi wrote: "Lolita....weird."

Haha.. Humbert Humbert is the best narrator ever :P

Harsha wrote: "Ruchi wrote: "Lolita....weird."

Haha.. Humbert Humbert is the best narrator ever :P"

I hated him...:P

After all his distractions? Impressive!! Though I knew his actions were base, I could understand them and ended up pitying him. I couldn't really hate him. "Ladies and Gentleman of the jury..".. He definitely has his way with words :)

Harsha wrote: "After all his distractions? Impressive!! Though I knew his actions were base, I could understand them and ended up pitying him. I couldn't really hate him. "Ladies and Gentleman of the jury..".. He..."

I dunno...but I never really could like him..

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I liked this. But it was indeed weird.

by Stephen King.. although I did like it... :) :)

But the one i hated and found weird at the same time has to be by Arvinda Adiga.. MEH!!

Srividya wrote: " by Stephen King.. although I did like it... :) :)

But the one i hated and found weird at the same time has to be by Arvinda Adiga.. M..."

have to agree with you. i found the "the white tiger" weird, not the good kind of weird though, & could never get the hype about it.

The Necromonicon

its fake; not an authentic document. But its just very, very disturbing in the way that it sets out to falsify history..there's something really unsavory in the way that it takes known, accepted facts and then 'skews them' very slightly to generate a semi-credible-sounding bit of hocus-pocus.

For example: according to the author, the Nazi regime came to power solely because its key members were secretly all very much into the occult...specifically, occult powers having to do with 'dragon worship'; then he goes on to remind us that all Oriental societies have always featured dragons heavily in their world-view; etc etc etc and that therefore 'known history' is really just a thin skein over some kind of mad race everywhere for 'those in the know' to be the first to tap into these powers and wreak more havoc..

I didn't like this. Its tying together unrelated premises and weaving something out of them which is flat-out wrong.

This book was soooo weird !!

that would be the book i am currently reading.

Definitely weird.

Choke by Chuck Palahniuk.

Finished Found it weird too, just like the first one.

Miss Peregines Home for Peculiar Children...it was ok; but I never really got into it

Weirdest book would have to be Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs.

Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith!

Wither it had a great plot and I liked it but some parts were weird...

This one:
Les Chants de Maldoror

2 B R 0 2 B

The Crying of Lot 49....I did not get it at all! I was so confused trying to follow the plot.

Clockwork Orange

Hmm, this is a hard question!

The weirdest book, huh? Well, "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins scared me half to death...but not because it was weird exactly; just plain dark. I generally stay away from books about drugs, or people on drugs...they make me super paranoid.

"Life of Pi" was a pretty strange book for me.Philosophical, but I just couldn't get into it. And then all of a sudden there's a tiger named Richard Parker; but I didn't make the connection that Richard Parker was actually non-human, until pretty much the end of the book.
Totally went over my head at the time!

I don't really like book. But the movie was good. Idk why in the world i hated it. It's just too detailed, the sexuall scenes. It's too overrated for me.

Melissa wrote: "Hmm, this is a hard question!

The weirdest book, huh? Well, "Crank" by Ellen Hopkins scared me half to death...but not because it was weird exactly; just plain dark. I generally stay away from bo..."

The movie was really good. It confused me at first and I finally realized it the 3rd time. Haha

Not necessarily a book, but a short story I read in my literature class called "Harrison Bergeron" by Kurt Vonnegut. That was weird.

What was it about?

I found Superstitious by R.L Stine very weird !! i hated it !! it was yuck !!

I enjoyed it, but still found it very weird.

Lolita

Of course.

Because weird

Apartment 16. That book was weird and messed up and I felt so uncomfortable reading it.

Why?

Marcele wrote: "Lolita

Of course.

Because weird"

Yeah, Lolita was definitely weird.

Surabhi wrote: ""

I'll second that! It was such a hard book to get into with the made up language. I did end up liking it by the end. I watched the movie too, but I didn't like that it was based on the American version of the novel and didn't include the last chapter which completely changed the book.

~ I didn't know what the heck I finished reading after I finished it. I still don't. Totally not what I was expecting. It got the dreaded 1 star

I think the weirdest book I've ever read would have to be 'Ubik' by Philip K. Dick. He wrote a lot of odd scifi novels and short stories, most of which I love, but 'Ubik' was so out there I still don't know what to make of it. Not a lot of novels can make me completely question what's going on in them quite like that one.

Emiliee wrote: "Weirdest book would have to be Running With Scissors by Augusten Burroughs."

I agree with you on that one!

SPOILER I THINK.



The ending of It when the turtle barfs up our universe.

SPOILER I THINK.



The ending of It when the turtle barfs up our universe.

Yeah, that seemed like a nice one Carl....let's pick a little better ones from now on!

I can't think of anything weirder. Haha! Had to get that book out of the way.

I can't think of anything weirder. Haha! Had to get that book out of the way.