something in the vein of recent faves like Perfume, Catch-22, The Master and Margarita, Ubik, one of a kind type stuff if you catch my drift...
2006-09-11 23:04:42 · 17 answers · asked by migh 7 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
go to europe! what kind of an answer is that? I live in frickin' europe. cheers everyone else for those tasty recommendations...
2006-09-11 23:25:43 · update #1
Read all the books you mentioned except Ubik
Italo Calvino - If on a winter's night a traveller
Shchedrin - The Golovlyov Family
Zamyatin - We
Lem - Solaris
Davis Grubb - The Night of the Hunter
Gunter Grass - The Tin Drum
Jack Finney - Invasion ofthe Body Snatchers
Hesse - Steppenwolf
John Kennedy Toole ~ A Confederacy of Dunces
Mario Vargas Llosa - Aunt Julia and the Script Writer
Paul Bowles - The Sheltering Sky
Evelyn Scott - The Wave
Robert Musil - The Man Without Qualities
Nabakov - Lolita
Ivan Goncharov - Oblomov
Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude
The Man in the High Castle- Dick (anything by Dick!)
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
Thomas Pynchon - V
Earth Abides - George R Stewart
ah..the list goes on...
2006-09-11 23:31:04 · answer #1 · answered by zoomjet 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to admit I haven't read any of those--but I live in frickin' Europe if that counts for something--but these are fairly weird and good:
The Time-Traveller's Wife--Audrey Niffenegger
Douglas Coupland--especially All Families are Psychotic
I think the author is John Wyndham, he wrote The Chrysallids, Day of the Triffids, and The Midwich Cuckoos
anything by Patricia Highsmith
2006-09-12 08:10:55 · answer #2 · answered by Goddess of Grammar 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1. The best book I have read in a longtime is "No Matter How Much You Promise to Cook or Pay the Rent You Blew It Cauze Bill Bailey Ain't Never Coming Home Again; A Symphonic Novel" by Edgardo Vega Yunque. It is very long but very, very beautiful.
2. Laurie R. King emerged as a major writer in the 1990's. All of her books are great. Three in particular that fit your criterea are "Folly", "Keeping Watch", and "A Darker Place".
3. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is the best newer science fiction I have read in a long time.
2006-09-12 06:15:00 · answer #3 · answered by Chuck N 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd like to suggest:
"Illuminatus!" by Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea.
"Cosmic Trigger", also by R.A. Wilson.
"Last Exit to Brooklyn" by Howard Selby
"Cloud Atlas" by David Mitchell
"Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell" by Susanna Clarke
"The Good Soldier Svejk" by Jaroslav Hasek
"Zazie in the Metro" by Raymond Queneau
2006-09-12 14:48:56 · answer #4 · answered by Huh? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
Cats Cradle by Vonnegut
Zen & the Art of Motorcycles-I forget the author
you have read Catch 22-the BEST, in my opinion!
OH! And
Archie & Mehitabel, by Don Marquis-a "don't miss" book, if you can find it!
2006-09-12 10:27:34 · answer #5 · answered by MTGurl 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try China Mieville(Perdido Street Station and The Scar), Sean Stewart(Galveston and The Night Watch), Neil Gaiman(Neverwhere and American Gods), and don't forget about Kurt Vonnegut(Player Piano, Breakfast of Champions, and
Slaughterhouse-Five.) Kurt Vonnegut may be just what you are looking for, if you haven't checked him out yet.
2006-09-12 10:19:25 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" by Mark Haddon and "The Kite Runner" by Khaled Husserini. Both exceptional, but very different, books. "The Kite Runner" has haunted me ever since I read it. Not since "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" has a book made such an impression on me.
2006-09-12 11:13:26 · answer #7 · answered by ElOsoBravo 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why read when you can live it. Visit Europe and you could experiment weird and original on yourself! You must have a lot of spare time if you chose to read other than travel, see interesting places, meet interesting people and taste life and enjoy. In the books you find impressions that are somewhat artificial anyway. But anyhow, reading is less expensive... Read some S. Freud if you're looking for weird and original.
2006-09-12 06:20:51 · answer #8 · answered by verssy_verye 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Forrest Gump. That's a great book, and while very different from the movie, has some wonderful messages of its own wrapped inside some very crazy adventures by the lovable Mr. Gump.
2006-09-12 06:43:50 · answer #9 · answered by You'll Never Outfox the Fox 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Key Trilogy
A great story with some pretty cool love scenes. Ä°nvolves souls of goddesses traped in boxes.
2006-09-12 07:47:02 · answer #10 · answered by Elyon Black 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋