Freaky Books...?

Question

Im looking for some good books. I love books that are wierd, freaky, and unexpecting. for example: I loved the book Everlost and Unwind by Neal Something. And I also loved Touching Spirit Bear. I Like Science fiction. Stories that could happen but hopefully wount. Like Unwind is about a world that when parents doin't like there teen kids anymore thay can send them to be killed. lol

If you like these kind of books could you please give me some suggestions =]

Answer 1

Here's a nice list:
Battle Royal : A highschool class is chosen to be put on an island where they must kill each other until one remains. Very, very interesting.

The Handmaid's Tale: After a nuclear war, some upper-class women become sterile and so use "handmaids"(Women) to carry their husband's children. Deals with women's rights, censorship, how far should religion be taken.

Fahrenheit 451: A world where books are not read anymore and the television rules all. More interesting if you read it.

Brave New World: People are not born anymore, but come out of test tubes. Everyone is designated to be a worker, or a normal person. Again, an interesting read.

1984 : The classic dis-utopic novel. A must- read.

House of the Scorpion (I think that's what it is called...similar to Brave New World)

A Clock Work Orange: Deals with our ideas of free-will. Is it right for a person to be all good or all bad? What happens when free will is taken away?(Note: This book uses a language called Nadsat, which just has a basis in some Russian words. There are on-line dictionaries with translations. But it's a really rich story to read.)

Note: I think the genre you want to look more into is dis-utopian. :)

Hope that helped.

Answer 2

"Canticle for Leibowitz" by Walter M Miller Jr.(1959) is a very good and eerie science fiction about a post apocalyptic world.
"The Shout," a short story by Robert Graves, was made into a movie with Alan Bates as the main character and has a scary, magical underlying theme that stayed with me for days. As did "The Magus " by John Fowles. That book was also made into a movie, but for my money the book gives a lot more bang for your buck. This is less a tale of horror and more a constantly shifting story-line that keeps you guessing what is real and who is friend and foe. Still it is a book that so absorbs you in its strange world, that you have a hard time shaking it off a long time after you set the book down.
Another one that fits the description of very eerie is a book by Herman Hesse, "Steppenwolf," which is about a man who is half wolf, half human. Another really weird book with a somewhat similar feel to it is Japanese writer Kobo Abbe called "The Woman in the Dunes." What these 2 have in common is a decidedly existential feel, like some of Kafka's or Jean-Paul Sartre's "No Clos."
Another writer maybe not quite on the same level of artistry as the others mentioned, but still very skilled at bringing eerie worlds to life is Jerzy Kosinski, a survivor of the Holocaust who eventually took his own life, but in his 30 or so years as a writer, he gave us such classics as "The Painted Bird," and "Steppes." He uses a lot of sexual imagery mixed with violence that is very unsettling, i will have to warn you, but not salaciously drawn, but more as a child would report a scene, not knowing that what he is seeing is taboo or immoral. At times it is hard to tell what is real and what is dreams or hallucinations.
I hope you try a few of these. They are all masterpieces of fiction. The writers are extremely skilled at fleshing out a strange proposition into believable plots and characters.

Answer 3

Science fiction and freaky = Philip K Dick.
"Ubik" , for example.
Or it you prefer somthing slightly more gothic
Tim Powers : The Anubis Gates.
(Time travel gothic horror literary mystery romance.)
Or his more contemporary novel "Last Call", about a man who lost his soul,and body, in a card game, and the debt's about to come due.
(Tim Powers at his best is awesome, but he's written a few that really don't work)

Greg Bear: Darwin's Radio.

Answer 4

Freedoms series by Anne McCaffrey
Lovelock by Orson Scott Card
Homecoming series by Orson Scott Card
Homegoing by Frederik Pohl

Answer 5

Lolita by Vladimir Nobakov.It's about an adult man who falls in love with a preteen girl....it's disturbing but at the same time intriguing.