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Incredibly strange book about dead people, a drug called soy sauce, and exploding Jamaicans who tell you your dreams for beer. The book is an odd mixture of horror and comedy, shitty puns, and scat humor. It has great characters and is very well written, the author writes for cracked.com.
There is a second book being written, and Don Coscarelli (wrote/directed Bubba Ho-Tep) is making the movie.
Does Pantagruel count? I don't read much fiction
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The story of Earl Tuner, a member of a rag-tag resistance movement of freedom-loving racists that takes over America and kills off all the minorities and race-traitors. Tim McVeigh gives it 5 out of 5 stars.
That picture book with Uncle Pete.
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Thrown out of english class for reading this.
Oh no a guy who writes about getting drunk and bangs chicks and then writes about it.
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Banned by many countries. Interesting read though.[/QUOTE]
I've also read that. Interesting is probably the most fitting word to use.
While I haven't read it yet I might read something like the Book of the Dead or something from religions past that would seem odd today.
The Wasp Factory.
[QUOTE=Hobo Jesus;30865248]Haven't read it but i think it belongs here.
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Wait, that's an actual book?
Lolita was fucking fascinating.
I am also in the midst of reading Malleus Maleficarum, the Hammer of Witches (the inquisition's handbook on witches) online.
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Classic.
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If you haven't read this one, do it now.
The Catcher in the Rye. Used to be controversial. Not so much anymore.
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Incredibly strange book about dead people, a drug called soy sauce, and exploding Jamaicans who tell you your dreams for beer. The book is an odd mixture of horror and comedy, shitty puns, and scat humor. It has great characters and is very well written, the author writes for cracked.com.
There is a second book being written, and Don Coscarelli (wrote/directed Bubba Ho-Tep) is making the movie.[/QUOTE]
This book is actually one of the most intriguing and intelligently written book I've ever read, despite the fact that there are a ton of crude jokes. I can't wait till the sequel comes out, he's really buckled in on writing it. That part of it that he put online is just one tiny portion of it apparently.
[QUOTE=Falchion;30864974]I'd bet someone is going to post "bible lol".[/QUOTE]
I actually started reading the bible last night.
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Classic.
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If you haven't read this one, do it now.[/QUOTE]
I've got a copy of this sitting on my bed side table but still haven't started it.
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Banned by many countries. Interesting read though.[/QUOTE]
Hilarious enough, I have a copy over on the bookshelf. My father had it; the sad part being that the second half of the book is torn/missing.
'American Psycho', the book is so much more graphic than the film.
Also, whilst not reading all of it, '120 days of Sodom' written by Marquis de Sade, a sadomasochistic, satirical observation of corruption etc etc, but written in the late 18th century. Features scat, torture, death and raping of young boys and girls.
Only published in the twentieth century and was subsequently banned in several countries when done so.
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this book is made of nightmares
Don't forget these lovely books and their artwork:
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[QUOTE=djshox;30873570]Don't forget these lovely books and their artwork:[/QUOTE]
oh fuckyoufuckyoufuckyoufuckyou
Those books kept me up at night when I was younger.
[QUOTE=troglydyte;30865533]Rant, by Chuck Palahniuk. Oh, and Choke, by the same author. Weird shit, man.[/QUOTE]
That guy,
Is,
fucked up.
His books are the wierdest shit ever. In one of them there's a 14 year old kid who swims to the bottom of the pool, puts his ass on the filter. (which sucks in water) He then procedes to jack off under water with the pressure on his ass, then he tries to leave, [highlight]BUT it's stuck to his intestines and pulls them out.[/highlight]
The only way to survive was to bite it off. His parents find him naked with a long rope coming out of his ass on the deck. He can't eat anything that takes more than an hour to digest.
Oh and to top it all off his sister gets pregnant from the semen in the pool.
Try reading that when you are 12, it really fucks you up.
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[QUOTE=djshox;30873570]Don't forget these lovely books and their artwork:
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FUCK YOU
I fucking burned that book in the fireplace, the fucking nightmares oh my god.
nononono
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[QUOTE=Sir Whoopsalot;30869723]Wait, that's an actual book?[/QUOTE]
The author was from the 70's and was a proto-furry.
he made a hundred books about animals having sex with women
[QUOTE=Desolategrunt;30873726]That guy,
Is,
fucked up.
His books are the wierdest shit ever. In one of them there's a 14 year old kid who swims to the bottom of the pool, puts his ass on the filter. (which sucks in water) He then procedes to jack off under water with the pressure on his ass, then he tries to leave, [highlight]BUT it's stuck to his intestines and pulls them out.[/highlight]
The only way to survive was to bite it off. His parents find him naked with a long rope coming out of his ass on the deck. He can't eat anything that takes more than an hour to digest.
Oh and to top it all off his sister gets pregnant from the semen in the pool.
Try reading that when you are 12, it really fucks you up.
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I remember reading that around the same age, pretty fucked up, although the illustration still cracks me up
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I haven't read it, but oh god Finnegans Wake.
the first couple paragraphs
[quote]riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.
Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passencore rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe. Rot a peck of pa's malt had Jhem or Shen brewed by arclight and rory end to the regginbrow was to be seen ringsome on the aquaface.
The fall (bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthurnuk!) of a once wallstrait oldparr is retaled early in bed and later on life down through all christian minstrelsy. The great fall of the offwall entailed at such short notice the pftjschute of Finnegan, erse solid man, that the humptyhillhead of humself prumptly sends an unquiring one well to the west in quest of his tumptytumtoes: and their upturnpikepointandplace is at the knock out in the park where oranges have been laid to rust upon the green since devlinsfirst loved livvy.[/quote]
Weirdest thing I ever read was probably this
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The Satanic Bible
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[I]Naked Lunch[/I] by William S. Burroughs...
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...about an exterminator who begins taking the drugs he uses to kill rodents.[/QUOTE]
I can think of at least two things wrong with that title.
seriously though that summary of yours is only the plotline of the movie which doesn't have much to do with the book because if it were an exact adaptation it would be banned in almost every country ever.
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I should also add anything by Thomas Pynchon. Most notably Gravity's Rainbow. An actual plot summary would be hard to explain but I'll just say it takes place near the end of WWII and it kicks off when American Lt. Tyrone Slothrop finds out that a map of his sexual encounters in London perfectly matches the spots where bombs have been dropped. Also some dude drew an illustration for what happens on every page of the novel. Pretty trippy stuff.
[url]http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/zak_smith/title.htm[/url]
Also this was actually a final for the Pulitzer Prize but half the judges couldn't finish the book because some of them were offended by it. It did win a National Book Award though.
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there's also a chapter dedicated to a sentient lightbulb named Byron.
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this book is made of nightmares[/QUOTE]
I love this book. It's amazing and everyone should read it.
American Psycho, Glamorama, Lunar Park; anything Bret Easton Ellis has written.
It's a shame that they ban interesting and "new view" books like the ones specified in this thread. They are interesting to read and give the reader a whole new perspective on a certain subject or even opens the curtains to a whole new frontier of reading.
except for mein kampf
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