looking for books with strange crazy plots

I wanna start reading anyone got some books to recommend that are what the title above says...Prefferably not a college reading level, its been awhile.

 

The Master and the Margerita - Mikhail Bulgakov

 

Heart-Shaped Box -- Joe Hill

Great book!

 

Do you know who Joe Hill really is?

 

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood...

crazy strange plot about a post-war society in which the US government is taken over by unknown people who take away women's rights and force them as slaves to bear children for the elite...

 

The Dark Tower series - Stephen King

 

No... Who?

 

read Tom Robbins . . brilliant author

still life with woodpecker
jitterbug perfume

excellent abstract novels

 

Stephen King's son.


Joe Hill King.

He dropped the King because he did not want people to think he was depending on the family name for sales.

 

That's actually really awesome then.

Oh, and they're making a movie out of his book! If you were interested... ^^ You probably already know! Haha.

 

Yeah, it's a good read. It should be a good movie too.

 

Well, they can either make it REALLY good, or REALLY bad. Books are too often ten times better than their movies. We'll see. I've got high hopes for it, though.

 

Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
Watership Down - Richard Adams
The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs - Irvine Welsh

 

One Flew Over the Cucoos Nest - Ken Kesey

Blaze - Richard Bachman

The Running Man, The Long Walk, Road Work - Richard Bachman

Rage (if you can find it) - Richard Bachman

 

Northwest Passage

 

A Brave New World - Aldus Huxley ------now that is strange

 

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas ~ Hunter S. Thompson
House of Leaves ~ Mark Z. Danielewski (now this one is really strange)

 

1984 George Orwell
Animal Farm George Orwell
The Time Machine H.G. Wells
The War Of The Worlds H.G. Wells

All pretty creepy

 

I'd go with any philip k dick novel some examples We can remember it for you wholesale - a book about a man who goes to a memory implantation clinic to get a fabulous trip to mars implanted to his brain to fulfil an obsession with reaching the red planet, where it is discovered he really has gotten to mars in the past and that memory was deleted (total recall loosely based on this) Flow my tears the policeman said - a book about a man who is a television super star and will have nearly eternal youth, he suddenly finds himself in the same reality but as if he had never existed. in a strict police state where not having the right id cards will get you sent to a forced labour camp... he finds it tough. cant really go into just how deep and crazy the book gets without spoiling anything but after you read it, read his fascinating essay "how to build a universe without it falling apart two days later" or something like that. or read the essay first. pretty interesting stuff. a scanner darkly - if you liked the flick youll like the book, even more. its all about a man who is an undercover agent, he is asked by his superiors to closely watch *himself* and its all about like split personalities drug abuse etc etc oh and my fave pkd book, "the man in the high castle"... its a book about if the allies had lost the war and the nazis had taken over the world along with japan etc etc. In it, a man has written an underground book about what would things be like if the allies had won the war, though it describes yet another new reality, and some of the characters look for hope in new worlds

 

I really enjoyed 'The man in the High Castle'. It was very well written and thought provoking, although I found the ending a bit of a letdown. It left me a little underwhelmed.