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docbungle · 07-19-2003, 04:39 PM

For those of you who like the strange stuff, can you recommend any odd, quirky, deviant, out of the mainstream-type books? Either novels or short stories.

A couple of my faves:

Zod Wallopp by William Browning Spencer
(Kinda sci-fi but kinda not. Just wierd.)

Blackburn by Bradley Denton
(Serial killer but not contrived or tacky. Told from his perspective. And you actually root for him)

Beauty by Brian D'Amato
(The dangers of obsessing over ones looks.)

GunslingerCold · 07-20-2003, 11:54 AM

Well, Chunk Palanihuk is mainstream but you will proably like his stuff.
Try Douglas Coupland, especially Hey Nostradomus!

Ganguro · 07-22-2003, 06:10 AM

i cannot endorse reading anything by Doug Coupland all the way through. Your best bet is to check the book out at the library..
He's one of those lazy gen-X writers

docbungle · 07-22-2003, 08:24 AM

I don't need to know what NOT to read. Thx anyway.

Locobot · 07-23-2003, 10:12 AM

If you want quirky you'll do no better than Stanislaw Lem, Polish sci-fi author of Solaris and many other novels. There are also collections of short stories. Three more of my favorite writers fit your criteria -- Phillip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges -- These are in order of increasing difficulty, obtuseness.

07-19-2003, 04:39 PM	#1 (permalink)
docbungle It's all downhill from here Location: Denver	Odd reading For those of you who like the strange stuff, can you recommend any odd, quirky, deviant, out of the mainstream-type books? Either novels or short stories. A couple of my faves: Zod Wallopp by William Browning Spencer (Kinda sci-fi but kinda not. Just wierd.) Blackburn by Bradley Denton (Serial killer but not contrived or tacky. Told from his perspective. And you actually root for him) Beauty by Brian D'Amato (The dangers of obsessing over ones looks.)

07-20-2003, 11:54 AM	#2 (permalink)
GunslingerCold Banned Location: IL	Well, Chunk Palanihuk is mainstream but you will proably like his stuff. Try Douglas Coupland, especially Hey Nostradomus!

07-22-2003, 06:10 AM	#3 (permalink)
Ganguro Army of Me	i cannot endorse reading anything by Doug Coupland all the way through. Your best bet is to check the book out at the library.. He's one of those lazy gen-X writers

07-22-2003, 08:24 AM	#4 (permalink)
docbungle It's all downhill from here Location: Denver	I don't need to know what NOT to read. Thx anyway.

07-23-2003, 10:12 AM	#5 (permalink)
Locobot is awesome!	If you want quirky you'll do no better than Stanislaw Lem, Polish sci-fi author of Solaris and many other novels. There are also collections of short stories. Three more of my favorite writers fit your criteria -- Phillip K. Dick, Franz Kafka, Jorge Luis Borges -- These are in order of increasing difficulty, obtuseness.