super strange books

atsonicpark · 11.15.2010, 12:03 AM

Not sure if there's already a thread for this, but I'm looking for really really weird books. I already know all the Burroughs, Ballard, and tons of bizarro stuff (though I'm going to list some less obvious "bizarro" stuff below).

First of all, the weirdest book ever is probably THE ZEN OF FARTING, which is a book about the spiritual lessons of flatulence by a Buddhist teacher... http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Farting-Re..._tit_1_russss0 ... exactly what you think it is, dudes.

The second weirdest book ever is I'M BARACK, NOT BORAT (http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Not-Bor...tit_29_russss0) .. it's 139 blank pages. That's it. Seriously...

That book... is 139 pages.

139 blank pages.

Lemme reiterate: That book, with the weirdass title and lame/weird cover image, is made up of 139 pages WITH NO TEXT WHATSOEVER ON THEM. Is that brilliant? I think so. By namedropping Barack Obama, Sadam Huddein, all Borat (all people who get a hundred billion google searches a second), he's already sold a million dollars worth of books before he even makes the book. And so... the blank book comes out and well.. I'm guessing he has done just that. There's people who will buy it just for the absurdity, just because they don't know any better, and will buy for others as gag gifts... either way, this dude is probably fucking rich. From 139 blank pages. AMAZING... why didn't I think of that?

I have a great book by Tim Drage called CENTIMENTAL, which is about 350 pages of print defects. Just random lines. It's the book equivalent of noise, basically. I highly reccomend it. Go on facebook, add tim drage, msg him and he'll hook you up with it.

NATURAL HARVEST: COOKING WITH CUM is pretty ... interesting. http://www.cookingwithcum.com/

PERSONAL DEPT by Dylan Sparrow is worth checking out. He's a modern-day Burroughs, imo. You know how a bunch of authors are namedropping Burroughs and they got the weirdness down, but not the brilliance? Dylan has the brilliance. His descriptions of things are unreal.

I am really curious about the book HOW TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO DEPRESSION: IF YOU CONSTRICT ANUS 100 TIMES EVERY SINGLE DAY! MALARKEY?! OR EFFECTIVE WAY?! by Hiroyuki Nishigaki? It's here: h...ttp://www.amazon.com/How-Good-bye-Depression-Constrict-Everyday/dp/0595094724/ref=cm_lmf_tit_30_russss0 ... will probably buy it soon.

Look these up on amazon... I put links to some of the weirder ones:

OTHER WORD BOOKS:
- CHOOSE YOUR OWN MINDFUCK FEST # 3 (insane/fun choose your own adventure type book; brilliant beyond words -- that's why there are pictures!)
- THE ULTRAFUCKERS
- SATAN BURGER
- RAMPAGING FUCKERS OF EVERYTHING ON THE CRAZY SHITTY PLANET OF THE VOMIT ATMOSPHERE (haven't completed this one yet, but what I've read of it is amazing -- http://www.amazon.com/Rampaging-Fuck.../ref=pd_cp_b_1)
- THE DEADHEART SHELTERS (""The literary equivalent of an Alejandro Jodorowsky film." a famous review intones)
- ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE
- EGG MAN (my favorite Carlton Mellick book, and I love 'em all)
- CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN
- FOOP!
- SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNPLUGGED
- APESHIT!
- RANT
- MENSTRUATING MALL
- LIZARD WINE
- STEEL BREAKFAST ERA: DECADENT RETURN OF THE HI-FI QUEEN AND HER EMBRYONIC REPTILE INFECTION
- GEEK LOVE
- CHEMICAL GARDENS
- TALES FROM THE VINEGAR WASTELAND
- HOW TO DATE A WHITE WOMAN: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ASIAN MEN
- HOW IN THE WOODS
- HOW TO PEE STANDING UP: TIPS FOR HIP CHICKS
- WHO CUT THE CHEESE: CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE FART
- MULLET: HAIRSTYLES OF THE GODS
- PORNOGAMI: A GUIDE TO ANCIENT ART OF PAPER FOLDING FOR ADULTS (http://www.amazon.com/Pornogami-Guid...tit_25_russss0 .. it is what it says it is.. make dicks out of torn out pages! ... I don't own this but am buying a copy soon)
- THE BIG COLORING BOOK OF VAGINAS (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Coloring-B...tit_26_russss0)
- COMPLETE ASSHOLE'S GUIDE TO HANDLING CHICKS
- ENGLISH AS A SECOND FUCKING LANGUAGE: HOW TO SWEAR EFFECTIVELY, EXPLAINED IN DETAIL WITH NUMEROUS EXAMPLES TAKEN FROM EVERYDAY LIFE
- DIY COFFINS (FOR PETS AND PEOPLE)

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 11.15.2010, 01:39 AM

I've always meant to get around to some of the bizarro novels. I was going to post about 'em here, but it figures you already know all about 'em...

So, I'll just post this instead...

finding nobody · 11.15.2010, 01:40 AM

EDIT- Sealab rules maan!
hahaha!! That cooking and with cum reminds of how Kurt Cobain put semen into his paints and painting with it.
The Barrack Obama book is sort of the the literature extension of John Cage's silent piece. Still funny, regardless. I read that Lloyd Kaufman expiriemented with long blank slient screens on The Girl Who Returned. Which, lead movie goers to think the reels had fucked up
I remember a pretty interesting book called House of Leaves that a friend showed me. Which of course looks kind of normal compared to some of the shit you posted. but, it's an interesting concept for a book anyways

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 11.15.2010, 01:49 AM

Oh yeah, House of Leaves is pretty weird/cool. I should've thought of that, it's sitting on the bottom of the shelf right next to me... ha! It's a really unique novel that will have you flipping, spinning, and even pointing your book at a mirror just to read it! I dig how it genuinely plays with the concept, "What is a book?"

Hmmm.... what about Clown Girl?

"IN THIS DARKLY COMIC NOVEL, Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a neighborhood so run down and penniless that drugs, balloon animals and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, Clown Girl struggles to find her place in the world of high art; she has dreams of greatness and calls on the masters, Charlie Chaplin, Kafka and da Vinci for inspiration. But all is not art in her life: in an effort to support herself and her under-employed performance-artist boyfriend, she is drawn into the world of paying jobs, and finds herself unwittingly turned into a "corporate clown," trapped in a cycle of meaningless, high paid gigs which veer dangerously close, then closer to prostitution. Using the lens of clown life to illuminate a struggle between artistic integrity and an economic reality, Monica Drake has created a novel that embraces the high comedy of early film stars -- most notably Chaplin and W.C. Fields. At the same time Drake manages to raise questions about issues of class, gender, economics and prejudice. This debut novel is an stunning blend of the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty. The novel resists easy classification, but is completely accessible to a general audience."

Then of course there's always Naked Lunch, and Harmony Korine's A Crack Up at the Race Riots (which I haven't read, but seems pretty weird).

atsonicpark · 11.15.2010, 02:24 AM

Yeah, I already know clown girl, strangely this post comes from a list I posted to a friend but I removed the first 5 because a few of them were things like a godard cinema book and stuff, and one was clown girl. Hah.

gast30 · 11.15.2010, 04:16 AM

clown girl
this automaticly remind me of
as i see it in not wasting time reading

kraftwerk 'das model'

pbradley · 11.15.2010, 05:03 AM

If on a winter's night a traveler

gast30 · 11.15.2010, 10:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pbradley

If on a winter's night a traveler

so this is the book that deepens the reader to get in touch with the femininside and make man grow long hair
really dangerous

tesla69 · 11.15.2010, 11:12 AM

Those are just books with gimmicks. They're not strange. You want strange, check out the last 2 Rudy Rucker books. =

me. · 11.15.2010, 02:41 PM

Not a book, Pink Tentacle is usually entertaining,maybe you seen this..

chairman of the bored · 11.15.2010, 07:58 PM

There's the paedophile's guide to love and pleasure most recently, but it just got taken off Amazon.

Oh yeah, there's nothing strange about house of leaves, it's a contrived piece of shit.

Dr. Eugene Felikson · 11.15.2010, 08:11 PM

I once read this kiddie novel in middle school about a young teenage girl who literally got sucked into her X-MAS tree as if it were a vortex or something. Except from then on she was just the tree. Her family would interact with the tree, and they eventually took it to get chopped up for firewood. It was incredible.

I can't recall the name of it, or find any info online for the life of me. I thought it was maybe part of Todd Strasser's "Help! I'm Trapped..." series, but apparently that's not right either. I do remember it having a similar title though.

Silent Dan Speaks · 11.15.2010, 08:11 PM

House of Leaves is fantastic and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a lot of fun too.

I'm still convinced that the cooking with cum book is a joke.

batreleaser · 11.16.2010, 12:36 AM

I'm pretty square when it comes to books. There's too many amazing unfound Bukowski stories out there for me really to find the time and read a bunch of pointless but potentially awesome ones, yknow?

pbradley · 11.16.2010, 04:06 AM

Codex Seraphinianus

chairman of the bored · 11.16.2010, 06:54 PM

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Originally Posted by pbradley

Codex Seraphinianus

Whoa. That sounds pretty amazing.
What did you think of If on a winter's night...?

ink. · 11.16.2010, 10:43 PM

I don't really have any particular favourites, but polyester is generally where I used to go to flick through odd reads..

http://www.polyester.com.au

cars_willkillyou · 11.17.2010, 03:37 AM

house of leaves.

tesla69 · 11.17.2010, 02:37 PM

Rudy Rucker's Hylozoic

11.15.2010, 12:03 AM	#1
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Not sure if there's already a thread for this, but I'm looking for really really weird books. I already know all the Burroughs, Ballard, and tons of bizarro stuff (though I'm going to list some less obvious "bizarro" stuff below). First of all, the weirdest book ever is probably THE ZEN OF FARTING, which is a book about the spiritual lessons of flatulence by a Buddhist teacher... http://www.amazon.com/Zen-Farting-Re..._tit_1_russss0 ... exactly what you think it is, dudes. The second weirdest book ever is I'M BARACK, NOT BORAT (http://www.amazon.com/Barack-Not-Bor...tit_29_russss0) .. it's 139 blank pages. That's it. Seriously... That book... is 139 pages. 139 blank pages. Lemme reiterate: That book, with the weirdass title and lame/weird cover image, is made up of 139 pages WITH NO TEXT WHATSOEVER ON THEM. Is that brilliant? I think so. By namedropping Barack Obama, Sadam Huddein, all Borat (all people who get a hundred billion google searches a second), he's already sold a million dollars worth of books before he even makes the book. And so... the blank book comes out and well.. I'm guessing he has done just that. There's people who will buy it just for the absurdity, just because they don't know any better, and will buy for others as gag gifts... either way, this dude is probably fucking rich. From 139 blank pages. AMAZING... why didn't I think of that? I have a great book by Tim Drage called CENTIMENTAL, which is about 350 pages of print defects. Just random lines. It's the book equivalent of noise, basically. I highly reccomend it. Go on facebook, add tim drage, msg him and he'll hook you up with it. NATURAL HARVEST: COOKING WITH CUM is pretty ... interesting. http://www.cookingwithcum.com/ PERSONAL DEPT by Dylan Sparrow is worth checking out. He's a modern-day Burroughs, imo. You know how a bunch of authors are namedropping Burroughs and they got the weirdness down, but not the brilliance? Dylan has the brilliance. His descriptions of things are unreal. I am really curious about the book HOW TO SAY GOOD-BYE TO DEPRESSION: IF YOU CONSTRICT ANUS 100 TIMES EVERY SINGLE DAY! MALARKEY?! OR EFFECTIVE WAY?! by Hiroyuki Nishigaki? It's here: h...ttp://www.amazon.com/How-Good-bye-Depression-Constrict-Everyday/dp/0595094724/ref=cm_lmf_tit_30_russss0 ... will probably buy it soon. Look these up on amazon... I put links to some of the weirder ones: OTHER WORD BOOKS: - CHOOSE YOUR OWN MINDFUCK FEST # 3 (insane/fun choose your own adventure type book; brilliant beyond words -- that's why there are pictures!) - THE ULTRAFUCKERS - SATAN BURGER - RAMPAGING FUCKERS OF EVERYTHING ON THE CRAZY SHITTY PLANET OF THE VOMIT ATMOSPHERE (haven't completed this one yet, but what I've read of it is amazing -- http://www.amazon.com/Rampaging-Fuck.../ref=pd_cp_b_1) - THE DEADHEART SHELTERS (""The literary equivalent of an Alejandro Jodorowsky film." a famous review intones) - ANGEL DUST APOCALYPSE - EGG MAN (my favorite Carlton Mellick book, and I love 'em all) - CHOIR OF ILL CHILDREN - FOOP! - SOME THINGS ARE BETTER LEFT UNPLUGGED - APESHIT! - RANT - MENSTRUATING MALL - LIZARD WINE - STEEL BREAKFAST ERA: DECADENT RETURN OF THE HI-FI QUEEN AND HER EMBRYONIC REPTILE INFECTION - GEEK LOVE - CHEMICAL GARDENS - TALES FROM THE VINEGAR WASTELAND - HOW TO DATE A WHITE WOMAN: A PRACTICAL GUIDE FOR ASIAN MEN - HOW IN THE WOODS - HOW TO PEE STANDING UP: TIPS FOR HIP CHICKS - WHO CUT THE CHEESE: CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE FART - MULLET: HAIRSTYLES OF THE GODS - PORNOGAMI: A GUIDE TO ANCIENT ART OF PAPER FOLDING FOR ADULTS (http://www.amazon.com/Pornogami-Guid...tit_25_russss0 .. it is what it says it is.. make dicks out of torn out pages! ... I don't own this but am buying a copy soon) - THE BIG COLORING BOOK OF VAGINAS (http://www.amazon.com/Big-Coloring-B...tit_26_russss0) - COMPLETE ASSHOLE'S GUIDE TO HANDLING CHICKS - ENGLISH AS A SECOND FUCKING LANGUAGE: HOW TO SWEAR EFFECTIVELY, EXPLAINED IN DETAIL WITH NUMEROUS EXAMPLES TAKEN FROM EVERYDAY LIFE - DIY COFFINS (FOR PETS AND PEOPLE) __________________
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11.15.2010, 01:39 AM	#2
Dr. Eugene Felikson invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,571	I've always meant to get around to some of the bizarro novels. I was going to post about 'em here, but it figures you already know all about 'em... So, I'll just post this instead...
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11.15.2010, 01:40 AM	#3
finding nobody invito al cielo Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Florida Posts: 7,275	EDIT- Sealab rules maan! hahaha!! That cooking and with cum reminds of how Kurt Cobain put semen into his paints and painting with it. The Barrack Obama book is sort of the the literature extension of John Cage's silent piece. Still funny, regardless. I read that Lloyd Kaufman expiriemented with long blank slient screens on The Girl Who Returned. Which, lead movie goers to think the reels had fucked up I remember a pretty interesting book called House of Leaves that a friend showed me. Which of course looks kind of normal compared to some of the shit you posted. but, it's an interesting concept for a book anyways
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11.15.2010, 01:49 AM	#4
Dr. Eugene Felikson invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,571	Oh yeah, House of Leaves is pretty weird/cool. I should've thought of that, it's sitting on the bottom of the shelf right next to me... ha! It's a really unique novel that will have you flipping, spinning, and even pointing your book at a mirror just to read it! I dig how it genuinely plays with the concept, "What is a book?" Hmmm.... what about Clown Girl? "IN THIS DARKLY COMIC NOVEL, Clown Girl lives in Baloneytown, a neighborhood so run down and penniless that drugs, balloon animals and even rubber chickens contribute to the local currency. Against a backdrop of petty crime, Clown Girl struggles to find her place in the world of high art; she has dreams of greatness and calls on the masters, Charlie Chaplin, Kafka and da Vinci for inspiration. But all is not art in her life: in an effort to support herself and her under-employed performance-artist boyfriend, she is drawn into the world of paying jobs, and finds herself unwittingly turned into a "corporate clown," trapped in a cycle of meaningless, high paid gigs which veer dangerously close, then closer to prostitution. Using the lens of clown life to illuminate a struggle between artistic integrity and an economic reality, Monica Drake has created a novel that embraces the high comedy of early film stars -- most notably Chaplin and W.C. Fields. At the same time Drake manages to raise questions about issues of class, gender, economics and prejudice. This debut novel is an stunning blend of the bizarre, the humorous, and the gritty. The novel resists easy classification, but is completely accessible to a general audience." Then of course there's always Naked Lunch, and Harmony Korine's A Crack Up at the Race Riots (which I haven't read, but seems pretty weird).
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11.15.2010, 02:24 AM	#5
atsonicpark invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 28,843	Yeah, I already know clown girl, strangely this post comes from a list I posted to a friend but I removed the first 5 because a few of them were things like a godard cinema book and stuff, and one was clown girl. Hah. __________________
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gast30 invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: where all the childeren are insaine Posts: 6,802	clown girl this automaticly remind me of as i see it in not wasting time reading kraftwerk 'das model'
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tesla69 Banned Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 4,055	Those are just books with gimmicks. They're not strange. You want strange, check out the last 2 Rudy Rucker books. =
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me. stalker Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 400	Not a book, Pink Tentacle is usually entertaining,maybe you seen this..
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chairman of the bored the destroyed room Join Date: Jul 2008 Posts: 569	There's the paedophile's guide to love and pleasure most recently, but it just got taken off Amazon. Oh yeah, there's nothing strange about house of leaves, it's a contrived piece of shit. __________________ stay awake to the ways of the world
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Dr. Eugene Felikson invito al cielo Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 7,571	I once read this kiddie novel in middle school about a young teenage girl who literally got sucked into her X-MAS tree as if it were a vortex or something. Except from then on she was just the tree. Her family would interact with the tree, and they eventually took it to get chopped up for firewood. It was incredible. I can't recall the name of it, or find any info online for the life of me. I thought it was maybe part of Todd Strasser's "Help! I'm Trapped..." series, but apparently that's not right either. I do remember it having a similar title though.
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Silent Dan Speaks the destroyed room Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 603	House of Leaves is fantastic and If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a lot of fun too. I'm still convinced that the cooking with cum book is a joke.
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batreleaser invito al cielo Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York, NY Posts: 5,155	I'm pretty square when it comes to books. There's too many amazing unfound Bukowski stories out there for me really to find the time and read a bunch of pointless but potentially awesome ones, yknow? __________________ listen to pink reason
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pbradley invito al cielo Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: SoKo Posts: 10,621	Codex Seraphinianus
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ink. the end of the ugly Join Date: Apr 2010 Posts: 862	I don't really have any particular favourites, but polyester is generally where I used to go to flick through odd reads.. http://www.polyester.com.au
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11.17.2010, 03:37 AM	#18
cars_willkillyou stalker Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Florida Posts: 520	house of leaves. __________________
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tesla69 Banned Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: NYC Posts: 4,055	Rudy Rucker's Hylozoic
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