Random books

Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 302 Location: australia

Books or magazines that are just about really strange things, any one know any?

T-Rex - OMG!

eh? EH?

Puh-lease! Joined: 11 Jun 2005 Posts: 1017

The Curse of Lono by Hunter S. Thompson and Ralph Steadman. It's a retelling of his trip to hawaii and is CRAZY. Ralph Steadman has a bunch of freaky illustrations in there too.

Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 36 Location: Los Angeles

"House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski. It's a book about a documentary that's about a house whose dimensions on the inside exceed those of the outside.

There's much more to it than that, but it's amazing.

Joined: 01 Aug 2005 Posts: 1181 Location: Adventure

Father Twilight, it's a children's book that I loved when I was a children, and it's about this guy who sets up the stars and moon and everything each night. Great book with great pictures. You should read it.

But as for strange lengthy books, go with religious texts. They're always quite odd.

Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 3863 Location: Utah and/or Texas

nlisticmystc wrote:

"House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski. It's a book about a documentary that's about a house whose dimensions on the inside exceed those of the outside.

There's much more to it than that, but it's amazing.

I LOST this book when I was only half-way through, and that makes me SO MAD.

Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 302 Location: australia

super duper girl wrote:

nlisticmystc wrote:

"House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski. It's a book about a documentary that's about a house whose dimensions on the inside exceed those of the outside.

There's much more to it than that, but it's amazing.

I LOST this book when I was only half-way through, and that makes me SO MAD.

This book sounds mega fun!

Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 36 Location: Los Angeles

It really is. It's written like one extended concrete poem. It's written in a way that, depending on the action in the narrative, your reading is paced along with the narrative. In addition to this, it's written to make you FEEL what's going on in the book.

Like, when they're trekking through a maze, the narrative breaks down. You spend hours reading a single page, backtracking, flipping the book upside down and such. But when they're trying to escape, there's only a few words per page, and you're frantically turning pages to try and keep up.

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 2:05 pm

SHIT! I need that book!

Joined: 11 Nov 2004 Posts: 1442

While shopping at an old second hand store recently, I got home to find a mysterious book had somehow snuck in with my purchases.

It is a small, tatty old book called

PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS
AND
SELF-FULFILLMENT

Max Maltz, M.D.

I have a feeling it's one of those books for which it far more entertaining to imagine the content rather than read.

Joined: 03 Apr 2005 Posts: 3863 Location: Utah and/or Texas

nlisticmystc wrote:

It really is. It's written like one extended concrete poem. It's written in a way that, depending on the action in the narrative, your reading is paced along with the narrative. In addition to this, it's written to make you FEEL what's going on in the book.

Like, when they're trekking through a maze, the narrative breaks down. You spend hours reading a single page, backtracking, flipping the book upside down and such. But when they're trying to escape, there's only a few words per page, and you're frantically turning pages to try and keep up.

D-did the book start to get really crappy after about half-way through? And you were all like "man, I wish something had prevented me from finishing that!"

Joined: 23 Jun 2005 Posts: 36 Location: Los Angeles

super duper girl wrote:

nlisticmystc wrote:

It really is. It's written like one extended concrete poem. It's written in a way that, depending on the action in the narrative, your reading is paced along with the narrative. In addition to this, it's written to make you FEEL what's going on in the book.

Like, when they're trekking through a maze, the narrative breaks down. You spend hours reading a single page, backtracking, flipping the book upside down and such. But when they're trying to escape, there's only a few words per page, and you're frantically turning pages to try and keep up.

D-did the book start to get really crappy after about half-way through? And you were all like "man, I wish something had prevented me from finishing that!"

No... I was pretty consistently astounded throughout the book. It may, in fact, be my favorite book of all time.

Joined: 05 Aug 2005 Posts: 117

The Callahan's Place series of stories and books are pretty wierd.

Some of my favourites, but they're pretty wierd.

Joined: 16 May 2005 Posts: 302 Location: australia

Please explain this wierdness, i'm curious

Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 1010 Location: Dagobah

Andrew will hate me for beating him to this! look into

"Giraffes?
Giraffes!"

OHHHH, sorry andrew! *love*

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 1:47 am

I found out about it from BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM.

Not my idea at all.

Joined: 06 Apr 2005 Posts: 1010 Location: Dagobah

Andrew wrote:

I found out about it from BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE ON THIS FORUM.

Not my idea at all.

GET BENT! ..*more love*

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:15 am

I was going to put "Giraffes? Giraffes!" a long time ago, but I didn't think it fit in with that poetry book and stuff.

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 11:41 am

I was at my friends house once and they were going to send their newborn baby cousin this awesome book! I think it was called "No Biting" and it was awesome! It told you things like "Don't Kick Your Dog" and then on a page you could sort of flip up it said "What Can You Kick?" and then you would flip it up and it would say "A BALL!" The illustrations were hilarious.

Posted: Sat Aug 06, 2005 5:34 pm

If anyone's familier with Rene Magritte's paintings of 'Ceci ne pas une pipe', they might be interested to know that someone wrote a children's book on the subject, with things like an apple, with the caption (in french) ''This is not an apple'' or a picture of a pope with ''This is not a Pope''

It was amazing.