FabSwingers.com forum: Bizarre Books

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

What’s the most bizarre book you’ve ever read?

Mine is The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin.

I found it really hard going, & it took me months to get all the way though. I have never read it since - I don’t even know where it is!

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By *ophie199Couple
over a year ago

Leeds

Love Robert Rankin. Never found anyone else really reference him. That’s great!!

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By *rwhowhatwherewhyMan
over a year ago

Aylesbury

Probably something I read as a child. Most children's books are weird

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Not so much a bizarre book as a bizarre gift of a book. My parents gave me 'The Taxidermists Daughter' to me as a birthday present - not sure if there was a hidden message........!

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By *.D.I.D.A.SMan
over a year ago

London/Essex... ish... Romford to be exact

House of Leaves. Although I'm not sure whether the weird structure and format really adds that much.

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By *ob Carpe DiemMan
over a year ago

Torquay

Looking for a bandit Anthony Carson was interesting probably wouldn't say bizarre though, remember laughing outloud at page 1 of Catch 22 on a busy commuter train

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By *naswingdressWoman
over a year ago

Manchester (she/her)

Something academic for sure. I've seen some shit

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By *ollingHillsMan
over a year ago

Near Sudbury, Suffolk

The Voynich manuscript

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Elephants on acid and other bizarre science experiments.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Love Robert Rankin. Never found anyone else really reference him. That’s great!! "

You’d probably get on with my brother, he’s read & re-read the chocolate bunnies, also James Joyce. I’m not really a reader though I have read and enjoyed some books, Clare Balding’s book was good and extremely funny at the part of her brother and ponies. I probably need to read that again.

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By *awtybikerMan
over a year ago

Barnoldswick

The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star By Nikki Sixx

A kind of biography pieced together from journals he kept through the years. An interesting but bizarre read

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Death of a salesman

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

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By *drian52Man
over a year ago

Derby

Jude the obscure by Hardy

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By *ornyguyMan
over a year ago

Hillsborough, NI

From memory a long time ago, Switch Bitch by Roald Dahl and a collection of short stories also by Roald Dahl; one such compilation is called Kiss Kiss after a quick search.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Jude the obscure by Hardy"

I’m in that film…. Box office flop from 1993

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By *iaisonseekerMan
over a year ago

Liverpool

Read some Philip K Dick - seriously mindbending stuff that foreshadows much of what has subsequently happened in technology, the environment, society etc.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Starlight Barking - it's the sequel to 101 Dalmatians.

It's absolutely bonkers!

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Cloud Atlas

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By *otBunsHunWoman
over a year ago

Yorkshire

The Loney.

Read it a few years back, I still think Wtf about it sometimes lol

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By *nliveneTV/TS
over a year ago

Selby

School books 26 years ago

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By *aptain Caveman41Man
over a year ago

Home

"School books 26 years ago

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couldn't agree more

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By *ames-77Man
over a year ago

milton keynes

Depends what you class as bizarre.. Edgar Cayce has written some amazing books pretty much everything he prophesied has come true .. where he talks about beneath the sphynx and Atlantis is amazing

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By *olly_chromaticTV/TS
over a year ago

Stockport

"The Third Policeman" by Flann O'Brien. Bizarre squared, but a really good read

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most books by Jeff Noon

Vurt

Pollen

Automated Alice

Nymphomation

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By *idnight RamblerMan
over a year ago

Pershore

Joshua Ferris : The Unnamed

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