Weird book

Breakfast of Champions

American Psycho

Battle Royale

Perfume: the Story of a Murderer

thanks guys. gonna hit up some used bookstores this weekend.

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House of Leaves

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Oh yes. What a weird fricking book. Creepy like nothing else. I LOVE Stephen King, but he has never achieved the level of creepiness that this book sustains for its entire 650+ pages.

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Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

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pretty much anything by chuck p would do the trick. I read like 2 or 3 of his books about 10 years ago and enjoyed them. Choke was decent.

I can't remember the others though I did read fight club. One of those rare occasions where the movie was actually just as good if not better than the book though.

Helter Skelter is the craziest/scariest/weirdest/mind-frickingist book I've ever read. Mainly because it's all true.

thanks for all the tips guys. i ended up finding a used copy of Gumbo Ya-Ya: Folk Tales of Louisiana, already 100 pages in. very cool book.

not a Stephen King fan but I'm going to check out..
Breakfast of Champions
Battle Royale
House of Leaves
Perfume
Beyond Good and Evil
Rant

already read..
American Psycho
Helter Skelter
and almost all Palahniuk's and Easton Ellis' books

if anyone came up with others let me know, i'm always looking for a new book.

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House of Leaves

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For something old school, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym by Edgar Allan Poe. Poe's only book. Rarely read even in academic circles, but I make sure my American Literature classes read it. The sub-title tells all:

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COMPRISING THE DETAILS OF A MUTINY AND ATROCIOUS BUTCHERY. ON BOARD THE AMERICAN BRIG, GRAMPUS, ON HER WAY TO THE SOUTH SEAS, IN THE MONTH OF JUNE, 1827. WITH AN ACCOUNT OF THE RECAPTURE OF THE VESSEL BY THE SURVIVERS; THEIR SHIPWRECK AND SUBSEQUENT HORRIBLE SUFFERINGS FROM FAMINE; THEIR DELIVERANCE BY MEANS OF THE BRITISH SCHOONER JANE GUY; THE BRIEF CRUISE OF THIS LATTER VESSEL IN THE ANTARCTIC OCEAN; HER CAPTURE, AND THE MASSACRE OF HER CREW AMONG A GROUP OF ISLANDS IN THE EIGHTY-FOURTH PARALLEL OF SOUTHERN LATITUDE; TOGETHER WITH THE INCREDIBLE ADVENTURES AND DISCOVERIES STILL FARTHER SOUTH TO WHICH THAT DISTRESSING CALAMITY GAVE RISE.

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Also, check out The Manuscript Found at Saragossa

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Rant by Chuck Palahniuk

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His worst book by leaps and bounds. Read Survivor or Invisible Monsters instead. Both are far better and will probably never be made into movies.

I second House of Leaves. That book is a gigantic mindscrew. The letters from his mom in the epilogue (not in all editions) are spectacularly creepy and detailed. You could spend months just reading and decoding the epilogue, much less the book.

While a film adaptation can never happen, I would love for someone to make the Navidson Record.

The Wind-up Bird Chronicle
The Wasp Factory
The Master and Margarita
In the Lake of the Woods
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Short stories of Jorge Luis Borges (although these require a lot of effort)