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Whats the strangest written book you've ever read

>> No.16132188
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>>16132110
Hard to pin down a final answer, but pic related stands out from recent memory. Haven't read its sequels.

>> No.16132295

>>16132188
this is like a fantasy novel right?

>> No.16132452

>>16132295
Fantasy mixed with some historical figures and context.

>> No.16132675

>>16132110
GR

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>>16132110
It gives the impression of not having been written by a human.

>> No.16132783

animal money by michael cisco

>> No.16132882

>>16132783
thats been on my list for a very long time. tried reading unlanguage, didn't think it was that good. Is animal money any good? Honest to God, whats it even about?

>> No.16133503

>>16132882
Economics

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a brain in a satellite orbiting earth slowly gaining consciousness and control through relearning language

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bemberg

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Depends on how you define strange, but probably Nog by Rudolph Wurlitzer. Stranger ones exist, but this one stands out in my memory as one I enjoyed.

>> No.16134740

>>16134584
berg

>> No.16134762

>>16133729
This sounds interesting. Might have to check it out sometime.

>> No.16134841

>>16134047
Want to get this but it's so bloody expensive

>> No.16135803

>>16134584
I just finished The Possessed and it was very good, a great read. I didn't know anyone outside of Poland knew him

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>It was decided to undo our camp and move for to move has been our only path our only way toward some otherwhere some place we were not. The picking up and breaking camp if camp could be what it was at all and after grim assess we moved as a plodden wrack. An assembly now of the moaned and wailing and together we left Aute and set in the course of where our scouting group had discovered oysters and in our state of driven down we march and our Lord carries some of us more than others. It can not be painted another way. Nor can it be retold in any manner who can properly hand over how difficult in the most abundant ways this was.

>And from the nowhere comes a man who from our company has a claim to know how to make bellows from deerskin and from a hollow tree and God ordained this for God had selected from the company this man to speak.

>> No.16136180

>>16135803
he's fairly popular here on Argentina, altough almost always someone mentions him chances are they're talking about Ferdydurke
is it any good?

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gordon lish is pretty autistic in general but this is a new high. its the kind of humour that id imagine only god or lish would laugh at

>> No.16137148

>>16136253
fuck lish his shit is boring, reads like a twitter thread