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I can’t find any other book that touches these. Not sure if the picture loaded but the books are “American Psycho” (gotta love that urinal cake dipped in Godiva chocolate Patrick gifted to Evelyn on a date).
Other book is “Dead Inside”.
A Scanner Darkly or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick.
Homunculus manga. Check it out!
First one that comes to mind is Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (using the pseudonym Murray Constantine).
It's a "What if the Nazis Won the War?" story, set 900 years in the future. However, it was written in 1937, two years before WW2 even started.
It's kind of like 1984, and much of it is quite talky and philosophical, but there are also some bits that are really, really messed up. It's excellent.
Assisted Living by Nikanor Teratologen. (Original title Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen for Swedish lemmings). Don't read up on it. Go in blind for a pristine experience.
The diceman, Luke Rhineheart.
Trout Fishing in America
I Shall Spit on Your Graves - Boris Vian
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Crazy read
Conspiracy Against the Human Race by Thomas Ligotti
or
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Story of the Eye by Georges Bataille
I was about to post this one :)
I read it many years ago because it was supposed to be Bjork's favorite book.
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Most palahniuk is pretty wtf actually.
Survivor was going to be my pick but yes invisible monsters is certainly twisted.
That was the first author that came to my mind lol
I’ll check it out. I’ve heard of “Haunted”
I was just about to suggest Haunted.
You never forget Guts.
Read Guts two decades ago
Still haunts me
Yeah. I think it was probably about that long ago for me too.
Pool vacuums still make me nervous.
Oof. That one has been on my list. Thank you for the reminder
Blood Meridian
The Judge is one of the greatest villains ever written.
Absolutely true. Has some of the best quotes ever too.
Shit. That one is on my list. Any others?
Fiction~Exquisite Corpse... there's tons more but I'd recommend these nonfictions first.
Nonfiction~ empire of the summer moon, the gulag archipelago, the blood never dried, bury my heart at wounded knee, bloodlands, mao's great famin, king Leopolds ghost, alive, the great terror, the rape of nanking, ordinary men and man's search for meaning.
Classic.
That final sentence is embedded deeply into my core. No words for it.
Shatner Quake by Jeff Burk.
After a reality bomb goes off at the first ever ShatnerCon, all of the characters ever played by William Shatner are suddenly sucked into our world. Their mission: hunt down and destroy the real William Shatner.
There is a book community where you might get better recommendations. And also if you explained more of what you mean by "wtf". If you mean like messed up people doing messed up things, well I've got nothing, but if you mean books that make you scratch you head and just say "wtf" because it makes no sense, but is good, then either the Southern Reach Trilogy or House of Leaves
Thank you. I’ll post it there with more detail on the title.
Kill Your Friends by John Niven is sometimes compared unfavourably in reviews to American Psycho (probably due to the ruthless, callous, murderous businessman main character Stelfox, a record label A&R man) but i prefer it, mainly because it's very funny. it also has a spinoff, The Second Coming, in which Jesus enters and wins a pop idol type competition run by Stelfox and uses the winnings to set up a Waco style commune, and a sequel, Kill 'Em All, where Stelfox, after becoming an established Simon Cowell type mogul, gets up to further grotty business.
But if you want severely wtf material, The Bighead by Edward Lee will satisfy
Thank you! And The Second Coming sounds hilarious off the bat
it is, if you try them i hope you enjoy
Lesabendio by Paul Scheerbart comes to mind. But It's not wtf in a disturbing sense like these books. More like 'wtf am I reading?' - it's a really unique and imaginative early sci-fi book.
Nice, enjoy!
If you're newer to Sci Fi and want to try something really quick that's a bit more disturbing, I'd also highly recommend 'I Have No Mouth but I Must Scream' by Harlan Ellison. It's a short story, you could probably knock it out in like 30 minutes, but I love it.
That one as well has been on my list. I think they’re making a show on it and I hope the hype of the book is real. Like tender is the flesh. Thanks for the reminder
Thanks, I’ll check it out. Only sci-fi (sorta) was Ghost Land
Random Acts of Senseless Violence by Jack Womack
Just heard about this through Man Carry Thing. Sounds like it should win based on his description of it
Fight Club, Guts, etc.
Ordinary Men: Reserve Police Battalion 101 and the Final Solution in Poland
This book rewrote my view of humanity in a dark way
The Five Fingers by Gayle Rivers. Might be one of the goriest books I've ever read.
R Scott Bakker's books if you're feeling like questioning your free will. Beautifully bleak and philosophical. Imagine if Tolkien had his heart broken instead of marriage and wrote on that.
We make a sad couple,” she said, as though making a casual observation.
“Why would you say that?”
“A sorcerer and a harlot . . . There’s something sad about that.”
He grasped her hand and kissed the tips of her fingers. “There’s something sad about all couples,” he said.”
