So I'm taking a class in college called Great Books Since 1700 and so far they've been... well... interesting...
Candide: Or Optimism
A man is born in a nice mansion but is literally kicked in the butt like 30 times and banished when he kisses a girl he likes. Later he arrives at a town where he is liked. Then he is not liked and almost beaten to death. Then he is liked again. Then he is not liked again after he finds the girl he likes again and then he murders two men. He also meets a woman with one buttock. Then he gets separated by his love again after proposing. He ends up in El Dorodo for some time. He is well liked and is given 50 or 500 sheep and they all die except for like 1 of them almost immediately after leaving El Dorodo. Traveling happens a lot and people keep dying and coming back to life (it's like a theme or something in this book, I swear it happens every two pages). In the end, the man (Candide), finds his love, but she is ugly now. They marry anyway and live the rest of their life on a farm.
The Adventures of Eovaai
A princess is born and the King raises her to not think about her looks, but to be a good ruler. Before the King dies, he gives the princess a jewel that will protect her from all evil, and specifically instructs her not to lose it. Well... she loses it like... a page later. Everything falls apart after that: she is overthrown, the weather goes crazy, and then she is basically kidnapped by an ugly wizard. This wizard is using magic to make himself look more appealing so he can marry royal. He has done anything he can to keep control and be awesome: such as using a magic feather to put a different king under a spell and transforming a woman into a monkey, then into a rat. The wizard floods the princess with flattering words, and because she was not used to such nice words, she loses her intelligence, I guess. She then looks through a magic telescope to see that the wizard was in fact a wizard and ugly and using her to marry royal. She travels a lot also. Eventually, the wizard is found out about his magic and such and is sentenced to death by the people, but instead, runs into a tree and dies... Then the princess marries a prince she met three seconds ago and they unite their kingdoms. Happily Ever After... I guess.
Metamorphosis
A man is obsessed with his job and train tables. One morning, he wakes up as a bug (I thought it was a centipede the way it was described but I guess canonically he turned into a dung beetle but whatever). Everyone is reasonably horrified. The whole short story (it's like not even 50 pages long) consists of the man (Gregor) being neglected and then given attention to and then neglected and then given attention to and it goes back and forth a lot. Eventually, his family (which consists of his mother, father and sister) agree that he's not longer the person they once knew and that he's just a bug now, so they kick him out. He dies. Then the family lives happily ever after.
Next we're reading the Handmaid's Tale and I don't know what to expect having read these weirdies....
So I'm taking a class in college called Great Books Since 1700 and so far they've been... well... interesting...
Candide: Or Optimism
A man is born in a nice mansion but is literally kicked in the butt like 30 times and banished when he kisses a girl he likes. Later he arrives at a town where he is liked. Then he is not liked and almost beaten to death. Then he is liked again. Then he is not liked again after he finds the girl he likes again and then he murders two men. He also meets a woman with one buttock. Then he gets separated by his love again after proposing. He ends up in El Dorodo for some time. He is well liked and is given 50 or 500 sheep and they all die except for like 1 of them almost immediately after leaving El Dorodo. Traveling happens a lot and people keep dying and coming back to life (it's like a theme or something in this book, I swear it happens every two pages). In the end, the man (Candide), finds his love, but she is ugly now. They marry anyway and live the rest of their life on a farm.
The Adventures of Eovaai
A princess is born and the King raises her to not think about her looks, but to be a good ruler. Before the King dies, he gives the princess a jewel that will protect her from all evil, and specifically instructs her not to lose it. Well... she loses it like... a page later. Everything falls apart after that: she is overthrown, the weather goes crazy, and then she is basically kidnapped by an ugly wizard. This wizard is using magic to make himself look more appealing so he can marry royal. He has done anything he can to keep control and be awesome: such as using a magic feather to put a different king under a spell and transforming a woman into a monkey, then into a rat. The wizard floods the princess with flattering words, and because she was not used to such nice words, she loses her intelligence, I guess. She then looks through a magic telescope to see that the wizard was in fact a wizard and ugly and using her to marry royal. She travels a lot also. Eventually, the wizard is found out about his magic and such and is sentenced to death by the people, but instead, runs into a tree and dies... Then the princess marries a prince she met three seconds ago and they unite their kingdoms. Happily Ever After... I guess.
Metamorphosis
A man is obsessed with his job and train tables. One morning, he wakes up as a bug (I thought it was a centipede the way it was described but I guess canonically he turned into a dung beetle but whatever). Everyone is reasonably horrified. The whole short story (it's like not even 50 pages long) consists of the man (Gregor) being neglected and then given attention to and then neglected and then given attention to and it goes back and forth a lot. Eventually, his family (which consists of his mother, father and sister) agree that he's not longer the person they once knew and that he's just a bug now, so they kick him out. He dies. Then the family lives happily ever after.
Next we're reading the Handmaid's Tale and I don't know what to expect having read these weirdies....
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Weirdest book I've every read (to this day) is the classic "Everybody Poops".
Ok the last one made me laugh.
Weirdest book I've every read (to this day) is the classic "Everybody Poops".
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Oh yeah, came here to also say Metamorphosis by Kafka. I had to read that one at school (ages ago), otherwise I doubt I would have given it a try. I had a great teacher who went through the whole thing with us as we analyzed and figured out what it all meant. I hear the other books he's written are just as weird (e.g. The Trial).
I don't usually have the patience for books like this. For me reading is supposed to be a diversion - I don't want it to become work. If a book doesn't click with me after a certain amount of time, I stop reading.
Oh yeah, came here to also say Metamorphosis by Kafka. I had to read that one at school (ages ago), otherwise I doubt I would have given it a try. I had a great teacher who went through the whole thing with us as we analyzed and figured out what it all meant. I hear the other books he's written are just as weird (e.g. The Trial).
I don't usually have the patience for books like this. For me reading is supposed to be a diversion - I don't want it to become work. If a book doesn't click with me after a certain amount of time, I stop reading.
I just remembered another classic but weird short story! Look up "Who was phone?" Trust me, you need to read it to believe it.
I just remembered another classic but weird short story! Look up "Who was phone?" Trust me, you need to read it to believe it.
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I'll be honest that Candide can be a pretty weird book without the background :P I had to read it for a Literature exam, and even then it could be weird to read.
In my case, the weirdest one was... well, I can't find the English name of it, but translating the Italian title it would be "The Long Night of Doctor Galvan" (original title: Ancien malade des hôpitaux de Paris, which would be translated as "The old patient of Paris' hospitals" or something along those lines) by Daniel Pennac.
It was... weird. It's not even that long (I read it on a kindle but I think it's less than 50 pages long). It's about a doctor during a night shift at the hospital. There's this patient who starts showing lots of symptoms, one after another, and the doctor starts calling lots of other doctors to see what is up with this patient, but in the end the patient supposedly dies.
Then in the end it's revealed that he didn't really die, and pretty much he was just trolling (he wanted to be known as a "professional patient" or something like that). It was... just weird. I should do some research to see exactly what Pennac was trying to say :P
I'll be honest that Candide can be a pretty weird book without the background :P I had to read it for a Literature exam, and even then it could be weird to read.
In my case, the weirdest one was... well, I can't find the English name of it, but translating the Italian title it would be "The Long Night of Doctor Galvan" (original title: Ancien malade des hôpitaux de Paris, which would be translated as "The old patient of Paris' hospitals" or something along those lines) by Daniel Pennac.
It was... weird. It's not even that long (I read it on a kindle but I think it's less than 50 pages long). It's about a doctor during a night shift at the hospital. There's this patient who starts showing lots of symptoms, one after another, and the doctor starts calling lots of other doctors to see what is up with this patient, but in the end the patient supposedly dies.
Then in the end it's revealed that he didn't really die, and pretty much he was just trolling (he wanted to be known as a "professional patient" or something like that). It was... just weird. I should do some research to see exactly what Pennac was trying to say :P
Okay, everyone, plug your ears and get some eye bleach ready.
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“You Log In to Flight Rising” and “Man Door Hand Hook Car Door” came in second and third.
Okay, everyone, plug your ears and get some eye bleach ready.
dipper goes to taco bell
“You Log In to Flight Rising” and “Man Door Hand Hook Car Door” came in second and third.
Well one of the weirdest I can think of I can actually post the entirety of!
"For sale: Baby shoes, Never worn."
-Ernest Hemingway
Well one of the weirdest I can think of I can actually post the entirety of!
"For sale: Baby shoes, Never worn."
-Ernest Hemingway
Weirdest book would be the third installation of the"john dies at the end" series by david wong. Its like a fever dream honestly.
Weirdest book would be the third installation of the"john dies at the end" series by david wong. Its like a fever dream honestly.
I can't recall any truly bizarre books, but when I was in high school I had to read this Ray Bradbury short story, don't ask me the title, about an automated house that was still running after its owners had been annihilated in a nuclear apocalypse. It was strange and incredibly depressing, but really stuck out to me. I think I read it in junior year.
I can't recall any truly bizarre books, but when I was in high school I had to read this Ray Bradbury short story, don't ask me the title, about an automated house that was still running after its owners had been annihilated in a nuclear apocalypse. It was strange and incredibly depressing, but really stuck out to me. I think I read it in junior year.
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