I’ll start, so as a teen I stumbled across a book called," Someone comes to town, someone leaves town." The synopsis caught me as it’s about a man with a mountain as a fathera washing machine as a mother and one brother that is dead and trying to harm him. I’ll admit some of the technical terms were too much for my developing mind but it has stuck with me all these years.

What is the wackiest / craziest book you’ve read and did you enjoy the ride?

    • fun2vault@alien.topB
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      I was 90% finished with this one before losing my copy. I picked up another but am struggling to resume reading it since the friend who introduced me to it passed away

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      I learnt the phrase Ergodic literature in relation to House of Leaves. To paraphrase Wikipedia - nontrivial effort is required by the reader. Worth it though.

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      1 year ago

      From what I can tell, every other comment in here is about a book with a wacky plot.

      The physical book House of Leaves is a wacky