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?

  • tikhonjelvis@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Gravity’s Rainbow has my absolutely favorite opening lines:

    A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

    There’s just something so evocative about it. It pulled me right in. Then I ended up putting the book aside about 30% of the way in just because it required way more focus to read than I had to spare at the time :P

    Definitely planning to get back to it at some point, maybe on a long vacation…