strange books -

[sparklemilhouse]

i didn't see a thread for strange books. The other night, I was looking for a product that I thought was discontinued. Instead I found a huge book about the history of soy sauce:

https://books.google.com/books?id=-...Ts-Ch1QGAdz#v=onepage&q=suzi wan chef&f=false

Also:

http://awfullibrarybooks.net/

 

[AnOminous]

A Voyage to Arcturus by David Lindsay is an incredibly fucked up science fiction book.

It has a ridiculous edgelord protagonist named Maskull (really). And it's about his search for the meaning of existence (really). He goes around being a psychic vampire and absorbing other people's personalities, basically killing them (really).

If this all sounds terrible, it isn't really. It's a hell of a good book, and directly influenced both C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien.

But it is damn strange and leads to tons of "WTF am I reading" moments.

 

[The Giver]

Big Sur by Jack Kerouac. I know he is fairly well known, but it is not one of his more commonly well known works, and it features one of the most honest depictions of spiritual and drunken expositions of meaning in modern lit.