Most unusual book you have ever read

[Bighuey]

This could be a fun one. The most unusual book I have ever read was called Wreck of the Titan by Morgan Robertson. Its about a supposedly unsinkable ship called the Titan that struck an iceberg in the north Atlantic in April and sank, killing most of the people on board, because there were not enough lifeboats. Thing is, this book was written in 1898, 14 years before the Titantic went down.

[Moore]

The most unusual book I have ever read was Time's Arrow by Martin Amis as the actions in the book were in the reserve order starting from death and finishing with birth.

[Bighuey]

That does sound different, like reading a book from back to front.

[StephenKingman]

I would go with A Clockwork Orange which i found to be a very unusual book in terms of writing style and characters, probably famed for its bizarre torture and graphic imagery scenes.

[Gannon]

Whenever I am asked this question "The Gormenghast Trilogy" by Mervyn Peake always jumps into my mind. It is a bizarre dark gothic novel full of murder and treachery. The blurb on the back reads,

"Gormenghast is the vast crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. Gothic labyrinth of roofs and turrets, cloisters and corridors, stairwells and dungeons, it is also the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old ritual, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation and murder in a world suggested in a tour de force that ranks as one of the century's most remarkable feats of imaginative writing."

[Lola82]

The most unusual book I have ever read was Time's Arrow by Martin Amis as the actions in the book were in the reserve order starting from death and finishing with birth.

kinda sounds similar to the plot in the Curious Case of Benjamin Button... or at least the reverse order from death to birth, although he wasn't born dead, but born old and then decreased in age as life progressed...

[Melaniep]

The Color of her Panties by Piers Anthony. And no, it's not THAT kind of book! I actually enjoyed it for all it's quirkiness!

[Tip the Bottle]

"House of Leaves" by Daniel Danielewski, it's genre is horror and at least to me it was quite scary. Aside from the story being a bit off putting in it self the way the book was written is beyond odd. For instance there will be pages with just on word or a sentence written on one of the edges of the page. It all works to leave you with a very unsettling read.

The book also has a very active fan base. In the book there is a video described called the "Navidson Record" some fans have taken it upon themselves to recreate the videos on youtube. Great stuff.

Awesome book, I highly recommend it.

[Nullifygirls]

it is most wanted.

[Enderzshadow]

Orson Scott Cards "Treason"

[GotThatSwing]

The most unusual was "Hopscotch" by Julio Cortazar. It could be read in two different ways: normally or skipping the chapters (the number of the next chapter was in the end of each one). And then the story slightly differs.

[Kchirgwi]

I can't remember the title of the book, but it goes something like this...


An investigation of a town and it's recent missing people/murders. The story is set in an old mining town and the murder is revealed to be a dragon.

[Bighuey]

Wish you could remember the name of it, it sounds like a good one. Ive been reading some stories by Ambrose Bierce, he had an unusual way with words. His Civil War story, Chicamauga, was weird in a gruesome sort of way.

[Evapohler]

Perfume by Patrick Suskind--a masterful study in the sense of smell in literature, but dark and eerie.

[Fran]

Perfume by Patrick Suskind--a masterful study in the sense of smell in literature, but dark and eerie.

Have you watched the movie?