Yeah, books that are so esoteric or just plain weird as balls in their writing style that they come off as slightly disturbing, funny, or appear as though the author was insanely high on *something.* There’s no clear-cut way to describe what I’m looking for, besides maybe “A Harmony Korine movie in book form.”
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{{The Drowned World by JG Ballard}}
The Hearing Trumpet by Leonora Carrington – this is in a good way
Antkind by Charlie Kaufman
William Burroughs’ *Naked Lunch*
Anything by Robert Anton Wilson
Keeper of the Lost Cities – Shannon Messenger
Both the Nursery Crime books by Jasper Fforde AND his Thursday Next series. Cheese smuggling from the People’s Republic of Wales. Full contact combat Croquet. Cloning Dodos in the kitchen. Rocky Horror style versions of Richard III. Full time Literary Detectives who are veterans of the Crimean War which is still going on in the 1980s. Swindon in the 1980s.
Anything by Frank Herbert, haha.
Not hard drugs, but a while back I saw someone describe Bruce Sterling’s writing style as, “he writes as if both he and his characters are on a 72 hour caffeine bender” and now I can’t unsee it. He’s written a lot of books, but so far my favourite is Islands in the Net.
Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon is fairly normal by comparison to the previous two, but there were still some surreal, strange scenes that felt to me like they came out of nowhere.