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A Book that made you ask "What did I just Read?"
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:48 am
Posted on 12/11/25 at 11:48 am
Sort of copied this thought process from the Movie/TV Board. Have you ever read a book and asked "What did I just read?"
For those like me who cannot stop reading what you have started, what book is like this for you? For me, it was a book called "Louisiana Power and Light".
A good friend who has the similar tastes and interests recommended it. At first, I thought it was a North Louisiana version of A Confederacy of Dunces. When I finished it, I put it in of those neighborhood library boxes. It was so weird and confusing I did not want it on my bookshelf.
For those like me who cannot stop reading what you have started, what book is like this for you? For me, it was a book called "Louisiana Power and Light".
A good friend who has the similar tastes and interests recommended it. At first, I thought it was a North Louisiana version of A Confederacy of Dunces. When I finished it, I put it in of those neighborhood library boxes. It was so weird and confusing I did not want it on my bookshelf.
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Posted on 12/11/25 at 2:37 pm to Gerry Laval
Library at Mount Char. Great read, but definitely WTF vibes.
Posted on 12/11/25 at 3:48 pm to delta_zulu
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Library at Mount Char
Came to post the same thing. Immediately went up pretty high on my all time favorite book list.
First 100 pages is nothing but WTF then the pieces start to fall together and hard to describe the ending other than just brilliant.
Crazy that that is the only fiction/fantasy book he's ever wrote. Everything else he's done is like textbook stuff.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 9:55 pm to Gerry Laval
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
I couldn’t put it down but I still have so many questions.
I couldn’t put it down but I still have so many questions.
Posted on 12/13/25 at 10:50 pm to iwyLSUiwy
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Crazy that that is the only fiction/fantasy book he's ever wrote. Everything else he's done is like textbook stuff.
Yeah, I read that recently based on you and others recommending it in the fantasy thread, and it was excellent. It was crazy to me that he never followed it up with anything else due to how original and good that book is.
Gotta respect him for not trying to write a sequel just to write one though, if he didn't have a good idea for one.
Posted on 12/14/25 at 2:40 pm to Gerry Laval
The first time I read it, Neuromancer was confusing AF. I think all the lingo made it more confusing as well as his descriptions of cyberspace which were difficult to imagine at the time (early 90s)
I try to re-read it every year, since I still think it’s one of the most original and influential works of sci-fi in the last 40 years and I find the plot to be quite compelling.
I try to re-read it every year, since I still think it’s one of the most original and influential works of sci-fi in the last 40 years and I find the plot to be quite compelling.
Posted on 12/17/25 at 6:16 pm to Gerry Laval
I couldn't make it thru Naked Lunch
Posted on 12/18/25 at 7:51 am to Gerry Laval
Finnegan's Wake...couldn't get past the first page.
Posted on 12/18/25 at 10:14 am to Gerry Laval
Dungeon Crawler Carl, but in the best possible way. There's really no way to describe it without it sounding dumb. But it works. A cross between Hitchiker's Guide and Family Guy.
Posted on 12/20/25 at 2:05 pm to shinerfan
Never heard of this until today, but a friend recommended it and said it was hilariously awesome. He likened it to Deadpool meets Dungeons and Dragons.
This post was edited on 12/20/25 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 12/29/25 at 1:15 pm to Gerry Laval
House of Leaves
Posted on 12/31/25 at 4:23 am to Gerry Laval
The Book of Job
Posted on 12/31/25 at 6:43 pm to dirtsandwich
Battle Royale
Posted on 1/18/26 at 9:51 am to Big Chipper
>Finnegan's Wake...couldn't get past the first page.
This didn't help much either-
www.nytimes.com/1944/07/23/archives/open-sesame-to-james-joyce-a-skeleton-key-to-finnegans-wake-by.html
This didn't help much either-
www.nytimes.com/1944/07/23/archives/open-sesame-to-james-joyce-a-skeleton-key-to-finnegans-wake-by.html
Posted on 1/18/26 at 6:30 pm to Gerry Laval
Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. Heard there was a Pearl Jam song inspired by it. I paid for the book, so I finished it. What a bunch of crap.
Posted on 1/31/26 at 12:25 pm to Gerry Laval
A Clockwork Orange, by Anthony Burgess
Burgess created his own language for the book.They were so many newly created words, I had to refer to the glossary many times.
Burgess created his own language for the book.They were so many newly created words, I had to refer to the glossary many times.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 7:31 pm to Gerry Laval
Gravity's Rainbow.
I gave up on it multiple times as a printed book. But I was determined, so I got it on Audible. And then powered through the thing. I won't do that again with any book. What a waste of time. There were parts of it I enjoyed. But they were rare. And I still have no idea what the thing was about.
I gave up on it multiple times as a printed book. But I was determined, so I got it on Audible. And then powered through the thing. I won't do that again with any book. What a waste of time. There were parts of it I enjoyed. But they were rare. And I still have no idea what the thing was about.
Posted on 2/9/26 at 8:52 pm to Tigris
I have started to make it a point to read one typical "assigned in highschool" book a year. I was dumb and would avoid reading them because I was told to read it, but I try to fit in a classic every year
This year is Frankenstein. Never read it. Only reference is the movies.
Not a single movie is like the book and that has me saying wtf
Because I was expecting Igor, a moaning monster, and a mad scientist. But no Igor, it's an articulate monster that is self aware, and an obsessive scientist that was immediately freaked out by what he did and didn't see it for two years
No manic screaming "it's alive!"
But that is on me in the end
This year is Frankenstein. Never read it. Only reference is the movies.
Not a single movie is like the book and that has me saying wtf
Because I was expecting Igor, a moaning monster, and a mad scientist. But no Igor, it's an articulate monster that is self aware, and an obsessive scientist that was immediately freaked out by what he did and didn't see it for two years
No manic screaming "it's alive!"
But that is on me in the end
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