I can’t find any other book that touches these. Not sure if the picture loaded but the books are “American Psycho” (gotta love that urinal cake dipped in Godiva chocolate Patrick gifted to Evelyn on a date).
Other book is “Dead Inside”.
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My english teacher told us about The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks back in the 8th grade and I checked it out of the school library.
The main character is a very eccentric and disturbed teenager who kives on a island with his weirdo father and who built a clock device for ritualized insect deaths, that involves a lot of urination. He gets a call from his brother who escaped the mental hospital and is on his way home, and then things start to get really fucked up.
First one that comes to mind is Swastika Night by Katharine Burdekin (using the pseudonym Murray Constantine).
It’s a “What if the Nazis Won the War?” story, set 900 years in the future. However, it was written in 1937, two years before WW2 even started.
It’s kind of like 1984, and much of it is quite talky and philosophical, but there are also some bits that are really, really messed up. It’s excellent.
A Scanner Darkly or Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep by Phillip K Dick.
Thank you!
If you like Sci-Fi and are open to something less extreme than Bret Easton Ellis I’d also recommend “Roadside Picknick” by Strugatsky bros. Or if you want something in a more similar direction but with a lot more cynicism “Post Office” by Charles Bukowsky.
“Road Side Picknick” is more existencial wtf. There is also an excellent film about it called “Stalker”.
What The Hell Did I Just Read
The Sluts by Dennis Cooper
Crazy read
Assisted Living by Nikanor Teratologen. (Original title Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen for Swedish lemmings). Don’t read up on it. Go in blind for a pristine experience.
Trout Fishing in America
‘In the Miso Soup’ by Murakami Ryu might do what you are looking for. Found it by accident looking at Murakami Haruki. Japanese guy is a local guide for an unusual american.
I didn’t finish it but there is also ‘Baby Jesus Buttplug’ by Carlton Mellick. Been meaning to get back to it at some point. WTF is his whole schtick.
The works of Cormack McCarthy are also wtf books, but less in the ‘WHAT THE FUCK!’ more in the vein of ‘Oh, god. What… the fuck…’
Anything by William S Burroughs
Last exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr
Anything by Charles BukowskiOn a lighter note, the Dancers at the end of times by Michael Moorcock, and any other tome involving Jerry Cornelius, its multiple avatars, or Karl Glogauer.
Homunculus manga. Check it out!
The diceman, Luke Rhineheart.
I Shall Spit on Your Graves - Boris Vian
Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk. Most palahniuk is pretty wtf actually.
That was the first author that came to my mind lol
I’ll check it out. I’ve heard of “Haunted”
I was just about to suggest Haunted.
You never forget Guts.
Read Guts two decades ago
Still haunts me
Yeah. I think it was probably about that long ago for me too.
Pool vacuums still make me nervous.
Oof. That one has been on my list. Thank you for the reminder
Survivor was going to be my pick but yes invisible monsters is certainly twisted.
Blood Meridian
The Judge is one of the greatest villains ever written.
Absolutely true. Has some of the best quotes ever too.
Shit. That one is on my list. Any others?
Fiction~Exquisite Corpse… there’s tons more but I’d recommend these nonfictions first.
Nonfiction~ empire of the summer moon, the gulag archipelago, the blood never dried, bury my heart at wounded knee, bloodlands, mao’s great famin, king Leopolds ghost, alive, the great terror, the rape of nanking, ordinary men and man’s search for meaning.
Classic.
That final sentence is embedded deeply into my core. No words for it.
There is a book community where you might get better recommendations. And also if you explained more of what you mean by “wtf”. If you mean like messed up people doing messed up things, well I’ve got nothing, but if you mean books that make you scratch you head and just say “wtf” because it makes no sense, but is good, then either the Southern Reach Trilogy or House of Leaves
Thank you. I’ll post it there with more detail on the title.
