Books that make you think wierd things?

That is rather weird.

I don't have a story but I will share the love for Moonlight Sonata.

here's a strange one... i just finished reading The Golden Compass series by Philip Pullman (the movie sucked, but if you like fantasy, the books are awesome- especially if you like stuff that's completely against organized religion)  Long story short (for anyone who hasn't read the books or seen the movie) the people in the world the story is set in have daemons, which are basically their souls which stay on the outside of their body in the form of animals.  They have some kind of spiritual connection,  so they can't really move too far away from each other (and i say 'they' because even though the animals are the humans' souls, they can talk and have their own thoughts and ideas and everything... i think i'm getting off on a tangent... back to the weird stuff)    so... i can't stop wondering what happens to the daemons when people have sex!  do they just sit there and watch?  or do they have sex with the other daemon?  and if they do that, that's just fucked up because they're not all the same animal.  and when kids are born in that world, do those poor women have to give birth to spirit animals too, or do they just kind of come into being when the kid is born???  sometimes i think about some fucked up shit!

i think it was explained or shown somewhere in the books that daemons are affectionate (i.e. touchy-feely) with each other when their humans are hooking up. they don't have sex. that happened with the golden monkey and tiger.

i read crash and had no moonlight sonata but i did think that was a weird fucking book.

for some reason when i think of the odyssey i think of alice and chains and when i hear alice and chains songs it reminds me of the odyssey. yeah, i dont know.

you're right... i had forgotten about that.  still seems kind of fucked up though...

ugh. snow leopard, not tiger. it's been awhile.

The first time I read Invisible Monsters, I imagined Brandy as a black woman and Shannon as a white woman. Even after I found out the you know what, I still imagined it that way, which made it all wierd. And the narrator in Lullaby had a British accent.

Phineas Poe was max payne & Jude was Lila From Futurama for atleast 50 pages during kiss me judas or was it a penny dreadfull? i cant remember.

I imagined Phineas Poe looking like Clive Owen, mostly because I love him so I imagine everyone as Clive Owen. 

It's implied that the daemons have sex with each other, I thought. Or engage in some kind of like physical contact. When two characters flirt, their daemons pet one another.

seems there was something with, and I guess there's no nonpunny way to say it, that old guy's snake, but I can't remember if it's from the movie or from the books, now. it's all messed up in my head already.

anyway, the only book I've ever read that's worked its way into my dreams, anyway, was BREAKFAST OF CHAMPIONS. though that ILLUMINATUS! trilogy came close, and PKD's GAME OF DEATH (which, yeah, should have been VALIS OR UBIK, but I guess I don't get to choose). and when I read a lot of Shakespeare back to back, I find myself thinking, if not in iambic pentameter, then in something fakely metered and haughtily delivered. makes me a lot more certain of my decisions, at least for a while, until I'm suddenly living in the world those decisions have allowed to exist. then the (fake) meter all falls away and there I am again.

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not sure why the quotes not working.

i know exactly what you mean with shakespeare. i start to think in wordplay and puns with too much of him. same with tom robbins. tom robbins also makes me think of what inanimate objects would speak like if they could speak. which they can.

I also remember in The Big Nowhere by James Ellroy, I had Forrest Gump as Danny Upshaw, except not all tarded and stuff.

In Susanna Kayson's memoir, Girl, Interrupted, there's a chapter that tries to describe the thought process of obsessive compulsives.  When the patient starts to focus on various parts of her body, she becomes obsessed with the feeling of her tongue being too big for her mouth.  Every time I read that chapter, I walk around the rest of the day feeling like my own tongue is too big as well.  It's a totally uncomfortable sensation.

Because of  a certain event occuring in Lullaby involving teeth and jewels, I get a strange taste similar to gravel and blood in my mouth every time I read it.

I recently purchased Wastelands: Stories of the Apocalypse because I was interested in exploring the genre. I've now discovered that it is the only genre I want to write fiction in.

Yes, that doesn't seem weird but just two months ago I told a fellow student writer at uni who has a popular erotica site that 'to write in one genre is limiting' and that her choice was merely an 'ideology of flesh'... now I'm hooked on the one genre with its ideology of flesh consumption.

I'm just a hypocrite.

I pictured Jude as Anne Hathaway the whole time. I also pictured Phineas as WCB because i saw his photo on the back.

i remember not wanting to be in pubic when i was reading lolita

This thread title made me giggle after not looking at for a while.

the 'l' left out in this sentence makes it damn near perfect though i cant imagine what it means

when i read ULYSSES i kept having dreams of stephen dedalus.

Karl Marx ain't got shit on me!!!

yeah - was reading this for some reason (don't know how I got away from the Velvet) and noticed that avatar and was surprised. Didn't know SGJ roamed these parts. And, it's totaly true too, the iambic pentameter thing (and, in a quiz two weeks ago on Shakespeare, one of the questions was "give me three reasons why this sonnet is shakespearian" and I for one of them I said "cause' it's anemic parameter." [was two days without sleep around this point]. The teacher wrote wrote "lol" and gave me half credit.)

Wow. I recently read that again and thought no such thing, and now this thread ups and one of my favorite books is kind of ruined for myself.

Penny Dreadful makes me think weird. I had to walk out of Dinahs (L.A. diner) because everyone was freaking me out and they seemed to be in the book as I was reading it while waiting for my breakfast.

I imagined Winston from 1984 to look like [url=http://www.fat-pie.com/vdt.htm]this guy[/url] ("Jake" in one of David Firth's animations). To this day I still have no idea why.

Also - and this one isn't exactly weird exactly - whenever I read a Murakami novel I tend to listen to Boards Of Canada's Geogaddi for background music. Every time I re-read one of his novels the into to Music Is Math plays in my head.

Naked Lunch was a weird read.

hahha My first post in this thread was about J.G. Ballard. Spoooookkkyyyyyy!