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Looking for more surreal/weird/quirky recommendations (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by the_radness@lemmy.world to c/books@lemmy.world

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I have a decent library filled with authors like Palahniuk, Ryu and Haruki Murakami, Vonnegut, P. K. Dick, and Thompson.

I'm looking for more modern/contemporary authors who share that absurdism, surrealism, and just plain weirdness.

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[–] the_radness@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Great reply and questions.

I'll look into Sharpe. I am not easily offended, and can understand humor within historical context.

I do have a preference for contemporary and current authors, but only because I'm interested in modern/popular culture.

If I had to narrow down what I'm specifically looking for, it would be works that are less fantasy/sci-fi and more "What the fuck did I just read?" To me that's the appeal of authors like Ryu and Haruki Murakami and Palahniuk: they're masters of absurdly crazy and impossible scenarios, that somehow still feel plausible. While the Murakamis are more serious, they are more fantastical. Palahniuk is great about keeping things based in reality, but with copious amounts of gross-out moments and ridiculous characters.

Sounds like you might be smelling what I'm cooking.