What's the most unique/different book you ever read? (lemmy.world)

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I want to see what people on Lemmy are reading. Can be unique in terms of lore, concept or even the cover. Mine are invisible monsters, battle royale and horrorstor. What about yours?

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[-] BigGovernment@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

Martian Time-Slip by Philip K Dick - PKD is always pretty weird, but I found this one especially so. Time travel experiments by unlikable characters that involves abusing schizophrenic and autistic children.

Ancillary Justice by Anne Leckie - First of the Imperial Radch series. Told from the perspective of an intelligence that's truly different than ours (even though it is ostensibly human). It made a lot of waves for having genderless characters, but that only scratches the surface of how strangely the narrator relates to the humans they're dealing with.

Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer - First of the Southern Reach series. A group of 4 unnamed individuals go to investigate a reality distorting phenomenon and reality gets heavily distorted. This one declares right up front that it's going to get strange and does exactly that.

[-] NokkR6@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Did you read all books from the Annihilation series? I think i should give Annihilation another try.

[-] BigGovernment@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I have read the original trilogy. They're very different from Annihilation and it can be a little jarring. I really enjoyed them, and would easily recommend the whole series.

I feel like I need to reread the trilogy to try the fourth book.

[-] NokkR6@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

There is a fourth book? Damn, i didnt expect that.

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