Dragons & Jetpacks discussion

What are some of the stranger sounding books you've found on Goodreads?

I follow someone who sometimes reviews 'monster porn', which is basically erotica involving monsters, mythological beasts etc, and it sounds insane... for example:



And there are a lot of ones along a similar theme that I just don't quite *get* :P

Also browsing some of the 'worst books' lists I've found some very weirdly titled books, titles that are perhaps 20 plus words long o.o

Have you encountered any books on here that have made you do a double take? Or have you read any that just had you reeling?

I think it depends how we define strange and weird and if it's good or bad.^^

I personally have a soft spot for silly sounding novels, as some might you have witnessed in me advertising in this month's sf poll.

I bought some others in that area like or

Of course those are meant to be funny and a parody. So it might not be the same level of weirdness as a dinosaur porn short story.

I think many of those animal/monster porn fantasies may actually go back to the myth about Catherine the Great having been crushed by a horse she tried to have intercourse with.
My non-professional guess would be that in all those fantasies the sexual partner is deformed, not human anymore. As the reader/protagonist you don't have to take care of a partner's need, so the basis or appeal of those fantasies might be to have the sexual act only being about yourself, to let go and don't have somebody vice versa whose actions and feelings you might have to interpret or take into account. But, as I said, this is my amateur speculation after thinking 5 minutes about it.

I think the weirdest book I found so far here and which I bought and plan to read is:

Leanne wrote: "I get the feeling I'm gonna like this thread and might end up reading some of the weirdness for laughs."

Let me know if you do, I'll most likely join. :)

The thing is, I'm also tempted to read some just for the sheer ridiculousness of it! But I don't want to buy it o.o And it might leave me with a huge feeling of shame, haha.

I'm sure there are things I would hate to admit to having found on a shelf somewhere and read - I'll wrack my brain :D

Ugh I looked up the raptor book and it's £1.93! Psssh :P

Rinn wrote: "Ugh I looked up the raptor book and it's £1.93! Psssh :P"

That's a lot of pound for a 38 page dinosaur pounding.^^

I just finished a book by drew Hayes called the utterly uninteresting an adventurous tales of Fred the vampire accountant. I'd add a link but don't know how to do it on kindle.
Not a bad story for a quick read (only about 180 pages I think) but I'm fast finding that I'll read anything by Hayes that I can get my hands on.

supposed to say and adventurous

unadventurous ( God I hate predictive text)

The strangest one I've read was A World Called Camelot. It has furry knights riding six legged dinosaurs, space travel and teddy bears that rule the universe. It sounded so awesome, weird and stupid that I just had to read it. Unfortunately it was just indifferent pulp. I'd love to read a good book about space faring knights. :)

Hmmm. Quite a few.

Howling Mad - Inverse werewolf story where the hero is a wolf. Written by Peter David (Comicbooks!) himself. I happen to have a signed copy of this book!

If you want weird, you need to read Naked Lunch, best weird ever!

The Troika

"Beneath the glare of three purple suns, three travelers - an old Mexican woman, an automated jeep, and a brontosaurus - have trudged across a desert for hundreds of years. They do not know if the desert has an end, and if it does, what they might find there. Sometimes they come across perfectly-preserved cities, but without a single inhabitant, and never a drop of rain. Worse still, they have no memory of their lives before the desert. Only at night, in dreams, do they recall fragments of their past identities.But night also brings the madness of the sandstorms, which jolt them out of one body and into another in a game of metaphysical musical chairs. In their disorientation and dysfunction, they have killed each other dozens of times, but they cannot die. Where are they? How can they escape?"

Just read The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka and I think I would have to classify it as a strange book. It was a quick easy read, but odd. Odd concept and odd ending..

Jim C. Hines put up an early novel of his (with snarky commentary) which is basically a D&D campaign he was in turned into a novel. The commentary really made it for me.

I also have Ninja Versus Pirate Featuring Zombies on a stack waiting to be read. I have a bunch of stuff from ChiZine Publications and a bunch of it falls into this category, the company slogan is "Embrace the Odd", gotta love it.