Slightly twisted Writers

[GreenChef]

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What kinda twisted stuff do you like to read?
I haven't read Steven king in years, and I'm not sure if I can go back...
From him I went on to Clive Barker
The Books of blood make steve look like Mr Roger's Neighbohood (o.k. o.k. a candian kids program on TV).
OH by the way remember that cute little movie 'Hellraiser', he wrote it.
Seen Nightbreed? Very Funny (creatures of the night vs the rednecks) he wrote it (an actual well done translation to film)
From Horror, he went on to Fantasy, quite delicioulsly twisted (my fave is 'The Great and Secret Show', was impossible to put down), also great, Weaveworld, Imagica...


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[Neige]

You should lend me some of those. ;)

[GreenChef]

Twisted in another way...

Iain Banks.
Fiction and Science fiction. His Fiction is twisted and great. His science fiction is beyond anything I've read, move over Bradbury, Dick (two greats never to be forgotten)
Highly recommended. I grab anything I can by him.

[GreenChef]

No worries...
I've got some good ones...

[mayhem1978]

OK not sure if this is twisted or not but i love the Terry Pratchett Discworld series.

You have to have a very warped sense of humor to read and kinda know whats going on.

[ReaperWoman]

Amen to that ^^^

[BigBear57]

I've enjoyed Dean Kontz's novels.. some have been really "out there" but he's definitely in the cataghory with King I think.

[IowaMan]

Just finished my first Koontz book last night, "The Voice of the Night" and it was a bit out there but I loved it.

[BigBear57]

I got my daughter started on Koontz and she now hails "The Face" to everybody she talks to... personally I enjoy the "Odd Thomas" series best but all his books have been good. The most recent one I read "The Husband" was great too and different in that it lacked the supernatural ingredients of his other works but certainly not lacking in the thriller department. He's definitely in my top 4 favorite authors. I'd have a tough time deciding which is tops because I like tham all for different reasons.

[sodaklostsoul]

I read Pixie Post's and some them Pixie's is pretty twisted!! :D

[Aqua]

King and Koontz are two staples in my house. Spyder Robinson's Callahan series is great too!!

Been meaning to pick up the Discworld series but haven't got there yet.

[Oldfart]

I'm reading Robinson's sequel to Callahan, "Lady slings the booze" and I'm finding it heavy but good.

Roald Dahl wrote for adults as well as kids.

[GreenChef]

I read Pixie Post's and some them Pixie's is pretty twisted!! :D

:roflmao: Funny :roflmao:

Never read the diskworld stuff, might have to check it out
I think I've read 2 Koontz books, pretty good stuff

[Booger]

Here are a few that aren't twisted in the horror or SiFi genre but in a dark comedy.

Tim Dorsey who has a character Serge A. Storms who appears in all his book. Never the main character but all way in the thick of things. Serge has a variety of mental illnesses with the right mix of drugs can be controlled which he rarely takes. When he's not finding some of the most twisted and funny ways to kill people who have offened his sences of right and wrong. He's running around Florida giving impromptu tours and history lesons.

Bill Fitzhugh's Pest control main character is anexterminator that get mistaken for a hit man (because of the way he worded a flyer). Even thoe he keeps telling everyone who tries to hire him he just an exterminator. The people they want him to kill die in mysterious ways that he ends up getting the cridet for. Soon he has five of the worlds top hit men gunning for him. finding a way to get out alive.
Bill aslo has other twisted books
Cross Dressing when the main character's tiwn brother the priest come home from africa sick he send him to the hospital under his insurance whne his brother end up diring he takes over his brothers life to keep from being charged with insurance fraud.
Heart Seizure when the main character's mother is finely going to get the heart trasplant she needs the heart is snatched away by goverment agents which he in turn snatches back leading to a wild chase to get the heart where it is needed.

Cristopher Moore who has one of the truely most tisted sense humor that I've ever read

[Oldfart]

I like the sound of the Pest control man.

[sodaklostsoul]

Pest control was funny!!!

[GreenChef]

Those sound quite amusing Booger
I will definately have to keep them in mind...

In one of Iain Banks' sci-fi books, there is a weapon called the Lazy Gun. You point it at anything, pull the trigger, and it calculates the odds, and finds the least likely way to destroy, said person or thing, and boom. Makes for some amusing descriptions of destruction. He's got a pretty incredible imagination.

The wasp Factory is quite something (Banks again, fiction). On the Back cover, it says.... 'I've only killed three people in my life, ... I don't think I'll kill anyone else. Maybe it was a phase I was going through

[ReaperWoman]

This thread has just reminded me to get reading again. Since passing my driving test I haven't read a singel thing because I've not got all those bus journeys where I get addicted to whatever book I'm reading at the time... The books you guys have mentioned just went into my "to read" pile.

[Mae]

Terry Pratchett is, well, unique. :) It took me awhile to get the hang of the books.