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• The Violent Century

  Tidhar, Lavie

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  I read The Violent Century after reading a great review of Tidhar's Central Station and then settling for this earlier book while I waited. Good thing I did, because The Violent Century is a very odd, very fresh take on classic superhero stories.…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom. Series 1

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  Lars Von Trier's The Kingdom has to be one of the most individual and unsettling visions of hospital life ever created. Built on the site of ancient "bleaching ponds", the hospital is haunted by supernatural beings and happenings (from the baby…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demon. Volume 1

  Shiga, Jason

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  This is a truly weird and wonderful confection and Jason Shiga's primitively effective art only adds to that feeling of dislocation. Jimmy, the demon of the book's title, tries to kill himself only to discover that he can't. Each time he dies he…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Twin Peaks

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  Still one of the strangest and most engrossing series around. Bob. Scary, scary Bob. And David Lynch guarantees that this will mess with your mind.

• I Hunt Killers

  Lyga, Barry

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  You may know Barry Lyga for his popular teen outing, The Astonishing Adventures of Fan Boy and Goth Girl (which had its own share of oddness), but I Hunt Killers is, IMHO, a masterpiece! That rare beastie, truly terrifying young adult fiction with a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Voroshilovgrad

  Z͡Hadan, Serhiĭ, 1974-

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  Not sure what it is about this book, but I found it strangely disquieting and very unusual. Essentially a Ukrainian road story, Voroshilovgrad is the rural hometown for the book's urbanite protagonist and it's here that he journeys to deal with his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Big Dream

  Lynch, David, 1946-2025

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  Normally I don't like to repeat an artist on the same list, but David Lynch! Anything involving him is going to be distinctive. Eraserhead, Twin Peaks (see above), Blue Velvet... everything he touches is strange, strange, strange. But did you know…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sardine in Outer Space. 2

  Guibert, Emmanuel

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  Strange, weird, wonderful stories. About honkfish and one-eyed space giants and sailing yer spaceship through the signs of the zodiac. As an adult I revel in the madcap wordplay and visual puns while my younger son revels in, uh, the same...…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• New History Warfare

  Stetson, Colin

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  From the opening blast that is "Awake on foreign shores" to the cerebral drone of "In love and in justice", saxophonist Stetson maps out a completely unique soundscape on this record (and all of his records). Unsettling, playful, and deeply felt,…Read moreRead more of this annotation