Bryan’s Comments (group member since Mar 26, 2025)

Bryan’s comments from the Weird Book Club group.

I put my copy in a free little library. I also donated my copy of Shadow Moon to a school book fair.

Welcome and thank you for the post. I read weird books before I knew about 372 Pages. It was Wild Animus, the book written by a venture capitalist that was given out free on college campuses. But 372 definitely ramped upped the weirdness. I’ll check out your suggestions

When I last checked, you could still download it from the AppStore

https://richshapero.com/title/wild-an...

App is Too Far Media.

The President Is a Sick Man: Wherein the Supposedly Virtuous Grover Cleveland Survives a Secret Surgery at Sea and Vilifies the Courageous Newspaperman Who Dared Expose the Truth

This is my second, non-consecutive book on Grover Cleveland and it is probably my favorite weird book. I read this not long after reading Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President. The differences in medical care left one man dead and the other alive. Absolutely fascinating.

Wild Animus is a book I got for free while teaching at a university. It's self-published by a venture capitalist and also, for some reason, has an app to go with it. It sat on my bookshelf for a few years before I picked it up. It's about a guy who wants to turn himself into a sheep and is kinda abusive to his girlfriend. Also did I mention the app?

I've read a lot of weird sci-fi stuff. God Emperor of Dune comes to mind, but there are plenty of others out there. Here are a few to get us started.

Green's Discovery
Green's Discovery 2: Creating a Fair and Just Society
A Voyage to Arcturus

Welcome everyone! I'm Bryan and I enjoy reading weird books. I'm also a big fan of the podcast 372 Pages We'll Never Get Back, which has upped my reading of weird things.