MibgfqmVLe1rmllfio1_400.jpg (JPEG Image, 364 × 364 pixels) Isabela by ~maruhana-bachi. 5 Hardest Books To Read (That Are Totally Worth It) - StumbleUpon. Epic Detention Doodle. You can look at this amazing piece of graffiti art and think, "Wow, what jerk kid would mess up a desk this much? " Of course, then you might wonder, "Why was this kid unsupervised this long? " Me, I'm thinking how much this makes me miss the 1990's! Codex Seraphinianus - The World's Weirdest Book. Some people think it's one of the weirdest books ever published. An art book unlike any other art book. A unique and disturbing surreal parody. Grotesque and beautiful. It's very hard to describe. It was first published in two volumes by Franco Maria Ricci in 1981.
Created in the late 1970s, the book's blurb on the cover flap talks about Codex Seraphinianus being a book for the "age of information" where coding and de-coding messages is increasingly important in genetics, computer science and literary criticism. 1983 US Edition published by Abbeville The cover alone is worth studying. Essentially an encyclopedia about an alien world that clearly reflects our own, each chapter appears to deal with key facets of this surreal place, including flora, fauna, science, machines, games and architecture.
Codex Seraphinianus was No.8 on BookFinder's report of the most searched for science fiction, fantasy and horror books in 2008.