One Hundred Years of Solitude

Or: a bunch of crazy shit happens.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Hundred_Years_of_Solitude

A brief explanation of "crazy shit": incest, dead babies, prophecies, beastiality, "three thousand dead and thrown into the ocean", flying carpets, 30 men named aureliano, 15 men named jose arcadio, flying naked bald chicks, the 180-year-old lady named ursula, an old man lives a few years tied to a tree and everyone's okay with this, the marriage of a 13-year-old girl and a 3o-year-old man (and her later death via "exploding blood"), carniverous ants, and the word "solitude" every 2 or 3 sentences.

Note to self: never read again, avoid rest of author's books as if just looking at them will cause eye cancer.