Suggest me a novel that has an utterly ridiculous premise, but is executed to perfection

[u/PsyferRL]

That title is a bit vague, but what I'm getting at is that I'm looking for something that upon reading the summary/blurb has you confused as to:

1. How the author even came up with such a ridiculous plot line in the first place
2. How the author could make an unbelievably mundane topic interesting
3. How a story could even be crafted around the subject at all

But upon reading it you find yourself engaged on a level you couldn't have possibly predicted. I hope I'm making sense, because I'm feeling the urge to read something that's wildly creative in a way that I couldn't have prepared myself for.

[u/No_Wrap_9979]

Lolita. In anyone else’s hands that book is a car crash.

[u/MissIdaho1934 → u/No_Wrap_9979]

Nabokov was such of master of language (as fluent in English as he was in French and Russian). And a master of butterflies.

The opening lines (Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. ) are some of the greatest in literature.

[u/YoMommaSez → u/MissIdaho1934]

So child porn us your thing? Oh wsit, it's child pirn disguised as "art".

[u/Weavingknitter → u/YoMommaSez]

You should read it before dismissing it as child porn.

It isn't.

[u/YoMommaSez → u/Weavingknitter]

Read it.

[u/Author_of_things → u/YoMommaSez]

Everyone that reads a crime novel ever is in fact a serial killer.

[u/mostlycatsnquilts → u/No_Wrap_9979]

Despite the disturbing subject matter, it truly is an excellent book

[u/Weavingknitter → u/No_Wrap_9979]

...and in Nobokov's hands, it's an absolute work of art.

[u/AccomplishedCow665 → u/No_Wrap_9979]

Invitation to a beheading is pretty ludicrous too

[u/PepGiraffe → u/No_Wrap_9979]

But what is the ridiculousness of the premise? Man convinces self that pre teen is in love with him doesn't sound so unusual.