Sam, read anything by Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse-Five is the best! everything else spectacular. trust me I wouldn't lie to you my icon sharing friend!
read some william s. burroughs...his characters are mostly homosexual drugies. tons of crazy shit. crazy plot or crazy lack of plot. pretty intense and a bit confusing though.
Have you read My Ishmael aswell? Its really good too, My Ishmael makes you think that "My Ishmael" is better than Ishmael, but when you think about it after reading both. Ishmael is by far the better of the two. I want to read Story of B.