mimesere

OK. One of the most cracktastic books I know is Raptor by the late Gary Jennings. Historical fiction set at the time of the fall of the Roman empire and the protagonist is a hermaphrodite. Full of sex and violence and strange eroticism and even some homophobia that the protagonist has to deal with. A sweeping epic of the truly bizarre and at the end you'll want to both weep and fall for the protagonist.