In particular, The Stranger offers a thrilling challenge for readers to piece together the mystery and try to come to some story conclusions of their own regarding the enigma of this strange character, all while being able to go back within the text of the book and look for the various clues that can debunk or support their theory as to who this strange character really is.
When the final verdict on the Rodman enigma arrives, however, his strange, powerful personality will likely take precedence over mere statistics.
It's a surprisingly strong opening stretch that the rest of the record sometimes matches: "Call You Mom" could be an NRBQ song were it not deeply strange, and "9 Secret Steps" is an enigma wrapped in Buddy Holly mannerisms.
The film also responds to Winehouse's face: that sensual and jolie-laide presence, always so mobile and yet possessed of a strange kind of anti-Mona-Lisa enigma.
The box also contains Herzog's two films starring non-professional actor Bruno S, the strange, long-institutionalised outsider (the haunting Enigma of Kaspar Hauser and the bizarrely comic Stroszek), and the mysteriously beautiful fable Heart of Glass.
Virtually an unknown to the public and an enigma to those who met him, Beck would hop onstage between acts in local clubs and play "strange folk songs", accompanied by "what could best be described as performance art" while sometimes wearing a Star Wars stormtrooper mask.
Steve Carlton's icy silence and strange practice rituals made him an Age of Aquarius enigma — Brian Wilson with a hard slider — before his second career as an alleged conspiracy theorist.
What I say to you, as the author of "The Einstein Enigma," is that the universe is a strange place.
This slender novel is set in motion by the strange circumstances surrounding a death, but it is more concerned with the enigma of memory and self.
"Twin" (2012), set to ambient electronica by Aphex Twin, is more substantial, a darker enigma in which the excellent John Eirich is fenced in and menaced by strange others.
