If you are fascinated with eccentric-to-barking-mad people, and you have the patience to read a whole book about an extended family of them, you would enjoy Running with Scissors: A Memoir by Augusten Burroughs. The author's father was an alcoholic, his mother was schizophrenic, and when neither parent could care for him, he went to live with his mother's psychiatrist's family. The shrink was nearly mad himself, and was in the habit of taking other mad people into his home. Madness is a mad mixture of sadness and hilarity, hopelessness and hope, and the author captures them all. It's a wonderful book.