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the man ramonated all over the operation table. another one of the men, Globfeck, aptly named after his father and his father's father, stepped forth to take his place. When Globfeck was handed the tweezers, he too could hear the murmuring aberration…

…RAMONCOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!!

>>6516
This actually sort of kind of reads like an actual story for about the first half.

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>>6498
https://annas-archive.gl/md5/4f2fe8bb567f117333d9f50d13e888b9

Forgot the link

>>5908

Sci-fi
Nova by Samuel R. Delany
Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by PKD
Stand on Zanzibar by John Brunner
Alacrity FitzHugh and Hobart Floyt Series
Stranger in a Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson
The Invincible by Stanisław Lem
The Stochastic Man by Robert Silverberg
Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life by Philip José Farmer
Welcome to the Monkey House by Kurt Vonnegut Jr
Damnation Alley by Roger Zelazny

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/214

Some Arthur Machen.

>>6126
Reality cares not one subplanck what YOU feel.

Found this epic book
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76586
Excerpt:

DE KING, EH DARTER, BUH WOLF, AN BUH RABBIT.

One time er King hab er pooty Darter. Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit all two bin a spark at um an a cote um. De sanfly bin berry bad. De King tell Buh Wolf an Buh Rabbit de one wuh kin stan de sanfly de longes bedout bresh um way, shill git de gal.

Buh Wolf yent bin so scheemy as Buh Rabbit. Wen dem all was a settin fuh de match, Buh Rabbit, him say: "Gentlemans, my fader had a black horse. Eh had a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day; a white spot yuh, and a red spot day." Ebry time eh pint out de place way de spot bin, eh dribe off de sanfly.

Wile dis duh guine on, de sanfly mose eat up Buh Wolf. Eh bleege fur cratch an slap. So Buh Rabbit gain de day, an de King gie um eh Darter.

Buh Wolf, him berry sad, an eh wunt talk. All de lady bin a set in de piazza long de King an eh Darter. Den Buh Rabbit say: "Come, Buh Wolf, leh we broke [19] up. Ef you lemme ride you ter de big gate me guine tun de King Darter ober ter you." Buh Wolf happy. Eh gree fuh leh Buh Rabbit ride um. Buh Rabbit light on eh back. Eh hab spur on. Buh Wolf dunno nuttne bout dis. Soon es Buh Rabbit git on Buh Wolf back, eh clamp eh leg onder Buh Wolf belly, an eh clap spur ter Buh Wolf. Buh Wolf rare up. Eh jump. Eh kick. Eh leddown. Eh try ebry way fuh trow Buh Rabbit. Buh Rabbit stick ter eh back, an wunt fall off. De mo Buh Wolf rare up an kick an pitch, de wus Buh Rabbit spur um. Wen eh fine eh cant trow Buh Rabbit, eh tek de big road an lean fuh de gate. Buh Rabbit stick de spur in um ebry jump. Buh Wolf run. Eh run. Eh holler. Eh holler. Buh Rabbit duh set on eh back an duh spur um, an duh look dess as happy an content as eh kin be. Wen dey guine tru de big gate, Buh Rabbit light off eh back an jump on top de gate pose. Buh Wolf cant stop run. Eh gone. Buh Rabbit shet de gate, an tun back, an jine de compny, an tek eh bride.

>>6148
I guess misinformation is not that big of an issue.

>>215
join a youth group they said

I posted some books that I recommend here;

https://zzzchan.xyz/fascist/thread/2.html#16603

>>6416
2 more down.
I really liked NT Volume 16, and 17 was fun as well. The premise of Volume 16 is especially fun with an abnormal extreme heat wave and simultaneous invasion of otherworldly creatures forcing the denizens of Academy City into a desperate survival situation, wearing only their swimwear! Volume 17 takes place in the immediate aftermath.
>>6445
He wrote a fascinating and very brief story called Eleonora which doesn't get recommended enough. It's very unique.

>>6416
>Lovecraft is more formulaic but also really good.
What makes Lovecraft work so well for me is how adept he is at building up atmosphere. He gets criticized for his purple prose, but I think his writing benefits from it.

I've never read much Poe. The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is something that's been on my mental backlog, but I really don't read much fiction.

Just binged a few detective novels by Keigo Higashino. Then I noticed that redditors have been up in arms for years about a more experimental book of his called Himitsu (known as Naoko in English translations). It's a very interesting read about a dude who's forced to live with his wife's soul being inside their daughter's body but I hated the ending. Not the lame "denouement" one but the real ending where the main character finally realizes what is truly going on and then I understood why the faggy Goodreads types suck it off constantly it's feminist propaganda, although they pretend it's just something normal and people who feel uncomfortable with the final twist must be chuds.

Finished another Toaru novel. NT Volume 18. In this one Kamachi integrates the biographical information about Aleister Crowley. Now, the mysterious man floating in the tube is confirmed as a serious pervert who used to attend orgies and write erotica. (His plans and motives are revealed as well.) This one was kinda strange because about a third of it was Touma experiencing visions from Crowley's past. Some of the vision segments were a bit of a slog, but overall I still enjoyed this one.

Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche

Lights in August by William Faulkner

And a book of poetry. Lights is easily the most overrated Faulkner book.

>>6437
XNITY PRIMER
http://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1a-9eWjZWH-6uUOcRFJ4hFsgB2vOhdZZf
google drive easy to use interface
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read moar discern moar

Over the years I've been fascinated by the council of Trent and what the selection process for the canon was like in 1546. Apparently they just copy-pasted the list from a similar council held in Rome all the way back in 382. That's more than a 1,000 years between them.

Now here are some English printings that retain the Japanese cover art.

Now, to finally get to the point of the thread, here are the retarded german covers.
What were they THINKING? Is this normal in germany?

Bonus: Amano of Final Fantasy and Vampire Hunter D fame did a lot of illustrations for the series.

>>6352
creepy

Guin Saga was one of the direct sources of inspiration for Miura while making Berserk. There are also some similarities with Vampire Hunter D, although I suspect if there was any influence there, it was more about aesthetic than content. But yeah, I know your point is that the Japanese covers are simply a lot more tasteful and congruent with what the books are actually about.