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Any books like this? Looking for an adventure/mystery book with relics, ancient knowledge, supernatural, occult elements, and good plot. Something fun to read.

>> No.12191917

Old testament between moses and the wisdom books

>> No.12191931

>>12191806
most YA fantasy fiction. Try the Rangers Apprentice series.

>> No.12191954

>>12191931
Don't want YA

>> No.12191959

Scans of Wierd Tales magazines

>> No.12191961

>>12191954
>Looking for an adventure/mystery book with relics, ancient knowledge, supernatural, occult elements, and good plot. Something fun to read.
>Don't want YA
You want YA

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>>12191917
>>12191961
/lit/ strikes again. You guys wouldn't know a good time if it fell out of the sky, landed on your face, and started to wiggle.

>> No.12192200

>>12191806
Against the Day by Pynchon.
You’ll be surprised by how much you just asked for is in it.

>> No.12192201

>>12191806
Dune

>> No.12192221

>>12192193
>I want YA
>read YA
>you hate fun!
Bravo, Nolan.

>> No.12192223

>>12191806
Foucault’s Pendulum

>> No.12192235

>>12192221
That's not the same guy, and I don't read YA.

>> No.12192281

>>12191806
Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James

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>>12191806
Bump for interest.

>Ninth Gate
The book is bad, but the movie is GOAT.

>> No.12192310

>>12191806
Lovecraft. Like at the mountains of madness, or cthulhu,

>> No.12193146

>>12191806
If you can find them, the Gabriel Hunt series fits the bill, only in modern times.