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I was a big reader as a kid but as an adult I stopped and I only recently got into reading adult books. Are there any books with similar tropes to the game Doki Doki Literature Club? Like any horror where a character(s) become self aware that they're characters in a book but are sentient in spite of that fact? I know that's a very, very niche request but if you have any recommendations of anything similar or even just horror in general, I'd appreciate it. I want to be spooked.

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>>14044387
Read House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski. It's not exactly what you asked for but I think you'll like it.

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Sorry if I steer the discussion a bit, but this is exactly - and I'd like to discuss this "idea" - where I stand when I say that "videogames are a form of art".
I don't think DDLC is an art piece - it's clear that comparing it to Moby Dick would just be plain offensive, but think about this: is there any book that could fulfill OP's request - and without a much greater effort than it would take by just doing it in video form instead?
Now of course for that particular request a movie could work just as well but there are qualities and perspectives that a video game offers and that a movie doesn't.
When I think about, say, "The STanley Parable" i don't think of it as an art piece but as a stepping stone of what seems to be unrealized potential. Video games allow you to add a whole new dimension and it's a shame that it's going to be all wasted because the general public, critics and academics have, for the most part, come to associate such a fertile medium with "just" FIFA or Super Mario (I added the quotation marks because I don't think htat those kind of titles have less merits, just as genre fiction or tv seires or whatever do - they're just for a different audience I guess, but unlike in other fields they are obstructing the field of view and delegittimizing this whole claim to fame)

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Get into metafiction OP, you'll find that when you're living the novels it'll be terrifying enough
Borges is a good place to start for explicitly meta
also vns in general seem to have tons of metafuckery so you can always dive into the jap ones, subahibi, ever17, remember 11, stuff like that

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There's a book called NPCs which I think features characters in a D&D game who realize they're in a game.

>> No.14045210

https://vndb.org/v7738
It actually got picked up lmoa.