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For me it was Randolph Carter's trip into Yog-Sothoth in At The Gates of The Silver Key by H.P. Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price.

What about you guys?

>> No.1885737

Wow, you guys must read some pretty shitty stories.

>> No.1885740

war of the worlds backwards

>> No.1885742

that bit in 1984 where winston loves big brother

>> No.1885751

I remember being pretty amazed in VALIS when the narrator turns out to be the main character and it shifts to first person.

>> No.1886470

>>1884786

Yeah, HP writes some truly epic stuff. That gigantic city mirage in the sky from Mountains of Madness was amazing.

>> No.1886485

Sure is sci-fi/fantasy in here.

>> No.1886493
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1886493

the part near the end of "The Colour Out of Space", where Mr Lovecraft just fucking takes off:

"... and over all the rest reigned that riot of luminous amorphousness, that alien and undimensioned rainbow of cryptic poison from the well - seething, feeling, lapping, reaching, scintillating, straining and malignly bubbling in its cosmic and unrecognizable chromaticism."

FUCK YES. you KNOW he had a hard-on when he wrote that.

>> No.1886517

Here's a excerpt from a novel, anyone know what it is from?

""It ended on the Clinton Highway at the Moonlite Diner. Billy Ray smiling and going among the tables while the band played country music. He had his hands in his pockets when the barman confronted him. Small, vicious, quiet. He said: Red, you been stealin money out of them girls' purses.

Callahan rocked back on his heels with his hooligan smile and looked down at his assassin. His pockets were full of the stolen change spoken, he'd drunk their drinks. You're a damned liar, he said good-naturedly. In the act is wedded the interior man and the man as seen. When he was shot he had his hands in his pockets. The last word came out lie. The roar of the pistol in his face chopped it off and the size of the silence that followed was enormous. Billy Ray was standing there with a small discolored hole alongside his ruined nose. A trickle of thin blood started down his face. The band had finished their set and the people going to the tables paused and looked toward the bar where a small cloud of pale smoke hovered above Billy Ray's shaggy head. They saw him lurch and topple.

Curious the small and lesser fates that join to lead a man to this. The thousand brawls and stoven jaws, the clubbings and the broken bottles and the little knives that come from nowhere. For him perhaps it all was done in silence, or how would it sound, the shot that fired the bullet that lay already in his brain? These small enigmas of time and space and death."

>> No.1886519

>>1886517
sounds a lot like Joe R Lansdale to me.

>> No.1886537

>>1886517
McCarthy. Suttree.

My mindfuck involved the fourth and fifth books of the Hitchhiker's Guide trilogy.

>> No.1886561
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1886561

Oh, hello there!

>> No.1887289

>>1886517

Pretty mad.

>> No.1887335

>>1886561
Pierre Menard Author of the Quixote blew my fucking mind.

>> No.1887341

"what is reality apart from a quantum wavefront collapsing through probability states"
May have messed up the exact quote. Always felt right when thinking about it

>> No.1887404

>>1887341
Yes! I don't think that's any kind of ultimate definition of the universe but it's certainly one of the strings on the piano. Very well said.

And who are you dear reader but a fast fish and a loose fish too?

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1887410

You never did The Kenosha Kid.

>> No.1889642

Call me a fag, but star wars had the most epic shit I ever read. in Darth Bane I think it was, Bane flew this dragon-thing out of the planet's atmosphere and into the atmosphere of another one nearby. He almost froze half way through, it was awesome.

>> No.1889666

>>1886561

The twist ending in Garden of Forking Paths blew me away the first time I read it. Just like Stephen Albert

Also, to the anon that mentioned VALIS, I loved that part.

>> No.1889678

>>1885742

Holy shit man same here. I was hoping he would prevail in the end, but no, just crushing acceptance of reality.

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