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• Imipolex G

  2017-07-02 06:47:30

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, from whence cometh my username.
• Princess Alice

  2017-07-02 06:54:31

  You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022

  Matilda by Roald Dahl
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-07-02 06:55:38

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I am actually illiterate.
• Viani

  2017-07-02 07:02:00

  ☭ B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜  ⚢

  

  Jane said:

  I am actually illiterate.

  I'm sorry to hear that. I've never met an illiterate person before. Is it hard to deal with day to day?
  
• Salix Babylonika

  2017-07-02 07:03:02

  https://i.imgur.com/IoGc2jA.jpg

  I was makin' a goof.

  
  

  What I actually meant was: I don't read enough books to have a favorite.
• Viani

  2017-07-02 07:16:38

  ☭ B̤̺͍̰͕̺̠̕u҉̖͙̝̮͕̲ͅm̟̼̦̠̹̙p͡s̹͖ ̻T́h̗̫͈̙̩r̮e̴̩̺̖̠̭̜ͅa̛̪̟͍̣͎͖̺d͉̦͠s͕̞͚̲͍ ̲̬̹̤Y̻̤̱o̭͠u̥͉̥̜͡ ̴̥̪D̳̲̳̤o̴͙̘͓̤̟̗͇n̰̗̞̼̳͙͖͢'҉͖t̳͓̣͍̗̰ ͉W̝̳͓̼͜a̗͉̳͖̘̮n͕ͅt͚̟͚ ̸̺T̜̖̖̺͎̱ͅo̭̪̰̼̥̜ ̼͍̟̝R̝̹̮̭ͅͅe̡̗͇a͍̘̤͉͘d̼̜  ⚢

  

  Jane said:

  I was makin' a goof.

  
  

  What I actually meant was: I don't read enough books to have a favorite.

  I JUST REALIZED THAT HALF WAY THROUGH YOU COULDN'T HAVE READ THIS THREAD IF YOU WERE ILLITERATE
  
• Section42L

  2017-07-02 07:43:51

  We can do anything if we do it together.

  Same as Jane. >_>
• Sredni Vashtar

  2017-07-02 08:08:57

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  It's a tie between several different books: Peace by Gene Wolfe, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti, Tainaron: Mail from Another City by Leena Krohn, and Burning Your Boats by Angela Carter are all contenders in their own rights; likewise, Tainaron is included within Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's gigantic anthology The Weird, and I feel that one deserves a mention for sheer ambition at a minimum. Peace might be the deepest, though. I have read it maybe twice and still, it haunts and bedevils me

  
  

  As for authors: Elizabeth Hand, Joel Lane, Stepan Chapman, Steve Rasnic Tem, Michael Cisco, Harlan Ellison, Ramsey Campbell, and Robert Aickman are all worth a nod or more, although citing particular collections or novels is difficult either because I have read too little of them or their best work is scattered or all of it is too strong to rank effectively. That said... go read "Wonderwall", "The Window", "The Revenge of the Calico Cat", "In These Final Days of Sales", "The Genius of Assassins", "The Deathbird", "The Voice of the Beach" and "Niemandswasser" respectively.
• Tre

  2017-07-02 08:33:37

  
  

  I don't know if I have a real favorite (it's been a while since I was able to just read for the hell of it), but if I had to say something, I'd probably say Little Brother by Cory Doctorow.
  
  Can I talk comics here too? Because I do have a favorite series of graphic novels; you can probably guess it given that it's become shorthand for "basic animesque Western art style." (Entry level status be damned, it's still close to my heart as ever.) I also really enjoyed Scud, enough so that it's gotten itself a nice second-place spot.
• glennmagusharvey

  2017-07-02 08:36:02

  i don't have a single favorite
  
  some possible candidates may be:
  [NF] The Swamp, by Michael Grunwald
  [F] Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
  
• Klinotaxis

  2017-07-02 11:45:01

  kill living beings
  

  probably analog vlsi and neural systems

  
  

  dono't know about fiction
• Odradek

  2017-07-02 14:33:57

  My dreams exceed my real life

  Grendel by John Gardner
• MetaFour

  2017-07-02 20:52:44

  For once, or maybe twice, I was in my prime.

  Till We Have Faces by C.S. Lewis.