• Diddlydee@feddit.uk
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    Santa Steps Out was wild.

    'Sex, Death, and Santa Claus

    His generosity is legendary. He has a devoted wife, a crack team of sky-borne reindeer, hordes of industrious elves, and the love of good little boys and girls around the globe. But what unholy desires now propel him into the lascivious clutches of a certain fairy? And who was he before the sleigh and workshop, in times forgotten?

    She munches on molars, summons drowned sailors to her pleasure, and recalls, sharp as a pinprick, her life as the most savage of ash nymphs. Why then is she stuck, night after night, hovering above pillows to leave coins for gap-toothed brats? More important, how quickly can she captivate the jolly old elf to the north?

    He’s huge, fluffy, lonesome, and unbearably horny. On his Easter rounds, he contrives, as often as possible, to get a grip on himself and peer into interesting bedrooms. But who in the world will throw him down and ravage him as the lovers under his gaze ravage one another?

    Deadite Press is proud to bring back the ultimate erotic Christmas story from Robert Devereaux’

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    A long way gone by Ishmael Beah was pretty dark. Story of a boy soldier from Sierra Leone explaining how you get forced into it and the terrible things they did.

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    Currently reading The Illuminatus trilogy. It is a trippy, psychedelic thriller, which assumes many conspiracy theories, both well-known and obscure to be true.

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    China Miéville - The City & the City is one that I don’t think I’ll ever forget. Wild because as far out as it feels, it’s also a pretty accurate portrayal of how we’ve trained ourselves to intentionally not see. I find myself thinking of the book often.

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    Fanged Noumena by Nick Land

    Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani

    Both are a naked lunch level mindfuck. Don’t treat it as a book, but rather as a stream of consciousness on the acid trip. Don’t try to make any sense, just ride the wave.

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    “The teachings of Don Juan” by Carlos Castaneda. Read it in highschool and it put me off psychedelics for more than two decades.

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    Philip K Dick - The three stigmata of palmer eldritch.

    It’s like a dream, where you forget where you came from, but at the same time there are powerful themes that are personally and emotionally affecting. Like an acid trip or religious experience, you aren’t the same person after you’ve finished it, whatever lesson you got from it.

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    Probably some short story I read in high school but from what I can remember the first one that came to mind is Blood Meridian

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    I’d say the first book of The Chronicles of Thomas covenant the unbeliever was a wild trip.

    In the story, Thomas covenant has leprosy. Due to the leprosy he is numb from the neck down even though he can still walk. He has no sensation when he touches anything and he cannot engage in his chosen profession which is writing. In a fit of pique he rescues a girl that almost gets hit by a car and gets isekaied.

    This was written in the late '70s so it was not a common trope at the time.

    He arrives in a world of magic on top of a mountain covered in Giant steps, he crawls his way down the mountain and encounters a girl who uses the magic of the land to heal him of his leprosy.

    Believing this is all a dream and trying to prove to himself that this is not real, he rapes the girl.

    The girls seems very distraught but pulls herself together and guides him into town and that is when he discovers that the white gold wedding ring on his finger is the source of wild magic.

    There is a great evil on the land that plans to destroy everything and he is the chosen person, the only person who can stop it.

    He has to fight against his disbelief of the world while reconciling his abhorrent actions with his own internal sense of morality in order to have a chance to go home again.

    This book spawned a 10 book series covering hundreds of years of history in the land with Thomas Covenant’s battle with the forces of evil and the lives of the people of the land resting in his leprosy numbed hands.

    It’s an amazing work but it is a rough read.

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    I went into Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? blind. Hadn’t seen the movie, hadn’t read any other Dick, hadn’t even had it hyped to me by a friend. What a series of mindfucks.

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      The only Philip K. Dick I’ve read is Flow my tears the policeman said (epic title for a book). It’s pretty linear and coherent until one point towards the end where, without question, 'ol Dick popped some acid.

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      If you want something really wild by him you can try Valis. Going in blind or not won’t really make a difference.

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    Definitely House of Leaves. A story inside of a story, inside of a story, with all narrators being just a bit crazy. Text of different fonts, going all over the place and even upside down based on the story. Just make sure to get the physical copy.

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    Not a book, but a webcomic: https://elan.school/

    Be careful what you wish for OP, this is THE WILDEST shit you will ever read (at least top 5, guaranteed) and the worst/best part is that it’s all true.

    Also, its VERY addictive so clear your schedule.

    You’ve been warned.

    You’ve ALL been warned.

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      I remember reading through the entire thing in one sitting… it is LONG. You can’t look away

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        Yup, I started reading out of curiosity from a suggestion on a thread just like this one, then found myself 10 hours later feeling like I’d come down from an acid trip.

        I’m jealous of the people who can take that ride now, but also glad my ride with it is over. If that makes any sense.

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      No it’s NOT all true. It begins true, like the first couple chapters, then it spirals into 100% creative fiction. Please do not trouble your brain & emotions over fiction.

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        What years were you in Elan, since you are the obvious expert? And even if the Elan part was creative fiction, are you saying that I shouldn’t care about the children who really went through that? Should I watch Saving Private Ryan and not “trouble my brains and emotions” about war because “Tom Hanks wasn’t really a soldier”?

        You sound like a sociopath.

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        The best fiction can be quite troubling, the trick is knowing the difference and/but allowing the troubles. Good art can move you. Great art compells you to move yourself.