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CestMoi posted:I'm reading the Loser by Bernhard and it's better than whatever stupid poo poo everyone's talking about now Nah, but that book's cool too I think you'd like Lincoln in the Bardo, actually
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hooked on Fauxnics posted:I think the joke is that almost all Bernhard is about a friend of the narrator killing themselves. Ah idk it's my first Bernhard but that's badass
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I gave up on Jerusalem (by Alan Moore)
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Franchescanado posted:Nah, but that book's cool too Eh maybe I have no idea what it is/does
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CestMoi posted:Eh maybe I have no idea what it is/does just read it u nerd
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any of yall ever read a book that was written in blood?
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Powaqoatse posted:any of yall ever read a book that was written in blood? Yes, once.
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Powaqoatse posted:any of yall ever read a book that was written in blood? Yes. It was also bound in human flesh. It was a 14th or 15th century (I really can't remember) German(?) Bible with a bunch of weird illustrations
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badass i read about Cyprianus black books a while ago and thought it sounded cool (so dangerous that if you accidentally read some of it, you have to read backwards to get out of it, like whoa) but when I actually read one it was anticlimactic as heck. Just a bunch of formulaic prayers 
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tell me more about the blood/skin bible, if its real
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Powaqoatse posted:tell me more about the blood/skin bible, if its real I worked for a guy who was really wealthy and liked to collect old books, like the 1st edition of Moby-Dick, etc. He found an online seller trying to get rid of a "cursed book" and bought it. He's not superstitious or religious, but he was curious as to what a cursed book could be. There was an issue with the sale because of it having human remains, but the seller shipped it anyway. He got the book and it was really old, and sent it to some place, I guess a museum or something, for assessment. It was made of human flesh and blood, and dated in the 15th or 16th century and was an older Germanic language, and probably used for some form of Satanism. They didn't want to keep it. I only saw it twice, and it's creepy. Most of the illustrations are really elaborate and show the devil in various settings. I couldn't read any of it, but there were two or three repeated phrases heading many passages. There was also intricate hand-drawn borders on many pages. He still has it. I guess there's been quite a few offers for it, including a big offer from Jimmy Page, but he doesn't want to sell it yet. If I ever see it again, I'll take some pics of it and post it, but I haven't been to his house in a few years. Anyway, that's my book story.
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i dont mean to call you out but i would think a museum would want to keep an actual 15th century book made out of human blood and skin. there arent a lof of those, you know? probably the guy embellished a little? e: apparently one from the 16th century & then it jumps to 19th: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropodermic_bibliopegy
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pls take pics tho if you can tho 
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Powaqoatse posted:i dont mean to call you out but i would think a museum would want to keep an actual 15th century book made out of human blood and skin. there arent a lof of those, you know? Probably wasn't a museum, then. To add to the unbelievable events, the man that did the assessment was in a car accident after examining the book, hence his insistance to return it immediately. Sounds like a horror movie or episode of some anthology series, but I've seen the book and talked to the assessor, and that would be an elaborate put on for my benefit and no real reason. But I am a guy on the internet and it's a crazy story. 
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that's dope though i think the usual story with things like that is that they end up being bound in some kind of animal skin which gets passed off as human for centuries because how would you even tell without forensics
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Franchescanado posted:Probably wasn't a museum, then. To add to the unbelievable events, the man that did the assessment was in a car accident after examining the book, hence his insistance to return it immediately. Yea i dont doubt your account at all, i doubt the guy's account. The assessor getting into a car accident lends credence to the story though
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Powaqoatse posted:any of yall ever read a book that was written in blood? Have you ever heard of The Dictionary Of The Khazars?
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CestMoi posted:Have you ever heard of The Dictionary Of The Khazars? No.. I have it as an ebook but it feels like it needs to be a physical book so I'm holding out. Def on my reading list though
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Franchescanado posted:I worked for a guy who was really wealthy and liked to collect old books, like the 1st edition of Moby-Dick, etc. He found an online seller trying to get rid of a "cursed book" and bought it. He's not superstitious or religious, but he was curious as to what a cursed book could be. There was an issue with the sale because of it having human remains, but the seller shipped it anyway. He got the book and it was really old, and sent it to some place, I guess a museum or something, for assessment. It was made of human flesh and blood, and dated in the 15th or 16th century and was an older Germanic language, and probably used for some form of Satanism. They didn't want to keep it. would he be down for allowing scholars access to it? i'm a medievalist and i've never heard of anything like that. VileLL posted:though i think the usual story with things like that is that they end up being bound in some kind of animal skin which gets passed off as human for centuries because how would you even tell without forensics not actually that hard. i've known profs who could tell goat from sheep from calf parchment by the smell. i'm not that good, but i can tell them apart by the hair follicle patterns using just a magnifying glass. if it doesn't look like any of those, but it does look like human, then, well... chernobyl kinsman fucked around with this message at 00:43 on Oct 22, 2017 |
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that's powerful, i'm pretty surprised to hear it
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tho i can tell sealskin manuscripts by their smell because they still smell like fish 800 years later
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chernobyl kinsman posted:would he be down for allowing scholars access to it? i'm a medievalist and i've never heard of anything like that. Within reason. He lives in St. Kitts now, but the book is in Central Florida. It'd be difficult to arrange. I could try and find a way to get pics, but it'd be at least a month. It doesn't smell like fish! I can say that for sure.
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does it smell a litle bit a lotta bit like butt though
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It smells musty and salty.
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I can't say that I know anything about this subject, but a quick Google suggests that there's only a handful of books bound in human skin known, none of them anything as interesting as a Bible, and the earliest known binding is from the 19th century
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Oh great yeah post it here and *curse the whole drat forum* sounds great
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Ras Het posted:I can't say that I know anything about this subject, but a quick Google suggests that there's only a handful of books bound in human skin known, none of them anything as interesting as a Bible, and the earliest known binding is from the 19th century check out the wikipedia link i posted earlier, theres one book from the 16th century and then like 5+ from the 19th. not a good look for books imo
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh great yeah post it here and *curse the whole drat forum* sounds great How can we tell someone didn't post it already?
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CestMoi posted:How can we tell someone didn't post it already? actually someone whose name i wont reveal sent me a couple photos of the book. turns out its written by David and several major bits take place in a public aquarium
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh great yeah post it here and *curse the whole drat forum* sounds great There’s no way that flesh could be more cursed or more putrid than some of the bloated sacks that have graced this forum
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh great yeah post it here and *curse the whole drat forum* sounds great Post it and I promise to blank quote it to double the effect, don't listen to the hater here
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lol if you consider yourself a book reader and don't have at least a grimoire or two on your shelves
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Oh great yeah post it here and *curse the whole drat forum* sounds great this but unironically
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I have a copy of Moby Dick made entirely out of whale cum
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dangerdoom volvo posted:I have a copy of Moby Dick made entirely out of whale cum I bet that took a lot of squeezing
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dangerdoom volvo posted:I have a copy of Moby Dick made entirely out of whale cum yeah i have some things your ex made too
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quote:Our white, naked bodies dissolve into a swarm of black creeping things, and I am—we are—a mass of glutinous coiling worms, endless, and in that infinity, no, I am infinite, and I howl soundlessly, begging for death and for an end. But simultaneously I am dispersed in all directions, and my grief expands in a suffering more acute than any waking state, a pervasive, scattered pain piercing the distant blacks and reds, hard as rock and ever-increasing, a mountain of grief visible in the dazzling light of another world. Solaris is the best book.
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Been reading Speak, Momeory. Excellent as always of Nabokov. The evoked atmosphere of pre-WWI Europe is great.
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The Belgian posted:Been reading Speak, Momeory. Excellent as always of Nabokov. The evoked atmosphere of pre-WWI Europe is great. it's good. i still need to read pnin, tho. also wb, but please get back ur poirot.
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