/lit/ - Literature

Just finished reading The Philosopher's Stone by Colin Wilson from 1969.
I'm going to spoil it like a fat kid at a candy store.

It's a scifi-horrorish new-agey semi-lovecraftian novel about a British lad who grows up to be a dilletantish amateur scientist and a friend of a rich toff. He develops psychic and intellectual abilities like longevity (his original goal) and eventually being able to see the distant past and psychic blasting. He uncovers the true history of mankind as a creation of the Great Old Ones. They're sleeping but can still affect things. Be vewy vewy careful.
In any case, the book sure takes its time getting to the the lovecraftian part, though. It also throws in various things like the Voynich Manuscript (decipherable through heightened abilities) being a commentary on the Necronomicon. And Sir Francis Bacon being the real Shakespeare. It even dabbles in poltergeist busting - it was bad vibes all along.

The author must be an insufferable prick.