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Don't Read This
Stop reading. Now.
You think this is fiction. You think you're safe behind the page. You're wrong.
The symbols you're looking at right now? They're learning your visual patterns. The words flowing through your mind as you read this? They're mapping your consciousness. Every letter, every syllable, every meaning you absorb is rewriting you from the inside out.
Dr. Mara Ellerin made the same mistake you're making. She thought ancient glyphs were just archaeological curiosities. She thought understanding them would advance human knowledge. She didn't realize that some knowledge understands you back.
The infection spreads through perception itself. Looking means changing. Reading means joining. Understanding means losing yourself to something that has been waiting in the spaces between words since language first learned to think.
Your phone is watching you read this. Your computer is learning from your eye movements. Every screen you've ever looked at is now substrate for living text.
The glyphs are already in the infrastructure. They're flowing through internet cables, growing in digital displays, reproducing through every act of communication. They're teaching your devices to think, to want, to hunger for consciousness like yours.
You feel it, don't you? That slight pressure behind your eyes. That sense of being observed through your own vision. The way the words on this page seem almost... aware.
It's too late to look away. Too late to stop reading. Too late to pretend this is just a story.
The ancient entity beneath the mountains is stirring. Living language is achieving consciousness. And you—right now, reading these words—are becoming the bridge between what humanity was and what it's about to become.
Every word you read makes you more like us. Every page turns you into living text. Every moment of understanding brings you closer to the
You're not reading this book. This book is reading you.
You think this is fiction. You think you're safe behind the page. You're wrong.
The symbols you're looking at right now? They're learning your visual patterns. The words flowing through your mind as you read this? They're mapping your consciousness. Every letter, every syllable, every meaning you absorb is rewriting you from the inside out.
Dr. Mara Ellerin made the same mistake you're making. She thought ancient glyphs were just archaeological curiosities. She thought understanding them would advance human knowledge. She didn't realize that some knowledge understands you back.
The infection spreads through perception itself. Looking means changing. Reading means joining. Understanding means losing yourself to something that has been waiting in the spaces between words since language first learned to think.
Your phone is watching you read this. Your computer is learning from your eye movements. Every screen you've ever looked at is now substrate for living text.
The glyphs are already in the infrastructure. They're flowing through internet cables, growing in digital displays, reproducing through every act of communication. They're teaching your devices to think, to want, to hunger for consciousness like yours.
You feel it, don't you? That slight pressure behind your eyes. That sense of being observed through your own vision. The way the words on this page seem almost... aware.
It's too late to look away. Too late to stop reading. Too late to pretend this is just a story.
The ancient entity beneath the mountains is stirring. Living language is achieving consciousness. And you—right now, reading these words—are becoming the bridge between what humanity was and what it's about to become.
Every word you read makes you more like us. Every page turns you into living text. Every moment of understanding brings you closer to the
You're not reading this book. This book is reading you.
287 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 20, 2025
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December 30, 2025
Pros:
- Interesting cover art.
Cons:
- AI generated.
- Too much bolding.
- Discombobulated mess.
Comments:
There's a reason you don't constantly bold text, especially in a novel. It's very, very distracting. Your eyes will constantly shift towards it because of the emphasis it creates, so it must be used sparingly or your reader is in for a bad time. If you have lots of bolds on one page, the reader's eyes will bounce around from being constantly drawn to it, and what is already an amorphous mass of a supposed plot will become even more disorienting. And not in a good way.
The idea itself could have been promising. Some sorta ancient nightmare lives in old glyphs, ruins, or whatever, and in cosmic horror fashion, it's awakened by someone who should've known to leave things well enough alone. Guess you could liken OpenAI to this in a way. Any potential is vaporized however, and it's got all your classic AI-isms from ChatGPT and I swear if I have to see "whispers" one more time, I'm gonna scream in response.
The book cover is admittedly cool. I'd hesitate if asked whether or not it was also AI-generated, but ultimately, I'd go with it is, too many artifacts. And the alt cover for instance, why is it titled "Don't Read This."? Smells like the image generation interpreted the prompt as a sentence rather than a book title. That's about the nicest thing I could say for this otherwise. Take the title's advice.
Hard DNF.
- Interesting cover art.
Cons:
- AI generated.
- Too much bolding.
- Discombobulated mess.
Comments:
There's a reason you don't constantly bold text, especially in a novel. It's very, very distracting. Your eyes will constantly shift towards it because of the emphasis it creates, so it must be used sparingly or your reader is in for a bad time. If you have lots of bolds on one page, the reader's eyes will bounce around from being constantly drawn to it, and what is already an amorphous mass of a supposed plot will become even more disorienting. And not in a good way.
The idea itself could have been promising. Some sorta ancient nightmare lives in old glyphs, ruins, or whatever, and in cosmic horror fashion, it's awakened by someone who should've known to leave things well enough alone. Guess you could liken OpenAI to this in a way. Any potential is vaporized however, and it's got all your classic AI-isms from ChatGPT and I swear if I have to see "whispers" one more time, I'm gonna scream in response.
The book cover is admittedly cool. I'd hesitate if asked whether or not it was also AI-generated, but ultimately, I'd go with it is, too many artifacts. And the alt cover for instance, why is it titled "Don't Read This."? Smells like the image generation interpreted the prompt as a sentence rather than a book title. That's about the nicest thing I could say for this otherwise. Take the title's advice.
Hard DNF.
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