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I've been reading nothing but classics for the past few months and I started with things that matched my interests i.e. I like science fiction so I started with Wells and Verne. Those branched me out to things like Dracula and Frankenstein, which then lead me to Sherlock Holmes. Enjoying Arthur Conan Doyle lead me to read The Lost World which gave the interest to read authors like Edgar Rice Burroughs, whom I'm currently fixated on. I already like Lovecraft so it wasn't much of a stretch to check out his inspirations and peers like Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, or William Hope Hodgson.
I love the movie Apocalypse Now which inspired me to read its inspiration Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad, and now I am a fan of Conrad.
So for me it was pretty much just following a trail of things I already enjoyed and branching out, I really didn't go in thinking ''Hmmm I want to read x,y, and z''. It just happened lol.
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