(October 13, 2018 at 12:19 pm)Grandizer Wrote: Namely, At the Mountains of Madness.I've read pretty much all of his available stuff. It takes a certain love for the neogothic to really get into him; I might have suggested a book of short stories, first.
I see Lovecraft is really into describing how dreadful the surrounding environment is, and loves repeating the same stuff in so many different ways. It's quite a bore, to be honest. And I keep having to take good breaks from it every now and then because of its tediousness and because it gets really tiring having to resort to dictionaries and google images and wikipedia to understand all the sciency/engineering/construction terms he uses. I will finish it eventually, though. Just so I can say I've read some Lovecraftian work.
What books by Lovecraft have you guys read? Was this a tedious read for you as well? And are there better works of his that you recommend I read?
One dreary January I was stuck at college over winter break, because I was on the swim team and that was the middle of swim season. Between practices I was bored shitless. There was no place to go, and no way to get there. There were at least 6 feet of drifted snow all around, and it was -18F, and there were maybe all of 50 people on the whole campus -- none on the dorm floor I lived on.
That's when I read At the Mountains of Madness.
Well, it was the only book in the room I hadn't read yet.
Under those conditions, I rather liked it.
More characteristic, though (and also shorter), I'd recommend "The Call of Cthulhu", "The Dunwich Horror", or
"The Shadow over Innsmouth".
Dictionary might be handy, but forget Wikipedia and Google and all that.
Lovecraft never had any of that stuff.
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Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
Dr H
"So, I became an anarchist, and all I got was this lousy T-shirt."
