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and the end is always too horrible to describe.

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hm... Methinks Lovecraft is a little overrated.

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oh he's totally overrated. but i still like it.

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Many of stories do follow that same paradigm, the earlier ones at-least, and most of his diehard fans will agree with this as well, but even in those flawed stories I'd still say that he has inimitable power when it comes to elucidating fear and constructing atmosphere.
Try The Silver Key and/or The Music of Erich Zahn, two of my favorites, hopefully without presuppositions.

As is the case with all of my seasonal bouts of chronic dissatisfaction I'm sauntering between too many books right now, likely not to finish any:

The Monk, Matthew Gregory Lewis
Dead Ringers, Bari Wood and Jack Geasland
Obscene Bird of Night, Jose Donoso
Being and Nothingness, Jean-Paul Sartre
The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass

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No he is not.

I am a huge fan. But I think that you need to read the biography of Lyon Sprague de Camp and some letters to be able to enjoy completly. I enjoyed before i read the bio, but now even more. Reading his stories and the bio give you deep insight of a poor and lonely being.

However, from language part, he had several important phases. Some of them are really outdated, but that is what i like.

However, if you read Bulwer, Dunsany and Poe you'll understand that he is the horror mix of em all.

And on topic: now reading Phillip K. Dick / A Scanner Darkly (again)

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Yeah his use of archaic phrases and names to be fun.



I know them, and in particular read Poe regularly. My opinion on Lovecraft still stands though; I concede he is a master of the language and of atmosphere, but he doesn't offer much else for me.

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Well... then its hard to argue. I understand why you came to that opinion. Its difficult to explain - when I discuss with people like you it seems either you love him or you hate him. For me Lovecraft has transported the old way to tell stories in his own, sick, sad world of 1920. Maybe this environment is what I love.

But hey, I really love to see that there is another guy here who reads this old shit.

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Read it through. I just read it for my proseminar class and I loved it.

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The Sad Tale Of The Brothers Grossbart by Jesse Bullington. A witty (fictious) tale of 14th century grave robbers in Hungary.

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Since I started working at the library I've been reading four or five books at a time. Currently:

The Art of Talk by Art Bell. His biography.

A Good Fall by Ha Jin. I needed to read this for school; the author went to my university and is apparently all influential.

October Dreams. Anthology about Halloween. Very very good most of the time and very very shitty occasionally, so far.

The Golden Bough by James Frazer. This book is interesting as all get out.



I just finished all of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid books. They're pretty funny. I don't think I'll watch the movie. I've also just finished (thanks, interlibrary loan) John Waters' autobiography (Shock Value) and Simon Doonan's autobiography (Nasty). I've been having a biography thing lately, I guess.

Reading Battle Royale now, finally, after years of not managing to buy it.

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Current two i'm reading

Please Kill Me: Uncensored Oral History Of Punk by Legs Mcneil

History Of Punk written by Debbie Harry

William Gibson - Burning Chrome

Ken Kesey - One flew over the cuckoo´s nest and Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole.

Goddamn I need to finally buy it.
And listen to Chemlab while reading it.
Like. A. Boss.

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