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Sep 6, 2016 19:59
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He's such a good author, I can't even show you how, because you would literally go insane. Oh it's so unimaginably good. Trust me. I should definitely tell you, not show you how good he is.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:01
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he was, at least until Hemingway invented shorter sentences
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Sep 6, 2016 20:01
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Exceedingly verbose and more than a little racist.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:01
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Voted all and for once it wasn't ironically. That is pretty much the actual answer
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Sep 6, 2016 20:02
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i enjoy dunwich horror and shadow over innsmouth and mountains of madness
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Sep 6, 2016 20:02
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I like him a great deal and think he is a very important and good author, but as previously mentioned he was very racist.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:03
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1982 Subaru Brat posted:Voted all and for once it wasn't ironically. That is pretty much the actual answer
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Sep 6, 2016 20:04
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1982 Subaru Brat posted:Voted all and for once it wasn't ironically. That is pretty much the actual answer
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Sep 6, 2016 20:04
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Not especially but the mythos is cool.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:05
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Cool ideas more than the specifics. Also very racist, which is relevant because a lot of his stuff had to do with blood mixing and (ironically) how sins of ancestors couldn't be purged for descendants
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Sep 6, 2016 20:05
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lovecraft posted:When, long ago, the gods created Earth
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Sep 6, 2016 20:05
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Sep 6, 2016 20:07
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No he was a bad author and a poo poo lord but did some decent world building that other authors have and continue to do better writing with.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:07
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He's the best bad author.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:07
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He had some interesting ideas, and he wasn't a bad writer, but he wasn't brilliant either. I'd totally hire him to do worldbuilding for a videogame or something. Probably way cheaper than hiring R.A. Salvatore like Bankrupt Baseball Man.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:08
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Yes but also no. Great at building tension, pacing atmosphere. Bad because he could never really get the payoff/climax of his stories right. He was also racist but I felt that it was more from his environment than an actual vindictiveness. -Posted from the toilet with my Galaxy 5s
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Sep 6, 2016 20:08
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No but he had some good opinions about race.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:11
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Hey guys, did you know that Lovecraft was racist?! It's very important that you know this dead, gay author was racist because otherwise you could unknowingly read his books and start hating mulattoes too!
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Sep 6, 2016 20:13
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he had some good and memorable short stories like the one about the new england house with blood dripping from the ceiling. it wasn't all crazy moon gods. but those were cool too also monumental, inexplicable, sanity-less horror is kind of a theme of the modern world so it's still sorta relevant
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Sep 6, 2016 20:18
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Bad Author, great Ideas Guy
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Sep 6, 2016 20:18
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no but he benefited from his audience's incredibly low standards, a phenomenon that can still be seen today
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Sep 6, 2016 20:19
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good: he liked cats and had one he was very fond of bad: the cat was named friend of the family
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Sep 6, 2016 20:20
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Hogge you are half blind and spitting straight into the wind
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Sep 6, 2016 20:21
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Tangentially related, one problem I have with a bunch of Lovecraft adaptations/spinoffs is the fact that they tend to make Cthulhu and pals actively malevolent, rather than uncaring and completely, psychologically alien.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:24
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He's ok. He's no R.L. Stine though
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Sep 6, 2016 20:25
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Hmm. That depends on how you feel about non-Euclidian geometry, OP.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:26
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well my name is mr shoggoth and i'm here to say i love to embody indescribable horror every day with a rap and rhyme and a little bit of slime let's dance and groove to death from beyond time
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Sep 6, 2016 20:26
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Lil Peeler posted:Yes but also no. Great at building tension, pacing atmosphere. Bad because he could never really get the payoff/climax of his stories right. He was also racist but I felt that it was more from his environment than an actual vindictiveness. This is where I'd put him. Excellent at slowly building dread through lots of disparate scraps of information. Terrible at dialog and usually miffing the endings, with a few exceptions. He has maybe four great stories but the rest are middling to terrible. The racism stuff also strikes me as a hypocritical sheltered guy who had delusions of his blue-bloodedness getting total culture shock from New York. He married a Jewish woman and had a few "you're one of the good ones" moments with black people, but I think had he lived longer he probably would have softened on the racism and xenophobia, at least a little bit. And "The Colour out of Space" is excellent for having a truly alien alien whose motives are totally a mystery. The way it saps life from the farm and the people who live there slowly over a year was good poo poo. Probably his best story even though it has some godawful dialog. MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Sep 6, 2016 20:32
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Mordja posted:Hey guys, did you know that Lovecraft was racist?! It's very important that you know this dead, gay author was racist because otherwise you could unknowingly read his books and start hating mulattoes too! what do you mean "start" 
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Sep 6, 2016 20:36
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'the shunned house' is a good short story i also like 'the outsider'
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Sep 6, 2016 20:36
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I have a Lovecraft related tattoo 
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Sep 6, 2016 20:36
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Good imagination and he could put together tension very well, but a lot of the time he feels like he's trying to imitate Poe and isn't quite successful He had a knack for world building but couldn't put it into a story effectively. "At the Mountains of Madness" is a 10/10 exercise in worldbuilding this sort of cosmic horror back story for his universe but as an actual story it's even more of a slog than most of his poo poo
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Sep 6, 2016 20:37
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anyways yeah as others said he wasnt especially talented but he is important, the mythos is cool and the idea of cosmic horror came at a time when science was just beginning to gaze into the abyss and comprehend just how vast and cold the void really is instead of just "what's past the moon? I dunno heaven or some poo poo"
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Sep 6, 2016 20:37
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I hope Guillermo del Toro never gets to make his At the Mountains of Madness movie. I want to see the movie but I don't want del Toro's hack hands all over it. gently caress you, Guillermo, you suck and you still owe me ten dollars you rear end in a top hat.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:41
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I like his writing but i know it's not "good" in the traditional sense. It's so reliant on antiquated language (even for the time) and overly verbose description that i imagine most modern audiences would find it tough to parse/not worth reading if not for the popularity of the Cthulhu mythos. lots of his stories feature outright racist bullshit too, so that's definitely another hurdle for people to overcome.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:46
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DoctorG0nzo posted:Good imagination and he could put together tension very well, but a lot of the time he feels like he's trying to imitate Poe and isn't quite successful The Re-Animator, it's giant Negro zombie notwithstanding, is a fantastic Lovecraft story that feels far less derivative than a lot of his works. In particular, it's one of those great examples of the Lovecraft Finish: a long, flowery "short" story whose gruesome finish is literally two paragraphs.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:50
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Mark Twain was ok but some of his books deal with "racist" stuff so I declare it unreadable I am very sensitive to the feelings of people I never intend to spend any time or attention on.
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Sep 6, 2016 21:04
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reallivedinosaur posted:Mark Twain was ok but some of his books deal with "racist" stuff so I declare it unreadable I am very sensitive to the feelings of people I never intend to spend any time or attention on. e: also Shakespeare and the guy who wrote those terrible racist Sherlock Holmes books. My soul hurts that these books are allowed in libraries
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Sep 6, 2016 21:06
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Lovecraft hated black people and was not very subtle about it. Comparing him to Twain is moronic.
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Sep 6, 2016 21:07
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