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Professor Shark posted:h p lovecraft was all ideas and very little writing talent much like hitler
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a man who was really good at xenophobia. hewlett packard loveshaft
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Oct 10, 2014 11:07
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Frostwerks posted:much like hitler hitler had both actually. he was the complete package
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Oct 10, 2014 11:18
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All of the penpal fanfiction was horrible and august derketh ruins everything.
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Oct 10, 2014 11:24
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Benedick Cuckold posted:hitler had both actually. he was the complete package Hitler just had one, actually 
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Oct 10, 2014 11:31
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Cthulu is basically just Slenderman who's been around longer. Just as dumb and just as lovely
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Oct 10, 2014 11:44
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Hi Op. Don't stop reading lovecraft - and preferably don't use audiobooks if you can help it. Lovecraft's best enjoyed by actually reading him so you can get it in its raw form. Audiobooks are handy but they often provide a bit too much separation between the reader and the work as they're essentially an adaption. Lovecraft is a writer who's very heavily about atmosphere, and the more you can feel there's no separation between you and building that atmosphere in your head as you read, the better. Call of Cthulhu are and Shadow over Innsmouth are two of Lovecraft's most iconic works, but they're honestly far from his best. (For Shadow over Innsmouth, Lovecraft actually felt that story was badly flawed. Call of Cthulhu meanwhile is a bit too abstract and more about an idea of a monstrous encounter than an actual story.) They're pretty all right as tonal pieces though, but the real meat of Lovecraft is in stuff like The Colour Out of Space, Dunwich horror, and At The Mountains of Madness. Also here's a nifty documentary that may help you get a better handle on why people get so much out of him. Neil Gaiman also goes over some of the criticisms of Lovecraft's tropes that you express in the OP too. as it can be very easy to sell Lovecraft short for the cliches & flaws in his work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Spoz_1KyZiA Spacedad fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Oct 10, 2014 |
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Oct 10, 2014 11:50
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All writers are poo poo and books are for stupid idiots
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Oct 10, 2014 12:05
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Zzulu posted:All writers are poo poo and books are for stupid idiots
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Oct 10, 2014 12:10
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Holy poo poo, check out his mom lol
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Oct 10, 2014 12:12
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redshirt posted:How about this? bitch poo poo
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Oct 10, 2014 12:18
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I like Stephen King and Lovecraft and apple pie.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:24
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Harime Nui posted:Holy poo poo, check out his mom Yep.  Lovecraft's father went mad and died early on in his life - likely it's presumed, due to syphilis. Lovecraft was then raised by his mother and his extended family. He had constant health problems as a kid, and didn't really go out much. So basically if he had the internet back then, he'd be here.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:25
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I'm 90% sure Shadow over Insmouth doesn't actually contain any mentions of Cyclopian Architecture or noneuclidian geometry or even cosmic terror. I'm starting to think OP didn't actually make this thread in good faith!?!?
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Oct 10, 2014 12:36
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I'm not sure what's so scary about big blobs anyway, HP.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:37
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Whatever happened to that guy we used to make fun of in GBS like eight years ago who was super into HP Lovecraft and wrote a million stories about indescribable horror and I think he was really angry at us?
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Oct 10, 2014 12:41
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Duck and burger posted:Whatever happened to that guy we used to make fun of in GBS like eight years ago who was super into HP Lovecraft and wrote a million stories about indescribable horror and I think he was really angry at us? turned into a fishman
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Oct 10, 2014 12:44
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Pumpy Muffinz posted:He was a racist rear end in a top hat, but he was good at writing horror stories.
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Oct 10, 2014 12:47
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i like some of his stories
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Oct 10, 2014 13:02
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im my perfect world hp lovecraft and robert howard make an open world rpg
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Oct 10, 2014 13:03
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FREE THE SHOGGOTHS! Actually At the Mountains of Madness is not a good story.It should be called At the Mountains of Badness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cGTEOrX_I08
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Oct 10, 2014 13:04
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Harime Nui posted:Holy poo poo, check out his mom aaahahahahhahah his mom is him in a wig you can't fool me lovecraft. Rats in the Walls is one of my favorites because of the idea of a weird race of people that rode these other people around and used them as cattle. It's so goofy and hosed up. There was this science fiction book called The Mount that was about aliens who use humans as horses. I don't know why this idea fucks me up so much.
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Momohime Katsumi posted:I thought I'd get in the HJallow en spirit by listening to some HP Lovecraft audiobooks. I wasn't familiar with his work but I thought that it'd be cool because he's the cthulu guy, and I'm pretty nerdy, and nerds like cthuly. it seemed to make sense. Anyway, I've listened to two stories so far -- Call of Cthulu and The Shadow Over Innsmouth -- and I think I have his whole shtick down: black, monolithic Cyclopean architecture (wtf is that), ooze, non-Euclidean geometryu (I don't know what that is either), cosmic, uninmagineable terror. You mix those things together and some gibberish nonsense words made of all consonants and you have an HP Lovecraft story. Seriously, like I don't even need to read any more of his stuff because it's just gonna be the above + doomsday occultish poo poo and people either dying or going crazy from "abominable" horror. Like, bro, have some breadth. Hahaha you LISTEN to books, drat! Fingers too fat to turn a loving page?
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Oct 10, 2014 13:06
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reignonyourparade posted:I'm 90% sure Shadow over Insmouth doesn't actually contain any mentions of Cyclopian Architecture or noneuclidian geometry or even cosmic terror. I'm starting to think OP didn't actually make this thread in good faith!?!? miscegenation fears don't count as cosmic terror?
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Oct 10, 2014 13:08
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Benedick Cuckold posted:miscegenation fears don't count as cosmic terror? Hm that's fair I'll give you that
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Oct 10, 2014 13:09
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Livers posted:Hahaha you LISTEN to books, drat! Fingers too fat to turn a loving page? If you're on the bus people wont know you're reading racist literature if you're just listening to it.
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Oct 10, 2014 13:55
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:If you're on the bus people wont know you're reading racist literature if you're just listening to it. play it on a ghetto blaster
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Oct 10, 2014 14:04
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Frostwerks posted:play it on a ghetto blaster lovecraft posted:On the Creation of Niggers Put it to a beat.
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Oct 10, 2014 14:07
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Covered by Cypress Hill.
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Oct 10, 2014 14:22
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"He was a loathsome, gorilla-like thing, with abnormally long arms that I could not help calling fore legs, and a face that conjured up thoughts of unspeakable Congo secrets and tom-tom poundings under an eerie moon. The body must have looked even worse in life - but the world holds many ugly things." UNSPEAKABLE CONGO SECRETS
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Oct 10, 2014 14:41
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I think I've read Nyarlahotep or whatever it's called five times and I still can't figure out what the gently caress it's even about.
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Oct 10, 2014 14:52
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Stick Figure Mafia posted:aaahahahahhahah his mom is him in a wig you can't fool me lovecraft. I like the weird-fiction that makes me feel off balance like that and kind of violates my senses a bit. I actually get a similar effect reading through artbooks by certain artists too. Such as reading through Barlowe's inferno for the first time - text + the images. For example:  He wrote a thing about unspeakable horrors that go on in the buildings in that image, and it kind of hosed me up a bit. Also the bricks of the buildings are made out of compressed human being souls, as he shows in another image of a demon holding one. 
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Oct 10, 2014 14:52
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If anybody is old enough to remember rinkworks.com's "Book-A-Minute" from the late 90s they pretty much nailed it:quote:Narrator: I will tell you about something horrific I witnessed. Also,  
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Beef Hardcheese posted:If anybody is old enough to remember rinkworks.com's "Book-A-Minute" from the late 90s they pretty much nailed it: Haha. The game Dark Corners of the Earth was fairly decent, but the developers got their funding cut or something, so they can't make more 
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Beef Hardcheese posted:If anybody is old enough to remember rinkworks.com's "Book-A-Minute" from the late 90s they pretty much nailed it: Holy poo poo I used to love Rinkworks. gently caress am I old now?
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Oct 10, 2014 23:03
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I dunno, he was known as a pulp writer, but his style resembles more Tolstoy than King.
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I really like Cool Air, it is a fun story
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Oct 11, 2014 01:11
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wasnt afraid to write nbombs and a total shut in loser the ultimate alpha goon
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Vampire dog.
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This is probably a fruitless point to make because I doubt the audio-book-listening OP is even literate enough to actually know the difference, but there's a difference between being a good writer, and being a good (or at least original) story-teller. Lovecraft was the latter, not the former. Lovecraft's enduring legacy in the horror genre isn't a result of the excellence of his writing; it's a result of his ideas, which were objectively unique at the time. Literature was just the medium through which he expressed those notions and themes. Lovecraft is to horror what Tolkien is to high-fantasy. Neither guy was truly a master wordsmith, but they were the first to use a certain style that would end up being endlessly mimicked by later storytellers. Daedra posted:wasnt afraid to write nbombs and a total shut in loser Yep. Also don't forget elitist, atheistic, misanthropic, and functionally useless to society. ninotoreS fucked around with this message at 03:14 on Oct 11, 2014 |
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