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Yeah Lovecraft was Racist As gently caress, and definitely More Racist Than The Average Joe when he was alive, and his racism bears mentioning, but... I feel like it gets brought up every time his name is mentioned on the forums and it always results in a multi-page derail.
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So I read Crooked, by Austin Grossman. I think I saw it recommended here. It's the book ostensibly about Nixon fighting eldritch horrors. The first half was pretty good, but I kept hoping for more stuff to be explained and it just never panned out. Story fell pretty flat after that first half. I might have liked it more if I was more familiar with Nixon himself, maybe, since I only know the basics. The only part I really enjoyed was Nixon himself as the self loathing underdog main character. Overall I couldn't really recommend it. I've seen similarities drawn between it and Stross's A Colder War for obvious reasons, but (spoilers for both) A Colder War drops neat little hints and references to the Lovecraft mythos and actually follows up on them with eldritch apocalypse awesomeness. Crooked blueballs you, nothing is ever explained satisfactorily, nothing exciting ever really happens and overall it feels like there's no point.
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