The Rat posted:Has anyone else here read Michel Houellebecq's "Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life"? It's fantastic. It's one of my comfort reads, I'll pick it up at least once a year. Nothing else of Houellebecq's I've read comes close, with the exception of "Extension du Domaine de la Lutte". Dude shot his literary wad early. "Si le style de Lovecraft est deplorable, on peut gaiement conclure que le style n'a, en litterature, pas le moindre importance--et passer à autre chose." Nanomashoes posted:Lovecraft is actually a really terrible writer, and a massive racist to boot, and should just be forgotten forever like every other weird tales writer. "Il ramène brutalement la racisme à sa source essentielle, sa source la plus profonde--la peur." Clipperton fucked around with this message at 08:18 on Jan 10, 2015 |
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House Louse posted:I read something suggesting that he had basically reached the limits of his ideas and couldn't work out how to go around them. So he didn't have any good ideas, basically. And from most used to least if anyone's interested: Hideous 260 Faint (ed/ing) 189 Nameless 157 Antiqu (e/arian) 128 Madness 115 Singular (ly) 115 Abnormal 94 Blasphem (y/ous) 92 Accursed 76 Loath (ing/some) 71 Furtive 60 Spectral 60 Stench 59 Daemoniac 55 Fungus/Fungoid/Fungous 54 Shunned 54 Proportion/Disproportionate 53 Cyclopean 47 Cat 46 Manuscript 35 Noisome 33 Decadent 32 Tentacle(s) 28 Mortal 27 Immemorial 25 Indescribable 25 Eldritch 23 Foetid 22 Unnamable 22 Gambrel 21 Charnel 20 Amorphous 19 Dank 19 Unmentionable 16 Lurk 15 Swarthy 14 Unutterable 13 Antediluvian 10 Gibber (ed/ing) 10 Comprehension 9 Gibbous 9 Tenebrous 9 Stygian 6 Effulgence 4 Ululat (e/ing) 4 Iridescence 2 Non-Euclidean 2 Squamous 1 e: "swarthy" lol Clipperton fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Aug 11, 2015 |
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Dienes posted:They made their goal and you can pre-order the book now. All female authors, all the stories with prominent female characters. Should be awesome! Hang on, is that the same book? None of the authors in the kickstarter are in it. Also, I knew Joyce Carol Oates was a fan but did she really write a Lovecraftian horror story? I'd be all over that.
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