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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > H.P. Lovecraft: Mad Abdul Alhazred's Non-Euclidean Chatroom
 
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Jul 5, 2012

If only Milliband had eaten a vegan sausage roll instead of a bacon sandwich, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Rough Lobster posted:

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.

I thought before buying it that the premise was greatand after finishing it I still think it's an interesting idea, it just needed a better author, one who actually does something with their ideas. Agree about the first half build up ultimately going nowhere, and the 'twist' with his wife wasn't all that interesting really. All the interesting stuff was the reworking of history but there wasn't anything more than that.

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