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[Dutrius]

Finished The Great Hunt, on to The Dragon Reborn.

I'm averaging about one WoT book a month. I should be finished early next year at this rate.

[HavingPhun]

Just finished A Dance of Dragons. Now I am reading through a pdf file with almost all of H.P. Lovecraft's works in it. I am enjoying it so far. I also have a huge list of books that I want to read, but just haven't gotten to yet.

[Spehss _]

Finished Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep. Never read that before, that was a nice Lovecrafty short-story.

[Tawa]

Finished Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep. Never read that before, that was a nice Lovecrafty short-story.

I liked that too, although most reviewers apparently hate it for not being "cosmic" enough.

Read Waiting for Godot a few days back.

I have a new favorite play.

Lucky's speech is still to this day the most difficult monologue for an actor to learn.

I can imagine. At least they don't have to memorize anything else.

[Spehss _]

Finished Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep. Never read that before, that was a nice Lovecrafty short-story.

I liked that too, although most reviewers apparently hate it for not being "cosmic" enough.

It's a perfect example of a pulpy Lovecraft tale. It's got everything you' expect. It's got Arkham, the Miskatonic, Innsmouth, Miskatonic University and the Necronomicon, an unreliable narrator, two good friends who get caught up in horrible eldritch plots due to their love of seedy creepy eldritch stuff, use of Cyclopean in regards to ancient architecture, lots of vocabulary you'd never know existed otherwise, chanting and ravings including terms like shoggoth and Shub-Niggurath, people getting locked away in asylums, all the lovecrafty tropes.

[Levi]

I just read We are all completely fine from the last humble book bundle(before the transformers one on now).  It was really really good!  Its also nice and short(about 100 pages).

[Tack]

Terry Prattchett's "Moving Pictures"

[Tawa]

-pyramidsnip-
It's a perfect example of a pulpy Lovecraft tale. It's got everything you' expect. It's got Arkham, the Miskatonic, Innsmouth, Miskatonic University and the Necronomicon, an unreliable narrator, two good friends who get caught up in horrible eldritch plots due to their love of seedy creepy eldritch stuff, use of Cyclopean in regards to ancient architecture, lots of vocabulary you'd never know existed otherwise, chanting and ravings including terms like shoggoth and Shub-Niggurath, people getting locked away in asylums, all the lovecrafty tropes.

Same reason I liked it. I also liked Shadow over Innsmouth, which was also panned by critics for the same reason. The pulpy stuff makes for better individual stories, which is also why I liked The Hobbit more than the dry, in-depth further works of Tolkien.

The one Lovecraft story I don't think I'll ever finish is the one where the narrator goes out of his way to mention his cat with the racist name I forgot every few seconds. I tried reading that once, but I just couldn't take it seriously.

[Bohandas]

-pyramidsnip-
It's a perfect example of a pulpy Lovecraft tale. It's got everything you' expect. It's got Arkham, the Miskatonic, Innsmouth, Miskatonic University and the Necronomicon, an unreliable narrator, two good friends who get caught up in horrible eldritch plots due to their love of seedy creepy eldritch stuff, use of Cyclopean in regards to ancient architecture, lots of vocabulary you'd never know existed otherwise, chanting and ravings including terms like shoggoth and Shub-Niggurath, people getting locked away in asylums, all the lovecrafty tropes.

Same reason I liked it. I also liked Shadow over Innsmouth, which was also panned by critics for the same reason. The pulpy stuff makes for better individual stories, which is also why I liked The Hobbit more than the dry, in-depth further works of Tolkien.

The one Lovecraft story I don't think I'll ever finish is the one where the narrator goes out of his way to mention his cat with the racist name I forgot every few seconds. I tried reading that once, but I just couldn't take it seriously.

I don't remember that one. Was the cat at least named something that could conceivably be innocuous depending on the cat's appearance (like "darkie") or was it named something less ambiguous like "Golliwog" or "mandingo"?

[Spehss _]

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Same reason I liked it. I also liked Shadow over Innsmouth, which was also panned by critics for the same reason. The pulpy stuff makes for better individual stories, which is also why I liked The Hobbit more than the dry, in-depth further works of Tolkien.

The one Lovecraft story I don't think I'll ever finish is the one where the narrator goes out of his way to mention his cat with the racist name I forgot every few seconds. I tried reading that once, but I just couldn't take it seriously.

I don't remember that one. Was the cat at least named something that could conceivably be innocuous depending on the cat's appearance (like "darkie") or was it named something less ambiguous like "Golliwog" or "mandingo"?

Story's called Rats in the Walls. Cat's name was Nigger-Man in the original, but in a republishing in a magazine it was changed to Black Tom. In most publications now I'm pretty sure it sticks with Lovecraft's naming. No. No it's not really ambiguous.

Still a great story. Can't let some vocabulary completely ruin a good story, look at the whole Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn stuff. You should totally finish Rats in the Walls, Taw.

[Bohandas]

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Same reason I liked it. I also liked Shadow over Innsmouth, which was also panned by critics for the same reason. The pulpy stuff makes for better individual stories, which is also why I liked The Hobbit more than the dry, in-depth further works of Tolkien.

The one Lovecraft story I don't think I'll ever finish is the one where the narrator goes out of his way to mention his cat with the racist name I forgot every few seconds. I tried reading that once, but I just couldn't take it seriously.

I don't remember that one. Was the cat at least named something that could conceivably be innocuous depending on the cat's appearance (like "darkie") or was it named something less ambiguous like "Golliwog" or "mandingo"?

Story's called Rats in the Walls. Cat's name was Nigger-Man in the original, but in a republishing in a magazine it was changed to Black Tom. In most publications now I'm pretty sure it sticks with Lovecraft's naming. No. No it's not really ambiguous.

Still a great story. Can't let some vocabulary completely ruin a good story, look at the whole Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn stuff. You should totally finish Rats in the Walls, Taw.

Oh my! That's much worse than mandingo or golliwog!

[Zrk2]

Terry Prattchett's "Moving Pictures"

Is it full of Rush references?

[Emma]

I finished A Dance with Dragons a few days ago, the ending was really bloody good.

Spoiler: No, Seriously, Spoilers (click to show/hide)

I can't believe he fucking killed off Jon Snow! He was my favourite character.

I'm now onto reading Deadhouse Gates in the Malazan Books of the Fallen

[Arcvasti]

I finished A Dance with Dragons a few days ago, the ending was really bloody good.

Spoiler: No, Seriously, Spoilers (click to show/hide)

I can't believe he fucking killed off Jon Snow! He was my favourite character.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Remember the second rule of SoIaF: If the character dies without having their death witnessed by another POV character, they're probably still alive. Take Theon and Brienne, for example. Jon's fate is porpoisely left ambiguous, presumably so George R. R. Martin has some wiggle room for the next book if he decides to change his mind. Same with Stannis and his lot. We didn't see any of them die, anything could have hapened.

[NJW2000]

God, I'm so upset about Pratchett. I wonder if I should read something he wrote or just try not to think about it too much.