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[Tack]

Just finished Saga of the Seven Suns again.

I'm reading, like, everything Pratchett wrote.

I'm trying to buy all the hardcovers and start a collection.
Problem is, they're kinda hard to get in Straya.

[Emma]

Just finished Saga of the Seven Suns again.

I'm reading, like, everything Pratchett wrote.

I'm trying to buy all the hardcovers and start a collection.
Problem is, they're kinda hard to get in Straya.

Really? I haven't had too much trouble personally but then again I'm not buying hardcovers.

[Parsely]

I finished The Forever War. I really liked the ending.

[Morrigi]

Currently reading the Honor Harrington series.

[Spehss _]

Rereading through a collection of Lovecraft stories. Finished The Lurking Fear, The Temple, The Outsider, Arthur Jermyn, and The Unnameable, currently rereading The Shadow over Innsmouth.

[Emma]

Rereading through a collection of Lovecraft stories. Finished The Lurking Fear, The Temple, The Outsider, Arthur Jermyn, and The Unnameable, currently rereading The Shadow over Innsmouth.

I would like to start reading Lovecraft but I'm one not sure where to start and two not sure whether I'll enjoy his writing the little of Call of Cthulhu (or was it The Dunwich Horror) that I read leads me to believe that I may not. Granted, I only read the first paragraph or so, but still.

[Spehss _]

I would like to start reading Lovecraft but I'm one not sure where to start and two not sure whether I'll enjoy his writing the little of Call of Cthulhu (or was it The Dunwich Horror) that I read leads me to believe that I may not. Granted, I only read the first paragraph or so, but still.

Lovecraft's writing can be heavy. He tends to go into lots of (unnecessary) detail on architecture or otherwise use lots of...unique word choices or sentence structure or descriptions. I'd say his writing is like an acquired taste. At first you could be like "this is awful" but after a while you get used to it.

You can find all his works online for free though, so that's cool.

If you're looking for recommendations, I'd suggest At the Mountains of Madness, Cool Air, or Rats in the Walls. I recall Cool Air being not too hard to swallow, I think. Mountains of Madness and Rats are classics, but I don't remember what the writing is like in them. I think his best work is The Outsider, buuuut that may be hard to get through. I remember my first time reading that was confusing as hell.

[Emma]

I would like to start reading Lovecraft but I'm one not sure where to start and two not sure whether I'll enjoy his writing the little of Call of Cthulhu (or was it The Dunwich Horror) that I read leads me to believe that I may not. Granted, I only read the first paragraph or so, but still.

Lovecraft's writing can be heavy. He tends to go into lots of (unnecessary) detail on architecture or otherwise use lots of...unique word choices or sentence structure or descriptions. I'd say his writing is like an acquired taste. At first you could be like "this is awful" but after a while you get used to it.

You can find all his works online for free though, so that's cool.

If you're looking for recommendations, I'd suggest At the Mountains of Madness, Cool Air, or Rats in the Walls. I recall Cool Air being not too hard to swallow, I think. Mountains of Madness and Rats are classics, but I don't remember what the writing is like in them. I think his best work is The Outsider, buuuut that may be hard to get through. I remember my first time reading that was confusing as hell.

Thanks! I'm reading Cool Air now.

[Arcvasti]

I would like to start reading Lovecraft but I'm one not sure where to start and two not sure whether I'll enjoy his writing the little of Call of Cthulhu (or was it The Dunwich Horror) that I read leads me to believe that I may not. Granted, I only read the first paragraph or so, but still.

Lovecraft's writing can be heavy. He tends to go into lots of (unnecessary) detail on architecture or otherwise use lots of...unique word choices or sentence structure or descriptions. I'd say his writing is like an acquired taste. At first you could be like "this is awful" but after a while you get used to it.

You can find all his works online for free though, so that's cool.

If you're looking for recommendations, I'd suggest At the Mountains of Madness, Cool Air, or Rats in the Walls. I recall Cool Air being not too hard to swallow, I think. Mountains of Madness and Rats are classics, but I don't remember what the writing is like in them. I think his best work is The Outsider, buuuut that may be hard to get through. I remember my first time reading that was confusing as hell.

Thanks! I'm reading Cool Air now.

At the Mountain of Madness is definitely my favourite Lovecraft. Actually got the horror going, was interesting to read and used "Cyclopean" every other sentence. 10.12/10

[Emma]

I would like to start reading Lovecraft but I'm one not sure where to start and two not sure whether I'll enjoy his writing the little of Call of Cthulhu (or was it The Dunwich Horror) that I read leads me to believe that I may not. Granted, I only read the first paragraph or so, but still.

Lovecraft's writing can be heavy. He tends to go into lots of (unnecessary) detail on architecture or otherwise use lots of...unique word choices or sentence structure or descriptions. I'd say his writing is like an acquired taste. At first you could be like "this is awful" but after a while you get used to it.

You can find all his works online for free though, so that's cool.

If you're looking for recommendations, I'd suggest At the Mountains of Madness, Cool Air, or Rats in the Walls. I recall Cool Air being not too hard to swallow, I think. Mountains of Madness and Rats are classics, but I don't remember what the writing is like in them. I think his best work is The Outsider, buuuut that may be hard to get through. I remember my first time reading that was confusing as hell.

Thanks! I'm reading Cool Air now.

At the Mountain of Madness is definitely my favourite Lovecraft. Actually got the horror going, was interesting to read and used "Cyclopean" every other sentence. 10.12/10

I just finished Cool Air and am now moving on to At The Mountains of Madness. Cool Air wasn't bad and I enjoyed it quite a bit but I'm not really sure that I enjoyed the ending overly much.

[nenjin]

Rats In the Walls is my personal favorite.

[Emma]

So far At the Mountains of Madness is excellent and has already inspired me to make a game based around it  .

[BlackFlyme]

I read a book once. It was adequate.

[Vattic]

You can find a lot of free audio book versions of Lovecraft's work on YouTube. I found the style worked really well in this format. Listened through a load of them at work. I got mine from this channel.

I would like to start reading Lovecraft but I'm one not sure where to start and two not sure whether I'll enjoy his writing the little of Call of Cthulhu (or was it The Dunwich Horror) that I read leads me to believe that I may not. Granted, I only read the first paragraph or so, but still.

If you didn't like having the narrator tell of the crazy events he was involved with

[NJW2000]

Well, as Vattic recently got sucked into the nearest eldritch dimension of madness and tentacles mid sentence, I'm here to continue your regular dispensation of owl-like literary wisdom

On Lovecraft: Yes, he is very dry, and of his time, as people have said. Much of his reputation for dealing with the tentacly stuff may have been accrued earlier when, paradoxically, less people wrote in that style, and were less deeply into the abominations etc, though now he seems pretty vague/dawdling with it, and in the slightly higher literary sense, he is as or less interesting than, say, Poe in his explorations of madness and the unknown, who I consider more to be a more dramatically compelling author, less verbose.