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3.81 AVERAGE
3.81 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I mean, I liked it, but it wasn't this great huge OMG AMAZING thing. It was a good start to October, though. :)
I wish I could give this 0 stars for racism and 5 stars for being really interesting and spooky and compelling. I'd say if you read this do so in a way that doesn't support the author, but he died in 1937, so...
Í was unable to finish all the short stories in this book; after a while, no matter how interesting, my reading was going very slowly and I had too many books on my TBR mountain to keep on trying to read this one and keep it for longer than necessary. I did like the stories read very much. I'd never read anything by this author so it was very interesting to be witness to his vivid -- if weird -- imagination. A true master of the horror.
I couldn't comprehend the horror which quite frankly is boring. Maybe I shall find it interesting someday.
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
All of the best stories in this collection are in the second half (although I did like the first one - 'Dagon', which was short and sharp). 'The Colour Out of Space' and 'The Whisperer in Darkness' are the best, to my mind. 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' is also good (if rather stretched out). 'Herbert West- Reanimator' stood out because of its odd tone, in which Lovecraft almost seems to be playing it for laughs. 'The Call of Cthulhu' itself was okay, but disappointing given its lofty reputation.
The rest all follow a fairly set formula and vary in quality from 'okay' to 'bewildering' to 'a bit rubbish'. It's interesting to observe the improvement in Lovecraft's writing over time, but I can't say this collection has inspired me to dig any deeper into his work - I think I'll take my enjoyment of the last few stories and leave it at that.
The rest all follow a fairly set formula and vary in quality from 'okay' to 'bewildering' to 'a bit rubbish'. It's interesting to observe the improvement in Lovecraft's writing over time, but I can't say this collection has inspired me to dig any deeper into his work - I think I'll take my enjoyment of the last few stories and leave it at that.
All of the best stories in this collection are in the second half (although I did like the first one - 'Dagon', which was short and sharp). 'The Colour Out of Space' and 'The Whisperer in Darkness' are the best, to my mind. 'The Shadow over Innsmouth' is also good (if rather stretched out). 'Herbert West- Reanimator' stood out because of its odd tone, in which Lovecraft almost seems to be playing it for laughs. 'The Call of Cthulhu' itself was okay, but disappointing given its lofty reputation.
The rest all follow a fairly set formula and vary in quality from 'okay' to 'bewildering' to 'a bit rubbish'. It's interesting to observe the improvement in Lovecraft's writing over time, but I can't say this collection has inspired me to dig any deeper into his work - I think I'll take my enjoyment of the last few stories and leave it at that.
The rest all follow a fairly set formula and vary in quality from 'okay' to 'bewildering' to 'a bit rubbish'. It's interesting to observe the improvement in Lovecraft's writing over time, but I can't say this collection has inspired me to dig any deeper into his work - I think I'll take my enjoyment of the last few stories and leave it at that.
Outdated, cheesy and unoriginal. Repetitive, racist.