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The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

arrak1s's review against another edition

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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? It's complicated

5.0

lecturasimpias's review against another edition

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5.0

Antología de uno de esos autores que hicieron que me aficionase a la lectura.
Relatos increíbles para gozarlos uno tras otro.

mattbgold's review against another edition

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5.0

I've had a thing for horror as far back as I can remember, but until reading this massive book (whose sheer page count is exacerbated by Lovecraft's dense writing style) I had no idea that most of my favorite horror stories were heavily influenced by, if not copy-cats of Lovecraft's ideas.

Each stand-alone piece expands ever so slightly on a larger overarching universe that is shared throughout Lovecraft's work. This is what makes reading the entire thing such a rewarding experience! The result is that each tale adds richness to others in interesting, unexpected ways - transforming the entire body of work much more than a collection of unrelated short stories.

imyra's review against another edition

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3.0

Não acredito, depois de ANOS, finalmente terminei de ler esse livro. Na verdade, é mais do que um livro, são as obras completas de Lovecraft. Então tem livros e contos que ele escrevem, inclusive alguns com algumas pessoas.

Aqui, eu me arrependi um pouco de ter colocado essa edição ao invés de ir adicionando cada um dos livros ou contos, porque acho que ficaria até mais legal, fazer uma resenha de cada um dos trabalhos. Mas agora já foi. Talvez eu volte em um ou outro livro e escreva a resenha dele mais para frente. Essa resenha é sobre as obras completas.

Como está marcado, eu gostei. Estamos falando das obras completas, então tem coisas muito boas, coisas medianas e coisas ruins. Os livros e contos clássicos são realmente bons e valem muito a pena: "The Call of Chutulhu" é fantástico, "At the mountains of Madness" também. Gostei do "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward", "Dunwitch Horror", "Shadows over Innsmouth", entre outros. Alguns contos você sente um pouco daquele terror gótico do Poe, em outros, você vê uma história quase sci-fi.

Aconselho a quem quer ler Lovecraft a não ler tudo de uma vez, um depois do outro. Se você faz isso, a escrita dele fica bem menos efetiva (você não tem mais aquele sentimento de suspense ou surpresa), começa a ficar bem repetitivo, inclusive vários adjetivos são usados até você enjoar. No meu caso, ele era meu autor entre livros, ou seja, ele foi intercalado entre as outras leituras que fiz ao longo dos anos.

Outra coisa que deixa meio repetitivo é o que ele tenta fazer nos finais das histórias em geral: deixar o último parágrafo com o último horror como se fosse uma revelação (depois de algumas histórias, realmente não é) e isso vai ficando bem batido. E basicamente em Lovecraft, como personagem da história, você tem poucas opções: você termina totalmente louco, morto ou, na melhor das hipóteses, com cicatrizes mentais terríveis.

No final, foi bem interessante ter lido.

fallknitt's review against another edition

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the writing style is not engaging and the stories drag on

rocketiza's review against another edition

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3.0

This was impossible to not read in the voice of Richmond the Goth from IT Crowd. Pretty melodramatic and overwrought most of the time.

zraitor's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious sad tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

kelamity_reads's review against another edition

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dark mysterious tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

1.0

I cannot recommend this collection despite it being the best narrated collection of Lovecraft stories that I have ever listened to.

The reason I can't recommend it is because despite how easy it would have been to switch out all the N-words for other terms, Leman and Branney (two white men) decided to leave in every single one of them.

We all know that Lovecraft was a eugenics supporting racist. He was a trash person. No debate. Despite that, people (myself included) love his stories but that doesn't mean we have to continue to stay true to his use of harmful racial slurs. They literally have no effect on the story AT ALL.

It's seriously disappointing. 
It also means this audiobook is useless unless you either a) wear headphones or b) don't mind offending and/or harming the people around you.

There's no excuse for this. 
They should have done better.


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danidep's review against another edition

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adventurous challenging dark mysterious reflective tense slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

3.75

mrmiffmiff's review against another edition

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3.0

Note that going purely by the stories I'd give it more a 4/5. Lovecraft is great. But this particular volume has a lot of typographical errors. Not just wrong letters, but wrong/missing words, even entire paragraphs missing. This is a known issue and they corrected it in later printings but the fact it even happened in the first place is a complete travesty and makes me wonder what the editors were doing.