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3.62 AVERAGE
3.62 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
fast-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
This was boring beyond words, and despite its incredibly short length I still had to fight sleep - in the middle of the day - to finish it. I think we're nearing the time when the initial influencer of contemporary popular art may no longer be relevant beyond scholarly discussion. That's bold (and generalizing) to say after only reading one of Lovecraft's stories, I know. I have more of his work and I'll read it, but I no longer feel like I'm missing out on anything. This has been done, and significantly better, several times since.
A girl can only handle so much racism! Damn… like so much “canon” Western lit, a story that definitely isn’t as good as its own subsequent derivatives imho.
Esta historia es, en especial, una de mis favoritas en el mundo. No solo por la prosa enigmática y atractiva que trae el autor sino también por la temática de terror que es mi favorita. a mente del protagonista es lo que nos lleva por todo un camino de supersticiones alucinantes que tienen base en la verosimilitud del texto. La evolución del personaje en cuanto a creencia es increíble. Primero se presenta como un joven de estudios escéptico que incluso llega a pensar que las teorías de su tío eran puras locuras de su edad senil. Nosotros, como lectores, podemos llegar a estar en un inicio al igual que él. Pero, a medida que la narración avanza y los hechos comienzan a ser irrefutablemente aterradores, empezamos a creer en lo que en un principio eran locuras.
Final chapter is spooky, but it lacks the slow-building dread of Mountains of Madness. The Kraken is scarier than Cthulhu imo.
Llegar y temer esas cuestiones que no puedes percibir y lo que no puedes nombrar con su origen y buscar su sentido bajo la hermenéutica.
Increíble.
Increíble.
I see why this is his most famous story, because so far of what I have read, it's his best. The writing in this one was amazing. Creepy atmosphere, that just gets slowly more creepy and mysterious. Great prose. Impeccable pacing that continuously builds until the end.
Favorite quote:
"Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms. There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. Animal fury and orgiastic license here whipped themselves to daemoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstacies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. Now and then the less organized ululation would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus of hoarse voices would rise in sing-song chant that hideous phrase or ritual:
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Favorite quote:
"Only poetry or madness could do justice to the noises heard by Legrasse's men as they ploughed on through the black morass toward the red glare and muffled tom-toms. There are vocal qualities peculiar to men, and vocal qualities peculiar to beasts; and it is terrible to hear the one when the source should yield the other. Animal fury and orgiastic license here whipped themselves to daemoniac heights by howls and squawking ecstacies that tore and reverberated through those nighted woods like pestilential tempests from the gulfs of hell. Now and then the less organized ululation would cease, and from what seemed a well-drilled chorus of hoarse voices would rise in sing-song chant that hideous phrase or ritual:
"Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn."
Eu já estava cansado da escrita do Lovecraft, então essa não foi uma boa experiência.