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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
dark
mysterious
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Boring. Masterful writing as always, but Jesus how many times do you need to describe the damn landscape and the horrific cyclopean city?!! Just when I thought it would get good and give me more details about the really intense scary stuff it would move on to more mountainous descriptions and never come back to the point. Least favorite story so far.
dark
mysterious
reflective
tense
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:
No
Atmospheric Antarctic horror marred by over exposition and a meandering voice in the narration. Perhaps this was a literary choice to frame the writings as coming from a rambling scientist, if it were then it is a failed experiment, resulting in an overwritten mess that could do with a good edit.
The narrator's desultory style takes any sting out of the tension Lovecraft had managed to create in this ethereal setting in the South Pole. He vacillates between detailed anthropology of the 'nameless horrors', to the amazing geology and geography of the region and then leaps to the oppressive and unknowable nature of the place before zipping back to his detailed explications of the culture and history of 'the Old Ones'. This happens with dazzling rapidity and serves to take the sting out of any element of horror and tension that Lovecraft created.
He is his own worst enemy in this one, never mind Cthulu.
The narrator's desultory style takes any sting out of the tension Lovecraft had managed to create in this ethereal setting in the South Pole. He vacillates between detailed anthropology of the 'nameless horrors', to the amazing geology and geography of the region and then leaps to the oppressive and unknowable nature of the place before zipping back to his detailed explications of the culture and history of 'the Old Ones'. This happens with dazzling rapidity and serves to take the sting out of any element of horror and tension that Lovecraft created.
He is his own worst enemy in this one, never mind Cthulu.
dark
mysterious
tense
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
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
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:
No