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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
A great story, lovercraft is brilliant at building up scene and feeling as well as his descriptions of the geography surrounding the characters. Cthulhu we wait.
adventurous
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
giant penguins
bro i love a scientific expedition, i love the archeological aspect, the chronicalling of the old one's history, i LOVE how in the end we sympathize with the surviving old ones and I love how we get to have our cake and eat it too here: that we get painstaking detail into the progression, the history , the customs of this civilization with just enough allusion to much deeper more horrific entities/ truths to still keep the story mysterious. Like I said, by the end we are sympathizing w the old ones, we know so much about them, their rise and fall, their conflicts, their art history etc etc but then ofc we have the shoggoth (loved that it went in this direction w the shoggoth rising up and taking over in the subterranean sea, as soon as we see the primitive "aped" version of the old ones sculptures I knew! / was like "ooooh shit") but more importantly we have the deeper possible more interdementional/ eldritch truth that is alluded to in those distant mountains, the mountains even the old ones feared, the mountains that danforth looked back at and screamed at/ subsequently went insane (the shear magnitude is implied in the fact that dyer, having gone through such a harrowing/ derealizing experience as he did, has NOT gone insane, but Danforth just from looking back and seeing whatever he saw HAS). BRO the fact we still get a hint of what is beyond but still get to nerd out on all the historical/ archeological shit is just MUAH chefs kiss. I understand why some are annoyed at how "dry and clinical" and "obsessed w details" the writing is bc the narrator is a literal scientist but i love that shit im a nerd anyway whew excellent. Ive started this so many times on audio book but get sidetracked multitasking, but this time i finally got to the point of no return and it was so worth it.
challenging
dark
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
A bit rambling, but good. A lot more interesting ideas in it than the comic book.
O livro tem uma boa premissa, mas Lovecraft não consegue a desenvolver bem e se perde em meio a descrições minuciosas e desnecessárias ao enredo. Em muitos momentos, a leitura se tornou monótona e entediante. Os momentos dedicados a história em si (os Anciões e a expedição) são, na minha opinião, bastante rasos e, ao menos, não me cativaram. Por se tratar de H.P. Lovecraft, tinha muitas expectativas em relação ao livro, mas acabei me decepcionando muito.