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3.49 AVERAGE
3.49 AVERAGE
Nunca me ha llamado la atención leer a Lovecraft. Mi conocimiento de sus trabajos viene de haber leído libros o visto películas que lo referencían.
Así que una novela gráfica del más conocido de sus trabajos me pareció la mejor forma de saber de qué va todo, sin dedicarle tanto tiempo. Y en ese sentido cumple su cometido, la historia se puede seguir sin problemas, tiene ese sentido misterioso que supongo debe tener la novela, y es interesante el toque de ciencia ficción donde se mezcla la ciencia ficción y la fantasía.
Confirmo que toda esa mitología de seres antiguos creando la vida en la tierra y dominando a la humanidad no es lo mío. Pero la novela gráfica es lo suficientemente buena para transmitirlo.
Así que una novela gráfica del más conocido de sus trabajos me pareció la mejor forma de saber de qué va todo, sin dedicarle tanto tiempo. Y en ese sentido cumple su cometido, la historia se puede seguir sin problemas, tiene ese sentido misterioso que supongo debe tener la novela, y es interesante el toque de ciencia ficción donde se mezcla la ciencia ficción y la fantasía.
Confirmo que toda esa mitología de seres antiguos creando la vida en la tierra y dominando a la humanidad no es lo mío. Pero la novela gráfica es lo suficientemente buena para transmitirlo.
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 can't write a good review now as I will admit to skimming through this a little, through no fault of its own. In fact I really enjoyed it, but being stricken with flu makes my attention span almost non-existent. So the review will wait, until I can come up with one deserving of the story.
This was my first [a:HP Lovecraft|20827849|HP Lovecraft|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] read and I knew it was gonna be a fave after only the first few pages.
I get why some people would not like it - Lovecraft's excessive eye for detail and 'world-building' could be too much for some people and always focusing on the normal instead of the abnormal could get frustruating. But for me, this just made the book all the more omnious. I was just waiting for [a:HP Lovecraft|20827849|HP Lovecraft|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] to explain the supernatural that was so evident in [b:At the Mountains of Madness|32767|At the Mountains of Madness|H.P. Lovecraft|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388341769l/32767._SY75_.jpg|17342821] and feed my weak-hearted curiosity(I was reading this book at night, home alone and it was sCaRy!). Lovecraft did, but with such breaks in between. This made me feel like I was constantly about to turn a corner at a haunted house and I LOVED IT!
I enjoyed the writing, although [a:H.P. Lovecraft|9494|H.P. Lovecraft|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1299165714p2/9494.jpg] could maybe have used a bit more commas to divide his extremely long sentences, but I feel like [b:At the Mountains of Madness|32767|At the Mountains of Madness|H.P. Lovecraft|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388341769l/32767._SY75_.jpg|17342821] changed my life, at least a little bit. Can't wait to read more from Lovecraft:)
I get why some people would not like it - Lovecraft's excessive eye for detail and 'world-building' could be too much for some people and always focusing on the normal instead of the abnormal could get frustruating. But for me, this just made the book all the more omnious. I was just waiting for [a:HP Lovecraft|20827849|HP Lovecraft|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] to explain the supernatural that was so evident in [b:At the Mountains of Madness|32767|At the Mountains of Madness|H.P. Lovecraft|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388341769l/32767._SY75_.jpg|17342821] and feed my weak-hearted curiosity(I was reading this book at night, home alone and it was sCaRy!). Lovecraft did, but with such breaks in between. This made me feel like I was constantly about to turn a corner at a haunted house and I LOVED IT!
I enjoyed the writing, although [a:H.P. Lovecraft|9494|H.P. Lovecraft|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1299165714p2/9494.jpg] could maybe have used a bit more commas to divide his extremely long sentences, but I feel like [b:At the Mountains of Madness|32767|At the Mountains of Madness|H.P. Lovecraft|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388341769l/32767._SY75_.jpg|17342821] changed my life, at least a little bit. Can't wait to read more from Lovecraft:)
This was painful to read. I was reading this for a group and no one liked it (no one finished it). It was slow, had too much detail, and not enough action I felt like the plot could have been great, but it was written in a way that was boring. I had heard so many great things about H.P. Lovecraft so I don't understand what I'm missing. Are his other writing worth reading?
No me dio miedo.
Ok, pero en serio, las primeras ~60 páginas estuvieron muy cabronas. Luego entran a la ciudad perdida y todo se va a la fregada... casi toda la segunda mitad es una narración de la historia de los "Old Ones".
Lovecraft tiene fama por no describir nunca los horrores a los que reaccionan sus personajes. Esta es la primera vez que lo leo y siento que lo lleva casi al punto de parodia, pero peor todavía, explica DEMASIADO sobre la historia de estos seres antiguos. La segunda mitad deja de ser un cuento de suspenso y se vuelve la historia de una civilización antigua. Me da muy igual.
Ok, pero en serio, las primeras ~60 páginas estuvieron muy cabronas. Luego entran a la ciudad perdida y todo se va a la fregada... casi toda la segunda mitad es una narración de la historia de los "Old Ones".
Lovecraft tiene fama por no describir nunca los horrores a los que reaccionan sus personajes. Esta es la primera vez que lo leo y siento que lo lleva casi al punto de parodia, pero peor todavía, explica DEMASIADO sobre la historia de estos seres antiguos. La segunda mitad deja de ser un cuento de suspenso y se vuelve la historia de una civilización antigua. Me da muy igual.
Wildly imaginative and dread-inducing. The first half was a slow start and took a while to get into the story. The last half was pretty cool. I felt the story was a little long-winded and meandering.
A team goes to Antarctic to explore and stumbles upon an ancient race. Chaos and horror ensue.
I think I might have expected a little more out of Lovecraft. Sure, his descriptions of creatures is pretty extensive, but everything was "grotesque" and "decadent" and I felt like he needed to make better use of a thesaurus. Perhaps at the time (1930s), suggestion rather than outright description could produce more of a horror reaction in his audience, but I felt like he didn't go quite far enough, whereas other parts of the book could have been scaled back a bit.
Food: a chicken salad sandwich with too little mayonnaise. It's fine, but could use a little more seasoning and moisture to make it really good.
I think I might have expected a little more out of Lovecraft. Sure, his descriptions of creatures is pretty extensive, but everything was "grotesque" and "decadent" and I felt like he needed to make better use of a thesaurus. Perhaps at the time (1930s), suggestion rather than outright description could produce more of a horror reaction in his audience, but I felt like he didn't go quite far enough, whereas other parts of the book could have been scaled back a bit.
Food: a chicken salad sandwich with too little mayonnaise. It's fine, but could use a little more seasoning and moisture to make it really good.
This is really a great place to end my current reading of HP Lovecraft. Here we get the story of an Antarctic expedition that goes off the rails in the most Lovecraftian way possible. They find not only the madness inducing beasties but a whole civilization thereof from billions of years ago.
Overall, Mountains of Madness plays directly to Lovecraft's strengths: the world building. There isn't much in the way of plot or character (although more than in some of his stories). Instead what we get is a mix of history spanning literally billions of years with the human narrators exploring the ruins.
Regardless of how much less sense this alternate history makes sense in modern times with what we've seen of the world, it's fascinating to read from the lens of a world that hasn't seen quite as much. In particular, it's an interesting culmination of Lovecraft's works, seeing hints of how the Old Ones interacted with other beings we've seen in his other stories.
This is probably one of my favorite of Lovecraft's works thus far and I think a good place to move on for the time being. I still have Dexter Ward to read at some point... but that can wait.
Overall, Mountains of Madness plays directly to Lovecraft's strengths: the world building. There isn't much in the way of plot or character (although more than in some of his stories). Instead what we get is a mix of history spanning literally billions of years with the human narrators exploring the ruins.
Regardless of how much less sense this alternate history makes sense in modern times with what we've seen of the world, it's fascinating to read from the lens of a world that hasn't seen quite as much. In particular, it's an interesting culmination of Lovecraft's works, seeing hints of how the Old Ones interacted with other beings we've seen in his other stories.
This is probably one of my favorite of Lovecraft's works thus far and I think a good place to move on for the time being. I still have Dexter Ward to read at some point... but that can wait.
I like Lovecraft's tone and tension but most of the time I was just thinking please please get to the point