marshy 's review for:

At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft

4.0

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This was fun. Arguably poor writing in places (I lost count of the number of times particular words and phrases were repeated; favourites of Lovecraft in this were ‘aeon-dead’, ‘opalescent’, ‘decadent’, and ‘Roerrich’). And it was laughable that the narrator was able to determine so much of the history of the Old Ones by the carvings found (not to mention the negative impact this had on the mystery/fear aspect). However the story was enjoyable with a slight twist I’d not foreseen (maybe a poor reflection on me!).

It made me wish I lived in the days of the much more unexplored world.