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A review by paulopaperbooksonly
A Lush and Seething Hell: Two Tales of Cosmic Horror by John Hornor Jacobs
1.0
I tag this Lovecraftian but this is not Lovecraftian at all.
I am not talking about the first one since I made a dedicated review.
This second story is about a group of goverment people who are trying to retrieve some music from a guy in the late 30's who went recording music from the rural south of USA.
OF course, it's a nice touch and I could see go deep into lovecraftian stuff on those marshes but no. The writer was more interested in telling how evil white men are and even people who try to good stuff - in this case perserve black music history - they are just doing for themselves, and they feel superior and are virtual signalling. WTF? So a WHITE people cannot love BLACK music? IT makes no sense. Then this girl who is with him, which is black, just go on and on how racist he is and even the person who perserve the black music from the 30's. Yes, he was so racist but without him that part of history would be gone. But, Alas that's the problem with world today. The author is more focus on pointing how all the flaws white people have (the writer being white) then really telling the story. IT's awful, white people doing this. I can understand (don't accept) but can nderstand black people feeling the way they feel BUT white people doing is just idiotic - It distract me from reading to be honest and by the end I was just not there. IT's not horror. Well it's horror yes, it's horror in the mind of the writer and horror knowing that people think like this.
I am not talking about the first one since I made a dedicated review.
This second story is about a group of goverment people who are trying to retrieve some music from a guy in the late 30's who went recording music from the rural south of USA.
OF course, it's a nice touch and I could see go deep into lovecraftian stuff on those marshes but no. The writer was more interested in telling how evil white men are and even people who try to good stuff - in this case perserve black music history - they are just doing for themselves, and they feel superior and are virtual signalling. WTF? So a WHITE people cannot love BLACK music? IT makes no sense. Then this girl who is with him, which is black, just go on and on how racist he is and even the person who perserve the black music from the 30's. Yes, he was so racist but without him that part of history would be gone. But, Alas that's the problem with world today. The author is more focus on pointing how all the flaws white people have (the writer being white) then really telling the story. IT's awful, white people doing this. I can understand (don't accept) but can nderstand black people feeling the way they feel BUT white people doing is just idiotic - It distract me from reading to be honest and by the end I was just not there. IT's not horror. Well it's horror yes, it's horror in the mind of the writer and horror knowing that people think like this.