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ezrasupremacy 's review for:
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H.P. Lovecraft
challenging
dark
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
i really wanted to read smth by lovecraft because he’s one of the most prominent writers of the horror genre, and i always enjoy to read horror written before my time and seeing its connections to real life events, which i think are reflected nowhere as interestingly as they are in horror.
however i hated every second of this. maybe it’s just this collection specifically, but everything felt so repetitive, it was offensively boring. and while i know that saying this is just beating a dead horse, the racism here is so over the top it’s actually shocking. do i go into every classic expecting at least some racism? yeah. did i know lovecraft was especially racist? also yeah. was i still shocked by just how racist lovecraft’s writing was? fuck yeah.
so all in all his writing committed the crime of being so boring you can’t even try and overlook the racism in a “it’s a product of its time” way (not that you could do that anyway, given that even his contemporaries thought lovecraft was over the top)
i think it’s worth it to at least read the call of cthulhu just to be able to say that you’ve read this specific very iconic piece, but i truly could not in good conscience recommend lovecraft’s work to anyone.
however i hated every second of this. maybe it’s just this collection specifically, but everything felt so repetitive, it was offensively boring. and while i know that saying this is just beating a dead horse, the racism here is so over the top it’s actually shocking. do i go into every classic expecting at least some racism? yeah. did i know lovecraft was especially racist? also yeah. was i still shocked by just how racist lovecraft’s writing was? fuck yeah.
so all in all his writing committed the crime of being so boring you can’t even try and overlook the racism in a “it’s a product of its time” way (not that you could do that anyway, given that even his contemporaries thought lovecraft was over the top)
i think it’s worth it to at least read the call of cthulhu just to be able to say that you’ve read this specific very iconic piece, but i truly could not in good conscience recommend lovecraft’s work to anyone.