I've read several of his novels, made a point to watch a handful of movie adaptations and I just never enjoyed the experience. It just doesn't follow: I love dark things, I love stories, I especially love scary stories and supernatural tales, I adore cephalopods over any other family in the deep. But contrary to all these factors, I don't like HP and I don't really like cthulhu (aside from the word itself).
Reading Lovecraft always leaves me feeling a little sick --sort of like I've been reading on a long car trip. Just don't feel very good when I finally put the book down.
Having said all this, I did enjoy the trailer in your post and I found the Lego-thulhu decidedly amusing.
The primary problem with HP Lovecraft, is that, at best, all of his stuff is a kind of Stone Soup that only gets better once it's been develloped by other writers who are actually a lot better than him. In my opinion, Lovecraft was born about 30 or 40 years too early and his ability to colaborate with people who could take his ideas and expand upon them properly was greatly impaired by the lack of a communicational medium that would allow him to do so with the kind of immediacy that would allow him to strike while the idea was hot. The guy was a fanfic writer at best who was becoming a professional writer and unfortunately died before he really produced much of great value (apart from three pieces of great value and a handful of short stories that are all worth a close look - only a portion of his actual output). He never develloped a writer's ability to hook someone into a story until his last two or three major works (I'd say BEYOND THE MOUNTAINS OF MADNESS or THE SHADOW OUT OF TIME), and although he was actually getting much, much
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Exactly.
Invocation by accident is a horrible way to lose a party.
Makes em a lot smarter next time around tho.
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I don't like Lovecraft.
I've read several of his novels, made a point to watch a handful of movie adaptations and I just never enjoyed the experience. It just doesn't follow: I love dark things, I love stories, I especially love scary stories and supernatural tales, I adore cephalopods over any other family in the deep. But contrary to all these factors, I don't like HP and I don't really like cthulhu (aside from the word itself).
Reading Lovecraft always leaves me feeling a little sick --sort of like I've been reading on a long car trip. Just don't feel very good when I finally put the book down.
Having said all this, I did enjoy the trailer in your post and I found the Lego-thulhu decidedly amusing.
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Extra credit for the long comment.
That lego toy looks like fun?
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Yeah! Did you notice the lil Lego Doctor Who, Rose and Tardis in the top corner above Cthulhu coming out of the cave?
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Oh, I've got one too.
He's EVERYWHERE.
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