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A review by rickaboss
The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft
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2/10
The origins of Cosmic Horror, but..
Lovecraft's writing is self indulgently verbose and devoid of descriptors adequate enough to paint an image of his "horrors". It doesn't help that every account is being described second hand from a narrator that is reading various documents, so the story is also devoid of dialogue.
Now that all of my literary criticisms are out of the way... holy white supremacy, Batman. Every "evil cultist" in this book is some culture of color and every "moderately intelligent" character is white. Also, if I had to read the words "mixed-blood" and "half-caste" one more time, I'd be convinced this was written by J.K. Rowling.
The origins of Cosmic Horror, but..
Lovecraft's writing is self indulgently verbose and devoid of descriptors adequate enough to paint an image of his "horrors". It doesn't help that every account is being described second hand from a narrator that is reading various documents, so the story is also devoid of dialogue.
Now that all of my literary criticisms are out of the way... holy white supremacy, Batman. Every "evil cultist" in this book is some culture of color and every "moderately intelligent" character is white. Also, if I had to read the words "mixed-blood" and "half-caste" one more time, I'd be convinced this was written by J.K. Rowling.