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never before has such an exciting story been told in such a dull way.
Here's the thing about Lovecraft: he doesn't write great stories. People love the whole mythos thing, and I don't blame them, because the Lovecraftian mythos is awesome. But I don't particularly enjoy actually reading Lovecraft because his actual stories simply aren't very good. In this novel, for example, the story is basically a framework for him to do some world building. There's no real plot, character development, or dramatic tension. Lovecraft is clearly more concerned with building a hist...
One of the most influential all time classics, an absosute must read. I never ever want to go on an antarctic expedition like that told in this story. The description of that unearthly city and its inhabitants will haunt you for the rest of your life. Be aware! Reading that story means meeting with a horror that remains.
The first image that usually comes to my mind when someone mentions Antarctica is how beautiful it looks. White, Cold ice giants with funny penguins dancing around like happy feet!That was before I read this book.If you ask me now about South pole, I would probably answer you in a toneless voice and a daunting thousand-yard stare...." It is a white, aeon-dead world which has shunned most of the living organisms, a nightmarish gateway to accursed ultimate abyss where stark unforgiving winds whisp...
Hi, I'm Rob Lowe and I just read Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft.And I'm Super Creepy Rob Lowe and I watch professional wrestling.RL: This was another classic by horror and fantasy writer HP Lovecraft and displayed his virtuosity of the language as an art probably better than his shorter works. SCRL: Reading is hard on my eyes, I like checking out the babes in the audience with my big screen TV.RL: This also highlights the depth and breadth of Lovecraft's imagination and the detail to whi...
I used to defend Lovecraft's reputation, arguing that he'd suffered the same fate as fellow pulp author Howard: that later writers, hoping to profit off of his name, put it on the cover of all sorts of middling short story collections--cliche and badly-written stuff that (if the reader is lucky) might actually contain one or two stories by the original author.However, in this tale, Lovecraft proves that he can write just as badly as his gaggle of followers. It is meant to be a story of the fanta...
A TRAGIC HOMECOMINGAnd so we slept for a million millennia, on the edge of our great city. So close and yet so far! Why were we outside of our fair city, our families and companions mere steps away? The reasons are lost in time. And as we slumbered, our tropical paradise became a land of neverending winter, a polar graveyard. We were woken, those of us who still lived. Four lived and four were lost. We woke in confusion and terror, our tropic city gone, the snow and wind howling around us. S...
“On the barren shore, and on the lofty ice barrier in the background, myriads of grotesque penguins squawked and flapped their fins”. Yep! We are in Lovecraft’s universe where even penguins are grotesque. I mean, whoever heard of an ugly penguin? At the Mountains of Madness is H.P. Lovecraft’s best known novel, not that difficult an accomplishment as he did not write that many (only this one and The Case of Charles Dexter Ward I believe. A wise decision because I find that his style is much m
At the end of his voyage, Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket reaches a strange land on the edge of the Antarctic, where people have black skin, red teeth, and where water flows more thickly and shows multicoloured veins running through it. Shortly after, as Pym penetrates farther south into a chasm of increasingly warm water, a gigantic white figure appears before him. The story ends abruptly at this point. In At the Mountain of Madness, a scientific expedition ventures into the mountain ranges of t...
Mr. William Dyer is the brave leader of an important though arduous scientific expedition, (set in the early 1930's ) from Miskatonic University, what you never heard of it ( I haven't either)! Researching the remote frozen Antarctic continent in the summer time when balmy temperatures soar above zero Fahrenheit . Everything's going well they even find the tallest mountains on Earth, strange somehow the peaks have disappeared, however that is another story. Yet when a group of these scientists a...
This long novella (perhaps longer than it should be) succeeds in large part because--no doubt due to Lovecraft's enthusiasm for the Antarctic explorers--its scenery is evocative, its descriptions etxraordinarily vivid.At the Mountains of Madness has its literary fathers—Poe’s A. Gordon Pym, M.P. Sheil’s The Purple Cloud—but H.P.’s principal sources were the contemporaneous accounts of the expeditions themselves. Byrd’s was of course his immediate inspiration (Byrd returned in 1930, At the Mounta...
Tediously painful. So much detail, so little action, and almost no emotion in the book. The first sentence of chapter 6 'It would be cumbrous to give a detailed, consecutive account of our wanderings inside that cavernous, aeon-dead honeycomb of primal masonry' Unfortunately the rest of the book described the cumbrous, detailed, consecutive account of their wonderings inside the cavernous, aeon-dead honeycomb of primal masonry. I found the writing too dry and dull. This is a summary of the whole...
