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Yeah, good ol'Howard wasn't keen on sacrtificing his principles when writing. Said principle was 18th century English, as that is the only correct way to write.

Forget Mountains of Madness, if the style bothers you that much I would advise you read his Dream-cycle stories and not the Cthulhu ones.

I'm suppose to be reading Weaveworld by Clive Barker but I keep getting sidetracked with other stuff.

Just started A Storm of Swords, the third book of the Song of Ice and Fire series, aka Game of Thrones.

At the same time, I'm reading a book called "Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR's Supreme Court Justices" by Noah Feldman. Going off of my interests and degree (Political Science), I love reading about the history of law, with a focus on the Supreme Court of the United States.

Description of the book:

A tiny, ebullient Jew who started as America's leading liberal and ended as its most famous judicial conservative. A Klansman who became an absolutist advocate of free speech and civil rights. A backcountry lawyer who started off trying cases about cows and went on to conduct the most important international trial ever. A self-invented, tall-tale Westerner who narrowly missed the presidency but expanded individual freedom beyond what anyone before had dreamed.

Four more different men could hardly be imagined. Yet they had certain things in common. Each was a self-made man who came from humble beginnings on the edge of poverty. Each had driving ambition and a will to succeed. Each was, in his own way, a genius.

They began as close allies and friends of FDR, but the quest to shape a new Constitution led them to competition and sometimes outright warfare. SCORPIONS tells the story of these four great justices: their relationship with Roosevelt, with each other, and with the turbulent world of the Great Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. It also serves as a history of the modern Constitution itself.

is it any good? i like Barker, but I could not get Weaveworld.

Reading the White Trash Zombie series by Diana Rowland. Currently on book 2.

Just delved into the world of manga. Decided to start with this classic.

The thing is, I was essentially reading his most popular works all at once. I read Call of Chthulu and really liked it. Read a Shadow Over Innsmouth and thought it was alright. Daegon was okay, The Music of Erich Zann wasn't bad, but once I got to Mountains I just got sick of his style

19th Century style English with the same descriptions of things over and over again got very old. Everything is grotesque, an abomination to human conventions, non-euclidean, etc. I cracked up when he described a penguin as being 'grotesque.' Makes you wonder just how horrible Lovecraft monsters really are.

I don't think Lovecraft is a bad writer at all. He's certainly imaginative.

Hey SubMan

Lately I've been reading Lisey's Story by Stephen King. King himself has said that it is his favorite book out of all the ones he's written, so I'm kinda surprised I haven't checked it out yet. So far, it's very personal, you can tell he's pulling a lot from his own life.



I've always been a Stephen King whore, so before Lisey's Story I tried reading "The Visible Man" by Chuck Klosterman, but I couldn't get too far into it because one of the main characters in the story is a condescending asswhipe who isn't likeable at all.

Currently reading "S" by Doug Dorst and J.J. Abrams.

Lovecraft is probably one of my favorite storytellers by far, but not my favorite writer. Because, yeah, he can get a little "boring" with his 2 cent writing sometimes.

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I am very happy that these books showed up! What are the odds? Diana Rowland is a very awesome person. Good friends with her family. Her sister is my doctor and her niece is a close friend.

That's pretty awesome Jack4183. Small world.