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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SSquirrel" data-source="post: 5016520" data-attributes="member: 5202">Hmm..of those I have read the Hobbit and what HPL I could take before "Unspeakable!!" and gables for the millionth time became too much to bear.  Oh yeah, and I read some Elric earlier this year.  While I understand the language of the times and different approach to science and all that, I don't have any particular obsession w/the period like some of my friends who love steampunk and such.  I can read it, but it doesn't speak to me.  *shrug*  I was commenting to my wife tonite how I'm re-reading some of the Timothy Zahn Star Wars novels and the characters from the original trilogy that turn up, I can always hear them giving every line in my head.  Zahn has a way of describing Artoo's bleeps and such that you know exactly which of the sounds he is likely making, yet he doesn't use many words to get the idea across.  Sure this is taking people who were in a movie, re-projecting them as a bit older into the character again and using the book as a script, but other characters come off the page just as strongly.  My wife doesn't like Raymond Feist, but I've loved the various books sets in the world of the Riftwar for 20 years now.  He doesn't paint these same sonic pictures in my head like Zahn does, but the depth he gives to the world setting makes it very easy to believe it all and see it in your head.  HPL nattering about the gables is intended to achieve the same thing, but (as someone else in the thread said), it was much more lecturing professorCount me in the "not a drop of dread produced" eitehr crowd.  Seriously, not scary.  I'm 33.  Maybe it's just being raised on a diet of modern fantasy and sci-fi novels, action films and slasher flicks, but it's all so ridiculously tame.  Half the time there is no description at ALL.  So some random cloud of something with nothing to shape in my mind, yeah, not real helpful.  At least partially describe it.No, we see his every single year in pop music and movies.  Unoriginal music act gets pushed by label(too many to count)/new original movie (Blair Witch is a good example here) is released and does big box office.  Instantly, labels start signing bands who are remotely similar and greenlight albums.  Movies are pushed thru rapidly to take advantage of the current fad of whatever teh current film is.Bloch emulating a bad writing style from Lovecraft just shows he followed a bad style.  Uwe Boll is a hack director and if someone made a movie in his style and it was awful as well, that oesn't suggest that Uwe Boll's original work is now better b/c someone copied it.  In an extremely small subset of the populace.  You know, us gamers.  Stop 5 typical people at the mall and ask who HPL is and I bet you get blank stares from them.Don't get me started on Shakespeare.  I don't want to start a war about how little I think of his work.  heh.  My ex-wife was an English major, that was great fun.</blockquote>

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