tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post4289748650714255564..comments2024-03-22T17:20:40.789+00:00Comments on Trollish Delver: Was H.P Lovecraft actually a good writer?Scott Malthousehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12028866803584444828noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-52477345844148176782021-02-07T07:33:00.608+00:002021-02-07T07:33:00.608+00:00Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write on my web...Wow! Thank you! I always wanted to write on my website something like that. 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Howard is far worse but like HP one can't fault his imagination. dgmhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06392482127066197220noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-85231647140716334802020-08-07T12:05:20.694+01:002020-08-07T12:05:20.694+01:00Journalists should consider themselves to be indiv...Journalists should consider themselves to be individuals who compose, and not as individuals who compose professionally. <br /><a href="https://501words.net/grammarly-review-free-vs-premium.html" rel="nofollow">grammarly review</a><br />Mia Smithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04132973399257810408noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-44098916361852625792019-07-12T07:09:32.045+01:002019-07-12T07:09:32.045+01:00Sorry I'm commenting an Aeon late, but I fully...Sorry I'm commenting an Aeon late, but I fully agree with your characterization of Lovecraft's strengths. Very well put. However, I have to defend the purple prose as actually being part of the fun of the experience of reading Lovecraft... I greatly enjoy reading passages like this: <br /><br />"The aperture was black with a darkness almost material. That tenebrousness was indeed a positive quality; for it obscured such parts of the inner walls as ought to have been revealed, and actually burst forth like smoke from its aeon-long imprisonment, visibly darkening the sun as it slunk away into the shrunken and gibbous sky on flapping membraneous wings."<br /><br />"If you look at the way critics describe Lovecraft … they often say he’s purple, overwritten, overblown, verbose, but it’s un-putdownable. There’s something about that kind of hallucinatorily intense purple prose which completely breaches all rules of “good writing”, but is somehow utterly compulsive and affecting. That pulp aesthetic of language is something very tenuous, which all too easily simply becomes shit, but is fascinating where it works."<br /><br />– China Miéville<br /><br />Also as a physicist I respect his attempts to incorporate relativity quite early on.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16324301116644862160noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-33781818328150298012019-05-04T19:27:27.235+01:002019-05-04T19:27:27.235+01:00very interesting post.this is my first time visit ...very interesting post.this is my first time visit here.i found so mmany interesting stuff in your blog especially its discussion..thanks for the post! <a href="https://letterboxd.com/roycefrancesco/" rel="nofollow">click</a>silent.johnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06819516964695491185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-69378733427530373582013-02-19T16:37:54.992+00:002013-02-19T16:37:54.992+00:00Anyone who still influences people this long after...Anyone who still influences people this long after his death is by definition a good writer. Tolkien's writing is often pedantic and overwrought, and yet he's also a good writer. Asimov's characters were flat as paper, and he's a good writer. Phillip K Dick, Robert Heinlein, and many, many more.Philo Pharynxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-37975379851019382652013-02-19T11:54:22.380+00:002013-02-19T11:54:22.380+00:00Like yourself, I can't get enough of the man&#...Like yourself, I can't get enough of the man's writing, and even I admit that he is far from a perfect wordsmith. I still think he manages to get across the feel of horror more than most other writers though, and for that i forgive him his poor choices. And I will also back up Brewin's point that there are people out there who have written some wonderful fiction within the Mythos. At present I'm reading a collection by Brian Lumley, which has been great from the start.thesethingsthatiwritehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06983724061115538291noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-19560532275563040952013-02-19T01:47:06.762+00:002013-02-19T01:47:06.762+00:00Oh and also if you haven't checked out some of...Oh and also if you haven't checked out some of Frank Belknap Long's "Cthulhu Mythos" works, I think he's the only writer I've read who did "Cthulhu Mythos" fiction better than Lovecraft himself. (Long wrote the Hounds of Tindalos for instance).Brewinhttp://www.thebrewin.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-693727510617938398.post-52253296165940530252013-02-19T01:35:21.853+00:002013-02-19T01:35:21.853+00:00I agree completely with what you say here Scott: L...I agree completely with what you say here Scott: Lovecraft in my view was a pretty terrible writer in many regards (particularly an over reliance on purplish prose full of obscure adjectives, poor characterisation and atrocious dialogue), but he was indeed a visionary for his ideas and "world building" and he continues to cast a long shadow over not only horror, but sci-fi, fantasy and even "heavy metal"... And probably one greater than any other horror writer in history I would think.<br /><br />But I'd also like to make a couple of other points: The first is that the world would never have known of Lovecraft and his ideas were it not for the efforts of August Derleth (as opposed to Lovecraft's meager efforts in this regard), who not only took it upon himself to publish and promote Lovecraft's works, but also finished some of them (including At the Mountains of Madness). And the second point is that fiction written in a "Lovecraftian" style would never get published by any large publisher today, it's simply too inaccessible and over-wrought. Despite all these things, he remains one of my biggest influences...Brewinhttp://www.thebrewin.comnoreply@blogger.com