Call of Cthulhu - H. P. Lovecraft.
Feb. 26th, 2010 07:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueI'm not quite sure what I was expecting when I picked this book up (Free title from ManyBooks.Net). I mean, H. P. Lovecraft is one of those authors that has been phenomenally influential on the Sci-Fi and Fantasy genre.
So I sort of ... well, was expecting great things, and came away a little disappointed. Thing is, I think it's been so influential, that it's no longer one that stands out from the crowd. The notion that mankind might be really quite trivial in the grand scheme of things, and that there are "Things that Man was Not Meant to Know" ... just doesn't seem all that exotic a concept any more.
*shrug*. So it goes I guess. It's a fairly short book (this, like the Holmes books clock in at ~100 pages) and ... well, it _is_ one of the classics. Just be sure you set the book in it's context - it was written in 1928, so it was one of the first to start to explore the concepts.
So I sort of ... well, was expecting great things, and came away a little disappointed. Thing is, I think it's been so influential, that it's no longer one that stands out from the crowd. The notion that mankind might be really quite trivial in the grand scheme of things, and that there are "Things that Man was Not Meant to Know" ... just doesn't seem all that exotic a concept any more.
*shrug*. So it goes I guess. It's a fairly short book (this, like the Holmes books clock in at ~100 pages) and ... well, it _is_ one of the classics. Just be sure you set the book in it's context - it was written in 1928, so it was one of the first to start to explore the concepts.
