/lit/ - Literature

OP here, what is the best HP lovecraft book?

Well make up your mind, do you want interesting reading, or pleb reading?

>>3735986
War and Peace

The standard entry route for /lit/ probably involves a mixture of Brave New World, 1984, The Stranger, Slaughterhouse-5 and Catcher in the Rye (there's enough threads about them here anyway).

>>3735987
Well nothing too deep yet, I'm interested in HP lovecraft, which one is the best?

try these

>>3735993
Ok thanks, you don't read lovecraft do you?

>>3735997
No one on /lit/ reads anything now, they just pose, preen and posture.

>>3735997
I have read some Lovecraft but I don't find it particularly interesting after the first few stories, it just seems to be the same crap in a different setting.

Why are you so interested in HP Lovecraft?

>>3736003
just go away

/lit/ would be far better if there wasn't some turd like you in every thread "hurr durr /lit/ is pretenshus they don't even read books"

>>3736007
Stick around here long enough and you'll feel the same way. I've started coming back here lately after being away a while. I had left because I thought /lit/ was getting bad, and I return to find it beyond awful.

>>3736005
I don't know, I just want to read and see if I liked it. I ordered some of the recommendations, thanks for being a friendly board!

>he doesn't share my opinion so he must be a newfag

>>3736011
I'd say check out some of Lovecraft's stuff online or at a local library.
I enjoyed some of his short stories, but I wasn't too fond of the whole cthulhu mythos stuff, but that is personal preference. Like I said, try some of his stuff out and see if you like it.

Since you were interested in Lovecraft, what about Edgar Allan Poe?

Other than that, try out a few of the entry level chart. I have read nearly all of them and they are good books. Anything you are particulary interested in OP?

If you like war, try Hemingway, he has a very accessible prose.

OP, check out at the mountains of madness for a mid length HP lovecraft novella whoch sums up his shit fairly well. Its alright.

As another anon suggested, you hould check out poe over lovecraft for interesting victorian era horror. there's a book called the portable poe which has more or less all his stuff in one. Alternatively or additionally, check out the king in yellow by robert w. Chambers for atmospheric horror, then later on generally decent short stories.

APologies for capitalisation, phone is playing up.

The First Law series should quench the thirst for violence vidya has branded into you.

And I'm part of the unpopular minority who thinks Shakespeare will never stop being as good as new.

>>3735986
>>3735986
>Shadow over Innsmouth
>At the Mountains of Madness
>The Color (colour for you yanks) out of Space

>>3735986
Color Out of Space
I think I read somewhere that Color Out of Space was Lovecraft's favorite story he wrote.

>>3736188
>colour for you yanks