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[Anonymous No.16416141]

I finally took the dive to read some of the works from this early 1900s Mark Zuckerberg and read Mountains of Madness, Call of Cthulu, and The Thing on the Doorstep.

While they kept me occupied, this sort of down-to-earth monologue wasnt what I expected. After seeing and reading hype for years and some cursory glances at some wikipedia pages, I thought I was about to read something truly cosmic - sublime glimpses into the sordid inner workings of an infinite and incomprehensible universe. Monolithic beings of inconceivable malice and/or indifference who warp time, space, and sanity just by existing. Mystery and intrigue that stretch back millions of years and undermine every perceived understanding humans have about the origins of mankind and reality.

Instead what I got was... Wordy 1930s autistic fags discovering funky shenanigans at the local drug store, Scooby-doo style.

They weren't awful, but I went into this with a hunger that was not sated. Maybe I'm looking at this with the wrong perspective. If I am, could someone enlighten me? What here is supposed to fill me with bone-chilling awe? Am I just an awful millenial with an annoyingly high bar of stimulus?

While I'm at it, are there any books out there that do fulfill the description I wrote above to any degree?

[Anonymous No.16416160]

Yeah you kind of nailed it. I think he may have pioneered some styles of worldbuilding but his influence aside I guess he reads a little overrated.

I prefer Arthur C Clarke for mindbending stuff.

[Anonymous No.16416165]

>>16416141
there's a "whats his appeal" thread up with this exact pic

[Anonymous No.16416184]

>>16416165
To be fair to OP it’s THE pic.

But idk some writers can make even banal things seem profound if they are good enough. I guess I can’t really think of a good life shattering novel outside of McCarthy or DeLillo or Pynchon.

[Anonymous No.16416254]

>>16416165
Sorry m8, should have checked. Figured lit would hate him regardless, all I ever see here is politics and philosophy. "Fiction is for children".

[Anonymous No.16416480]

>>16416141
read whisperer in the darkness and rats in the walls

[Anonymous No.16416818]

>>16416141
I too would be very interested in a novel or series that matches that description. I found lovecraft very underwhelming when I gave it a go and I really want something to make my head spin. Not boogeymen or torture or spoopy cultists, but real terror that comes from gazing into infinity.

[Anonymous No.16417084]

>>16416141
fuck off shitter, mind your own business

[Anonymous No.16417248]

Did Lovecraft actually believe in the gods he was writing about? Some say he actually had contact with them, and he only named them in terms we understand today.

[Anonymous No.16417265]

>>16416141
>sublime glimpses into the sordid inner workings of an infinite and incomprehensible universe. Monolithic beings of inconceivable malice and/or indifference who warp time, space, and sanity just by existing. Mystery and intrigue that stretch back millions of years and undermine every perceived understanding humans have about the origins of mankind and reality.
At least a good portion of his stories satisfy these characteristics - which ones have you read, exactly?

[Anonymous No.16417277]

>>16417248
I don't know, but seeing the Accelerationists talking about Lovecraft characters as real always makes me cringe

[Anonymous No.16417300]

>>16416480
>read whisperer in the darkness
thats what I was going to say

[Anonymous No.16417323]

>>16416141
You basically picked mediocre stories. Try dreams in the witch house, the horror at red hook, or entombed with the pharaohs.

[Anonymous No.16417346]

>Shadow Out Of Time

[Anonymous No.16417374]

>>16416141
I like the dream cycle. To me, it basically feels just like how I dream anyway, so I guess i "get it" in a way I don't get some of his other material. There's no suspension of disbelief involved when Carter runs across Pickman as a ghoul or wins up on the moon.

[Anonymous No.16418135]

>>16417265
Not OP but it's literally at the end of the first sentence

[Anonymous No.16418165]

>>16418135
Hah, I'm a fucking retard. Well, MoM DOES fulfill the categories he desired, CoC and TTotD are less impressive.

[Anonymous No.16418174]

>>16416165
You could sail an actual fucking ship on the oceans of coom I've shot to this lewd boat.

[Anonymous No.16418359]

>>16416141
Read the Color from Outer Space