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Originally Posted by teh603
Anyone know how the heck he got away with it? A modern audience would rip his head off and jam his manuscripts down his bleeding neck stump if he was to bring that to a workshop.
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My theory? That imagination and those ideas were for his time pretty unique. Also, writing style changes. Read Dickens for a while, and then imagine taking one of those manuscripts to a modern-day workshop. It would be brutal...! And that's not even close to what can be said about any of the Romance authors (the Bronte sisters come to mind).
Lovecraft's writing would be ridiculed by a modern audience, but he didn't write for us. And in fairness, people who read and actually enjoy his stories don't read them for the writing style. Personally, I think if I read only books that were well written by skilled
writers and not just good story tellers, I wouldn't read very much.
